Frayed Knot

An afternoon game to go for the sweep. Lefties David Peterson and MacKenzie Gore are scheduled to be your starters. Enjoy your IGT. I'll be watching later on via delay.

A bit premature, and still a small sample size, but perhaps a candidate for the 2025 (and beyond) NYM 1st baseman: 2024 June + July stats (not including tonight): Pete Alonso: .242/.320/.445 in 128/147 ABs/PAs Mark Vientos: .270/.320/.513 in 115/125 ABs oe: Age difference = 5 years [25 & 30 this December]. Payroll difference = ?????, but a whole lot!! At the very least it's something to keep an eye on for the remainder of the season.

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Well, so far so good. Now all we need is 7 or 8 more runs in bottom 8 and I'll start to feel this might go our way.

Diekman comes in with a runner on and manages to put his finger in the diek, man.

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Weird base running inning: - Pete advances only from 2nd to 3rd on a double - Alvarez doesn't advance at all from 2nd on a single - then Iglesies scores from 2nd on a ground out

Bunch of soft hits by the Nats here ... but on the run scoring hit: - not a good throw by Taylor - probably should have been cut by Pete who was also out of position on such a short hit - could possibly have been blocked/smothered by Alvarez - and the biggest crime: no backup by Severino

Round 1: Sunday 7PM NYM Picks: #19, 46, 82, 111, 144, and then every 30 picks after that. Subsequent picks on Monday 2 PM and Tuesday 2 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: ... from the Syracuse area (which Gary will remind us of at least twice tonight, also of his hoops prowess) Check!

Things said much more often about baseball these days: 'How is that Not an error?!?'[/i] The Pete "hit" is today's first example.

Nimmo continuing to get good results by swinging when he don't gotta.

If you know the date then you also know the starting time. Last night's game dropped the Nats to four games behind us. Patrick Corbin vs Luis Severino Corbin is big, lefty, from the Syracuse area (which Gary will remind us of at least twice tonight, also of his hoops prowess), dependable ... and really not very good. But he's consistently not very good so he takes the ball every fifth day which in itself is ... well, not very good. He's led the NL in losses each of the last three seasons. And over the last four seasons he's twice led the league in hits allowed (and leads this year too), twice led in ER allowed (leads currently), and once in HRs allowed (is two off the lead this year). So we got that going for us.

I wonder if the planned six man rotation will loosen up the reins on unstated pitch count limits. It's being put in mainly for Senga's benefit and probably for Peterson and Crash Christian too. But if Manaea, Severino, and Quintana are going to make fewer starts maybe those starts will be allowed to last a bit longer if they know that the recovery time will be longer too.

1st to home on two pitches .... This game will probably end at some point. Hope it ends well.

Yanx, whose run to the ASG goes thru Tampa & Baltimore, lose in Tampa tonight. That's now 5-16 in their last 21

I'm not sure this Young guy is a great CF yet like Gary's been saying. He's taken some odd routes tonight but has been able to out-run mmost of his mistakes. Got beat on that gapper by Tyrone though.

Best two teams in the NL matching up this week as the Dodgers visit Philly. Phils, already with a 3.5 G lead for best record, are thumping the visitors 9-1 thru 7

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm pleased with myself that I thought of Tom Paciorek as a Ranger/White Sock. I could have pondered for 17 months straight and wouldn't have come with Tom Paciorek as a Ranger OR a White Sox

That's now 13 scoreless innings vs the Nats this week for Quintana

A bit of an update of a post I wrote in a TWiB Notes thread in mid-June: [The Yanx] pitching has been the unanticipated strength. Last year they rode a CY year from Gerritt Cole to a 4.31 team ERA, good for T-9th among the 30 clubs. This season, played entirely without Cole so far, it's more than a full run lower at 3.26 and best in MLB - Carlos Rodon, awful last year, sub-3.00 this year - Marcus Stroman: sub-3 - rookie Luis Gil was sub-2 until his last start and still has a sub-1 WHIP - Clarke Schmidt, tho recently IL'd, nearly halved his ERA from last year [4.64 to 2.52] - Nestor Cortes dropped more than a full run/G off his [4.97 to 3.68] I said somewhere here that I thought Cole was the most important injury starting the year because of how much the Yanx relied on him to give them a likely win every fifth day and how there was no logical replacement to pick up the slack. Instead, Rodon, Stroman, Gil, and Schmidt combined are as stingy this year and Cole was in his CY campaign last season, so instead of losing him it's more like he's been quadrupled. When I wrote that the Yanx' starters ERA was 3.38 in April and 2.02 in May but then, just as Cole returned from the IL, it ballooned to 5.37 and it's 5.17 so far in July Individually, Rodon was sub-3.00 less than a month ago, now it's 4.45 Stroman went from sub-3.00 to 3.58 Gil from sub-2.00 to 3.27 And now that Cole is off the IL with 4 starts under his belt, his ERA sits at 6.75 And the entire team ERA went from best in both leagues to 9th best in less than a month's time.

McNeal and Stewart in the lineup doesn't warm my cold, cold, heart but I guess it's get the lefties in vs the guy who skunked us last week.

Jake Irvin vs Carlos Quintana Yeah, Irvin is that guy who shut us out on 1 H/1 BB over 8 innings last week in the D of C That was the 7/4 morning game so maybe the NYM bats weren't awake yet. Who knows, we may get at least 2 hits tonight. The guy he faced then was the same one he'll be facing tonight. Q was very good that day as well [7 shutout, 4 H, 3 BB] but then Adrian Houser served up the solo HR in bottom 8 and that was all she wrote. Since we last saw them (way back last week) - former #2 overall pick in the draft (Reds 2016) Nick Senzel was DFA'd. - IF Trey Lipscomb promoted (Can one really ever comb their lips?) - DJ Herz, a lefty who started one of the games we won in the last series, was sent down in favor of RHP Joan Adon (never heard of her). - (sometimes) slugging 1Bman Joey Meneses was sent down to AAA

Only 46 ML ABs, 38 of which came with the Seattle Pilots thus reducing the surviving Pilots by one.

3-0 Sawx is your final. All Sox runs on solo HRs, two by Rafael Devers.