IGT Sunday 9/13 Mets Braves Sweep SWEEP SWEEP

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[Edgy MD]

Great job, Reed. You made your daddy proud.

Thanks for Addison Reed, jerks.

[Zvon]

We may have to invent a new word to describe this team.

This is the freakin BIG BLUE MACHINE!




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Edited September 13, 2015 by Guest

[dinosaur jesus]

Coming in to the Washington series, the Nats swept four from the Braves while the Mets lost two of three to Miami. After that series, vice versa. I like the symmetry of that.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Lagares doubles to start the game-winning rally.

Turns out this was only the game-tying rally. Oh, well...

[Benjamin Grimm]

This may be the first game all year (except for the game I attended at Citi Field in June) where I watched the entire game, from beginning to end, entirely in real time. I've been in the habit of recording the game on my TiVo and starting my viewing 30 to 60 minutes after the game has started.

I missed being able to fast-forward through the commercials, but it was a helluva game!

[Frayed Knot]

It wasn't quite a classic game in that it lacked both top-shelf play and that sense of 'must have' urgency given our recently assumed big division lead - but the back and forth tug-o-war and the pulling of their collective ass out of the fire aspects of it were certainly entertaining.

And, hey, when the Braves were sucking wind vs the Nats two weeks back a lot of us here moaned that they better do the same for us. Well folks, they did.

Now my only question remains, if they were unable to lose this game, what kind of game is it going to take for them to lose?

[ashie62]

Everything is turning up roses.

[Zvon]

Can the Mets approach MLB about the scoring in this game? Or do they just let that slide. How many errors were called hits? 4? Home team scoring can have an edge, but you can't outright cheat and call those things hits.

[Guest themetfairy]

Everything is coming up Metsies!

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Can the Mets approach MLB about the scoring in this game? Or do they just let that slide. How many errors were called hits? 4? Home team scoring can have an edge, but you can't outright cheat and call those things hits.

They can, but I imagine they won't.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: Can the Mets approach MLB about the scoring in this game? Or do they just let that slide.

They can and teams sometimes do just that although scorers are not required to change their original calls. And of course pleasing one player by changing a call might piss off another.

How many errors were called hits? 4? Home team scoring can have an edge, but you can't outright cheat and call those things hits.

There were only two called errors: Murphy's & Uribe's.
But it's tough, or at best a toss-up, to argue that the Niese to Duda play* was an 'E', or Granderson's missed slide in RF, or Tejada's bobble since they got an out anyway, or Murph's jump throw combined with Duda's failed scoop, or Tejada in the hole where he's probably not throwing the guy out anyway, or Duda's missed pop in the sun and the wind as he was never really under it.
Sometimes it's just one of those days. But the good thing is that these days, even when it is one of those days, we win anyway.



* and, Geez, how many cheesy hits did Markakis get today? The whole Braves team really but him especially. 13 Atlanta hits in all but all were singles: about 3 or 4 of them were in the infield plus several more bloops

[Piggiestomatoes]

Was out and just watched the 8th, 9th and 10th. Well, that was crazy. It was almost like Terry was trying to throw them a bone by sitting Wright, Cespedes, d'Arnoud, not pitching the regulars, fielding that was referred to. Keith's "analysis" during the 9th and 10th was priceless.

[Edgy MD]

It's long-standing tradition, but it doesn't make sense that mis-judged flies are scored as hits.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Sometimes it's just one of those days. But the good thing is that these days, even when it is one of those days, we win anyway.

Yea!

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Was out and just watched the 8th, 9th and 10th. Well, that was crazy. It was almost like Terry was trying to throw them a bone by sitting Wright, Cespedes, d'Arnoud, not pitching the regulars, fielding that was referred to. Keith's "analysis" during the 9th and 10th was priceless.

I agree that TC was doing that even before the game was played. He's like "I'm going with the 2nd string only-see if you can beat them."

I had a "you can't win 'em all" & "we'll start a new streak tomorrow" speech all lined up.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Zvon wrote: Can the Mets approach MLB about the scoring in this game? Or do they just let that slide. How many errors were called hits? 4? Home team scoring can have an edge, but you can't outright cheat and call those things hits.

They should let it slide. This is no time to focus on things that don't matter.

Anyway, if you argue for your pitcher, to get earned runs turned into unearned runs, you're also arguing that your fielder should be charged with an error. It's better not to go there.

[Edgy MD]

It happens, though, usually when a team wants a pitcher to get credited with a no-hitter, or some milestone, or simply wants his record cleaned of runs that shouldn't happen to him.

And really, what's one error on a player's record, compared to three runs on a pitcher's? Any decent teammate of a fielder would give that to his pitcher every time.

[soupcan]

I was listening to the game while in my hammock (yes, that is pretty much where I live these days) and I TURNED IT OFF with 2 outs in the ninth. A friend texted me 'LOL!!', I texted back 'what?' And he told me Murphy tied it. I listened to the rest of it but DAMN this team! When is it safe to turn the friggin' game off??!!

[Benjamin Grimm]

It ain't over 'til it's over.

[soupcan]

[Lefty Specialist]

Seems like even when it's over, it's not over.

[soupcan]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Seems like even when it's over, it's not over.

THAT'S what I was trying to say!

[Edgy MD]

Murphy�s homer Sunday was the third in franchise history that erased a three-plus-run deficit with the Mets down to their final out. It joined Victor Diaz�s three-run shot against the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 25, 2004, and Carl Everett�s grand slam against the Montreal Expos on Sept. 13, 1997.

[Zvon]

soupcan wrote: I was listening to the game while in my hammock....

Niiiiiice.

[Edgy MD]

You know, if you're going to win a game on walks, balks, and wild pitches, the hammock is where you want to be.