IGT 05/01 - Giants @ Mets

[Guest d'Kong76]

Great pitching match-up for the final game, but not likely to be played...
NOAA forecast: Corona, NY

[Guest d'Kong76]

San Francisco at NY Mets
When: 1:10 PM ET, Sunday, May 1, 2016
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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The New York Mets try for their ninth straight victory when they host the San Francisco Giants on Sunday in the finale of their three-game series, and the winning streak has been partly fueled by the red-hot Michael Conforto. The left fielder is 15-for-31 with two Kabooms! and 10 RBIs during an eight-game hitting streak, raising his average to .365 while going deep among three hits and driving in three runs during New York's 6-5 victory Saturday.

Conforto (four home runs, 18 RBIs) is playing his first full season in the majors and said he is not feeling any pressure batting third in the lineup, and could be benefiting from having Yoenis Cespedes (seven homers, 23 RBIs) hitting behind him. The Mets outscored opponents 50-21 during the winning streak and their two home runs Saturday gave them 33 in April, tying the club record set in 2006. San Francisco, which had won its last five series at Citi Field, is 4-7 on the road this season with an ERA of 6.21 compared to 4.02 at AT&T Park. The Giants' Madison Bumgarner puts his perfect record versus New York on the line while squaring off against fellow ace Noah Syndergaard, who has an eye-popping 38 strikeouts against four walks in 26 2/3 innings this season.

TV: 1:10 p.m. ET, CSN Bay Area (San Francisco), SNY (New York)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Giants LH Madison Bumgarner (2-2, 3.64 ERA) vs. Mets RH Noah Syndergaard (2-0, 1.69)

Bumgarner allowed two runs and six hits while striking out nine in 6 2/3 innings of a 5-4 victory over San Diego on Monday that snapped his two-game slide and four-game winless streak. The 26-year-old North Carolina native, whose 13-11 career record in April marks his worst winning percentage of any month, recorded 38 strikeouts in 29 2/3 innings this season and five walks over his last four starts after issuing five free passes in his 2016 opener. Bumgarner is 3-0 with a 1.24 ERA, 0.79 WHIP and 33 strikeouts in 29 innings versus New York and has held Cespedes and David Wright to a combined 4-for-17.

Syndergaard received a no-decision after allowing three runs and seven hits while striking out nine in 6 2/3 innings of the Mets' 5-3 victory over Cincinnati on Monday for his four straight quality start to begin the season. The 23-year-old Texan has yet to permit a home run after yielding 19 in 150 innings of his 2015 rookie season. Syndergaard allowed four runs and 10 hits in six innings of a 5-0 loss to San Francisco last season in his only start versus the Giants.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Conforto doubled in his sixth straight game Saturday, tying the club record set by Joe Christopher in 1964.
2. San Francisco RF Hunter Pence (.284, four home runs, 19 RBIs) drove in three runs Saturday and is 11-for-27 with two home runs, eight RBIs and seven walks in his last eight games.
3. Cespedes failed to record an extra-base hit Saturday, snapping his club record streak at nine games.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I looked at the Mets and Giants schedules (fun fact: http://www.giants.com belongs to the NFL team, not the MLB team) for common off dates in case there's a need to make up today's game.

These are the available dates, and the cities that each team will be in on the day before and the day after:

[list:12ux2ed5]May 16: Mets Denver-New York; Giants Phoenix-San Diego
May 26: Mets Washington-New York; Giants San Francisco-Denver
July 21: Mets Chicago-Miami; Giants Boston-Bronx
August 22: Mets San Francisco-St. Louis; Giants San Francisco-Los Angeles
September 8: Mets Cincinnati-Atlanta; Giants San Diego-San Francisco[/list:u:12ux2ed5]

It looks like the best option would be July 21. The Mets would have to make a one-day stop in Queens between games in Chicago and Miami. The Giants will be in New York anyway, with a game scheduled at Yankee Stadium the following day.

