IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the 'EVERY BODY CLAP YO HANDS' chant was well timed. Genius marketing I tells ya, Genius!.

Edited June 9, 2015 by Guest

[Guest d'Kong76]

I think they can do without the 'everybody dance now!' thing
after foul ball dribblers while getting no hit?

Recker will wreck it in the ninth anyhow.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Hah, I typed to slow.

[Frayed Knot]

This game could go 14 and we wouldn't get a knock.

[Frayed Knot]

So in the 9th inning we'll have:
Recker - who has 7 hits this season
a PH off our .180-hitting bench, probably Mayberry who has all of 11 hits this year
and Granderson who I don't think has made contact yet tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Well, hit or miss, this should spark a transaction or two in Metville.

[Zvon]

So what's goin' on?

[Edgy MD]

I don't let Rex bat here.

[Edgy MD]

But... he's good about taking a pitch to the meat.

[Edgy MD]

Well... that's a wide plate.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Pitching a no-no, and hitting three with no walks, has to
be approaching at least tying some weird historical mark.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, Keith: I hate that "You don't bunt during a no-hitter" logic.

[Fman99]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Geez how humiliating

[Frayed Knot]

That zone got more than a bit wide on about 5 different pitches in the 9th there, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

[Frayed Knot]

If it's any consolation, we're still in 1st place as the Nats are about to go down to the Yanx, trailing 6-1 in the 9th.


and I don't care if 1st place is on the line, I still can't bring myself to root for the pin-stripers.

[Guest d'Kong76]

He got a comfy inside of the plate early in the game too.
I blame Ceetar for attending.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Hey, Keith: I hate that "You don't bunt during a no-hitter" logic.

Me too. Who makes up these stupid customs? Baseball at its highest and most ruthless level of competition, and the batter's supposed to compromise his chances to succeed. Yeah right.

[ashie62]

Fire Terry Collins.

[Fman99]

d'Kong76 wrote: He got a comfy inside of the plate early in the game too. I blame Ceetar for attending.

I blame Ceetar also.

My father attended the 1969 no hitter that Bob Moose threw against the Mets at Shea, which the guys in the booth brought up on the broadcast tonight.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Coach Cuddyer on the post game... uggg.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar is the reason all this shit is going on.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Hey, Keith: I hate that "You don't bunt during a no-hitter" logic. Me too. Who makes up these stupid customs? Baseball at its highest and most ruthless level of competition, and the batter's supposed to compromise his chances to succeed. Yeah right.

Keith of all people.

Is this a question of honor? I wonder how many times Pete Rose bunted to try and end a no-hitter after the fif... oh, wait.

Still, If I'm coaching this team, I want at least one bunt an inning. Ruthless indeed.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Edgy MD wrote: I wonder how many times Pete Rose bunted to try and end a no-hitter after the fif... oh, wait.

Or didn't, depending how his action flowed that night!

[Frayed Knot]

The only argument I could make for NOT bunting is that if it's bad strategy at that point in a game that wasn't a no-hitter.
Some manager got pissed about a half-dozen years ago after I think it was a 9th inning bunt, but it was also a one or two run game IIRC so I had no problem with it.
But we know that Keith is 'old school' to a fault at times and therefore ascribes to the chivalric code.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar is the reason all this shit is going on.

oh yes, definitely my fault. It was my tweet about the deep fried oreos I bet.

Here's a question I was pondering early. After he hits TWO guys back to back, in the fourth, if Duda gets angry and yells stuff at Heston, does it result in the benches getting warned? Does it result in an ejection in the 9th when he hits Recker?

Or, game-theory, does it result in him pitching a little more carefully, a little differently, and he misses just enough to give up some hits?

[Edgy MD]

Maybe, but those outlooks are assuming an aggressiveness and gamesmanship that are not characteristic of this squad's offense.

And really guys, ceetar's not the one who misdated the thread.

[MFS62]

The good news about the no hitter is that nobody around the country noticed. ESPN and most of the sports pages were featuring LeBron James stuff. I just heard on WFAN that the Washington Post headline sports page article was about a local high school team and the no-hitter was buried in the newswire out of town recap stuff.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Interesting Grantland article about the strike zone ballooning in the ninth inning of this no-hitter, and about how that is the new normal, except it probably isn't that new at all.