Frayed Knot

Saw it like a million years ago (maybe not that many, probably more like 37) but don't remember anything at this point.

Well, they managed three hits today ... so that's an improvement.

Considering we haven't scored six runs total over the last week or so, this comeback isn't looking likely.

Frayed Knot wrote: Two runs and five total baserunners (and counting) with ONE ball leaving the IF OK, two.

Two runs and five total baserunners (and counting) with ONE ball leaving the IF

Frayed Knot wrote: How many Yanqui "hits" this series didn't even leave the IF? Probably close to half with the actual errors mixed in. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

=Gwreck post_id=193064 time=1747618832 user_id=56] I don't want to sound alarming but the Mets haven't had a hit for 4 innings

For all their success so far this season, this staff still walks too damn many guys.

How many Yanqui "hits" this series didn't even leave the IF? Probably close to half with the actual errors mixed in.

Nor do they think it's important to tell us who Ben Rice is hitting for.

=Gwreck post_id=193049 time=1747616947 user_id=56] HP Umpire Adam Hamari (you may remember him from that most ridiculous ejection of Syndergaard in 2016) is having a terrible night behind the plate.

Edgy MD wrote: Glad to see Baty hitting for Marte. Would have been nice to hear about it as well. Ravech told us BaTy was pinch hitting but they didn't say who for. Had other stuff to discuss, I guess.

Braves stomped all over Boston 10 - 4 and took two out of the three game series Nats also beat Baltimore 10 - 4 for the three game sweep Phils beat Skenes and the Buccos 1-0 today and swept that series. Skenes wound up with a CG 3-hitter but two of those hits came in the 5th and the first of those came in to score when Pitt couldn't turn an inning-ending DP Marlins took two fo three from Tampa So it would be real nice if we could take this one tonight and not lose one, one, two, and two games to our division opponents all in one weekend.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: the base salary one year to the next was 350k higher but the Dbacks also offered Flores a $6 million club option (which they turned down). That was probably too much for Fred while he fought off the Madoff charges. Also, the Mets didn't lose Wilmer to Free Agency so much as they made him a FA by non-tendering him with one season of club control remaining. It's not like there was a bidding war where the Mets came up 350K short (850 when the option buyout is figured in). Likely they estimated what he might make in arbitration and chose to pass on that number seeing as how Dom was already on the roster with Pete waiting in the wings as better options.

Alvarado ... Steroids ... Really? I never woulda thunk it!

Braves led 5-0 and 6-2 in Fenway tonight. Then Boston scored two in the 7th, two in the 8th, then a Rafael Devers lead-off/walk-off HR in the 9th for the winner

The one red flag today was Reed Garrett This was his third bad outing in a row with FAR too many walks. 2.1 IP, 1 R, 2 H, 6 BB!! With 8 base runners in 2+ innings it's a minor miracle that he's only given up one run.

=MFS62 post_id=192965 time=1747529336 user_id=60] They lost Wilmer to free agency for a difference of $350,000.

The call might have been a 'gift' (cuz I suspect the runner would have been safe even without the arm hitting the mask) but it was the correct one. The ump doesn't have to make any movement, intentional or otherwise, for it to be interference. Simply the fact that he/his mask Did interfere with Torrens's throwing motion makes it interference.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wilmer = 3 HR, 8 RBI last night And, as Gary pointed out during today's telecast, it moves him past one Keith Hernandez in career HRs (163 - 162)

Brandon Hyde out as Oriole manager. Hired prior to the 2019 season, was 421-492 over 6+ seasons but 192 - 132 in 2023 (1st in AL East) & '24 (2nd). But they were 0-3 and 0-2 in post-season games those years and started this season 15-28 (now 15-29)

He was the longest odds going in, I think. What did a bet to Show pay? And I wonder how many Mets fans placed that bet just for kicks.

Tough to tell if/how much they complained about that as the booth caught up to it kind of late so bitching may have been going on off-camera. I did see the ump pointing to his own head several moments earlier during the first replay but failed to interpret what it meant. Either way, they can carp all they want but there's no appeal on that one. So even if the runner was going to be obviously safe it's still, in effect, that old neighborhood call of, 'Do-Over!!' Well, the pitch itself isn't a do-over but the contact means a dead ball so it negates everything that occurs afterward. oe: Now that I think about it, it's not a dead ball. In a case like this the ump indicates interference (his own in this case but player interference/obstruction would work the same way) then allows the play to continue. Had the Mets gotten the out on the SB attempt despite the jostling of Torrens's arm they can opt to take the result of the play - which of course they would. That the runner was safe is what negated the result and sent the runners back to where they started.

=ashie62 post_id=192936 time=1747511793 user_id=90]Shut up Boone

Edgy MD wrote: Weird stuff to see hundreds of millions invested in these rosters and nobody knows how to slide. What Baty needed there was the fade-away slide (to the mound side of the plate) but I don't think I've seen one of those this century.