IGT 9/23/16: PHI@NYM -- The Continuation

[G-Fafif]

After a game like Thursday's, how could you not want the Mets to keep it comin', love?

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Hellickson for them. Ynoa for us. Don't stop it now.

[Centerfield]

Hard to top last night.

FREE LUCAS DUDA.

[Centerfield]

Come on Terry. This lineup will score:

1. Reyes
2. Cabrera
3. Cespedes
4. Granderson
5. Duda
6. Rivera (or Kelly Johnson)
7. Conforto
8. d'Arnaud

[Frayed Knot]

Ynoa vs Jeremy Hellickson

And if it seems like we've faced Hellickson a number of times already this year, it's because we have.
4 starts overall: 20 innings, 15 Runs on 27 hits, although those games were split 2-2 despite all the runs allowed.
Most recently Cabrera's 2R and Cesedes's 3R HRs chased him after just 4 innings in late August during an eventual 12-1 NYM win.

Be nice if they got their hitting shoes on prior to 11 PM this time.

[Centerfield]

Hellickson pitched a 3 hit shutout against Miami his last time out. Before that, 6 and a third scoreless against Pittsburgh. We were likely rooting for him to pitch well during both games.

Probably will not be a cakewalk tonight, especially with our weakest starter going. Hell, I guess we should not expect anything to be a cakewalk anymore.

[G-Fafif]

Your Metsies...

Reyes 3B
Cabrera SS
Cespedes LF
Granderson CF
Johnson 2B
Conforto RF
Duda 1B
d'Arnaud C
Ynoa P

Edited September 23, 2016 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

Somebody else's Phillies...

Hernandez 2B
Quinn RF
Herrera CF
Franco 3B
Howard 1B
Rupp C
Galvis SS
Asche LF
Hellickson P

Edited September 23, 2016 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Galvis looks somewhat like a bobblehead.

[Edgy MD]

>>> "OK, the following people are in the lineup. Bruce?"

>>> >>> "Yeah, Skip."

>>> "Go get Duda. He's gonna wanna hear this."

>>> >>> "Shit."

[Centerfield]

G-Fafif wrote: Your Metsies... Reyes 3B Cabrera SS Cespedes LF Granderon CF Johnson 2B Conforto RF Duda 1B d'Arnaud C Ynoa P

Yeah, I'm down with this.

SIGN TERRY TO AN EXTENSION NOW!!!!

[Zvon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Galvis looks somewhat like a bobblehead.

He suffers from
[fimg=100]http://lesterslegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/placido-polanco.jpg[/fimg]
...Polancoitis.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Centerfield wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Your Metsies... Reyes 3B Cabrera SS Cespedes LF Granderon CF Johnson 2B Conforto RF Duda 1B d'Arnaud C Ynoa P Yeah, I'm down with this. SIGN TERRY TO AN EXTENSION NOW!!!!

I would also like to express my fondness for that particular beer ...

[Edgy MD]

If Duda gets straight, he still has enough time to hit his way up to that five hole.

Flip flop him and Johnson, this could be a meaningful lineup against righties in the post-season, still leaving Loney and Bruce as left-handed benchies.

I salute you Terry. Make this work, somehow.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: Be nice if they got their hitting shoes on prior to 11 PM this time.

This thread would've also accepted "boogie shoes".


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[MFS62]

Centerfield wrote: Come on Terry. This lineup will score: 1. Reyes 2. Cabrera 3. Cespedes 4. Granderson 5. Duda 6. Rivera (or Kelly Johnson) 7. Conforto 8. d'Arnaud

Really?
With D'Arnaud in it?
Every time he comes to bat I have a Chris Cannizzaro flashback.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Well, I'm not quitting on him.

Beyond that, I'm not giving up on a lineup based on their eighth-place hitter.

[MFS62]

Not the entire lineup.
But until he snaps out of his funk (and I hope he does), I have more confidence in Rivera.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Second inning isn't going well.

[Edgy MD]

First-and-thirding them to death.

[Edgy MD]

Saved by a Duda stretch.

[Zvon]

Conforto comes alive. Rips a double in the corner.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Travis thumbs his nose at MFS62.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ynoa out after two innings. Hopefully Verrett can give them five.

[Edgy MD]

This Cannizzaro guy is impressive.

[Zvon]

'lil d wants to be involved in the winning process.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: This Cannizzaro guy is impressive.

Well played.
Maybe I should keep the reverse mojo working and say something similar about Jay Bruce.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Hellickson is a slow worker with men on base.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Ynoa out after two innings. Hopefully Verrett can give them five.

And he gives up a leadiff homer. "Give them five" doesn't mean give the Phillies five runs.

[Zvon]

Matt Stairs, the Phillie ex-jock head, has a voice that sounds exactly like me when I try to talk after throwing up in my own mouth.

[Frayed Knot]

So with 6 walk-off HRs in each of '62 & '63, that means that over 13% of their total wins in those seasons (91) came via game-winning HRs. Nearly one win of every eight.
That's stunning!