IGT 05/18 - DC @ NYC

[MFS62]

When I got home from work I checked the game log.
Terry had Bastardo pitch to Werth while the game was still close?
Hasn't he ever noticed how Werth f****ng kills the Mets, especially lefty pitching?
The only good thing was that it stayed in the ballpark - it was only a double.
Was there any discussion of this in either the tv or radio booth?

Later

[Edgy MD]

Could there be two more different games?

Tuesday: quick, efficient, with German precision, and studied execution.
Wednesday: long, sloppy, slogging, almost like the athletes were brought in from another sport and were largely unfamiliar with this baseball thing.

How could these be the same two teams?

[Frayed Knot]

When I got home from work I checked the game log. Terry had Bastardo pitch to Werth while the game was still close? Hasn't he ever noticed how Werth f****ng kills the Mets, especially lefty pitching? The only good thing was that it stayed in the ballpark - it was only a double. Was there any discussion of this in either the tv or radio booth?

Basing moves on the notion that 'Player X kills Team Y' is a losing strategy.

Werth, who turns 37 tomorrow, has been a .221 hitter since the start of the 2015 season, something that's a big enough sample size to figure that, whatever he was, he isn't that same guy anymore.
And even if his vs-NYM stats are super-great [which they aren't: career marks are somewhat higher vs Mets in BA & OBA though lower than normal in power] what does this have to do with a guy who's never pitched to him as a New York Met? If the hitter has specific numbers against a particular pitcher that's one thing (and Bastardo's never really been a left-on-left specialist anyway) but let's not start believing in magic powers that somehow are going to cause Werth to suddenly be more likely to succeed against a pitcher based on him changing the color of his game-day pajamas.

It was the top of the 7th, Robles had already been spent and Werth was just the second batter he was facing with their best two hitters, both lefties, following afterward. I don't see taking him out there as an option even on the table.



on edit: Werth had been 1-for-2 + a Sac Fly vs Bastardo before last night (one PA in 2011, one in 2012, one more in 2014). I don't base anything on a sample that small.
And now he's 2-for-3

[Benjamin Grimm]