IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

[Chad ochoseis]

Promising young pitcher Mike Foltynewicz goes up against promising old pitcher Bartolo Colon. Hijinks ensue.

[Guest themetfairy]

Go Bartolo!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Atlanta at NY Mets
When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, May 2, 2016
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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The New York Mets had an eight-game winning streak come to an end on Sunday but are in a strong position to start another with the major league-worst Atlanta Braves coming to town for the start of a three-game series on Monday. The Braves are on what constitutes as a hot streak for the team right now with wins in two of the last three games.

Atlanta snapped an eight-game slide that included three home losses to the Mets with a 5-3 win at Boston on Thursday and managed a 4-3 victory in 10 innings at Chicago on Sunday in the rain-shortened series. The punchless Braves have hit a league-low five home runs � six fewer than Colorado Rockies slugger Nolan Arenado has hit by himself � and are last in the National League in runs scored. The Mets pounded out 19 runs in taking the first two of a series from the San Francisco Giants over the weekend but could not offer the same support to Noah Syndergaard in Sunday�s 6-1 setback. New York is trying to keep pace with the Washington Nationals in the NL East and is trying to finish up its nine-game homestand strong before hitting the road for 11 straight beginning on Thursday.

TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, FSN Southeast (Atlanta), SNY (New York)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Braves RH Mike Foltynewicz (2015: 4-6, 5.71 ERA) vs. Mets RH Bartolo Colon (1-1, 3.42)

Foltynewicz is being recalled to take over a rotation spot from Bud Norris, who posted an 8.74 ERA in May. Foltynewicz failed to earn a rotation spot in spring training but posted at 2.05 ERA in four starts for Triple-A Gwinnett despite issuing 14 walks in 22 total innings. The 24-year-old has made two career appearances � one start � against the Mets and allowed a total of nine runs � eight earned � and 12 hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Colon is trying to earn his 220th career win to move past Pedro Martinez and into second place among Dominican-born pitchers. The hefty veteran did not earn a decision in either of his last two outings while yielding a combined six earned runs in 11 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. Colon is 8-2 with a 2.69 ERA in 11 career starts against Atlanta.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Atlanta is expected to add a player on Monday after playing with a 24-man roster Sunday due to a procedural error.
2. Mets LF Michael Conforto went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts on Sunday, ending a streak of six straight games with at least one extra-base hit.
3. New York has taken eight of the last 10 in the series.

[Centerfield]

Start a new streak tonight.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Granderson RF
Wright 3B
Conforto LF
Cespedes CF
Duda 1B
Walker 2B
Cabrera SS
Plawecki C
Colon P

[Lefty Specialist]

Only a game ahead of the Phillies? WTF?

Put the hammer down on these Bravos, boys.

[Edgy MD]

They got the hammer lineup. Hopefully Colon's homer vulnerability will be offset by Atlanta's general power shortage.

I tend to think Colon's starts a good day to play Laggy.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Markakis, RF
Castro, 3B
Freeman, 1B
Garcia, LF
Pierzynski, C
Brignac, 2B
Aybar, SS
Foltynewicz, P
Smith, CF

[Zvon]

Do we get Fkn frd or Funky Frd?

[Frayed Knot]

d'Kong76 wrote: Markakis, RF Castro, 3B Freeman, 1B Garcia, LF Pierzynski, C Brignac, 2B Aybar, SS Foltynewicz, P Smith, CF

Reid Brignac must have been a call-up earlier today*. His appearance here tonight will make him the Braves' 6th different starting 2B-man of the still-young season.
He's been hitting well in AAA Gwinnett, but his ML record doesn't bode well for much of an upgrade at that position.
From 2011-15 he's amassed just shy of 500 trips to the plate combined spread over those five seasons and five different orgs and has managed a stunning .189/.236/.241 line over that time with just 3 HRs and 17 XBH.



* looks like Opening Day starter Jace Peterson has been disappeared to make room

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: From 2011-15 he's amassed just shy of 500 trips to the plate combined spread over those five seasons and five different orgs and has managed a stunning .189/.236/.241 line over that time with just 3 HRs and 17 XBH.

And he's batting sixth.

Let's win this one.

[Guest themetfairy]

Cespedes!

[Zvon]

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[Edgy MD]

Keith giving himself a Strat-o-Matic defense rating. "Ozzie and I were 1's. No question."

Awesome. Keith's time off has really energized him. He's nuts tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Nu sideline reporter tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Man, Curtis misses another homer by 12 inches.

[Edgy MD]

Welcome back to the bigs Brignac.

[Edgy MD]

Strikes out Conforto and the go to Bud Norris to face Cespedes? I don't know about that move.

Oh, right Fredi Gonz�lez.

I guess he's trying to get his pitcher out on a positive?

[Edgy MD]

And it works.

(I'm all alone.)

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I'm here! Nice to see Colon getting into the sixth with a shutout.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Here, enjoying the booth this evening.
Uncle Bartolo cruising.

[Frayed Knot]

Be nice if they didn't try to end this by sitting on a 4 run lead for 8 innings.

[Edgy MD]

Mets hitting a lot of hard-hit at-'em balls tonight.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

O'Flaherty and Chase d'Arnaud. That's cool.

O'Flaherty's got an ERA of 6.75. So nothing has changed, I see.

[Edgy MD]

He got Conforto, which is what he's out there for, so that's something. Nice to see he and Johnson get their rings.

Bart the first 2016 Met starter to pitch into the eighth.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Wow! Walker just stole second. It's his first steal of the season. Given our team's speed, that steal might give him the team lead in two offensive categories!

[Zvon]

Interesting conversation about the "straddle" approach. Tell me why that won't work these days.
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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Familia is not having a good year.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

But let's not worry cuz we win!

What an astonishingly dull game! Go Mets!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Familia is not having a good year.

Was thinking that he's not quite as lights out as he once was.