IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at San Diego
When: 10:40 PM ET, Friday, May 6, 2016
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
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The San Diego Padres cooled off New York in the opener of a four-game set and look to post another victory over the visiting Mets in Friday's encounter. New York had won 13 of 16 games before being mesmerized by San Diego right-hander Colin Rea, who didn't allow a hit until two outs in the seventh inning and took a shutout into the ninth before needing bullpen help to finish off a 5-3 victory.

Rea gave up three hits and departed after right fielder Curtis Granderson slugged a leadoff homer in the ninth, and New York made things interesting when red-hot center fielder Yoenis Cespedes hit a two-run blast off reliever Brad Hand. San Diego reclamation project Fernando Rodney retired the final two hitters for his seventh consecutive save and the 39-year old, who lost his closer's job with the Seattle Mariners last season, has yet to allow an earned run in 11 appearances this season. The Padres have won five of their last seven games as they continue to attempt to recover from a poor start. The Mets (17-10) have the fourth-best record in the majors but trail the Washington Nationals by 1 1/2-games in the National League East.

TV: 10:40 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), FSN San Diego

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Noah Syndergaard (2-1, 2.51 ERA) vs. Padres LH Drew Pomeranz (2-3, 2.48)

Syndergaard lost his last outing when he allowed four runs and five hits in 5 2/3 against the San Francisco Giants. He has given up seven runs in his last two starts after allowing just two total runs in his first three turns. Syndergaard is 1-1 with a 5.25 ERA in two career starts against the Padres and has struck out 19 in 12 innings.

Pomeranz lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers despite a stellar outing in which he gave up one run and three hits in seven innings. The Padres were blanked 1-0 by Clayton Kershaw, marking the second time in five starts that Pomeranz was on the wrong end of a shutout defeat. Pomeranz lasted just four innings in his one career start against the Mets, giving up two runs (one earned) and five hits on April 27, 2012, as a member of the Colorado Rockies.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Cespedes has eight homers and 24 RBIs over his last 15 games.
2. San Diego C Derek Norris went 3-for-3 with a homer in the opener after being 3-for-38 over his previous 11 games.
3. New York 2B Neil Walker was hitless in four at-bats Thursday and is 0-for-13 over the past four games.

[Guest cooby classic]

Neil walker better eat his Wheaties

[TransMonk]

Looks like lots of rain today (all through the day) in San Diego. I'm hoping that if they decide to call this one and do two tomorrow they decide earlier than 10:40 ET.

It would be a bummer to stay up late and then not have a game to watch.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours

[Guest d'Kong76]

cooby wrote: Neil walker better eat his Wheaties

I was going to reply, "Or his Maypo!" I googled to see if Maypo was
still around and type Mapo and got a Korean bbq place in Flushing!

[Guest cooby classic]

Ew maple bbq!

[Guest d'Kong76]

I don't remember eating Maypo when I was a kid, but I remember
that there were a lot of commercials for it. (I was born in a house
with the television always on)...
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[Guest cooby classic]

I never did either but I remember the ads too!

[batmagadanleadoff]

This ad campaign was based on Maypo's.

[Guest cooby classic]

Never realized!

[Guest d'Kong76]

I keep thinking I should check for lineups. Game time is like
six hours from now.

[ashie62]

Rain?

[TransMonk]

The next chance of rain looks to be around game time.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Jay, CF
Myers, 1B
Kemp, RF
Wallace, 3B
Upton, LF
Ramirez, SS
Norris, C
Weeks, 2B
Pomegranate, P

[Guest d'Kong76]

Granderson, RF
Lagares, CF
Wright, 3B
Cespedes, LF
Duda, 1B
Cabrera, SS
Flores, 2B
Rivera, C
Syndergaard, P

[Zvon]

d'Kong76 wrote: I don't remember eating Maypo when I was a kid, but I remember that there were a lot of commercials for it. (I was born in a house with the television always on)... [youtube]hoU09xdPkbs[/youtube]

Ditto, recall the name and commercials. I'm not even sure what it was (or is). Just the name though...Maypo. I couldn't get past that.

[Zvon]

10:40!

[Guest d'Kong76]

The Mets have my immediate attention! (until around midnight)

[soupcan]

Just means more espresso pour moi.

[soupcan]

The Padres are like the Oregon U. of baseball - a new uniform every night.

[Zvon]

I'm awake Gary! I have half a cup of coffee. Anymore than that I'll be up all night.

I'm planning on hotdogs at midnight.

[Zvon]

Ha. I missed the scoring. Looks like good baseball. Double, advance on groundout, Sac fly. One of these two teams is playing good baseball.

1-0 Fathers

[Fman99]

I didn't realize until nearly 9 PM that it wasn't a 10:10 start. I'm generally pretty soused by 10:40, but I'm fighting the good fight. Love the brown and yellow uniforms. LGM

[Zvon]

Fman99 wrote: I didn't realize until nearly 9 PM that it wasn't a 10:10 start. I'm generally pretty soused by 10:40, but I'm fighting the good fight. Love the brown and yellow uniforms. LGM

I thought 10:10 too. Bastages. Also like the unis. And I want to see the Mets go with the new chic flat blue helmet look.

[Zvon]

Whoa! Rivera gets my attention. Niiiiice!

[Zvon]

If I was Thor I'd want Rivera catching my games all the time. And the way our catching has been going we just might see that.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't
slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Rivera with d'Gun!

[Zvon]

d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift.

Yesterday Gary said something about TC saying that Duda was hitting to left with authority. He has hit to left, but not with authority imo. He won't "go" to left. He'll go to right and swing late. He's not changing his swing or weight shift, or lead foot. Just swinging late, sometimes chopping, sometimes blooping to left. If that's the only way he can do it, so be it, I'll take it. Cause it does work from time to time. But I wish he had a swing just for going to left. Don't swing late as much as shift your weight later, let the swing & your hips follow that. Square some up that way.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift.

That's why shifts work. That's also why there's so much luck in baseball. Because the action revolves around the batted ball, and the batters, by and large and to a great extent, can't control where the batted ball goes. It's tough enough just to hit the ball. And to the extent that some batters have some control over where the ball goes, it's not nearly the kind of control or precision that, for example, a basketball player needs to sink a free throw or a quarterback needs to complete a pass 30 yards downfield.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be shifts. Ever.