I.G.T. 8/3/15 Mets @ Fish Colon v Koehler

[metirish]

Excellent at bat from Cespedes, took some close ones and then knocks a 2 run double of the wall , not missing a HR by much.....- 5 - 0

[Edgy MD]

Welcome to the Fishbowl, Yoenis.

[Gwreck]

Arizona up 5-0 now.

[Edgy MD]

You're not gonna catch the Murph sitting back on a tapper twice, Dee.

[Fman99]

FUCK, YES.

[Frayed Knot]

I wonder what our 'bunt percentage' is?

No such statistic exists of course, but more than just being able to see how many times we bunted into outs or K'd trying to bunt, I'd like to see a tally of how many individual pitches where a sac bunt was attempted and then how many of those were successful at moving a runner up. For example, in this inning, Bartolo took 3 shots at a Sac Bunt and failed at all of them so that would be an 0-fer-3. Then you'd want to compare it to league averages and such.
Now you'd essentially need pitch by pitch analysis to keep track of it all so I don't expect a realistic answer here, but geez, it would have be in the single digits on this club.

[Edgy MD]

Three doubles with a chance for more for Cespedes.

Speaking of doubles, double digits!!

[dgwphotography]

I can quite easily get used to games like this.

Cespedes looked a little perturbed in the dugout after his 3rd double. He looked like he was wondering what he had to do to hit the ball out there..

[Edgy MD]

dgwphotography wrote: Cespedes looked a little perturbed in the dugout after his 3rd double. He looked like he was wondering what he had to do to hit the ball out there..

He may have to ask Conforto!

I am more than happy with a pile of doubles.

[dgwphotography]

I'm trying to fight the giddiness I've been feeling, and losing the battle. I've forgotten what it's like to be happy while watching the Mets...

[metirish]

Bart smokes a hit , sounds like a home game

[dgwphotography]

metirish wrote: Bart smokes a hit , sounds like a home game

My optimum app must be delayed - I read this before I saw it happen...

[Edgy MD]

Colon. Wow.

[metirish]

dgwphotography wrote: metirish wrote: Bart smokes a hit , sounds like a home game My optimum app must be delayed - I read this before I saw it happen...

yep, I have noticed the same when using that app, great app tho...also SiriusXM is several minutes behind the play

[Edgy MD]

Extra bonus tonight is the benefit of taxing their bullpen in game one of a series.

[Zvon]

This is something else.

[Frayed Knot]

And speaking of bullpens, after two nights of saving his best relievers for save/hold spots that never appeared, Matt Williams tonight uses both Storen & Papelbon in late inning mop-up work.
Papelbon serves up a HR to make it 6-0 Arizona.

[Edgy MD]

d'Arnaud is taking a beating tonight.

[nymr83]

SOLE POSSESSION of first place might be only a few innings away!

[Zvon]

Granderson making that catch makes it official. Everything is going our way.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Giddy.

[Frayed Knot]

Nymr83 wrote: SOLE POSSESSION of first place might be only a few innings away!

It would be less than one inning away except that the Nats are mounting a comeback in their 9th inning.
6-2 now with a couple of runners on.

[Edgy MD]

It should be backup time. Let's see if we can get Campbell going against some back-end pitching.

[Gwreck]

Bullpen meltdown in progress for Arizona. 4 runs in and the Nationals have the tying run up in the 9th.

[metirish]

Nats with another two....6-4...damn

[Edgy MD]

Downside of tonight: Lucas found his strikeout stroke again.

[Edgy MD]

Come on, Terry, yank Travis.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

A little bit of Larry love.

[Frayed Knot]

DBack closer Ziegler is in.
Werth grounds out.
2 down, runner on 2nd
Escobar batting as tying run.

[Gwreck]

Arizona wins. Thanks, Brad Ziegler.