IGT 8/14/16: SDP@NYM -- Toy Truck, Lotsa Luck

[G-Fafif]

W.B. Mason sponsors Sunday's giveaway. Steven Matz tries to take away the rubber game from Clayton Richard.

Padre trivia: teammates call him Clay Dick...probably.

[G-Fafif]

Jose Reyes � SS
Ty Kelly � LF
Neil Walker � 2B
Jay Bruce � RF
Wilmer Flores � 1B
T.J. Rivera � 3B
Alejandro De Aza � CF
Rene Rivera � C
Steven Matz � LHP

[G-Fafif]

Jankowski CF
Myers 1B
Solarte 3B
Dickerson LF
Blash RF
Ramirez SS
Norris C
Rosales 2B
Richard P

[Frayed Knot]

So Matz started the game by walking the leadoff hitter but has allowed nothing since and has faced the minimum thru five thanks to that lone runner getting caught stealing.
Mets meanwhile have their solo HR thing thing going (Flores & Walker) for a 2-0 lead.

Other than the HRs, Mets have had 5 baserunners [1 single, 3 walks, 1 error] and have had three of them erased by two GiDPs plus a pick-off/CS.

[Chad ochoseis]

He's no longer faced the minimum. But the game has reached the point where people may want to start watching.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

baseball

[Frayed Knot]

Gary's overdoing this pitch count thing a bit. Matz is at 95 thru 7 which is under the 15/per you'd like your guy to be.
Now the young guy, the hot day, the bone spur, and the 120 pitch outing last time are all factors, but Gary is acting as if Matz is already on the high side going into the 8th rather than somewhat below (approx. 13.6/per)

Obviously it's all going to come down to who the 8th progresses, both in whether he still has the no-no but also how tough the road is to get there.

[Frayed Knot]

btw, if it does come down to a 9th inning relief job, Reed threw just 7 pitches last night and didn't give up a long HR while JF needed 15 pitches to get through his inning and did serve one up.

Just sayin'

[Frayed Knot]

And in the end he winds up coming close, and also not all that close.

Edited August 14, 2016 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Would rather have seen Matz hit a home run last time up than the other thing anyway

[G-Fafif]

Ah, fuck.

Let's win a second in a row anyway.

[Chad ochoseis]

Howie says that Ryan Schimpf was "Rookie of the Month" for July. Apparently, that's a thing, and has been since 2001.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: btw, if it does come down to a 9th inning relief job, Reed threw just 7 pitches last night and didn't give up a long HR while JF needed 15 pitches to get through his inning and did serve one up. Just sayin'

I would have totally endorsed Reed for 2 if he had a smoother 8th today. Fammy's up in the pen.

Def steal Reyes! Lets get another run!

[Zvon]

That's how you do it. And just like that *snap, we got a guy on 3rd, no out.

Now we gotta get that run in.

[Zvon]

Ha, a wild pitch walk and Reyes flies over the plate.

3-0 Metropolitans.

[Frayed Knot]

We scored a Reyes run via a running Reyes.

[Zvon]

Sweet. 5-0 (tho only 5 hits, cripes). Do we still use Fammy?

[Zvon]

Nope, Fammy takes a seat. I think that's wise.

[Zvon]

On the whole I like what I'm seeing from this Ynoa guy. Get this last out, kid.

YEEEEEEEEES! Mets win 2 in a row!

[ashie62]

WE WIN!

[bmfc1]

Marlins win after a bad call. The catcher blocked the lane to end the game and it wasn't called or reversed. And the catcher juggled the ball. Other than that, the call was correct.

[Guest cooby]

yay!

[Frayed Knot]

Well that may not have been the prettiest series win of the year but, y'know what, it was a series win.

[ashie62]

Off to the west.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Marlins win after a bad call. The catcher blocked the lane to end the game and it wasn't called or reversed. And the catcher juggled the ball. Other than that, the call was correct.

Just saw the replay. That's the type of call they were (wrongly) making back when that plate-blocking rule was first put in but haven't made in a while now.
I couldn't tell about any bobble but, like the one where Bruce was nailed at the plate last week, they weren't going to overturn that one; catcher had the ball long before the runner got there. Hell, Yelich threw the ball about 30 feet from the infield dirt.




Best Gary Cohen pun of the game: when talking about Rene & TJ Rivera in the same game he said that CitiField had become Two Rivera Stadium

[G-Fafif]

Best Gary Cohen pun of the game: when talking about Rene & TJ Rivera in the same game he said that CitiField had become Two Rivera Stadium

It was a decent line here and here, too.

[Frayed Knot]

Well it's not like Gary stealing from this board would be anything new.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Benjamin Grimm]