IGT 06/06 - NYM @ TEX - R. U. Ready 2 Rock

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We're getting our asses kicked out there

[Frayed Knot]

Two runs (so far) in this inning and Texas hasn't hit a ball hard yet.

[Edgy MD]

Answer to Verizon Trivia Question: Ted Willams' Head.

[metirish]

metirish wrote: Game not over in this park, tough to see Jake stink again

Bollox

[Edgy MD]

Poor Irish, reduced to arguing with himself.

I'll say this for Texas: Their seats are filled.

[Edgy MD]

Great, we're first-pitch swinging. Come on.

[Edgy MD]

What was that? A five-pitch inning?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah they're all Terry-ble

[Frayed Knot]

Well, Kimbrel just K'd Judge on 3 pitches to preserve a 5-4 Boston win ... so the night isn't a total loss.

[Edgy MD]

OK, first two on in the eighth. Let's see what we can do with this 'un.

[Fman99]

Somehow, amazingly, I have not gone to bed yet, and now it's bases loaded with no out. Mets are one swing from making this a 10-8 game.

[Frayed Knot]

WTF Conforto?!?!!??

[Edgy MD]

Work the count, man. The count is your friend.

[Frayed Knot]

Three shots to get a hit w/RiSP ... oh for two so far and nothing out of the infield.

[Frayed Knot]

12 LOB; 2-13 w/RiSP and only one of them scored a run.

Meanwhile, six of the ten Rangers runs came on non-hits.

[Frayed Knot]

Now bases loaded w/no outs the other way ... but I'm betting their side doesn't follow with three weak rollers.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Now bases loaded w/no outs the other way ... but I'm betting their side doesn't follow with three weak rollers.

Or maybe they will.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Well, Edgin did his job, at least.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Well.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Well, well.

Still a bloop and blast away.

[Edgy MD]

Thinking hard about lost opportunities right now. Let's not lose this one.

[Edgy MD]

[u:3a5z6kt4]Tying run[/u:3a5z6kt4]
**Plate**

[Frayed Knot]

Odd time to steal a base ... but it worked.

[Edgy MD]

There's certainly value in erasing the double play possibility, but man, if you're going to steal, you've GOT to make it.

The risk-reward ratio is really high. But it helped set up this walk by Conforto.

[Edgy MD]

Do it for CHEAP TRICK, Mets!

[Edgy MD]

Don't like those high curves getting call'd for strikes.

[Edgy MD]

Crabcakes.

[Frayed Knot]

That was the only way for that game to end.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Almost as depressing as deGrom and the way this game ended is the fact that the Ranger park is out in the Dallas burbs, Citi is in the middle of Queens, and the two stadium "neighborhoods" look virtually the same outside. #thanksalotbroll

[Frayed Knot]

You would think that turning a 17-hit (including 5 HRs) 6-walk game with your supposed ace going into a loss would be near impossible.
Instead it was largely a blowout.


I mean some of these situations seem to defy mathematics:
1st inning: Leadoff double = 1 run
2nd: Leadoff walk plus a HR = 1 run
3rd: 2 HRs, 2 singles and a walk = 2 runs
4th: walk + single = 0 runs
5th: 2 singles = 0 runs
6th: 1 single = 0 runs
7th: the lone 1-2-3 inning of the night for Ranger pitching
8th: 2 singles and a walk = 1 run
9th: 2 HRs, 2 singles, plus a walk = 3 runs

Dillon Gee faced 21 batters, retiring just nine of them including giving up three (could have been four) HRs, and yet somehow escaped with only 4 runs against him.

And the biggest problem is that the lack of clutch hitting isn't the biggest problem.
The starter who we think is the most dependable (or at least did) and was handed a lead before he threw a pitch, wound up with an ERA for the game of 18.00 and a WHIP of 2.75, all of
which made the bullpen's combined 2 runs and 8 baserunners over 4 innings (4.50 / 2.00) look good in comparison even though those runs end up as the final difference in the score.