IGT - 4/11/16 Mets vs. Marlins

[Centerfield]

Matz takes the mound and rights the ship.

When we all meet at the parade this fall, we'll think "Hey, remember when they started 2-3 this year?"

[Guest d'Kong76]

Miami at NY Mets
When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, April 11, 2016
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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The New York Mets will try to awake from an offensive slumber when they open up a three-game series with the visiting Miami Marlins on Monday. The defending National League champs, who opened 13-3 last year, are 2-3 after a 5-2 home loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.

The Mets have scored three runs or fewer in four of their five games and produced a total of two runs on seven hits over the final two games of the weekend set, both of them losses. "If we get this thing going in the direction I think we're capable of, and if you look at the back of these guys' baseball cards, I don't think anybody in here should feel too worried at this moment," third baseman David Wright told reporters. "But, at the same time, let's win some games so we don't have to continuously keep talking about it." The Marlins dropped a 4-2 decision in Washington on Sunday to split a two-game series that also included a rainout. Miami was swept four straight in Citi Field last April but won four of the final six games at New York.

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

PITCHING MATCHUP: Marlins RH Jarred Cosart (2015: 2-5, 4.52 ERA) vs. Mets LH Steven Matz (2015: 4-0, 2.27)

After winning 13 games with a sub-4.00 ERA in 2014, Cosart dealt with a bout of vertigo that derailed his 2015 campaign, forcing him to the disabled list and several starts in the minors. The 25-year-old flashed his potential with eight scoreless innings against the Mets on April 27 but that was the only game in which he lasted more than six frames. Cosart, who tossed 9 2/3 scoreless innings this spring, has a 3.00 ERA in four career starts versus New York and has enjoyed particular success against right fielder Curtis Granderson, who is 0-for-11 against him.

Matz doesn't get the attention that others in the Mets' rotation receive, but he is not that far behind after showcasing solid stuff in six major-league starts last year. He held opponents to two runs or fewer in five of those outings - including a 5 1/3-inning effort at Miami on Sept. 6 - and then did the same in two of his three postseason appearances. The 24-year-old New York native had a 4.94 ERA and walked 13 batters in 23 2/3 innings during Grapefruit League action.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Miami LF Christian Yelich homered Sunday and also drew his fifth and sixth walks of the season.
2. Granderson is 0-for-16 with four strikeouts in his last four games.
3. Mets CF Yoenis Cespedes gave his team all its runs Sunday with a two-run blast and is a career .309 hitter in 12 games against the Marlins.

[Guest cooby classic]

weather?

[Guest d'Kong76]

NOAA Corona, NY

[Frayed Knot]

cooby wrote: weather?

Yes there will be.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: cooby wrote: weather? Yes there will be.

yeah, not like we're the dodgers.

[Guest cooby classic]

lol

[ashie62]

Cold cold cold

LETS GO METS!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Granderson, RF
Wright, 3B
Cespedes, CF
Duda, 1B
Walker, 2B
Conforto, LF
Cabrera, SS
d'Arnaud, C
Matz, P

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gordon, 2B
Ozuna, CF
Yelich, LF
Stanton, RF
Prado, 3B
Johnson, 1B
Realmuto, C
Hechavarria, SS
Cosart, P

[Lefty Specialist]

OK to walk Stanton any time you feel like it, Steven.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

thank god we're looking better tonight.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

HEY MATZ!!!

[bigpurple:2x956ldw]BOOOOOOO[/bigpurple:2x956ldw]

[Guest themetfairy]

They're just setting this up to be a future Mets Classic!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

fire terry. demote matz. traid harvey. bench grandy.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Holy crap, what'd I miss!
Let's go rain!

[ashie62]

I hope Matz aint hurt.

[Guest cooby classic]

1. Goodnight. I'm going to bed
2. Who is the ESPN crew? Hubby and I are trying to figure out who the guy is who needs to swallow

[Guest cooby classic]

themetfairy wrote: They're just setting this up to be a future Mets Classic!

My god I hope you are right! But I have to get up at 5 am. Quite a few of the Mets Classics have been played after I was in bed (but certainly not asleep)

[Guest d'Kong76]

cooby wrote: Who is the ESPN crew? Hubby and I are trying to figure out who the guy is who needs to swallow

No idea, I'm trying to figure out why ESPN isn't blacked out
here unless it's just an oversight.

[Guest cooby classic]

I was wondering the same thing. We NEVER get the Mets ESPN games.

[Guest d'Kong76]

This Robles bunting clinic brought to you by... BILF.

[Frayed Knot]

cooby wrote: 1. Goodnight. I'm going to bed 2. Who is the ESPN crew? Hubby and I are trying to figure out who the guy is who needs to swallow

Karl Ravech (ESPN guy), Eduardo Perez (ex-player, son of Tony), Curt Schilling (ex-pitcher, current loud mouth).

[Guest cooby classic]

Hubby and I sure it was an ex-Phillies named Lonnie or Lannie. Hmmm really puzzled now. Thank you FK

Hubby yelling 'spit!' Me yelling 'swallow!'

[Zvon]

Matz didn't look as bad as his line IMO. He was squeezed early. Velocity was good. Still, kinda shocking.
What's it matter? We only have one hit.

Oh nice. Now they are running into each other. You better catch that Lucas! Niiiice. Duda eats grass.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm not watching the ESPN feed so I don't know specifically what you're referring to, but Schilling has had bouts with throat and mouth cancer (chewing tobacco) so I'm betting it's him and has something to do with that.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: Matz didn't look as bad as his line .

He couldn't possibly.

[Zvon]

Perez kinda sounds like he's talking underwater. He has an inside out voice.

[Zvon]

EXCELLENT seeing Wright pull a gapper. Niiiiiiiice!!!!!

[Zvon]

Cespedes ropes a single and the Fish concede a run (the ball was at the cutoff man when Wright was rounding third).

8-1 Barry Bonds team