I.G.T. 9/4/15 Mets @ Stonybrook alum

[ashie62]

10 game road trip starting.

Lets clean up on the fish before D.C.

LETS GO METS.

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at Miami
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, September 4, 2015
Where: Marlins Park, Miami, Florida
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The New York Mets cruise into the final month of the season with a 6 1/2-game lead in the National League East and a schedule that sets up nicely. The Mets will continue their tour of disappointing NL East rivals when they visit the Marlins for the opener of a three-game series.

New York took two of three from last-place Philadelphia to end its homestand and will sandwich series at Miami and Atlanta around a showdown at Washington on the 10-game trip. The Mets should be happy to hit the road after pounding out 73 runs while finishing off their last road trip with seven straight wins. The Marlins, who were swept in a three-game set at New York from Aug. 3-5, come in with some momentum after outscoring the Atlanta Braves 18-4 in a three-game sweep. Tom Koehler will try to keep that run of strong pitching going and end a string of seven straight losing decisions when he goes up against Mets All-Star Jacob deGrom on Friday.

TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), FSN Florida (Miami)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Jacob deGrom (12-7, 2.32 ERA) vs. Marlins RH Tom Koehler (8-13, 4.12)

DeGrom struggled through illness at Philadelphia on Aug. 24 and was lit up for six earned runs in 2 2/3 innings but bounced back with a solid start on Saturday. He struck out 10 and allowed two runs and four hits in six innings but suffered the loss to Boston in a 3-1 final. The 27-year-old deGrom is facing Miami for the second time this season and picked up a win by scattering six hits over seven scoreless innings at home against the Marlins on Apr. 18.

Koehler has been reached for at least five earned runs in four of his last seven starts. The New York native is trying to bounce back after surrendering five runs on nine hits � three home runs � in six innings at Washington on Saturday. Koehler was ripped for seven runs � six earned � on seven hits and three walks in 4 1/3 innings in a loss to the Mets on Aug. 3.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Marlins RF Giancarlo Stanton (broken hamate bone) could return to the team this weekend.
2. Mets INF Daniel Murphy left Wednesday�s game with discomfort in his left quad and is day-to-day.
3. New York rookie OF Michael Conforto is 6-for-10 in his last three games.

[seawolf17]

LET'S CRUSH THIS FUCKIN GUY

(Or, better, let him pitch five or six scoreless innings, maybe with two or three hits allowed and a handful of Ks and then LET'S CRUSH THIS FUCKIN GUY'S BULLPEN)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Let's just crush him in the first inning and be done with it!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Yeah! No fantasy team points for Stonybrook alumni tonight! Sorry.

Edited September 4, 2015 by Guest

[dinosaur jesus]

I don't want to crush him. That's no way to treat someone. We should just let him know that even if he's not very good at baseball, he's still a good person, and there are probably lots of other things he could do really well. Like, I don't know, making appliqu� seahorses, or playing tuba in an oom-pah band. We'll find something.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It needs to be something simple, that doesn't require counting higher than ten. Maybe he could lick envelopes or something.

[Edgy MD]

I'm almost positive he's going to be an NRI for the Mets come March.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm almost positive he's going to be an NRI for the Mets come March.

I could see that. The Mets like to bring in a couple of guys like that that give the media easy "hometown hero!" columns for Spring Training. See: Anthony Seratelli.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm almost positive he's going to be an NRI for the Mets come March.

/preorders Mets KOEHLER 34 shirt

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gordon, 2B
Yelich, CF
Prado, 3B
Bour, 1B
Dietrich, LF
Ozuna, RF
Realmuto, C
Hechavarria, SS
Koehler, P

Granderson, RF
Wright, 3B
Cespedes, CF
Conforto, LF
d'Arnaud, C
Uribe, 2B
Johnson, 1B
Tejada, SS
deGrom, P

[Lefty Specialist]

Conforto batting cleanup! Fascinating.

[Zvon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Conforto batting cleanup! Fascinating.

That's a good way to put it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

No Murphy, Cuddyer, or Flores. Is Wilmer still away from the team?

[ashie62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: No Murphy, Cuddyer, or Flores. Is Wilmer still away from the team?

Don't know about Wilmer but there is plenty of depth even with Duda out.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: No Murphy, Cuddyer, or Flores. Is Wilmer still away from the team?

Murph is hobbled. Cuddyer is mostly starting against lefties these days. Wilmer was expected back with the team this evening, but I expect Terry doesn't want to throw him out there right away.

So they're going with Johnson at first, who I'd probably put at number five on the depth chart over there.

[Edgy MD]

Wright second and Cespedes third is a treat. Put Duda between 'em and watch the thunda.

Easy to forget, but Wright was batting second at the start of the season before he went down.

[TransMonk]

Per Rubin: Cuddyer has a wrist injury.

"Grip and range of motion is slim to none," Cuddyer said.

[Zvon]

WTF was that? Ha! Ozuna caught it but he still sucks.

[ashie62]

We really need this game.

[Edgy MD]

Guy behind home plate waiving at the camera for your friends, turn in your jersey.

[Frayed Knot]

Don't want to be letting this guy off the hook all night. 3 BBs already -- including 2 to lead-off batters -- but nothing to show for it so far.
Of course if this game were being played at Yanqui Stadium we'd be up about 6-0 right now.

[Frayed Knot]

On the positive side: efficient pitch count for deGrom. Thru the first three averaging < 12 pitches/per
Far too often lately our guys have been running up high counts even when they've been giving up very few hits & runs. deGrom, Harvey, and Syndergaard all have been guilty of this in recent starts.

[ashie62]

We are struggling.

[Zvon]

Collectively speaking.

4 hits in a row by the Fish. Bases loaded, no outs, 1-0 Miami.

[Edgy MD]

deGrom is not checking the runners here.

[Zvon]

I woulda let that go lil'd.

[Zvon]

Could have been worse.

3-0 water breathing creatures.

[ashie62]

Stony Brook 3 Mets 0

Its' like our young pitchers are gassed at the same time.

[Ceetar]

rough start.