IGT #152 - Braves @ Mets - 9/21/16

[metirish]

wow, just wow

[Guest d'Kong76]

Holy Cespecrap, Batman... that's gonna leave a mark!

[Zvon]

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be
lievable!![/bigpurple:29a156fd]

[Lefty Specialist]

Just awful. Fire everybody.

[Zvon]

Bases loaded, last licks, 2 out, one run down, Yo da man, AND HE HITS IT OUT!

And Inciarte brings it back in. I have seen the end of many a Mets game but this....

I am in shock.

[TransMonk]

I hat baseball.

[Centerfield]

Like this loss needed to be any more painful.

[Frayed Knot]

1 for 5 w/RiSP -- and that one was Cabrera's HR following Reyes's SB where it didn't even matter where the runner was.

[Frayed Knot]

We got so giddy beating up on the Braves early in the year -- going 4-0 while out-scoring them 21-8 -- that we forgot that they were supposed to suck and went 5-10 for the rest of the year.

[Zvon]

Well, upside is I get to listen to Vin again.

5-2 LA, 2nd.

[Centerfield]

I can't believe how brutal this loss was. It makes me wonder why I watch baseball at all.

Fucking torture. Was so sure they'd win this game.

[MFS62]

If they give an award for overmanager of the year, Terry is surely in the running.

Later

[Zvon]

It pains me to post this but it was a great play.

That's baseball folks. Serious September baseball.
With a week or so left? The way we are limping toward the finish line?
It's amazing that we are still in the hunt.

Puig putting on a clinic at the plate and in the field out in LA. Giants down 8-2.

[G-Fafif]

Second night in a row bearing witness to The Worst Loss Ever (Parts Infinity & Infinity 2.0). Stayed in my seats staring into space for several minutes thereafter.

Weather was nice.

[Lefty Specialist]

Rolled over at 3 AM and my wife was awake.

"Fucking Mets", she said.

[Guest themetfairy]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Rolled over at 3 AM and my wife was awake. "Fucking Mets", she said.

Good start to a novel. Or at least a short story.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[MFS62]

Zvon wrote: It pains me to post this but it was a great play.

That's like saying the guy who stole away your high school sweetheart was a great guy.
Fuck him.
And the horse he rode in on.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cast your vote!

Can we throw kegs at Terry?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cast your vote! Can we throw kegs at Terry?

I suspect you could make a LOT of Carreons turning the CitiField pavilion's dunk-the-opponent tank into a Donkey-Kong-the-Terry booth.

[nymr83]

That home run robbing piece of **** cost me big on FanDuel!

[Centerfield]

A little better this morning but still, man was it hard to sleep last night. Just kept going over and over how bad we were.

Keep thinking about how the Braves were able to get productive outs and we couldn't. Enciarte and Kemp got it done. TJ Rivera struck out. Hard to blame TJ as those were some wicked sliders. You can see why Chaz Roe is so filthy against righties.

Which begs the question. For a manager who made 437 moves last night, how the fuck did Terry miss that one? Check out the ridiculous splits for Chaz Roe:

vs. Right: .369 OPS
vs. Left: 1.009 OPS

With the game on the line, how do you not send a lefty up there?

Does Terry Collins not have access to player splits? It seems every day he makes just horrible, horrible decisions.

[Centerfield]

And fuck, you gotta catch the fucking ball. Loney can't catch a routine grounder to first, while their outfielders are going over the wall.

Fuck fuck fuck.

[Lefty Specialist]

The thing that sticks with me is the total mismanagement of the bullpen.

You bring Reed in in the seventh to get the last out. I'd have stuck with Bartolo (who was on a low pitch count), but whatever. But to then take out arguably your best reliever to go lefty-lefty on FF Freeman, then to take that reliever out when he fails to bring in Familia for a 5-out save chance, well, that's just ridiculous. Of course he throws too many pitches in the 8th, so that he starts to lose it in the 9th.

And the double switches! I'm wondering what happened to Reyes as I watch Travis d'Arnaud in his spot. Terry managed scared last night and it cost him.

Someone said this felt like 2007 and I heartily agree. This is how Willie managed down the stretch, trying a million things, none of which worked.

And yes, you have to catch the goddamn ball.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With Duda back, Loney really shouldn't be playing at all at this point. It's not like we're even hoping for a flurry of home runs from him, as we are (presumably) from Jay Bruce. He's low-ceiling, low-floor, and he's given us all he will.

[TransMonk]

Lefty Specialist wrote: The thing that sticks with me is the total mismanagement of the bullpen.

This. I like Terry as a manager of the personalities in the clubhouse, but his in-game decision making has been awful this season...even more so than in the past.

Yuck.

[ashie62]

What a meltdown.

[Centerfield]

I am seriously wondering if Terry Collins looks at players' splits. Twice in this series he has taken an effective RH reliever out of the game to go lefty-lefty when the splits did not justify such a move. And last night he failed to go with a LH pinch hitter when the splits absolutely screamed for it.

There was a SIX HUNDRED FORTY POINT differential in OPS. It's almost incomprehensible.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I still can't believe the manner in which we lost last night. I haven't looked into
this at all, and don't know if it's been discussed on tv/radio, but do one of you
Metsian-type historians know how many times (if there were others) that a game
was lost on the last play of the game with a home run be taken back in (robbed)?

I couldn't fall asleep last night until like 2:30.

[Zvon]

d'Kong76 wrote: I still can't believe the manner in which we lost last night. I haven't looked into this at all, and don't know if it's been discussed on tv/radio, but do one of you Metsian-type historians know how many times (if there were others) that a game was lost on the last play of the game with a home run be taken back in (robbed)? I couldn't fall asleep last night until like 2:30.

Same question occurred to me. Same or worse situation (I said bases loaded on an earlier post, only two were on). I read something in F&FiF (Fry) about Delgado getting robbed once by Willie Harris, but no additional details.

I have seen bad endings to MANY Mets games, ones that dropped my jaw, but never too the floor, like last night.

I was like this:
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For five minutes.