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  1. Frayed Knot
    The Mets in the doldrums tends to diminish my interest in out of town baseball goings-on, but a couple of notes from the last 24 hours or so. - the Yanx broke their six game losing streak this afternoon, 7-3 vs LAA, and in doing so scored as many runs today as they had in their seven previous games combined, a stretch which even includes the last game they won (1-0). - the Nats broke their 11 games losing streak earlier today and, perhaps even better for their collective psyche, saved themselves from the humiliation of being swept by the Rockies (although it took them 11 innings before they sealed the 'W' at home). Rox now 8-9 in June which, while not good, is a big improvement on their 4 - 24 month of May!!! - the Rays continue to rack up runs despite having good, though hardly top-notch, offensive stats (14th in OPS). On Wednesday night they got down to Baltimore 8-0 after 2 innings ... and then calmly shut out the O's for the rest of the game while putting up 12 runs on 17 hits for a 12 - 8 victory. So they're not just picking on us.
  2. Frayed Knot
    Do the Mets have an exit velo above 43 mph tonight?
  3. Frayed Knot
    A strike out followed by three weak IF grounders. This offense is really soaring like beagles!
  4. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: ... and he showed something making that catch at the end with nothing on the line but his self-respect. As he was going back for that one I said to myself, 'injuring himself while making this catch would be the perfect topper for the night'. Fortunately he wasn't reading my mind at the time.
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    Garrett also came in with two on and no one out. Can't hang that all on him. Brazoban's WP - BB sequence leading up to the (wall scraping) Sac Fly was worse IMO But I'm not hanging this on the pitchers. Two solo HRs plus a bloop for the sum total of your offense isn't going to win many games. Particularly not when you scuttle other opportunities by self-erasing four baserunners and then fail to erase one of theirs when what winds up as the winning run hangs himself up in the middle of the base path. Run! At! The! Runner! The other guy is on 1st base, he can't go anywhere until the lead runner decides what to do. There's no reason to get rid of the ball immediately there and make the decision for him. I was frankly surprised that the runner on 1st didn't take 2nd as part of that debacle. Since the ball was initially in the dirt it winds up being scored as a 'Wild Pitch' against Brazoban but that's burying the lede.
  6. Frayed Knot
    This week has seven to ten game losing streak written all over it. Hell, we're halfway there already.
  7. Frayed Knot
    We were twice handed outs and gave them back We had four guys reach base who then turned themselves into outs
  8. Frayed Knot
    List of things to do today: 1 - Play REALLY stupid 2 - See #1
  9. Frayed Knot
    Older Acuna to leadoff, but he should just go directly from RF to 1st base cuz there's no way we're pitching to him.
  10. Frayed Knot
    We're not even going to pretend to score, are we? Answer: Nope!
  11. Frayed Knot
    Even when Diaz starts out K - K it takes him 13 pitches to do so. Braves will have the lineup advantage in the 10th otoh, their closer Raisel Iglesias hasn't been good lately.
  12. Frayed Knot
    Baby Acuna for defense and to be the ghost runner if the opportunity arises.
  13. Frayed Knot
    Us: four outs on bad base running Them: four runs, all with two outs
  14. Frayed Knot
    Base running stupidity x 2
  15. Frayed Knot
    Frayed Knot wrote: We got six outs to get to make all that not matter. Didn't ever get to three.
  16. Frayed Knot
    I'll forgive Pete for getting doubled off 1st on the liner. But going for the double was just plain dumb and that it came on the tee;s of Soto getting too cute in front of your big power hitter just made it worse. We got six outs to get to make all that not matter.
  17. Frayed Knot
    Yanx getting ready to send out the Bat Signal for their offense. Lost their fifth straight tonight which now includes three straight shutouts. Their scoring output over that time has been 1, 3, 0, 0, 0 (and that includes one 10 and one 11 inning game). And if you want to go back to their last win (a week ago Thursday in KC) they won that one 1-0 so that's 5 runs scored over a six game/57 inning span.
  18. Frayed Knot
    Ugh. Not the way to start the 7th.
  19. Frayed Knot
    We hand Schwellenbach a 1-2-3 inning despite him only retiring one batter. That's pretty tough to do. Not sure which base running blunder was dopier.
  20. Frayed Knot
    R. Acuna takes one look at that run-down and says, 'Oh no, I'm not blowing out my knee for a Third time'
  21. Frayed Knot
    Does Schwellenbach come in an IPA as well as a Lager?
  22. Frayed Knot
    Oh wait, I thought we had too many starters?
  23. Frayed Knot
    Ohtani wound up giving up one run in a 28-pitch 1st inning, one which ended a lot better than it started: Single - Wild Pitch - Single - Sac Fly - GO - GO But the Dodgers hung six on Dylan Cease and rode seven different pitchers to a 6 - 3 win Yanx lose to Angels 1-0 in 11 innings. Stanton had two hits; Judge went 1-3 (plus 2 IWs) Judge is currently 3 for his last 20 and his BA has plummeted to .377 At this point he'd have to go 30 for his next 60 to get back to .400 ... which is why no one ever hits .400 He was last at .400 on May 21st Phils beat the Marlins for their fifth straight win
  24. Frayed Knot
    Certainly a Madoff casualty and possibly also of the 'Pons risk-averse ways. Who knows if they sign him even w/o the Madoff troubles. That said, he's been a much better pitcher in his '30s/as a Philly than he ever was in his 20's/as a Met NYM: Never an ERA under 3.25 and only once a WHIP under 1.26 [2018 = 1.12] PHI: Only once an ERA over 3.00 [2023: 3.61] and only once a WHIP over 1.1 [2019 = 1.17] Career NYM: 126 games, 3.77, 1.29 Career PHI: 147 games, 2.92, 1.02 and has essentially never missed a start [31, 11 (Covid), 32, 26, 32, 32, 14 (to date)] That he'd retire after the end of the contract/'27 season certainly makes more sense than four months from now. But even then I wonder why he'd make that public now.
  25. Frayed Knot
    He doesn't seem like a subject that screams out a need for a documentary but, hey, whatthehell. Mostly what I remember from the Torborg era was that he became NYM manager just as the Mets/WFAN partnership was reaching its pinnacle. To take advantage of that symbiotic relationship an arrangement was struck where Jeff would appear on the station for a manager chat Every Day (around 3 PM IIRC). I think it was Lupica who quickly dubbed him 'Jeff from Flushing' for the fact that even the most frequent fan callers to FAN weren't getting as much air time as he did. And not that hearing from the manager is a bad thing but I think all parties eventually realized that this was too much of what was intended to be a good thing and I don't believe it was renewed for year #2.
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