IGT #86 7/8 Win The Series @ Giants Please

[Ceetar]

3:45 start for the Mets in San Francisco. Means most of us can listen on our commute home.

Average Temp:64� (based on last ten years)

Jacom deGrom versus Jake Peavy

Peavy is also returning from the DL. Second start. eeked out a quality start last time out, with 4 walks though. Mets will probably annihilate him. No reasonable sample sizes, but Granderson and Duda have both homered against him.

[Edgy MD]

Second straight The Two Jakes matchup for deGrom.

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at San Francisco
When: 3:45 PM ET, Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
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Hunter Pence�s early return from the disabled list Tuesday provided instant results for the San Francisco Giants, who snapped their seven-game losing streak with a 3-0 victory over the visiting New York Mets. The energetic Pence will surely be in the lineup again Wednesday as the teams meet in the rubber match of the three-game series.

Pence, who missed 30 games with left wrist tendinitis, brings some much-needed power to the beleaguered Giants outfield. Left fielder Nori Aoki (broken right fibula) is not expected back until the end of the month, while center fielder Angel Pagan has one extra-base hit in his last 23 games and may need a trip to the disabled list to rest his swollen left knee. The Mets have won three of their last five behind solid pitching, and they bolstered their bullpen Tuesday when former closer Jenrry Mejia was activated from the suspended list. Mejia, who served an 80-game suspension after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, will pitch in a setup role in front of current closer Jeurys Familia.

TV: 3:45 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), CSN Bay Area (San Francisco)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Jacob deGrom (8-6, 2.30 ERA) vs. Giants RH Jake Peavy (0-3, 6.43)

DeGrom is headed to his first All-Star after going 5-2 with a 1.55 ERA over his last nine starts. The reigning National League Rookie of the Year saw his streak of seven straight starts with at least seven innings pitched come to an end last Thursday, when he allowed four runs (three earned) over 5 1/3 innings against the Cubs. The 27-year-old deGrom earned the victory in his only start against the Giants on Aug. 2, 2014, when he yielded two runs over 7 1/3 innings in a 4-2 win.

Peavy came off the disabled list last Friday and was encouraged after allowing two runs over 6 1/3 innings in a 2-1 loss to Washington. �Hard to pitch better than he did,� manager Bruce Bochy told reporters. �He was hitting his spots, mixing it up.� Curtis Granderson is 4-for-20 with a home run against Peavy, who owns a 6-3 mark and 3.45 ERA in 12 career starts against the Mets, including three wins in his last five outings.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Mets OF Michael Cuddyer could miss his second straight game Wednesday due to left knee discomfort.
2. The Giants are 13-5 when Pence starts this season.
3. San Francisco optioned 1B/OF Ryan Lollis to Triple-A Sacramento to make room for Pence.

[Edgy MD]

[TransMonk]

deGrom continues to draw these mid-afternoon day games. This is his third (maybe fourth?) in a row.

I hope he likes getting it going it early as this seems to be one of the effects of a six-man rotation.

[Guest d'Kong76]

@cgrand3 RF
Tejada SS
Murphy 3B
Flores 2B
Duda 1B
@kplawecki26 C
Campbell LF
@JdeGrom19 P
@juanlagares2 CF

@kcmets #cpftoocool

[Guest d'Kong76]

Blanco CF
Panik 2B
Duffy 3B
Pence RF
Crawford SS
Belt 1B
Susac C
Maxwell LF
Peavy RHP

[Edgy MD]

Ah, the old Campbell-in-left chicanery.

[ashie62]

I can only assume they are maximizing rest for Cuddyer.

[Edgy MD]

Four left fielders in four days, I believe.

[Lefty Specialist]

The old 'He's hurt, but we don't want to put him on the DL' chicanery. So just play with a 3-man bench because, hey, what could go wrong? And let's play him periodically so we can't backdate the DL stint.

[Guest themetfairy]

Obi Juan Lagares makes it look easy!

[Frayed Knot]

I see it's another 'Baserunners Optional' day in Met-ville.

[Frayed Knot]

OK deGrom, there's your run.
Now make it stand up.

[ashie62]

What does it take to let deGrom have to do to go nine?

[ashie62]

CAMPBELL 2 RUN KABOOM!

[Edgy MD]

Eric Campbell, welcome to the dawn of your redemption.

[ashie62]

THEY DIDN'T NEED TO PULL deGROM.

The joys of modern baseball... not.

[Edgy MD]

Dang, Duda's glove is giving us more win than his bat.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Edgy MD]

And... the glove of Flores... also our salvation.

Weird.

[Zvon]

Ashie62 wrote: THEY DIDN'T NEED TO PULL deGROM. The joys of modern baseball... not.

^

great seeing Familia rack up another save but as a fan I would have enjoyed seeing a complete game even more.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: Ashie62 wrote: THEY DIDN'T NEED TO PULL deGROM. The joys of modern baseball... not. ^ great seeing Familia rack up another save but as a fan I would have enjoyed seeing a complete game even more.

If they had gone into the 9th still just 2-0 and deGrom's slot in the lineup not come up I would have been very disappointed -- mad even -- had he not at least started the bottom of the 9th.
But once they went up by 4 and then his spot came up in the batting order when you were going to bring in Kirk* for defense anyway, I had no problem with it.



* although, as Gary said during the telecast, the difference in output between NYM pitchers and NYM pinch-hitters isn't all that much