IGT 8/15/16: NYM@ARI -- It's A Tri-Heat

[Frayed Knot]

But wait, it gets better

9 NYM ABs tonight [u:2l62vwbo]with two or more runners on base[/u:2l62vwbo]
- 3 singles but only 2 RBI
- other than that: GiDP, K, FO (w/bases loaded but no RBI), K, GO, GiDP

[Zvon]

The blotched DP was almost funny.

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Almost.


Goldshite scores.

8-2 I'll never type the other teams name. NEVER!

[Frayed Knot]

You know it's a problem when it's bases loaded and none out and I'm wondering if they're going to get even one run out of this.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: You know it's a problem when it's bases loaded and none out and I'm wondering if they're going to get even one run out of this.

Well whatyaknow, three runs ... and counting.
Of course there have been no actual hits during this time, but they squeaked across a trio of runners anyhow.

[Zvon]

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[bigpurple:1r6vp2ce]ASHIE WAKE UP![/bigpurple:1r6vp2ce]

[Zvon]

8-5 home team

I didn't realize the time and was sipping coffee past 11PM, so I'll stick this one out.

I smell something. Might be a comeback. Might be these White Castle burgers I just nuked.

[Zvon]

Why are we pitching to this Goldshite guy? He has 3 different variety of hits tonight.

Oh, he's only crushing the Mets.

[Zvon]

Why did I drink some coffee after 10PM? I would prefer being unconscious at this point. Like everyone else.

10-5 the team that really knows how to embarrass us.

[Zvon]

That was pretty shitty. Lost. Sad. I wear the kind of expression you have when you see something that's pathetic. Like Colon and d'Arnaud tonight.

Back in the doghouse lil'd! RUFF!

[Lefty Specialist]

Y'know, I'm beginning to think it's not their year.

j/k, I was beginning to think it wasn't their year about 4-5 weeks ago.

[MFS62]

Zvon wrote: Why are we pitching to this Goldshite guy?

The guy doing the Sports Night show on SNY asked the same thing while he was showing the lowlights.
We aren't the only ones crying out in the wilderness.

Later

[metirish]

I went to bed early , like even before the game started , not surprised we lost .....Keith in a broadcast during the D-Backs visit to CF mentioned how the Mets should be feasting on "these second division clubs"....thought that was a bit rich at the time.

[Edgy MD]

Well, they should have run Ray by the third inning. He was wild in the strike zone, and he was wild outside of the zone.

I tuned out after Jay Bruce let Granderson play Goldschmidt's gapper, turning it from an apparent double into a gimme triple. It drove me nuts when George Foster did that to Mookie Wilson 30 years ago, and it drives me nuts now. Don't give up these easy edges.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: Well, they should have run Ray by the third inning. He was wild in the strike zone, and he was wild outside of the zone. I tuned out after Jay Bruce let Granderson play Goldschmidt's gapper, turning it from an apparent double into a gimme triple. It drove me nuts when George Foster did that to Mookie Wilson 30 years ago, and it drives me nuts now. Don't give up these easy edges.

Just maddening. He was three feet from the ball.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Centerfield wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Well, they should have run Ray by the third inning. He was wild in the strike zone, and he was wild outside of the zone. I tuned out after Jay Bruce let Granderson play Goldschmidt's gapper, turning it from an apparent double into a gimme triple. It drove me nuts when George Foster did that to Mookie Wilson 30 years ago, and it drives me nuts now. Don't give up these easy edges. Just maddening. He was three feet from the ball.

I'm so old and overworked, I fell asleep *before* this game began but woke up on the couch in time to see this stupid play. #StupidMets

[Chad ochoseis]

I stayed off the board and watched the game on MLB.tv this morning. Possibly the worst game I've seen the Mets play this season. How they weren't winning 10-4 by the end of the 4th is beyond me. Ray was awful, and the Mets kept letting him off the hook.

I should have just read this thread and saved two hours of my life.

[Centerfield]

And that's the thing. Win-loss record aside, they are playing like shit. They have played like shit since April. And I think that this has to reflect upon the manager. Just inexcusable.

I guess it's no coincidence that this terrible stretch coincides with Cespedes going down. I remember wondering earlier this year how bad this team would be without him. I guess we have our answer.

Just awful. Imagine if we were playing somebody good.

[Frayed Knot]

It's come to the point where I have an almost perverse fascination with the number of ways they can find to lose games as this point.

- a team that relies on its pitching gets a game where they had 18 baserunners (12 hits, 5 walks, plus an error) yet were never really in the game on account of picking that night as the one where every pitcher they threw out there sucked.

- on a night where they actually went 3 for 9 w/RiSP, those hits only yielded two runs (Reyes singling in d'Arnaud twice) and those were the only two (of 17) baserunners that were driven in by hits

- they had 12 trips to the plate with multiple runners on base and managed just 3 singles

- if told that Flores would go 2-for-4 plus a walk and a strikeout in 5 trips I'm betting you could guess which one of those results occurred with 2 outs the bases loaded ... against a lefty no less during a season where 36% of his ABs vs LHPs result in a hit and 10% result in a HR!! (30 hits and 8 HRs in 83 AB)

- the starter Ray retired just 2 of the first 5 hitters he faced, 4 of the first 10, and 7 of his first 14, and the result was one run

- Ray struck out 5 in 5 innings: one with a runner on 3rd/2-out; bases loaded/2-out; 1st-2nd/no-outs; runner on 1st/2 outs, and once with the bases empty (of course they were empty, the leadoff single had just been erased by a GiDP)

[ashie62]

I fell asleep about the 5th inning. We lost.

I need to accept the fact that this team has been decimated by injuries and just can't expect them to compete like last season.

[Chad ochoseis]

We've been doing pretty well in games where the starting pitcher can pitch seven no-hit innings or more.

[Frayed Knot]

We've been doing pretty well in games where the starting pitcher can pitch seven no-hit innings or more.

But just barely.

We've actually had four games in the last nine days where the starter has allowed one run or less into the 7th
- deGrom gave up 1 over 6.2 to Detroit but they needed a 2R Walker HR in the 9th to pull that one out
- Colon vs ARZ (at home) gave up 1 thru 7 but we lost that in the 12th
- deGrom again held the Padres to 1 run over 6th but it took a dramatic walk-off blow bouncer + wild throw in the 11th to steal that one
- and then the Matz game which was a 1-0 game until they salted it away with 3 insurance runs in the 8th

So, yeah, I suppose that's something to hang our hats on: 'When our starter pitches lights-out for at least seven there's always the chance we can squeak out a nail-biter.'

In fact, that should be the club motto.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure what a "blow bouncer" is, but that was a double-play grounder if ever I saw one.

My takeaway was , "We've got a pretty good chance of winning when the other team is trying to give us the game."

[Frayed Knot]

Should have read [u:3jvuytgl]S[/u:3jvuytgl]low-bouncer.
That play certainly could have been a DP although I don't think it was a slam-dunk. The SD infield was set-up physically and probably mentally to come home at that point and maybe Walker getting a great jump maybe convinced them that the DP would have been tougher than it at first seemed.

Either way, yeah, we have a decent shot whenever the other side is trying to hand us the game but so Ray certainly seemed like he was trying to last night (pitching & fielding) and that didn't help.

[Benjamin Grimm]