IGT 08/16 - Mets @ D'backs - Snake, Rattle and Roll

[Guest d'Kong76]

RH Noah Syndergaard (9-7, 2.75 ERA) vs. RH Braden Shipley (2-1, 2.96)

[ashie62]

We saw Shipley once before and struck out 7 in 3 innings.

[ashie62]

Cespedes back thursday.

Asdrubal Cabrera begins a rehab assignment today.

Any word on Wheeler?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cespedes will rejoin the team on Thursday, but he can't be activated until Friday (from what I understand).

As for Wheeler, they're starting to say things like, "Sometimes Tommy John surgery doesn't work." That's clearly not a good sign.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cespedes will rejoin the team on Thursday, but he can't be activated until Friday (from what I understand). As for Wheeler, they're starting to say things like, "Sometimes Tommy John surgery doesn't work." That's clearly not a good sign.

That he's had several setbacks already is the bad sign. Mets are saying he's seeing Andrews for his own peace of mind. He had his surgery performed by Altchek who has given assurances that it all went well and his arm is structurally sound & stuff.

Anyway his meeting with Andrews is Wednesday.

[ashie62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cespedes will rejoin the team on Thursday, but he can't be activated until Friday (from what I understand). As for Wheeler, they're starting to say things like, "Sometimes Tommy John surgery doesn't work." That's clearly not a good sign.

I've heard it said when it works it is Tommy John surgery, when it doesn't it is Steve Trout surgery.

Good luck Zack. So dang young.

[ashie62]

Long day.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Segura 2B
Bourn CF
Goldschmidt 1B
Lamb 3B
Tomas RF
Castillo C
Haniger LF
Owings SS
Shipley P

[MFS62]

Pitch around Goldschmidt.
Or use the old remedy against a hot hitter (as per Jim Brosnan's book The Long Season), "hit him in the knee, then pick him off first base".

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

Reyes SS
Granderson LF
Bruce RF
Loney 1B
Johnson 2B
T.J. Rivera 3B
De Aza CF
R. Rivera C
Syndergaard P

[ashie62]

Bejeezus, what happened to our team. Oye

The only thing missing is Eric Campbell.

Anyway, have at it men.

[Guest cooby]

Ashie62 wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cespedes will rejoin the team on Thursday, but he can't be activated until Friday (from what I understand). As for Wheeler, they're starting to say things like, "Sometimes Tommy John surgery doesn't work." That's clearly not a good sign. I've heard it said when it works it is Tommy John surgery, when it doesn't it is Steve Trout surgery. Good luck Zack. So dang young.

That would be awful

[Edgy MD]

Remember, Noah. You don't have to throw nine no-hit innings. Seven is fine.

[metirish]

I wish this Bourne had amnesia and forgot he's playing the Mets

[metirish]

Keith met David Segui up a mountain earlier today , as Gary said what are the odds?

[metirish]

Haniger taking the piss trying to sell a walk, gets strike 3 on a 99mph heater , thus begins his MLB career.

[metirish]

Arizona stealing with ease and Keith is exasperated

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I don't know how many different uniforms the DBacks have, but they all suck. It's like they're trying to use every gimmick all at once.

[Edgy MD]

Gary Cohen, Quoting Tim McCarver: Nothing slows down a game more than speed.

Edgy MD: Well, there�s Bastardo.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

And the caps they wore last night, with the printing on top of the cap -- awful!

[metirish]

SNY Trivia

Who are the only three pitchers to face Keith 100 or more times?

[metirish]

Rivera 2 for 2.........

[metirish]

Rivera drives the ball to the wall and a great catch from Bourne, Rivera scores from third.

[Edgy MD]

That was the second opportunity this week for De Aza to try to tag two bases.

Instead, zero?

[Frayed Knot]

Hey I look at it this way: we had two on with none out and, for a change, didn't get shut-out for the inning!

[metirish]

Thor with a bomb of a HR

[Edgy MD]

A Synderbomb.

That's the stuff, right there.

[Frayed Knot]

Finally a NYM pitcher realizes the only way he's going to get to pitch with a lead.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: That was the second opportunity this week for De Aza to try to tag two bases. Instead, zero?

Yeah, but I'm with Keef there, that's the right play by ADA.
I can't remember when, or even IF, I've ever seen a ML runner tag two bases on a fly out. And tagging there and then having to stop at 3rd if it dropped is by far the bigger sin.

[Edgy MD]

I've never even seen someone try, but it's one of the plays I hope to see before I die.

Meanwhile, the Mets hit for the cycle that inning.