The second-best option is probably August 22, the day after the Mets end their series in San Francisco, but that would mean the Mets would lose a home game and the Giants would gain one.

Hopefully this is all moot, and the Mets will get to squeeze in a victory over the Giants today at Citi Field.

[MFS62]

Only an act of (Mother) Nature can slow down the Mets juggernaut.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

Span CF
Pagan LF
Duffy 3B
Posey C
Belt 1B
Pence RF
Crawford SS
Tomlinson 2B
Bumgarner P

Lagares, RF
Wright, 3B
Conforto, LF
Cespedes, CF
Walker, 2B
Flores, SS
Plawecki, C
Campbell, 1B
Syndergaard, P

[Chad ochoseis]

d'Kong76 wrote: Lagares, RF Cespedes, CF

Hmmmm....

[soupcan]

Just as soggy in SW CT and my daughter's soccer game is a go. The MLB has to be tougher than 15 year-old girls, no?

[G-Fafif]

Word out of SFG beat circles is July 21 is the targeted makeup date should one be needed.

[ashie62]

Pissing rain in north NJ.

[Guest d'Kong76]

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

soupcan wrote: Just as soggy in SW CT and my daughter's soccer game is a go. The MLB has to be tougher than 15 year-old girls, no?

We toughed out little league this morning in light drizzle that became steady rain. First win of the year in five games!

I credit the coaching.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Cheetos rawk!

[Guest themetfairy]

Drop the Hammer - it's Thorsday!

[Edgy MD]

Campbell gets his first start of the year and it's against Madison Bumgarner.

It's the Curse of Joe McEwing.

[Edgy MD]

Today's certainly one of those days I miss Shea's carnival-colored seats.

[Edgy MD]

Thanks for burning that challenge, Giants.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Campbell gets his first start of the year and it's against Madison Bumgarner. It's the Curse of Joe McEwing.

Take that, you curse!

[Edgy MD]

Man, I wanted to send Wright, but he was a dead duck.

[Edgy MD]

Calabash...

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Man, I wanted to send Wright, but he was a dead duck.

Me too and he was.

Games on some 800 channel in the living room. It's around 3 pitches ahead of MLBtv thru the PC.

BOOOOOO! (<@Pence)

[Edgy MD]

Two stolen bases by a non-stealing team, and a key play sending Posey as well, would sure be noted by those participating in the Travis d'Arnaud Deathwatch.

[Frayed Knot]

soupcan wrote: The MLB has to be tougher than 15 year-old girls, no?

Yeah, but so are their union reps.

[Frayed Knot]

We had some chances early on against Bumgarner.
Bu I fear we may have missed our chance against Bumgarner.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: ...the Travis d'Arnaud Deathwatch.

I get on d'Arnaud a lot but I don't get this. He has the raw talent to be awesome. I think he'll grow into an excellent catcher & hitter. I wouldn't discard Travis so soon. That's rude.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Not feeling good about this one. I think it's because Eric Campbell is in the lineup.

On the plus side, the '86 uniforms look good!

Meanwhile, the Giants should have put both numbers on one patch for the memorial. The two patches don't look good.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Need to run Bum and get in his pen...

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Rats.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: ...the Travis d'Arnaud Deathwatch. I get on d'Arnaud a lot but I don't get this. He has the raw talent to be awesome. I think he'll grow into an excellent catcher & hitter. I wouldn't discard Travis so soon. That's rude.

Sure, but folks need a whipping boy, and there's a drumbeat out there to make him the guy.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: ...the Travis d'Arnaud Deathwatch. I get on d'Arnaud a lot but I don't get this. He has the raw talent to be awesome. I think he'll grow into an excellent catcher & hitter. I wouldn't discard Travis so soon. That's rude. Sure, but folks need a whipping boy, and there's a drumbeat out there to make him the guy.

That's the article I saw. I didn't bother to read it. People are strange.

[Zvon]

Cambell you can be BIG.