Frayed Knot

Yeah, I couldn't tell either.

New rule for ABS challenges: if a batter challenges a pitch which winds up entirely within the strike zone your team loses their ability to challenge for the next week.

Also avoiding line-outs to an infielder.

Sure, just hit your grounders between infielders rather than at them. They've successfully pulled it off several times this inning alone! Not sure why they didn't choose that option earlier in the game.

So the details are: - walking boot - next evaluation at least three weeks away So this smells an awful lot like July at least

A decent (5th) inning for Peralta all things considered: ersatz bunt, a bingle banked off the base, seeing-eye single, walk, weak grounder (run), three-pitch K including a successful ABS challenge. Lots of pitches, but deserved better and limited the damage.

Small sample size obviously, but how about Pitt's Konnor Griffin, all 6' 3" / 222 of him, appearing 7th on that linked running speed list. Of course it helps to be just 20 y/o (today). Think this guy's going to be a menace for years to come?

Yeah I figured it would a tough answer, particularly given the anonymity of the lineup, so I inserted the 'starting ten' to serve as a clue. I looked up his stats because I remember Loenzen being a good hitting pitcher back when it wasn't illegal for pitchers to hit (he last had an AB back in 2021). He hit 7 HRs in just 133 career ABs And since Lorenzen was a former 1st round draft pick (38th overall by the Reds in 2013) I chose the overall 1/1 pick (2016 / Phils) Mickey Moniak* as the party of the other part just to see how the two stacked up and the answer was, rate-wise, kind of similar ... which says much better things about Lorenzen than it does about Moniak even though he's off to the best season of his career so far for a guy who'll turn 28 in a few weeks. * McKenzie Matthew Moniak (aka: emineminem)

Pop Rox* Kwiz: Name the two players from among Colorado's starting ten tonight who own these career stat lines: 147 PAs: .233/.282 /.429 1,441 PA: .247/.286/.457 * Weren't 'Pop Rocks' a candy brand?

Just read where Hardee's is closing dozens of locations nationwide (the one nearest me went under two or three years ago) and that the chain itself is in overall danger. Besides, I don't think Hardee's Jr. has a very good fastball so I'm glad the Mets didn't bring him up.

Yeah, that wasn't intentional ... it just sort of happened.

Fri (7:10): Michael Lorenzen vs Freddy Peralta Sat (4:10): Jose Quintana vs Kodai Senga Sun (1:40): TBD vs Nolan McLean Mets welcome in the not-as-bad-as-they’ve-been-but-still-in last-place Rockies In 2025 the Rox were second from the bottom in RS/G (yes, playing in THAT stadium) barely ahead of 30th place Pittsburgh while also being DFL in RA/G and by a long shot. Their run scoring is better though still sub-par this year but their run prevention dropped from 6.3 RA/G in ’25 to 4.6, only a shade below league average. Veteran Michael Lorenzen, in his first season w/the Rox, goes in the opener On the offensive side, every non-pitcher they’ve used (except backup catcher Brett Sullivan) is under 30 and there aren’t too many familiar names: C - Hunter Goodman 1B - TJ Rumsfield 2B - Eduourd Julien SS - Ezequiel Tovar (can’t forget THAT name) 3B - Kyle Karros … and, yes, son of Eric LF - Jordan Buck CF - Brenton Doyle RF - Troy Johnston DH - Tyler Freeman And the only utility player of note is former 1/1 draft pick (PHI/2016) Mickey Moniak. Now in his third org., he’ll hit for some powah but has trouble keeping his OBA above the .300 level.

Never in doubt.

Oh Huascar, Huascar, Huascar

Now a clean inning here and we can all say it together: Winning Pitcher Huascar Brazoban

Bo knows bases-clearing triples

Even our hits w/RiSP don't score runs. I'd let Benge hit here rather than PH'ing Pham or Torrens.

Well, we've got two ABs to their one so there's that (it's all I got right now).

I warned 'em!

Right now, not so much. I assume Kimbrel is the Mets first man-bun pitcher. Syndergaard used to wear it with a bun sometimes on his non-pitch days but on the mound he always let his freak flag fly.

Thank you for listening.

Don't let them chip away at this lead. Still a decent amount of game to go even though we're already over the two hour mark.

No, it's ten per. The MLB draft allows five minutes and that's also longer than is needed.

Not sure what's up with Scott, but he was clearly not looking any better in the 2nd inning.