IGT 7/17 Cards vs. Mets Wainwright vs. Wheeler

[ashie62]

Our starter has a better ERA than theirs, really!

[ashie62]

Most Mets players are auditioning for whether or not they will be here 8/1.

O.T. But bye Asdrubal!

LETS GO SHaMS

[Edgy MD]

Will Wheeler flourish now that he knows what the inside of a ball looks like?

[ashie62]

It is most certainly so.

[Lefty Specialist]

Build that trade value, Mets!

[Edgy MD]

Get your bets down. For once, Terry posts his lineup before the opposition. No surprises.

[fimg=250:1pp2x9h8]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Citi_Field_Home_Run_Apple_2012.jpg[/fimg:1pp2x9h8]

[*:1pp2x9h8]Michael Conforto, cf[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Asdrubal Cabrera, 2b[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Yoenis Cespedes, lf[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Jay Bruce, rf[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]T.J. Rivera, 3b[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Lucas Duda, 1b[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Jose Reyes, ss[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Travis d'Arnaud, c[/*:m:1pp2x9h8]
[*:1pp2x9h8]Zack Wheeler, sp[/*:m:1pp2x9h8][/list:o:1pp2x9h8]

[Frayed Knot]

Bit of a different StL team from the one we saw pre-break in that OFs Randal Grichuck and Steven Piscotty have both been DL'd so that their OF these days is Pham & Fowler in LF & CF with either
the 28 y/o rookie Jose Martinez or the guy whose name Keith & Gary were tossing around yesterday, Magneuris Sierra, covering RF.

2B Kolten Wong, who was not active in the last series, has since been called up and started two of the three games since the break.

They came out of the break losing 2 of 3 in Pittsburgh with both losses coming via walk-offs

Carlos Martinez pitched on Sunday so he should be the one guy we miss in this four game set - although he was also the one guy we hit in the earlier series so go figure.
Looks like we'll get Wainwright followed by Wacha. After that Wednesday & Thursday both say TBD but it'll probably be some combo of Mike Leake and Lance Lynn

[Guest d'Kong76]

Carpenter 1B
Pham LF
Fowler CF
Gyorko 3B
Molina C
DeJong SS
Wong 2B
Sierra RF
Wainwright P

[ashie62]

Pissing rain!

[Guest d'Kong76]

No pissing rain at Shea/Citi...

[Edgy MD]

Tonight's trivia question: Keith is one of five players with 25 or more homers with both the Cardinals and the Mets. Who are the other four?

Um ... Bernard Gilkey, Carlos Beltran, Joe Torre, and ... Ken Boyer?

[Edgy MD]

Torre and Boyer are both wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Edgy MD]

Zeile's one!

[Guest themetfairy]

Shamsky?

[Edgy MD]

Why were we playing Tommy Pham with the shift like he's Dave F. Kingman?

[Edgy MD]

Céspedes just doesn't seem to know what he wants to swing at.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Tonight's trivia question: Keith is one of five players with 25 or more homers with both the Cardinals and the Mets. Who are the other four? Um ... Bernard Gilkey, Carlos Beltran, Joe Torre, and ... Ken Boyer?

Jefferies?

[Frayed Knot]

Gotta like Ronnie's [u:28zb3b3w]F-Troop[/u:28zb3b3w] reference earlier.

[ashie62]

He's afaid of hurting his legs.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Tonight's trivia question: Keith is one of five players with 25 or more homers with both the Cardinals and the Mets. Who are the other four? Um ... Bernard Gilkey, Carlos Beltran, Joe Torre, and ... Ken Boyer? Jefferies?

Jefferies it is. Gilkey, Beltran, Zeile, and Jefferies.

Mets are hitting the ball hard all night, until they get a guy in scoring position. A very strandy night team tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, it's Mazzilli All-Star Homer Day!

[Frayed Knot]

Lotsa chances for TJ so far tonight ... and he's gotten each and every throw all the way across the diamond!!

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Lotsa chances for TJ so far tonight ... and he's gotten each and every throw all the way across the diamond!!

I have no more confidence in his handwork than I have in Flores' footwork.

[Frayed Knot]

Gary once again skewing what the "stats guys" say about BABiP/Three-True-Outcomes

[Edgy MD]

Wild Wheelie just walked three in a row.

[nymr83]

Three straight walks with 2 outs, the last one on 4 pitches, that's where I'm willing to pull a starter out of the game early.

[Edgy MD]

Cards are strandy too!

[Guest themetfairy]

That's an All Star Ka Boom!

[Frayed Knot]

The 2017 NYM: We wait until the bases are empty .. THEN we pounce!!

[Guest themetfairy]

And just like that we're behind.