IGT #87 7/10 Snakes? Why'd it have to be snakes?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Just saw Coach Cuddy's HR... lucky. Now he's doing a post-
game interview.

[Fman99]

This game kicked some fucking ass.

[Edgy MD]

Thoughts on the game:

I'm not sure, but Jeurys, though he seems athletic, may be the worst fielding Met pitcher I've ever seen. He's bad on grounders, he's bad throwing to bases, he doesn't cover well, and he's not great at holding runners on. Now he's whiffing on a popup.

We've nonethless seen a lot of defensive hustling the last week, and sharper defensive execution (Jeurys aside). It's nice to see that ninth inning and see a team out-brainfarting us.

Whitey Herzog once paid Lonnie Smith one of the strangest compliments � that he'd fallen down and muffed so many balls hit to him, that he became really good at keeping his head and recovering. I'm starting to feel that way about Daniel Murphy. He can even make the recovery for other people's errors. "I got this, Jeurys. I've BEEN there."

It's nice to go from the "Harvey's gotta save us" culture at the start of the year to Harvey suddenly being the third-best pitcher in the rotation � mostly in a good way.

I readily admit I don't know what to do with the offense. The Mets may have a yawn at every position, but the league is full of yawns right now and the Goldschmidts are hard to come by. Grinding our way through this until we discover a Goldschmidt of our own is painful going, but if that's what we have to do, that may be what we have to do. Great to see Duda and Cuddy grinding tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Cubbies and Natties both lose and the Mets pull within two in both the division race and the Wild Card.

[Ceetar]

Syndergaard now has 72 strikeouts in his first 11 career games...That total is fourth-highest in team history through 11 games behind Dwight Gooden (87), Nolan Ryan (81) and Matt Harvey (80)...The 72 strikeouts through his first 11 games are also tied for the 17th-most strikeouts by any pitcher in the last 100 years...

PITCHING IN: New York pitching has allowed 21 earned runs in its last 133.0 IP (1.42 ERA)...Since Sunday, the Mets pitching staff has allowed five earned runs in 44.0 IP (1.02 ERA) with eight walks and 48 strikeouts...The Mets entered today with the third-best ERA in the majors behind St. Louis and Pittsburgh. THE BULLPEN: The Mets� pen has allowed seven earned runs in its last 15 games (36.0 innings) for an ERA of 1.75...Entering play today, New York�s bullpen ranked fifth in the majors.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: It's nice to go from the "Harvey's gotta save us" culture at the start of the year to Harvey suddenly being the third-best pitcher in the rotation � mostly in a good way.

And who'd have thunk -- especially after our pitching staff's record-setting ineptness from a couple years back when they started the season, what was it?, like 0-fer-60-ish -- that Harvey would wind up as maybe the 4th best hitter on the staff? He's certainly behind deGrom and Syndergaard, no better than Niese, and likely just sample size away from being passed by Matz. Then toss on the fact that, for this season anyway, he's beneath Colon (which is not a good thing to be no matter how you wind up parsing that statement).
Back in his 2012 rookie season Harvey's hitting was a revelation to the point of being a novelty for this team. Since that first year however he's a sub-.100 hitter with a 45% K-rate who can't bunt on a staff full of guys who actually look like they know what they're doing even when they don't get hits.

[Frayed Knot]

I can't wait for the answer, don't click on this if they haven't answered yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_to_hit_for_the_cycle

Ah, it was Hickman. Wasn't watching when they revealed the answer.
Not sure what that little factoid was doing hanging around in my brain, nor what piece of actual important life information was bumped out in order to keep that one around.

[Guest d'Kong76]

My guess was Agee, for some reason I knew he had one...I'm
pretty low on the cpf-mets-trivia totem pole.

That wiki page is pretty neat.