IGT 6/25/15 NYM @ MIL: Beat, The Mets

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NY Mets at Milwaukee
When: 2:10 PM ET, Thursday, June 25, 2015
Where: Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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The New York Mets look to avoid a fruitless road trip when they conclude their eight-game trek against the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday afternoon. New York has scored nine runs and is batting .159 during the season-high seven-game skid while falling to 10-26 away from Citi Field, which is second only to Philadelphia (9-29) for the worst road record in the majors.

Curtis Granderson is doing his part by belting a solo homer in three of his last four contests, but the Mets mustered just two additional hits in a 4-1 setback on Wednesday. Milwaukee entered the series having lost eight of its previous nine before winning back-to-back contests to improve their majors-worst home mark to 13-24. Ryan Braun had an RBI single among his two hits Wednesday and is 5-for-11 with three runs scored in last three games. The five-tool player routinely has been flustered by Thursday starter Jacob deGrom, going 0-for-7 in his career with two strikeouts.

TV: 2:10 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), MLB Network

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Jacob deGrom (7-5, 2.34 ERA) vs. Brewers RH Taylor Jungmann (2-1, 3.50)

DeGrom suffered his first loss since May 11 despite allowing just two runs on four hits in 7 1/3 innings in a 2-1 setback to Atlanta on Friday. The 27-year-old improved to 2-1 in his career versus Milwaukee after permitting just one run on five hits in six frames in a 14-1 rout on May 16. DeGrom is 4-1 in his last seven starts, yielding one homer and six walks in that span.

Jungmann made the most of his third career start as he allowed four runs in six innings to pick up the win at Coors Field against Colorado on Friday. The 25-year-old pitched well in his lone outing at home, but was saddled with the loss despite permitting two runs in five innings against Washington on June 14. Jungmann has yielded one homer and walked four batters in 18 innings this season.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Milwaukee RHP Francisco Rodriguez has converted both save opportunities versus his former team and his 363 career saves are four shy of Jeff Reardon for eighth place on the all-time list.
2. New York CF Juan Lagares and 1B Lucas Duda are struggling mightily on the road trip, with the former going 3-for-26 while the latter is 3-for-25.
3. The Mets (36-37), who reside below .500 for the first time since going 2-3 after five games, have struck out 53 times during the road trip.

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Parra, CF
Lucroy, C
Braun, RF
Lind, 1B
Peterson, LF
Segura, SS
Gennett, 2B
Perez, 3B
Jungmann, P

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Granderson, RF
Tejada, 3B
Duda, 1B
Cuddyer, LF
Flores, SS
Ceciliani, CF
Plawecki, C
deGrom, P
Herrera, 2B

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Clearly, Monk is a jinx. Get him out of there!

[Frayed Knot]

Two innings / two baserunners erased.
The Mets are trying to get to a situation where [insert Pitcher Here] faces the minimum despite 3 hits plus a walk in the first 7 batters, but he'll be at least one over the limit unless deGrom can get a hit here.

[Frayed Knot]

Can't score if you don't hit; Mets can't score even when they do hit.

[Frayed Knot]

New adventures in not scoring come up as [inset Pitcher Here] retires just 5 of the first 11 hitters he faces yet allows no runs.

[Frayed Knot]

We've yet to have a baserunner thrown out at 3rd today, I think that should be our goal this inning.

[Zvon]

How/when did TC use his challenge?

[seawolf17]

"Well! Terry got angry! Maybe we should start not being terrible at baseball, then!"

[Frayed Knot]

This inning we're going to see a runner hit by a batted ball.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: How/when did TC use his challenge?

During the second of three runners we've had erased in this game -- Cuddyer thrown out at home on a single.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: How/when did TC use his challenge? During the second of three runners we've had erased in this game -- Cuddyer thrown out at home on a single.

I'm looking at the replays. He looked safe to me but I'll have to view them full screen later. Jeeze, whats the point of the challenge if the umps fuck that up too?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

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[Edgy MD]

Bob Geren auditioning to be the next Mets manager, trying to work with a 1-0 lead.

[Edgy MD]

deGrom's stretchability comes in handy!

[Edgy MD]

Bottom of the order rally for the Mets?

Grandy with men on base.

[Edgy MD]

Ah, deGrom runs the bases like a Met.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Got something going now! Bases loaded and one out.

[Frayed Knot]

INVENTING new ways not to score!!

[Frayed Knot]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Got something going now! Bases loaded and one out.

Yup. Our odds of scoring in this inning just rose to 4%

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ba-ses loa-ded we need a hit

[Frayed Knot]

I foresaw two outcomes for Tejada's AB, the K was the better of the two.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, Duda, I hear Broxton likes to tell Polish jokes.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Feeble infield hit!!

[Edgy MD]

A break! An actual gen-u-ine break!!

[bigpurple:1yrs0gcz]All fear the managerial reign of Bob Geren![/bigpurple:1yrs0gcz]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Well, on a slow roller, with Lucas Duda running, you've got to hustle or you're not getting him.

Still, 2 runs on 10 hits and a handful of walks.

[Frayed Knot]

Now the only problem is that deGrom just spent the last half-hour on the base paths.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Holy crap! Once again I've totally forgotten that the Mets were playing a day game!

Not only am I no longer the fan I was thirty years ago, I'm not even the fan I was five years ago.