California Dreamin' IGT -- Mets @ Pads 7/25/17

[Frayed Knot]

San Diego, where all the Padres used to wear Brown and the Mets will be in Gray / we'll stop in for a game on a summer's .. er, night.


Seth Lugo vs Jhoulys Chacin [9 - 6; 4.27; 1.29]

Chacin was the starter in the one game of that May series in which the Mets won, smacking him around for [u:19d90m7b]7 runs on 8 hits in 2/3 of an inning[/u:19d90m7b]!!
Conforto = HR; Reyes = Single; Bruce = Single; Walker = Single; Granderson = Sac Fly; Flores = Single; Duda = Double; R. Rivera = Single; Harvey = Ground Out; Conforto = Single
... and that was all for his night. Final Score: Mets 9 - Padres 3

Since that day he's actually been pretty decent aside from the fact that he rarely goes more than six innings - although even that's not so unusual now.

[ashie62]

San Diego sux

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ashie62 wrote:

What's that all about?

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at San Diego
When: 10:10 PM ET, Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
By Gracenote

If Jacob deGrom could somehow start two out of every three games, the New York Mets likely would be buyers instead of sellers this week as the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline approaches. Alas, deGrom won’t be available Tuesday as New York continues its four-game set against the host San Diego Padres, who had few answers for the ace in a series-opening 5-3 loss.

DeGrom tossed eight strong innings en route to his eighth straight victory as the Mets won for the fifth time in six contests. New York is 13 games out of first place in the National League East and has several players on the trade block - including closer Addison Reed, Lucas Duda and Jay Bruce, who added to his value Monday by going 2-for-5 with two RBIs. San Diego began dealing on Monday, sending starter Trevor Cahill and relievers Brandon Maurer and Ryan Buchter to Kansas City for pitchers Matt Strahm and Travis Wood and infielder Esteury Ruiz. The rebuilding Padres received a boost Monday from Hunter Renfroe, who belted two home runs and is batting .310 with four blasts and eight RBIs over his last 15 games.

TV: 10:10 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), FSN San Diego

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Seth Lugo (4-2, 4.05 ERA) vs. Padres RH Jhoulys Chacin (9-7, 4.26)

Lugo pitched into the seventh inning for the second straight start on Thursday, when he held St. Louis to one run over 6 2/3 frames. The 27-year-old has performed well on the road, going 6-2 with a 3.61 ERA in 13 career games (eight starts) away from home. Lugo, who is making his second career appearance against San Diego, owns a 9-2 record and 3.32 ERA over his last 14 starts dating back to Aug. 25, 2016.

Chacin won his third consecutive decision on Thursday, allowing two runs and four hits over six innings in a 5-2 victory over San Francisco. The Venezuelan has been a pleasant surprise for the Padres, giving up fewer than three earned runs in seven of his last eight outings. Duda is 3-for-6 with two homers against Chacin, who is 1-5 with a 6.50 ERA in eight career games (seven starts) versus the Mets.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Padres SS Erick Aybar could miss the rest of the season after being diagnosed with a fractured left foot.
2. The Mets placed Zack Wheeler on the disabled list with a stress reaction in his right arm and recalled fellow RHP Tyler Pill from Triple-A Las Vegas.
3. Chacin is 5-2 with a 1.94 ERA in 10 starts at Petco Park this season.

[Edgy MD]

Second place on the line. The Mets passed into sole possession of third last night.

[Guest d'Kong76]

10 games out of the wild card with 65 to play.

[Edgy MD]

The Mets have been severly disConfited, but it looks like the Padres are going with a pretty different look.

1. Curtis Granderson, cf
2. Asdrubal Cabrera, 3b
3. Yoenis Cespedes, lf
4. Jay Bruce, rf
5. T.J. Rivera, 2b
6. Lucas Duda, 1b
7. Jose Reyes, ss
8. Travis d'Arnaud, c
9. Seth Lugo, sp

1. Jose Pirela, lf
2. Carlos Asuaje, 2b
3. Wil Myers, 1b
4. Hector Sanchez, c
5. Hunter Renfroe, rf
6. Cory Spangenberg, 3b
7. Manuel Margot, cf
8. Allen Cordoba, ss
9. Kyle Lloyd, sp

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[Frayed Knot]

What happened to Chacin?
oe: bumped until tomorrow apparently


Well whatever happened to him, Kyle Christopher (no, really) Lloyd will be making his ML debut tonight.
26 y/o, 6' 4" / 220; BR/TR; 29th round draft pick of the Padres in 2012 out of the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana despite being from Carmel, California
Steady progress through the minor leagues since although repeating at the AA level this year. 7-5; 4.01 in 15 starts at AA San Antonio in 2017

[ashie62]

5 of the 9 Padres starters I have never heard of.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Who is the video guy and what is his relevance to this IGT?

