Frayed Knot

OK so there'll be a minimum of a six run lead heading into the 9th. I'm starting to feel at least slightly confident about the tying run not coming to the plate in top 9 ... but I'm not ruling it out either.

Always fun to see what kind of difference 24 hours and a handful of timely hits can make. Tuesday: =Centerfield post_id=158867 time=1718158274 user_id=65] Yeah. I watched from like the 4th inning on. I think there were two hits. Iglesias erased immediately by a double play. The other was a two out single by Marte. Just a waste of time.

IMpressive!!!

Let's put up a crooked number on this Foie Gras guy.

Nunez K's more in his first two batters (2) than Peterson did in five innings (1).

At least a semi-big hit by JDM. Not that I wasn't grateful for the two runs the Marlins handed us to start this inning. But once you've got those in your pocket and there's still no one out you'd hate for the inning to end with nothing else. Those lack of tack-on runs have helped duel our problems this year including the late inning issues where small leads c/Should have been bigger.

Doing some catch up work here as even in the three game sweep v Washington there were late inning issues and maybe some tissues as well. Game 1, 8-7 final Mets enter the 9th with a three run lead, but the Nats send seven batters to the plate, score twice, and end the game with the tying run on 3rd and winning run(s) on 1st and at the plate. Game 2, 6-3 final A run in top 9 gives the Mets a three run lead. But here six Nat batters notch one run and the game ends with tying runs on 1st & 2nd Game 3, 9-1 Finally a breather as a six-run NYM 6th puts the game into cruise control

Toronto breaks up part of the nepo-baby contingent on their team by trading Cavan Biggio to the Dodgers for relief help. The Jays had recently designated the slumping Biggio for assignment so a deal doesn't come as a surprise and, as they languish in 4th place, speculation centers on whether either Bo Bichette and Vladdy Jr ends the season where they started.

Because the question had already been answered so I decided to make a joke instead.

=MFS62 post_id=158913 time=1718218073 user_id=60] Please do. Edgy understood what I meant.

=MFS62 post_id=158905 time=1718211558 user_id=60] Gil Hodges hit 14 career grand slams & was the NL All Time leader in that category at the time of his retirement. What was his frequency?

If those are big shots I need to brush up on my big shots.

Edgy MD wrote: Also, don't trade anybody. Just go out and whoop the Marlins. In the next 35 games (through July 22) the Mets have only two games against a team that currently has a winning record (Yankees). If they can go 22-13 (or better) in those next 35 games, then selling might be off the table. That would bring them right up to .500. I also remember someone here complaining during the losing stretch a few weeks back that we hadn't yet played the Marlins. Well now we have (1-3).

108 RBI for Tabler in his 109 bases loaded PAs!! How many RBIs do the Mets get out of 109 sacks juiced PAs? ... 25, maybe 30? And at least 15 of those are from BBs and/or HBPs. Those are our most reliable run scoring plays. oe: 34 in 69 PA to date this season (4 BB, 2 HBP)* or right about half Tabler's rate SIGN TABLER NOW!!!! * also 3 Sac Flies, so in 60 official ABs w/bases loaded the Mets have managed to knock in 25 runs on 11 hits [.183] seven of them singles

=Centerfield post_id=158863 time=1718156903 user_id=65] Forgot how boring these games are. Holy crap.

And it's starting to look like we're going to lose this game on account of two poor throws. Well, that and the fact that they can't hit their way out of a wet paper bag.

I didn't look but Ventura probably has the fewest overall HRs (294) of those on the above list and still that's well over double Milner's total of 131.

Yup. I had the idea to go as low as 10 GS but the easiest lists to find showed only those 13 players with 16 or more. I think it's likely that we'd find several players with higher rates if more were included.

The thing about that Ventura-as-Piaza stunt during a rain delay in a Subway Series game (just shown during the pitching change break) is that the Yanqui players were aghast that it was going on. That sort of frivolity was not allowed on their side of the fence and not a single player would dare try anything like it.

Yeah, I wanted to stick to elite type GS hitters as I'm sure there's somebody who HR's in what turned out to be his only AB with the bags juiced in his career which would wildly throw off the numbers. oe: I thought of Paciorek too, but it was Tabler who was the bags juiced monster. 109 [1-2-3] PAs with a slash line of: .489/.505/.693 // 1198 but just 2 HRs so less than a 2% GS rate which is probably the best to expect from a guy with just 47 career HRs in 4,000+ PA

* Braves @ Orioles for a three games set, two good teams chasing two teams threatening to run away with things. O's shut 'em out 4-0 * Phils are in Boston for three. Lead 4-1 in the 7th The bigger news is that JT Realmuto is having knee surgery and will miss at least a month * Paul Skenes and the Pirates and in St Loo but it's StL's Miles Mikolas with the no-hitter in the 6th

I was surprised they didn't send Chisolm home on the fly to Nimmo, and the part where he was tagging from 1st was just plain stupid. He seemed quite pleased with himself standing there on 3rd base for a guy who should have already scored twice and then only got home via a bad throw by Vientos.

Triggered by a discussion during one of the recent games where an announcer (I think AJ Pierzynski) mentioned JD Martinez's GS total (8) before adding, 'but he comes up with the bases loaded a lot'. So that got me wondering who made the most of their trips w/bases loaded. Ventura always comes to mind as his total is up there among a bunch of guys who mostly have a bunch more HRs than him. So I took the top 13 all time GS leaders, which translates to 16 GS or more, and compared that to the number of PAs he had with the pillows (as Keith would say) full of teammates. And, yes, I used PAs rather than just ABs to account for all trips to the plate which started with runners all around. So who is the clutchiest GS hitter among the elites? Why it's none other than David Arthur Kingman!!!, who HR'd in a little under one of every ten bases loaded PAs Ventura, as it turns out, was smack in the middle of the pack within the group. GS PA w/123 Pct KINGMAN, DAVE 16 167 9.58% McCOVEY, WILLIE 18 196 9.18% LEE, CARLOS 17 207 8.21% RODRIGUEZ, ALEX 25 310 8.06% GEHRIG, LOU 23 292 7.88% WILLIAMS, TED 17 220 7.73% VENTURA, ROBIN 18 238 7.56% RAMIREZ, MANNY 21 285 7.37% BABE RUTH 16 224 7.14% FOXX, JIMMIE 17 242 7.02% MURRAY, EDDIE 19 302 6.29% AARON, HANK 16 272 5.88% PUJOLS, ALBERT 16 315 5.08% Do I think the results of this 'study' says anything? No, not really. Random variation most likely. Mostly I was just curious.

Define "Til ya Gotta"

=MFS62 post_id=158828 time=1718142386 user_id=60] I hope so. but he wasn't even hitting his weight at Brooklyn.