Frayed Knot

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.

Not sure if you heard it or if it occurred while your feed was in Espanol, but Gary mentioned the issue in reference to yesterday's game. Only some feeds apparently so it sounds like Verizon may be the issue.

Sucking a wee bit less in the bottom half of the inning.

Chances now for both Mauricio and Vientos to show what they can or can't do.

Who your team does or doesn't pick is important. What's mindless, to me, is staring at a TV for three+ hours (the 'pre-draft' part of the coverage is already in progress) hearing guys speculate who Might be picked where followed by the actual draft itself where 32 names are announced over a 180 minute long span. That's the part I don't get. If I did care about the draft I'd flip over between innings of an actual sporting event and read the crawl. I'd get the same info only without having to witness the phony build-up, the awkward bro-hug, or the ridiculous suits.

Mauricio, btw, hit 3 HRs for Syracuse on Tuesday.

Runner's builds are funny sometimes. John Olerud [6' 5"/205] had a similar long, lean build to that of Von Hayes [6' 5"/185], or Cris Collinsworth [6' 5"/192] to bring a football player into the mix. Hayes roamed the OF and stole over 250 bases. Olerud remained anchored at 1B and stole 11 in a longer career. Collinsworth was a schoolboy sprint champion in the state of Florida prior to an eight year career as an NFL wide receiver. And we can talk about who carried around the biggest piano while running all we want. But it took Mo Vaughn so long to round the bases you swear he stopped to play it a couple times.

Cuz what else are ya gonna do on a Thursday night ... watch six hours of Roger Goodell blandly reading off six names per hour and then bro-hug a bunch of guys you've barely heard of?!?!?!?? Winners of one in a row, the Mets look to win a season series for the first time since ... I'm thinking maybe last June although I may have to verify the accuracy of that particular 'fact'. To wit, 'Crash' Christian -- aka: Christian Scott -- makes his first ML appearance since July of 2024. when he made he last of his nine ML starts [0-3; 4.56 ERA; 1.20 WHIP]. He missed the rest of 2024 and all of '25 so his only game action since then is the three starts he made with Syracuse this season. He faces 29 y/o righty Joe Ryan who has allowed just 18 hits in 27.1 innings so far and half those hits came in his one bad outing so far, a 4-inning clunker vs KCR

Staub second tour was definitely slower. But Rusty '72- '75 was only somewhat slow. He had 47 career SBs more than half of them (24) of them during a three year span with Montreal in his age 25 to 27 seasons ['69, '70, '71]

Yeah, even mid-season last year when the Twins were seemingly making everyone available and you figure that Buxton would be a prime candidate to be moved, Buxton publicly announced that he wanted to stay with Minnesota and would not waive his no-trade clause. In the meantime, the Phils just lost (7-2 to the Cubbies) meaning that we and the Phightin's are now TIED for last place in the NL (L)East. It's not much, but it's something.

So not to cast any negative light on things during this joyous occasion, but we're 24 games into the season now and, if you figure that 4.5 R/G per team is the norm for a baseball team, the Mets now have FIVE games where they've scored more than 4.5 R/G [11, 10, 9, 5] and 19 where they've been 4 RS or fewer.