IGT, Cards @ Mets, Game #98, Tues 7/26/16, 4:10

[Frayed Knot]

First game of a straight 'Twi-Night' DH - so there'll be NYM baseball from late afternoon until far into the night.


And, yes, I had totally forgotten that it was my IGT to start prior to Monday night's rain-out.

Edited July 25, 2016 by Guest

[ashie62]

That means two games for one ticket?

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: That means two games for one ticket?

That's right kiddies, just like it used to be back when we walked to school uphill in both directions.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Frayed Knot wrote: That's right kiddies, just like it used to be back when we walked to school uphill in both directions.

And Harry M Steven sold Big Beers (Schlitz pumped from Bud labeled taps) to
anyone appearing over 16!

Side note: Didn't know M stood for Mozley until just NOW!!!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I have tixx for Tuesday, so don;t need to hang around the office pretending to do stuff before bailing for the Stadium.

[Frayed Knot]

Philly scores once in the 8th off Rodney then 3 times in the 9th against Ramos to shut out the Marlins 4-0, so we gain a virtual 2nd place/2nd WC tie for our off day troubles.
Nationals not scheduled for Monday. Tuesday they begin a two-gamer in Cleveland, then go to San Fran for four, then Arizona for three.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I think Flores kicked Terry's puppy or something....

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

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Flores will likely start vs. the lefty in Game 2. The guy in the doghouse is Neil Walker.

I am shooting to be in the Prom by the 4th inning of this one.

[Edgy MD]

Does poor fightin'-for-his-life de Aza get a game two start against the lefty too?

[Lefty Specialist]

Edgy MD wrote: Does poor fightin'-for-his-life de Aza get a game two start against the lefty too?

Dear God, I hope not.

[Guest d'Kong76]

G. Garcia 2B
Diaz SS
Piscotty RF
Holliday LF
Adams 1B
Gyorko 3B
Molina C
Hazelbaker CF
Martinez P

[Edgy MD]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Does poor fightin'-for-his-life de Aza get a game two start against the lefty too? Dear God, I hope not.

I hope it's not too crazy, but I'm not sure I wouldn't start an outfield of Cespy/Laggy/Reyes and an infield, left-to-right, of Flores/Cabrera/Walker/Johnson.

[Frayed Knot]

As expected the Cards made several pitching moves in advance of today's games, including DL'ing former closer Trevor Rosenthal plus sending back the guy who got bombed on Sunday night. They called up two relievers I've never heard of with scant ML experience and also veteran Jerome Williams who's pitched for 7 teams over the last ten seasons but has spent all this year in AAA.

And the Mets get a free move too as you get to use a 26th man for DH's, rumor has it that it's to be lefty reliever Josh Smoker.
They'll also have to think about the rotation four days from now as well seeing as how the rain out screws things up with no off-days for another two weeks.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Smokeshow got of to a bad start in Vegas but has been sharp lately. Hoping we won;t require his services tonight at any rate.

[Frayed Knot]

d'Kong76 wrote: G. Garcia 2B Diaz SS Piscotty RF Holliday LF Adams 1B Gyorko 3B Molina C Hazelbaker CF Martinez P

I hadn't realized that this Jeremy Hazelbaker guy was back with the big club.
He's the 28 y/o (29 in a few weeks) career minor leaguer who was thrown into the starting lineup out of necessity at the start of the season and, in what seems like typical StL fashion, was suddenly hitting .300+ with power (4 doubles, 2 triples, 5 HRs in his first 60 ABs) for the entire month of April.
He then came back down to earth and was back in the minors before long but not before establishing himself as a temporary cut hero for them.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, the Cards are a lot like the Mets. A good but broken team, in a pretty good position for the Wild Card, but realizing that's a crapshoot, and desperate not to let the division slip away from them.

[Edgy MD]

Cards seem to have mastered the art of the infield hit.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

When a pitcher makes the error that results in a run, is it still an unearned run?

[Edgy MD]

And the Cards score without getting it out of the infield. Boo.

Regards to your question. I think the answer is both. The run is officially unearned, but it counts against his ERA or something. The rules are kind of half thought out on this sort of thing.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Unfortunate error, Noah had a lot more time than he realized to get
that ball to the plate.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nah, he's a fielder when he makes the error, not the pitcher. Unearned all the way. I think.

Oh, and eff the Cardinals. They;re only winning because I'm still in my cubie

[Frayed Knot]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: When a pitcher makes the error that results in a run, is it still an unearned run?

It's unearned because the idea is to sort out the runs caused by the pitcher's pitching and ones that were caused by his (or someone else's) fielding.

[Edgy MD]

It sure wasn't earned by these banjo-hitting Cardinals. Come on, Mets, don't take that lying down.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice recovery anyway by Syndy after the infield hits and the error cuz this game was one hit from being essentially over.
Now the biggest problem is that it took him about 225 pitches to get through those first two frames.

[Edgy MD]

That's OK, we got Smoker available for Game Two.

Just hit, Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

NOW the game is out of reach.

[ashie62]

Teuf, you have to send Reyes with two out.

[Edgy MD]

Bases bloated and two out, and I thought it was automatic for the people that Cabrera would be up. But no, it'ss Johnson.

[Edgy MD]

And that was fast.

[Frayed Knot]

The only thing surprising about Johnson's bases-loaded K is that it took four pitches rather than three.