IGT 06/20 - Mets at Dodgers

[Guest d'Kong76]

Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
10:10 p.m. ET, ESPN, SNY (New York), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles)
Mets RH Robert Gsellman (5-4, 5.50 ERA) vs. Dodgers RH Brandon McCarthy (5-3, 3.14)

[Edgy MD]

Slugger Cecchini back in the lineup tonight for the Metties. Dodgers are deploying ol' 66.

1. Michael Conforto, cf
2. Jose Reyes, ss
3. Yoenis Cespedes, lf
4. Jay Bruce, rf
5. Lucas Duda, 1b
6. T.J. Rivera, 3b
7. Rene Rivera, c
8. Gavin Cecchini, 2b
9. Robert Gsellman, sp

1. Logan Forsythe, 2b
2. Corey Seager, ss
3. Justin Turner, 3b
4. Cody Bellinger, 1b
5. Chris Taylor, lf
6. Yasmani Grandal, c
7. Yasiel Puig, rf
8. Joc Pederson , cf
9. Brandon McCarthy, sp

[ashie62]

Good night all.

LGM

[metirish]

Definitely want to see some games at Dodgers Stadium one day

LGM

[metirish]

Christ the Altuve 5 Hour Energy commercial is painful to watch , does he actually talk like that ?

[Fman99]

I'm 4 pitches in and I'm yawning, like, full body yawn.

[Edgy MD]

Stick around for a bit. Maybe we can get one of those scoreless firsts.

[Fman99]

Unfucking real. Another first inning tater. I think the mattress companies have put the Mets up to this. They just DESPERATELY want me to go to bed.

[Guest 41Forever]

We can't even get a first out without these guys doing damage.

[Fman99]

Oh good. Another 4-0 first inning hole. Feels like yesterday in here. I'm going to go set myself on fire, BRB.

[Guest 41Forever]

Absolutely insane.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I've gotten to the point where it's funny.

[Edgy MD]

Bellinger is like an impossible puzzle.

We have a 240-pound Cuban lump of pure muscle, and this skinny freak with a perfect swing is impossible to stop.

[Centerfield]

This team is pathetic.

[Guest 41Forever]

West coast trips are where Mets seasons go to die.

[Guest d'Kong76]

They were pretty dead before boarding the plane.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Bellinger is like an impossible puzzle. We have a 240-pound Cuban lump of pure muscle, and this skinny freak with a perfect swing is impossible to stop.

Plus, his father was a total banjo hitter.

[Frayed Knot]

Tonight's 1st inning epitomizes everything about what our opening defensive frames have been this season:
- almost every ground ball finds a hole
- those grounders that don't find holes become errors anyway
- throw in a walk or two
- potential GiDPs aren't turned
- the pitcher in immediate pitch-count hell
- and, of course, 1st inning bomb(s)

[Edgy MD]

I feel like Ann Coulter was behind home plate a few minutes ago. Now Peter Fonda or some other super-rich hippy has her seat.

[Frayed Knot]

2nd inning update:
- Gsellman is on pace to need 270 pitches in order to finish the game
- and the game itself is on pace to last 3:45 (aka: ten minutes to two AM) or maybe more like 3:35 since the Dodgers most likely won't have to bat in bottom 9

Other than that it's going OK though

[Frayed Knot]

I have no memory of this McCarthy guy as a Yanqui ... (looking it up) 14 starts in 2014 with a 7-5 record and sub-3.00 ERA

[Centerfield]

Thank you Mets for a truly awful hour of baseball. Off to bed. Fitting end to a shit day.

[Frayed Knot]

We don't turn many DPs, but we're sure good at hitting into them.

[Frayed Knot]

Tommy Lasorda was 0-4 with a 6.48 ERA in 26 appearances (5 starts) in his major league career.
It's possible that the 56 walks in 58 innings might have had something to do with all that.

[Guest cooby]

I does appear that they are trying to help us get our beauty sleep.

[Edgy MD]

Come on! An inside-out homer by the shortstop? I'm calling BS.

[Guest 41Forever]

Done. Just, done.

[Guest d'Kong76]

T J flashin' some leather, woke me up for maybe another inning...

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Come on! An inside-out homer by the shortstop? I'm calling BS.

Shortstops didn't used to be 6' 4" / 220



oe: speaking of which, I had occasion to look used Johnny Evers a while ago (I forget why). Evers, of course, was the Troy, NY born 2B man of Tinker-Evers-Chance fame.
He's listed in BB-Ref as 5' 9" / 125 !! I mean, shit, I was skinny as a teenager (as opposed to the big, husky lad I am now) and weighed around 130 back when I was 5' 9"
at 16 or so years old. But this was a full grown man at that height and only 125 lbs. And he won an MVP at one point!
Perhaps not surprisingly, he hit all of 12 HRs over a 15 year career

Edited June 21, 2017 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I just read Verduccis Sports Illustrated article and it's extremely depressing, sort of confirms what I already sensed, and combined with what looks like it could be not only an awful season for the Mets but a dull pennant race on top of it am suddenly very worried for the future of obb