Frayed Knot

Well, the more they schmell the more likely they are to sell.

In the two big NL matchup series this week, the Dodgers took 2 of 3 vs SD after the Pads win 1-0 in Game one. In Game three the Friars got 'Ohtani'd': First pitch of game HR, then tacked on five shutout/3 hit innings from the mound. Dodgers started the series in 2nd place but now lead West by 1.5 And in the Central the Brew Crew just steamrolled the Cubs sweeping the series 3-0 by a combined score of 19-5. Been a bad overall week for Cubs CF PC-A starting with vulgar arguments with a female White Sox fan over the weekend and finished with two brutal errors including turning a single into a Little League 3R HR Brewers now lead the Central by 1.5 over Both the Cubs and, surprisingly, the Cardinals.

That's pretty funny. Of course the Mets have all of four wins [PIT x 2, NYY x 2] vs .500+ clubs but we're near the bottom of the standings while the Yanx are 4th best. The Marlins are finishing up their series with Atlanta tonight with the game just starting (2-0 Braves after two batters) so the Mets will likely be in their Miami hotel before the Marlin players get to their homes. A Marlin loss would vault the Mets ahead of them in the standings (We're Number Four!!!) as the just completed game in DC put those two in a dead heat. ... and now it's 3-Zip/Top-2 as Sandy Alcantara serves up his second tater.

Williams gets the one-inning/four-out save.

Tena pinch hitting. Tena, Tena, Tena .... isn't that an Israeli folk song?

Well, we got to the one rested guy in the pen, but the wind puts him in immediate trouble.

The weather forecast for DC now shows rain starting around 7PM (so the game should be to bed by then) and then rain is in the forecast for every single hour between one hour from now and at lest noon Saturday. It may even go beyond that but that's where my hourly forecast runs out.

Peterson should have thought of that before throwing 28 pitches in the 1st inning ... about 20 of them after 2-out/none-on

And now out of challenges. I don't know if the Mets are dumber than other teams re: ABS challenges (I've seen plenty of dumbpth elsewhere too) but they certainly are dumb.

Rain expected to start right around first pitch and continue pretty much non-stop for the two or three days.

24 runs scored by the Nats in this series [7, 9, 8] 11 of them came with two outs.

Well that pretty much fucks things.

Consecutive two HR days by our 2nd & 3rd hitters and yet ... going 0-2 in those games?

A bit of a rough start for the kid but finished on a upswing and keeps his ERA below double digit territory* thanks to getting an inning ending out on a Benge-to-Senger throw out of a runner. * 4 ER/4-1/3 IP = 8.31

Nats don't have an outfielder tall enough to rob that one!

1,308 -- Zach Thornton

Long night last night (and a bit of a rough one for Luis), day game tomorrow, and probably more familiarity between Senger and Thornton.

So we're told Thornton doesn't give up walks or HRs. Oooops

I always conflated him with Emily Litella, but that speaks to a whole 'nother set of issues.

DC forecast for 6:45 game: 6 PM - Scattered Thunderstorms 7 PM - Thunderstorms 8 PM - Heavy Thunderstorms 9 PM - Rain 100% 10 PM - Rain 100% All that early stuff can always be hit or miss, but 9:00 and later looks pretty problematic.

Nah! We don't do that for mere disagreements. In fact 'We' (meaning us longtime CPF'ers) don't even run this show these days so couldn't even if we wanted to. I just figured you got mad and left but was wondering how you managed to take all your posts with you. There was one guy who did that many moons ago: he's the Avi referred to in my opening post here. He arrived one day (on a forum that preceded the CPF) and managed to make himself very unpopular in a short time (which was more the fault of the haters than him IMO, but whatever). So he shortly just up and left but in doing so he first decided to manually erase every post he had written (far fewer than you) in an apparent effort to disguise the fact that he had ever been there. Didn't quite work though as, unlike in your case, the 'boxes' where his posts had been still existed and still listed 'Avi' as the author but with the contents all erased save for an ellipsis [...] in each which he put there only because the software required that there be something in each post. To this day when some here change their mind on a post just written they'll place an 'Avi wuz here' note on an otherwise blank post (plus the ellipsis of course) or will refer to a deleted post as one that had been Avi'ed. And this all happened back during the latter days of the Clinton administration, but we tend to hang onto stuff around here.

Both Christian Scott and Nolan McLean have had trouble throwing enough strikes lately. Let's hope Thorton isn't even wilder. I know, that was a long way to go for a very mediocre joke, especially coming right on the heels of 'bulk reliever'

Taylor simply didn't see the ball deflect behind him off Morabito's glove. And, even if he did and reacted to it immediately, that's still, at best, a three-run triple rather than a GS so small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Semien's E (should have been two) turned an inning-ending GiDP into a shit show, and Torrens (several occasions) were the much bigger culprits defensively.

3B Kaz Okamoto to the plate: strike one, strike two, ball one [SB so now 2nd & 3rd], Grounds out to 3rd and the Yanx win

Yanx/Jays in a similar position as yesterday: Yanx up by two (5-3), top 9th and the Jays get the first two on with Springer then Vladdy up. But tonight it's Camilio Doval in for the save. G Springer lines if off the pitcher's glove but is thrown out at 1st (now 2nd & 3rd) one out. Vladdy: a long Sac Fly gets a run in but now the Jays are down to their final out lefty swinging Daulton Varsho to the plate: and an infield single makes it 1st & 3rd as Doval is late covering