[Edgy MD]

Hey, who is this Céspedes guy? Did the Mets just add him?

[Edgy MD]

Hey, check it out! Oskcar's old secretary Myrna is sitting behind home plate!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Cespedes pulls ahead of d'Arnaud in the team HR race.

[Edgy MD]

Padres must be desperate if they're running there. That guy was a dead duck.

Yeah, go ahead and use your challenge on that one, Andy Green.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Another play that 2017 d'Arnaud makes that pre-2017 d'Arnaud might not

[Edgy MD]

"We don't read books in here." — Ronnie on his treatment by a Mets veteran in the clubhouse of Miller-Huggins Field

Gotta be Ron Hodges, right?

[Edgy MD]

Well, this has been a stinko inning.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Magic Loogie don't look too good.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Another play that 2017 d'Arnaud makes that pre-2017 d'Arnaud might not

I was thinking the same thing.
How many times did we see him fumble the hop from an OF throw because the whole mishmash of gloving the ball, blocking the plate, and making the tag seemed too much for him and he'd wind
up messing up one or more of those tasks?

Edited July 26, 2017 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Magic Loogie don't look too good.

44 pitches should get a pitcher through 3 innings and maybe 4 if he's being real efficient.
Lugo tonight took that many to get himself 4 outs! - and one of those outs came via the defense, not from him.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: "We don't read books in here." — Ronnie on his treatment by a Mets veteran in the clubhouse of Miller-Huggins Field Gotta be Ron Hodges, right?

Ronnie has previously identified Hodges as the guy who'd spit tobacco juice on all over his new shoes.
Doesn't seem too anxious here about fingering the anti-reader.


In that book 'The Arm' that was out a couple years ago on the issues surrounding the UCL and TJ surgery, one of the pitchers featured because he was going in for his second go-around on TJ was
reliever Todd Coffey (kind of an Edgin looking character who used to sprint in from the pen when summoned). Anyway, he comes across as this same kind of dumb jock by telling his daughter
that if a book's any good it'll get made into a TV show or movie so there's no reason to read it.
You might think that attitude had improved a bit since Ronnie's time but apparently not.

[Edgy MD]

Let's send this guy back to the Texas League NOW!!!!

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: "We don't read books in here." — Ronnie on his treatment by a Mets veteran in the clubhouse of Miller-Huggins Field Gotta be Ron Hodges, right? Ronnie has previously identified Hodges as the guy who'd spit tobacco juice on all over his new shoes. Doesn't seem too anxious here about fingering the anti-reader. In that book 'The Arm' that was out a couple years ago on the issues surrounding the UCL and TJ surgery, one of the pitchers featured because he was going in for his second go-around on TJ was reliever Todd Coffey (kind of an Edgin looking character who used to sprint in from the pen when summoned). Anyway, he comes across as this same kind of dumb jock by telling his daughter that if a book's any good it'll get made into a TV show or movie so there's no reason to read it. You might think that attitude had improved a bit since Ronnie's time but apparently not.

Other guesses: Ellis Valentine, Mike Torrez. Would this be 1982 or 1983?

[Edgy MD]

Travis d'Arnaud, Mr. RBI.

[Edgy MD]

Two or more seasons of 50 or more steals and 50 or more stolen bases in the National League since 2000.

Reyes and Hanley Ramirez, right?

[Fman99]

Fading fast here.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: Two or more seasons of 50 or more steals and 50 or more stolen bases in the National League since 2000. Reyes and Hanley Ramirez, right?

50 steals and 50 XBH, you mean, methinks. And yeah, those would be my guesses as well.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Grandyman with the hustle

[Edgy MD]

Grandy hits a Texas Leaguer off the Texas Leaguer!!

[Fman99]

Well, lookee-here, brand new ballgame, ribbie for Ass-dribble to bring in Grandy.