Winning IGT 7/19/16 Mets@Cubs

[Fman99]

It's a god damn rally! C'mon Conforto, get the hit here.

[Fman99]

RENE FUCKING RIVERA!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Humdinger of a game tonight

[Fman99]

Just throw strikes, dude. Stop trying to hit 103 on the radar.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

im farting with fear

[Fman99]

Oh, Jose, let that shit roll foul.

[Edgy MD]

Shmoh, Reyes.

[Edgy MD]

Infield in? Wow.

[Fman99]

Well got the lead run. Take that. One good ground ball away from putting this fucker to bed.

[Fman99]

THERE IT IS! METS WIN

[Frayed Knot]

Oh wow!!
Gutsy move by Reyes to go to 2nd there. My first inclination was to take the out at home.

[Edgy MD]

Reyes giveth and Reyes taketh.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That was pretty awesome

[Edgy MD]

And Washington (or, as my wife calls them, the mid-Atlantic Yankees) losing.

[Frayed Knot]

That was so awesome that I never ever want to see it again!!

[Fman99]

I jumped up off the couch like a crazy person. Shit got all real!

[Frayed Knot]

8-4 Dodgers in Washington, 2 out in the 9th
Marlins & Phils tied at 1 in the 10th.




Nats lose. THAAAAAA Nats lose!!!

Edited July 19, 2016 by Guest

[Lefty Specialist]

Geez guys, give me a heart attack why doncha?

[Frayed Knot]

Marlins win. THAAA Marlins win ...

[Edgy MD]

Sheesh, when did they pass the Mets. Half game off the second Wild Card. Booo.

[soupcan]

That entire ninth inning was seat-of-your-pants!

Good times, I like baseball!

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That was pretty awesome

Twas. I thought the jig was up for Familia.

Terry should have used Kelly Johnson. Or the Bat Boy instead of de Aza. Does Sandy not want to admit a mistake so he keeps de Aza on the team?

Oh, de Aza, how you de Sucka at hitting de baseballa.

De Aza is starting to effect my health and well being.

RENE FUCKING RIVERA!

Of course the day I support him he shits behind the plate. I was pissed. But baseball is wonderful! He made up for it. Did u see the backhand on the 1st wild pitch? Is he learning that from lil'd? The one where he threw it away, he played that perfectly and it still bounced up and hit high on his chest. And of course, why did he throw it? The guys hands were already on 3rd. But it all worked out. I enjoy it when a player fucks up and then redeems himself.

Oh, Jose, let that shit roll foul.

I went a little ballistic when he gloved that ball. I like the aggressiveness. He'll learn. He redeemed himself with the DP. Reyes whipped that ball to Walker and have you ever seen any of our second baseman pull such a blazing fast pivot & throw. Loney made the short hop look easy (it kinda was tho), but how many plays tonight did Loney pull off that Doo Doo wouldn't even have had a chance?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: im farting with fear

That was so awesome that I never ever want to see it again!!

lol x2.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Humdinger of a game tonight

It really was.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: He redeemed himself with the DP. Reyes whipped that ball to Walker and have you ever seen any of our second baseman pull such a blazing fast pivot & throw.

Doug Flynn, man.

And actually, even though the rest of his defensive game was mostly dead by the time he got here, Roberto Alomar good still turn two pretty consistently and impressively.

[Edgy MD]

It's a strange sense you get when a team loads the bases against you with none out, to know this hardly guarantees any runs will score, because you have seen the 2016 Mets .

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Frayed Knot]

I think it's safe to say that replay saved our collective asses last night -- first the play at home, then Walker's negated GiDP -- and, as much quarrel as I've had with the rule since expanded beyond HRs, it was nice to see it work as designed:
- the two calls in question were simply horrible and not some 'Oooooh I think maybe possibly his spikes lost contact with the base for 1/4 second' type of call for which the rule was never intended
- quick calls by the team to ask for the review rather than going into a game stall while the bench coach waits on the phone for their review specialist to examine the evidence from nine angles looking for possible loopholes
- reasonably quick decisions from the Chelsea headquarters although you still wonder why it wasn't even quicker. Would have been fun to see the umps put on the headphones and then take them off like 5 seconds later because their colleagues in NY already knew that they so obviously blew it
- and no rules were spontaneously ignored allowing additional reviews for a team after their supposed quota was spent

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: It's a strange sense you get when a team loads the bases against you with none out, to know this hardly guarantees any runs will score, because you have seen the 2016 Mets .

eff that. Even the Mets get one run out of that situation with 1-2-3 up.

The Mets crappy RISP is only a subset of their overall BA which isn't great, but those numbers will start to look like one another as the season goes on and barring any more injuries and anticipating they do something to improve the club if only at the margins, and given the easier 2nd half schedule, I am confident it gets better. Maybe a lot better!

Go SHaMs!

[Edgy MD]

I was thinking this morning of putting up a poll about the RISP BA, and whether it would move to correct itself, or whether it was a real thing.

I guess it can be seen as heartening that the figure is so historically low and the team is still in contention.

[Frayed Knot]

I keep telling myself that there's going to be a (good) regression to the mean of our RiSPy numbers and that, even if that upward regression is only to our stinky mean of well below average BA & OBA, the result is going to be more runs scored and a less HR-reliant offense. And then someone like the normally reliable Cabrera heads off on a run where he's nearing on-fer-30 in RiSP situations and my logical optimism gets shot to hell all over again.

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile, the Cubs having got to be kicking themselves over this game. Not only did their 13 baserunners (10 hits incl. 3 doubles + 4 BBs) result in just one run, but the way they got those runners made it almost impossible not to score more:
- 1st inning: 1st & 2nd, no outs
- 2nd inning: 2nd & 3rd, no outs
- 4th inning: runner on 2nd, 2 outs (run taken off the board after replay review)
- 6th inning: leadoff walk
- and of course then there was the 9th inning

So of course the only inning where they did score started with 2 outs/nobody on and was essentially gifted to them via a Wild Pitch + Error



Cubs were 2-for-13 w/RiSP and neither of those 2 hits scored a run: the play at the plate that was reversed, and then 9th inn bunt single that loaded the bases -- that's certainly 2016 Mets-like (in)efficiency.
Mets were 1-for-5 last night w/RiSP, Rivera's single being the magic hit

Edited July 20, 2016 by Guest