IGT - 6/21 - Who fucking cares anymore

[Centerfield]

Mets at Dodgers. We are starting Tyler Pill.

The goal tonight is to record an out before they've scored four runs.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I care! Let's GO Mets!

[Benjamin Grimm]

This season has kinda fallen short of expectations, hasn't it?

A .600 pace the rest of the way gets them to 86 wins. That sounds nice, but this doesn't look like a .600 team, does it?

[Lefty Specialist]

It's a lot more likely that this team finishes with 86 losses.

[Fman99]

This IGT title made me LOL. Nice work.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

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[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: This season has kinda fallen short of expectations, hasn't it? A .600 pace the rest of the way gets them to 86 wins. That sounds nice, but this doesn't look like a .600 team, does it?

wow , never going to happen, looks stark when you put it like that, .600 just to get 86 wins

[Edgy MD]

I'm just looking for going 1.000 tonight.

OE: Actually I just aim for a scoreless first.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: This season has kinda fallen short of expectations, hasn't it? A .600 pace the rest of the way gets them to 86 wins. That sounds nice, but this doesn't look like a .600 team, does it? wow , never going to happen, looks stark when you put it like that, .600 just to get 86 wins

I mean, it's not out of the question, even slightly above that, but there are no signs that the pitching will stabilize. You can't have these absolute non-competitive games from Wheeler, Gsellman, even deGrom. Even if they were all just slightly worse, including Lugo and Matz, than what are dreams are, they'd have a realistic shot at that.

[Chad ochoseis]

At the current pace, the Nationals will win 99 games and the Diamondbacks will win the second wild card spot with 100. Not that anyone believes the Rockies and Diamondbacks are quite that good, but 86 wins this year will be barely good enough for a participation trophy.

[Ceetar]

Chad Ochoseis wrote: At the current pace, the Nationals will win 99 games and the Diamondbacks will win the second wild card spot with 100. Not that anyone believes the Rockies and Diamondbacks are quite that good, but 86 wins this year will be barely good enough for a participation trophy.

of course, the standings in June so often fail to really tell the story.

Nationals won't win 99 games and if they go into the playoffs the way they're constructed now they'll get destroyed.

It wouldn't be hard to see either

a. The Nationals pitching really start to cost them. Maybe not 86 games..but closer to 90?

b. one or both of the Rockies falling off that pace and having a bleh second half, in which the second wild card ends up less than 90.

The Mets aren't out of it because of the field, they're out of it because them turning on a dime to be a consistent winner seems implausible at this point.

[Guest cooby]

LOL I care too.

By the way this thread title is exactly what my daughter had on her menu for Friday night a couple weeks ago.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Considering that the last two seasons the Mets looked absolutely miserable at this point of the season and still ended up in the post-season + the core of talented young players that I'm not ready to give up on yet, I'd say as bad as it seems now that the season isn't over. Not saying things are going to get better, just that it's too early to call.

Edited June 21, 2017 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Good call.

[Frayed Knot]

The one thing keeping the current Mets from being completely out of it at this point is that, once again, the NL as a whole is getting its collective ass kicked by the AL.
The record at the moment is 80-57 which translates into the AL playing inter-league games at the pace of a 95 win team while the NL wins like a team on pace to win 67 over a full season.

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at LA Dodgers
When: 10:10 PM ET, Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
By Gracenote

At this point, it’s almost news when the Los Angeles Dodgers don’t hit at least four home runs in a single game. The red-hot Dodgers have won five straight games and 11 of their last 12 heading into Wednesday’s matchup against the visiting New York Mets, who have allowed a total of nine homers and been outscored 22-6 in the first two contests of the four-game series.

One day after Dodgers rookie Cody Bellinger recorded his fifth multi-homer performance in a 10-6 victory, Corey Seager followed with the second three-homer effort of his career in Tuesday’s 12-0 rout. Bellinger went 3-for-4 with his National League-best 22nd home run and four RBIs in Tuesday’s win as Los Angeles moved a season-high 20 games over .500 and remained one-half game behind first-place Colorado in the NL West. While the Dodgers are powering forward, the Mets have lost five of their last six and fallen a season high-tying eight games below .500. New York could use a strong start from Tyler Pill on Wednesday after Zack Wheeler and Robert Gsellman opened the series with back-to-back early exits.

TV: 10:10 p.m. ET, ESPN, SNY (New York), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Tyler Pill (0-2, 3.75 ERA) vs. Dodgers LH Rich Hill (3-3, 5.14)

Pill will be recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas to make a spot start in place of Matt Harvey before the Mets go back to a five-man rotation next week. The 27-year-old Pill last pitched for the Mets in relief on June 10 at Atlanta, working one scoreless inning. He earned a return to the majors after allowing two runs over seven frames in Thursday’s start for Las Vegas, where he’s gone 4-1 with a 2.04 ERA in eight turns this season.

Hill turned in his worst performance of the season on Thursday, allowing seven runs over four innings in a 12-5 loss to Cleveland. The 37-year-old was 12-5 with a 2.12 ERA last season but hasn't lasted longer than five innings in any of his eight starts this year. Hill has gone 3-1 with a 2.83 ERA in six starts at Dodger Stadium this season but owns an 0-2 record and 13.50 ERA in four career games (two starts) against the Mets.

WALK-OFFS:
1. The Dodgers are 36-14 in their last 50 games, their best 50-game stretch since 2013.
2. Mets SS Asdrubal Cabrera (thumb) began a rehab assignment Tuesday with Single-A St. Lucie and could return to the team Friday in San Francisco.
3. Dodgers 3B Justin Turner went 0-for-4 on Tuesday, ending his 14-game hitting streak.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I assumed tomorrow's game was a day game. Not. Fargin' bastages.

[Fman99]

Yeah, five straight 10 PM + starts this week, each weeknight. It's a real potato punch.

[Guest 41Forever]

[Guest themetfairy]

I Believe
I Believe
It's silly, but I believe

[Edgy MD]

Pill and Hill filll out the bill
Eight hours 'til they take the hill
And then I will consume my swill
And seek a thrill—no 12-run-kill

The baseball shill says "Pay your bill!"
"Watch the skill! the balls they'll drill!"
It makes me ill, the overkill
But at the mill, my cash will spill

Pill and Hill fill out the bill
Tune in I will, from Lauraville
And some daffodil who makes 10 mill
My dreams will kill, yet I watch still

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bunt the first two

[Guest d'Kong76]

batdudaleadoff

[Lefty Specialist]

Wake me five hours after it's over.

[Frayed Knot]

Out of town update:
Max Scherzer carried a no-hitter into the 8th but then the Marlins scored twice -- IF single, Error, HBP, Wild Pitch (scores 1), and then an RBI single by Stanton
Four Miami pitchers held the Nats to 5 hits including a Ryan Raburn HR for their lone run (are their subs on a HR/day quota or does it just seem that way?)
Scherzer walked 1 and K'd 11

[ashie62]

I have complete faith in Tyler Pill to step up and salvage a game!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Granderson CF
Flores 1B
Cespedes LF
Bruce RF
d’Arnaud C
T. Rivera 3B
Reyes SS
Cecchini 2B
Pill P

[Guest d'Kong76]

Buttley 2B
Seager SS
Taylor LF
Bellinger 1B
Forsythe 3B
Grandal C
Pederson CF
Puig RF
Hill P

[Guest cooby]

This IGT is already almost as long as some of the recent ones and the game hasn't started yet!