IGT Mets @ Marlins - 7/24/16, Game #97

[Frayed Knot]

1:10 start, Matz vs Jose Urena

Arena is a 24 y/o Dominican RH making his 2nd start of the season after being recalled from AAA post-ASB.
He started in the minors but it's been mostly relief (37 G/10 GS) since his ML debut in April 2015

We let Fernandez weasel out of some jams last night, but you can at least partially write that off to him being Jose Fernandez. No such excuses today.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Reyes 3B
Granderson RF
Cespedes LF
Loney 1B
Johnson 2B
Cabrera SS
Conforto CF
Rivera C
Matz P

Rojas 1B
Prado 3B
Yelich LF
Stanton RF
Ozuna CF
Realmuto C
Dietrich 2B
Hechavarria SS
Urena P

[ashie62]

Walker needed to sit.

Gonna be hot hot hot out!

[Zvon]

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[bigpurple:37j60z30]WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/bigpurple:37j60z30]

I think Conforto is going to be okay in center.

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: Gonna be hot hot hot out!

But the game's going to be played in in in.

[Zvon]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Robles = good.

[Zvon]

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Wow, Cespedes strokes an RBI single on a [bigpurple:1subek4g]VERY[/bigpurple:1subek4g] good pitch (slider). DeAza touches the plate in a run scoring manner!

Loney drives in Grandy!

3-0 Mets.

BTW, Matz delivered and boy did we need it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That doesnt count as a hit or RBI but go, Cabrera

[Edgy MD]

Does that end Asdrubal's dark night of the soul?

[Edgy MD]

Replay looks like it'll take that run off the board.

[Edgy MD]

He's out.

Heckuva beard on the headset guy.

[Zvon]

Stinky Fish steal back a run!
[crossout:3bsmj0z1]4-0[/crossout:3bsmj0z1] 3-0 Mets
I never knew Mattingly was such a whiner.

[Edgy MD]

I think the key to retiring Giancarlo Stanton is to throw strikes and tell him not to swing.

[Zvon]

Fammy fts.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: I never knew Mattingly was such a whiner.

Did you miss the entire last series played at CitiField? I think he challenged the Star Spangled Banner rendition.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice to see a no-drama save by Jerry Family.

[Frayed Knot]

The length of Hechavarria's 'hit' there to end the game was shorter than the name banner on the back of his jersey.

[Zvon]

Fiddyone

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

shockingly effective start for Matz, nice lil rally there to put it away. good game to listen to while half napping in the AC

[TransMonk]

Nice to win one without a HR being hit.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: shockingly effective start for Matz, nice lil rally there to put it away. good game to listen to while half napping in the AC

And Michael Conforto making like Tommie Agee.

[Frayed Knot]

And the Padres just jacked two solo HRs in the 8th to tie up the Nats 6-6

[ashie62]

Outstanding.

[bmfc1]

Helluva job by Papelbon today.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Helluva job by Papelbon today.

Wow, just reading the results of this one now.
It looks like Dusty was trying to win the game while giving his closer the day off (he sat Harper as well) so he stuck with Shawn Kelley even though it was he who gave up those back-to-backs in the 8th.
Given the second chance, Kelley started the inning: Single - RBI Double. So NOW DB decided it was Papelbon time but let's just say things didn't get a whole lot better: Line Out - Walk
- K but PB so the batter reached - RBI Single - Single - Infield Single - 2-RBI Double
He was then yanked so Y. Petit could get the final out before, y'know, something bad happened, but then the Nats went down 1-2-3 in the bottom half and the Pads had a 10-6 win in a game they trailed 6-4 entering the 8th


So an overall good weekend for the good guys, losing only the game to Fernandez while picking up a game on Miami and also on Washington while they were playing a weaker team.



btw, 3 more hits for Muffy including 2 doubles plus a Sac Fly

[Benjamin Grimm]