IGT 6/17/17: WAS@NYM -- Lu Go, Guys!

[G-Fafif]

Can't hide from the 4:10 start, Lugo vs. Strasburg.

[G-Fafif]

Us:

Conforto CF
Cespedes LF
Bruce RF
Flores 3B
Duda 1B
T. Rivera 2B
Reyes SS
R. Rivera C
Lugo P

[G-Fafif]

Them:

Turner SS
Rendon 3B
Harper RF
Murphy 2B
Zimmerman 1B
Lind LF
Taylor CF
Lobaton C
Strasburg P

[G-Fafif]

Turner leads off with a homer. I can see why nobody cared to start a thread.

[Edgy MD]

Good to see Conforto back in center.

C'mon, guyz! Big game!

[Frayed Knot]

Game leadoff HRs? -- Check!
Hitting into GiDPs after getting 2-on with one out? -- Check!
Getting smoked by backup catchers? -- Check!

[Centerfield]

Completely forgot about this game and then checked the score. In some ways, it's like the off-season has already started.

[Frayed Knot]

Ron: "You have to make that throw 99% of the time"

Me: And Met infielders make that throw about 60% of the time

[Frayed Knot]

At least this upcoming GiDP (runners on 1st & 3rd) will result in a run.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: At least this upcoming GiDP (runners on 1st & 3rd) will result in a run.

Check!




Mets have had two runners on base four separate times in the last game and a half and have GiDP'd in the next at bat in every one of them!

[ashie62]

Lu Go to the showers soon.

[ashie62]

Geez the Mets blow this year.

[Frayed Knot]

Another bad throw to 1st (Reyes) on a routine grounder, only this time with the pitcher (half) running there was enough time to make it not matter.

[Frayed Knot]

Two on and no outs ... what time is it boys and girls??!?!?

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Two on and no outs ... what time is it boys and girls??!?!?

Well, the GiDP streak was broken.
Still had to offer up an out in order to plate a run, but it's progress.

After the Sac Fly, Dusty challenged Cespedes leaving 3rd too early, considered challenging the slide at the plate, and I think he asked about challenging each of the pitches during the AB which
led to the Sac Fly but was told he couldn't.

[ashie62]

[bigpurple:2pjuqdud]RALLY TIME![/bigpurple:2pjuqdud]

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Two on and no outs ... what time is it boys and girls??!?!?

So we broke the streak temporarily but now it's 5 times in 6 opportunities.
I don't think you could duplicate that if trying to do so.

[Frayed Knot]

Not content to merely go 0-7 w/RiSP, they've managed to make 10 outs in those situations with 3 their GiDPs and have just one ball out of the infield (Flores's Sac Fly).

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Seaweed picked a bad time to surrender that Jack. I felt we still had a shot

[ashie62]

Pretty much.

[ashie62]

YO BOOM! 4 HITS

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Good afternoon for Cespedes, anyway. He looks better than he has since April.

[Edgy MD]

C'mon, guys! Nats bullpen!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Tying run at the plate. What'd I tell ya about the Seaweed jack.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Tying runs on base.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Buncha stupid-ass tackons making it tough here

[Frayed Knot]

And, really, how else was that game going to end?

[ashie62]

Like most other Mets games.

[Guest cooby]

Why does Keith carry around an ice machine?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Because he likes to keep his cool?