IGT World Series Game 3 - 10/30/2015

[Elster88]

It's not fucking over

[nymr83]

I wonder what kind of scene Citi Field will be this weekend with Halloween saturday? over/under 5,000 Thor hammers in the stands?

[Elster88]

#30 Yordano Ventura
13-8
ERA 4.08
WHIP 1.298
G/GS 28
IP 163.1
K 156
BAA .248
OBP .319
SLG .378

[Lefty Specialist]

Ventura can get rattled. Rattle him, Mets.

[metirish]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Ventura can get rattled. Rattle him, Mets.

Yeah, let's do this, need a rowdy crowd....course also need to fucking bats to wake the fuck up

[seawolf17]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Ventura can get rattled. Rattle him, Mets.

Definitely. Jump on him early, keep the crowd in it, and it's an easy W.

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Ventura can get rattled. Rattle him, Mets. Yeah, let's do this, need a rowdy crowd....course also need to fucking bats to wake the fuck up

A woman I work with will be going to the game. Her son got tickets. He told her they were originally too expensive, but as soon as the KC guy got a leadoff homer in game 1, the price of tickets dropped substantially on Stub Hub.

Let's Go Mets.

Later

[Guest themetfairy]

Kill KILL KILL!!!

[ashie62]

Wish it was at Shea.

[Ceetar]

[Frayed Knot]

Piazza to throw out first pitch.




Alcides Escobar likely to swing at it.

[Zvon]

I might have to take full responsibility for losing games one and two. I ordered the Mets World Series cap, I hoped it would get here for game one. I forgot about it suffering through game two. It just came. I didn't have the cap! Now I have my new lucky Mets WS cap! Now we're gonna start some winning.

A little disappointed that the WS logo isn't actually stitched into the cap. Its some kind of plastic, stuck on deal. Still, awesome as hell.

I also got this kool car.
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LETS GO METS!

Edited October 29, 2015 by Guest

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Ceetar wrote:

The Letterbox Format!

[Lefty Specialist]

Hope there wasn't too much glare from the lights on that guy's head a few rows down.

[G-Fafif]

Four outta five. Win Friday and it's three outta four. The National League champions can do that.

[Guest cooby classic]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Hope there wasn't too much glare from the lights on that guy's head a few rows down.

Lol

[Diamond Dad]

Hammer? HAMMER???!! We don't need no stinking Hammer!!! (We need bats that work)

[G-Fafif]

Diamond Dad wrote: Hammer? HAMMER???!! We don't need no stinking Hammer!!! (We need bats that work)

We can always use a Hammer.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

And they need to hit them where they ain't which seems to be the challenge.

[MFS62]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Hope there wasn't too much glare from the lights on that guy's head a few rows down.

HEY!
There are only so many perfect heads.
The rest are covered with hair.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

GAME: Kansas City Royals (104-71) at New York Mets (97-76)
DATE/TIME: Friday, October 30 - 8:00 PM EST
WHERE: Citi Field, New York City, New York
LINE: N/A TOTAL: N/A
Playoff Series: World Series; Kansas City leads 2-0

The New York Mets were touted as the pitching-rich club heading into the World Series, but it is the Kansas City staff that has the upper hand so far. The Royals will try to ride their pitching to a commanding 3-0 lead when they visit the Mets for Game 3 of the World Series on Friday. As of this writing, no further information is available on Derek Jeter's engagement announcement.

The New York bullpen could not protect a one-run lead in Game 1 and Jacob deGrom had the same problem in Game 2, breaking down in the fifth inning as Kansas City overcame a 1-0 deficit and went on to a 7-1 victory. �Look, the Royals have a good team,� Mets manager Terry Collins told reporters. �We've got to make better pitches and we've got to play better.� Kansas City outlasted New York in 14 innings in Game 1 as its bullpen put up six straight scoreless frames, and then gave that bullpen a night off thanks to Johnny Cueto�s complete-game two-hitter on Wednesday. �We expected to be here,� Royals manager Ned Yost told reporters. �We expected to compete for a world championship against a tough team, and our confidence hasn't changed from the first day of spring training to this point right now.�

