IGT 5/9 Mets v Giants Wheeler Samardzjia

[ashie62]

Go five Zack!!

[Centerfield]

Batters or pitches?

[seawolf17]

Centerfield wrote: Batters or pitches?

Hopefully both. The rest is gravy.

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: Go five Zack!!

And see if you can stay under 100 pitches while doing so.

If nothing else we should have a full bullpen backing him as everyone who pitched last night covered the three full innings with a minimum of fuss: Salas = 10 pitches, Blevins (9), Reed (13) and Familia (5 !!)
with an infield single off of Blevins as the only blemish.
The rest haven't thrown since Sunday, although Robles was briefly warming up last night.

[Edgy MD]

Well, as Gary noted, Michael Morse just missed hitting one about 500 feet off of Familia.

[Frayed Knot]

Missed by at least 150 feet.

[Edgy MD]

And by less than one dime.

[Centerfield]

Paraphrasing Pedro, he only needs him to miss it by a dime.

[Guest d'Kong76]

San Francisco at NY Mets
When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
By Gracenote

Jeff Samardzija is still in search of his first victory of the season as he prepares to make his seventh start when the San Francisco Giants continue their three-game series at the New York Mets on Tuesday night. San Francisco owns the worst record in the majors at 11-22 and has dropped four in a row after New York's walk-off victory Monday night.

Samardzija enters this start against New York after a dominant performance at the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday, registering a season-high 11 strikeouts. The Giants have been outscored 35-8 during their four-game skid and were unable to protect a pair of leads in the series opener, courtesy of home runs by Hunter Pence and Buster Posey. The Mets improved to 7-3 in their last 10 games after Neil Walker delivered their first walk-off win of the season with a two-out single in the ninth. Right-hander Zack Wheeler, who is 0-2 with a 5.63 ERA in three starts at Citi Field this season, will oppose Samardzija.

TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, NBC Sports California (San Francisco), SNY (New York)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Giants RH Jeff Samardzija (0-4, 5.03 ERA) vs. Mets RH Zack Wheeler (1-2, 4.78)

Samardzija stumbled out of the gate 0-4, but he is coming off a pair of strong outings that each resulted in no-decisions. The 32-year-old limited the Dodgers to one unearned run and three hits over eight innings and gave up two earned runs over seven innings in his previous turn. Samardzija will benefit by missing the injured Yoenis Cespedes, who is 5-for-16 with three homers against him.

Wheeler, whose last start in Atlanta was curtailed due to rain in the fourth inning, is still trying to find his form after missing the past two years due to Tommy John surgery. He gave up four runs in a season-high seven innings versus Washington on April 23 and lasted 4 2/3 innings in a rematch with the Nationals six days later. Pence and Posey are a combined 0-for-11 versus Wheeler.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Mets RHP Matt Harvey, suspended three days for a violation of team rules, likely will start Friday.
2. San Francisco has collected 21 hits during the current losing streak.
3. New York LHP Tommy Milone, claimed off waivers from Milwaukee on Sunday, will start the series finale on Wednesday.

[Edgy MD]

Mets posting a lineup before the opposition for once, and hey, Flores vs. a righty.

Drubie remains in reserve.

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[*:3m5xgvvf]T.J. Rivera, 1b[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
[*:3m5xgvvf]Jay Bruce, rf[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
[*:3m5xgvvf]Neil Walker, 2b[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
[*:3m5xgvvf]Curtis Granderson, cf[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
[*:3m5xgvvf]Jose Reyes, ss[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
[*:3m5xgvvf]Rene Rivera, c[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
[*:3m5xgvvf]Wilmer Flores, 3b[/*:m:3m5xgvvf]
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[Guest d'Kong76]

Panik 2B
Belt 1B
Pence RF
Posey C
Gillaspie 3B
Arroyo SS
Nunez LF
Hernandez CF
Samardzija P

[Guest themetfairy]

T.J. Rivera - Hits Don't Lie!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Fun 1st!

[Guest 41Forever]

Post-apology Mets are fun! Suspend someone else tomorrow.

[ashie62]

T.J. Rivera is making my day again. Don't rush back Duda.

[Edgy MD]

Don't listen to him, Doo. Come back as soon as you are able.

But speaking of TJ, Keith called him out for an in proper stretch, but he stepped out of the baseline and into the playing field and gave René a good target, so the throw didn't go into the runner and expose the firstbaseman to the sort of injury that knocked Duda out.

[MFS62]

Speaking of Rene Rivera, has anyone noticed that he's hitting over .300?
He has been a consistent bright spot all season.
Good for him!

And Duda went yard tonight for St. Lucie.

Later

Edited May 10, 2017 by Guest

[metirish]

Wheeler looking great , fun game to watch

[Edgy MD]

Samardzjia has a heckuva sunburn.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice outing by Wheeler who's now done after six.
I was again worried about his pitch count early. At one point when he had still given up just one hit and one walk he somehow still managed to be averaging over 5 pitches/batter but by the end of his 6th
and final inning he had brought that average down to a little over 4/per.

Just to put that 5 pitches/batter into perspective, at that rate you could pitch a perfect game and still require 135 pitches to finish it.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Samardzjia has a heckuva sunburn.

He was golfing with Harvey.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Confortoboom!

[Guest themetfairy]

Conforto homers right into The 7 Line!

[Frayed Knot]

Adam Lind, whose ran into the final out of last night's game in Baltimore, just hit a 3R 8th inning HR for the Nats to break a 1-1 tie

[Edgy MD]

Love to see Robles start a second inning. If he finishes the inning, consider me and that tactic to be engaged.

[Edgy MD]

And ... he hits a dude and gets the hook.

[MFS62]

Two pitchers in the eighth? Of THIS game? Is Terry trying for some kind of Tony LaRussa Award?

LAter

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Two pitchers in the eighth? Of THIS game? Is Terry trying for some kind of Tony LaRussa Award?

Terry used three pitchers in the 8th; there were two in-inning changes

[Edgy MD]

Gearrin seems to start his motion twice and totally seems to be balking.

[Edgy MD]

Sheesh. Montero is a big league pitcher and stuff. Trust him with a five-run lead.