IGT, 6/10, Mets Avenge Themselves upon the Giants

[Fman99]

Yuk

[Centerfield]

WTF Harvey.

[ashie62]

Flores is beginning to look like the Met's best offensive weapon. Yes, offensive weapon is an oxymoron as related to the Mets.

[ashie62]

Centerfield wrote: WTF Harvey.

The Giants see Kershaw five times a year, this is nothing.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, the Giants sure did switch up from getting infield hits.
And now Aoki gets his 17th hit of the series so far. And, unlike NYM leadoff doubles, I'm betting the Giants are going to figure out a way to bring him in.

[Edgy MD]

Feeling ungracious about Dave Righetti talk in the booth.

[Frayed Knot]

Well this game may be boring and sucky, but at least it's only going to take four hours or so.

[Edgy MD]

A lot of strikeouts looking for Granderson these days.

[Edgy MD]

Four Hall of Famers who've played for the Giants and Mets:
[list:16jhrj8p][*:16jhrj8p]Willie Mays[/*:m:16jhrj8p]
[*:16jhrj8p]Warren Spahn[/*:m:16jhrj8p]
[*:16jhrj8p]Gary Carter...[/*:m:16jhrj8p][/list:u:16jhrj8p]

[Edgy MD]

Duke Snider's right, Gary!

[Edgy MD]

Strickland untouched.

[dgwphotography]

hmmmmmm.... Gary said that on one show, the opposition to he and Howie was outstanding. Might that be our own Gafif?

[Edgy MD]

It's not fair to call Curtis "indifferent" there. He was hustling.

Clumsy, but hustling.

[Edgy MD]

Is Torres another guy who shot-puts his throws to the bases?

[Edgy MD]

Romo drives me crazy. Touches every part of his body before each pitch.

[Edgy MD]

Guys, just put it in play. Baby steps.

Bunt. I'm serious.

[Edgy MD]

That's it. Put it in play and make them play some defense.

[Guest d'Kong76]

d'Darnit, jeebus fuckin' crispies!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Laggy trips!

[Fman99]

Campbell sucks a big fat mackerel.

[Guest d'Kong76]

That's the excitement for the night.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Guess no one cares... books... yyy

[TransMonk]

Harvey has a 7.20 ERA over his past four starts.

Yuck!

[Lefty Specialist]

Can we please put a hold on the 'Harvey Day' stuff right now, as well as the Dark Knight stuff?

(Although the way he's been pitching lately, he may want to wear a mask.)

[Gwreck]

It may be happening anyway. There was not a big crowd in the so-called "Matt Kave" last night.

[Ceetar]

we'll get a few days or weeks of anti Dark Knight/Harvey Day talk, which is really the exact same thing, and then he'll be dominate again and we'll be back to it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar wrote: we'll get a few days or weeks of anti Dark Knight/Harvey Day talk, which is really the exact same thing, and then he'll be dominate again and we'll be back to it.

what gives you CAHNfidence Harvey is any good anymore? He's basically the Cuddyer of pitching lately.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar wrote: we'll get a few days or weeks of anti Dark Knight/Harvey Day talk, which is really the exact same thing, and then he'll be dominate again and we'll be back to it. what gives you CAHNfidence Harvey is any good anymore? He's basically the Cuddyer of pitching lately.

Because 3 of 4 bad starts is a small sample? Because he's pretty much always been good and that he's just a bit off right now is what makes the most sense given what we know about him, his stats, his injury history, etc?

Also Cuddyer is hitting .314/.359/.465 over the last 28 days, and is slightly above average on the season offensively.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Never was in the Harv-is-godlike club but maybe all those no
decisions while pitching lights out got into his swelled head?

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Never was in the Harv-is-godlike club but maybe all those no decisions while pitching lights out got into his swelled head?

Maybe someone's out there writing about this (maybe i should?) but there's plenty of questions in my mind about the pitch selection and game play last night.

Ron Darling was going on and on about it and I barely watched the broadcast. Harvey allowed his first HR on an 0-2 pitch, ever.

It's Travis d'Arnaud's first game back. Were they on the same page? Was the game plan different last night? HAS there been a concerted effort to occasionally pitch to more contact? (Which is really stupid)

The Mets are throwing more balls in the zone, striking out more guys but walking fewer. (This was one of Ron's points) The scouting reports may have adjusted, it's time to adjust back. Slow adjustments to hitter adjustments has been one of my long standing points of contention with Mets pitchers. Ron suggested throwing a few more way inside. Make them uncomfortable. You can probably miss on any side of the zone you want though, if guys are more apt to swing because they know it's a high-probably "in the zone" pitch, they're going to swing at more balls too. So make them do that. (This is where it's okay, if you hit your spot, to be okay with contact.)

I wish I had the time to really dig into these numbers. Like, what's the opponents swing% in June versus April-May?

edit: 46.7% opponent swing percentage in April, 48.4% in June if I'm reading that right.