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Ladies and gentlemen, your cleanup hitter, Brandon "Sluggo" Nimmo.

Edgy MD wrote: Lines are for saps. Build walls where there is no ambiguity with regard to whether the ball cleared it or not. Indeed. "Hitting those home runs over the orange line" just doesn't have the same ring. And, speaking of home runs... OE...my MLB.tv must be delayed. I'm just seeing the Lagares HR now.

Frayed Knot wrote: * Has a four-homer game ever occurred twice in one season before? I doubt it, but it has now as Arizona's JC Martinez joined Cincy's Scooter Gennett's feat from earlier in the year. The odd thing about Martinez's night last night was that he had just a K and a HR in 2 ABs as the game entered the the 7th inning. He then HR'd in the 7th and the 8th and was scheduled to be the 5th batter in the 9th but his mates got a few hits ahead of him to get him up with just one out in the 9th where he put up the final two runs in the 13-0 whupping the Snakes put on the Dodgers First time in baseball history that a player has hit home runs in the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings of a game. And he's an FA this year... Frayed Knot wrote: * The 11 game win streak the D'Backs are on isn't even the longest in MLB right now as Cleveland romped to their 12th straight yesterday. The 4.5 game lead they had in the AL Central less than two weeks ago is now up to 10. The Indians' streak is now up to 14, and they're now within three games of the Astros (who have themselves won six in a row) for the best record in the AL. I hadn't been paying much attention, but I watched part of yesterday's game this morning on MLB.tv. Mike Pelfrey, of all people, shut the Tribe down for four innings in middle relief, but they held on to win a weird game that featured eight total walks in the first inning. So far, it's the only game during the streak where the starting pitcher didn't get the win for the Indians.

No team in post-1900 history has struck out more than 10 per game on average. This year, the Indians are currently at 10.05 and the Astros are at 9.95.

Best thread title ever.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: So... What you're saying is, come next year's Players' Weekend, there's a non-zero chance we're getting a 33 DICKBAG? That was true before the Post article came out.

I didn't catch the Southhampton digs. When did Keith move from Sag Harbor? That confused me, too. According to Wikipedia, Sag Harbor is an incorporated village partially located within the Town of Southampton. Who knew? Not ever having been a Long Islander, I never got the town/village distinction they have there. But I remember my 7th grade social studies teacher noting that Oceanside, where he lived, was part of the Town of Hempstead, and I think the Town of Huntington takes up a fairly large chunk of Suffolk County, including plenty of places that wouldn't be thought of as Huntington.

d'Kong76 wrote: Twitter mlblineups had an option below this to translate from Haitian Creole? If "Nimmo" is Creole for "Cespedes" and "Lagares" is Creole for "Conforto", I like our chances tonight.

An effective Montero in 2018 would go a long way towards solving the Mets' problems.

Reyes goes first to third on a groundout, proving that baseball is still fun even when it doesn't matter.

This wasn't a great team when at least some subset of Bruce, Cespedes, Conforto, Duda, and Granderson were on the active roster. With all five of them gone for the season, it's going to be a long slog through September. I'm thinking of it as early spring training for 2018.

Indians have also won seven straight, including a three game series sweep of the Yanquis. [crossout:6pv0nycu]Going for the series sweep tomorrow.[/crossout:6pv0nycu] What's not to like?

Zvon wrote: HahnSolo wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Longest outing by a losing pitcher? (probably not) To piggyback on this, most strikeouts by a losing pitcher? I'll go with these. Marichal goes 13.1 (!!) and my man Agee put's it away!!!Woohoo! Didn't Steve Carlton pitch a game against the '69 Mets where he had some ridiculous number of strikeouts - 18 or so in a 9-inning game - and lost 4-3 anyway? No guess here, because I think Lunchie's correct.

Yeah, I'd say so. There's a definite scale of importance here. Exchange a win in 2018 for a win in 2017? No way, Jose (or Norichka). Move down a couple of positions in the 2018 draft in exchange for a couple of wins in 2017? Sure. I don't know if anyone has calculated the expected value in future wins per season that we'd lose if we moved from our current middling spot to a slightly lower middling spot, but if it were more than 0.03 (with a high standard deviation on that 0.03), I'd be shocked. I'd trade that for a couple of "meaningless" 2017 victories. And, as someone (Ceetar, I think) pointed out once, the better the team plays, the more value we can get for our guys in an offseason trade. So there's some marginal value to winning besides the intrinsic value that winning always has. It's just not very much. So, LET'S GO METS (kind of, sort of)!!!

He'd be a hired gun who could make the difference between going 70-92 and 71-91 on the season. More wins are always better than fewer wins, but I don't feel too passionately about this. Since there's a good chance that Jose will be with us next year, and virtually no chance that Aoki would be on the 2018 roster, I'd just as soon see Jose getting the LF reps now and making himself that much more useful as a bench player in 2018.

My brother's in Tampa for work and got a ticket to the game. The "crowd" is rooting for Houston, which they'd be doing anyway given that the Rays need the Rangers to lose to keep their slim WC hopes alive. He says the crowd is reminiscent of Municipal Stadium in the 80s, which I think translates as "September 1979, Shea".

Edgy MD wrote: Tampa got to host an Orioles home game or two during the Baltimore riots and aftermath. I would think the nearest available upper-minor league park (Oklahoma City?) would be preferable than a home game in a state several hours away that will attract under 2,000 people to a stadium meant for 20 times that. Actual evacuees will be in Oklahoma City. As the Grateful Dead would be quick to point out, the closest AAA city to Houston is New Orleans, though New Orleans is getting hit by Harvey's remnants. But I have vague memories that when a team has been forced into another city's stadium in the past, the host city has turned out to root for the displaced team. That being said, Tampa Bay doesn't even root for the Rays.

It's remarkable just how little these games matter to Houston, not just in the grand scheme, but from a baseball perspective. They've largely sewn up the AL West, and are 5 1/2 ahead of the Indians for best record in the AL. They're far behind the Dodgers for home field advantage in the WS, and well ahead of the Cubs, Diamondbacks, and Rockies. All that's really on the line for them at this point is home field if they win the AL pennant and the Nats win the NL pennant. And, I guess, the Indians and Sawx do have something of a chance of overtaking them for best AL record.

KAZIMMO!

Howie notes that three Mets wear their ages on their uniforms: Smith - 22 Plawecki - 26 Taijeron - 28 Nationally televised game, so no MLB feed for me or, I assume, for the other out-of-towners.

I hadn't noticed until just now that the coaches and managers were doing this too. I see "Dusty" and "K-Long". Is Terry just "Terry"?

Gary just confirmed that it's a dislocated left shoulder. So nothing that would stretch into 2018. Gary and Ron speculating on whether he'll be back this season.

Jeezus. Conforto.

Cespy goes kaboom. Good to see him hitting like Cespy again.