TV: 8:07 p.m. ET, FOX

PITCHING MATCHUP: Royals RH Yordano Ventura (0-1, 5.09 ERA) vs. Mets RH Noah Syndergaard (1-1, 2.77)

Ventura is making his fifth start of the postseason and is still looking for his first win. The Dominican Republic native � the third straight Dominican to start for Kansas City � has yet to complete six innings in those four turns but surrendered one run on four hits over 5 1/3 innings against Toronto in the decisive Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. Ventura is facing the Mets for the first time and is 3-3 with a 3.40 ERA in nine career interleague starts.

Syndergaard dominated the Chicago Cubs over 5 2/3 innings to win Game 2 of the NLCS, striking out nine while allowing one run and three hits. The rookie flamethrower recorded 20 strikeouts in 13 innings over the first two rounds of the playoffs. Syndergaard went 0-2 with a 5.86 ERA in his five interleague starts this season but was 7-2 with a 2.46 mark at home.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Mets 2B Daniel Murphy is 2-for-9 with four strikeouts and no home runs in the World Series.
2. Kansas City 1B Eric Hosmer is up to 15 RBIs in 13 games this postseason, including four in the World Series.
3. New York OF Yoenis Cespedes is 6-for-32 with 10 strikeouts in the last eight postseason games.

[Lefty Specialist]

Cespedes, time to get your head out of Yoanus.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had a dream about Game 3 last night. Let's see how clairvoyant I am:

* Curtis Granderson will have obscene words written on his cleats, his mitt, and his batting glove, requiring Fox to pixelate his hands and feet throughout the entire game.

* With Jon Niese pitching and the bases loaded, a Royals batter will hit a ball of his foot so hard that it will roll to the center field wall. We'll all think that it was a bases-clearing double, and will subsequently be relieved that it was actually a foul ball.

* The Mets will be trailing 6-0 in the seventh inning.

If can choose two out of three of those items to come true, I'd obviously choose the first two.

[Edgy MD]

I don't want to be a hater, because I'm not, but there's something that has me absurdly uneasy about Billy Joel singing the nation anthem.

Is Glenn Close retired from singing?

[Guest themetfairy]

You're a hater. It's who you are.

Billy Joel is fine. Much more connected to Mets history than Demi Lovato, whom we're getting tomorrow.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fuck a Joel. Fuck a Demi.

Give me a Casablancas, or a Mike D, or Chuck D.

[Ceetar]

or hell, skip the singing altogether and lets get to the baseball

[Edgy MD]

themetfairy wrote: You're a hater. It's who you are.

Wow.

Someday I'm going to find out what's going on.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: themetfairy wrote: You're a hater. It's who you are. Wow. Someday I'm going to find out what's going on.

You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Never mind their presumed "strength:" maybe Syndergaard should throw some fastballs, for Christ's sake?

That�s a major deviation for Harvey, and while he most definitely pitched well enough to win on Tuesday, that pitch selection is not what made him successful in 2015. Now, as expected, the Royals certainly put his fastball in play very often on Tuesday night, a total of ten times or 33 percent. But they only recorded two hits off of his fastball, one of which � the inside-the-park home run from Alcides Escobar � should have been an out. As for deGrom, he threw a higher percentage of fastballs in his Game 2 start on Wednesday. He recorded no swings and misses on his fastballs and only three total on the night. He threw 53 of his 96 pitches for fastballs (four-seam and two-seam), or 56.3 percent. But that�s also under his season average � he threw his four-seam and two-seam fastball more than 60 percent of the time in 2015 as well. Jacob deGromBut similarly to Harvey on Tuesday, the Royals only recorded two hits on the 53 fastballs deGrom threw on Wednesday. They put a smaller percentage of his fastballs in play as well, and actually did not put 18 of the 25 two-seamers deGrom threw in play. In total, the Royals have recorded only four hits against fastballs from deGrom and Harvey combined.