Frayed Knot

A dozen outs for Walker in < 50 pitches.

Zip - Zip thru two

Scoreless thru inning #1 in Atlanta Lefties Max Fried & Ranger Suarez are the opening night headliners.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets only have to go 6 and 11 (a .353 pace) to clinch a playoff spot. They should probably, however, aspire to do a bit better than that. For their psyche (and mine) as much as anything else, especially so after leading the division for 120 of the last 121 days (or whatever it is). As far as I'm concerned, if a team makes the 'post-season' as a WC then immediately gets bounced in the 1st round then they've only "sort of" made the playoffs and in this era of an ever expanding field this only becomes more true. So, yeah, the only 'Magic Number' I care about here is the one that gets us ahead of the Braves. Braves are back home starting tonight following their lengthy west coast swing and the entire remainder of their schedule is against teams in the NL East: PHI x 3; WSH x 3; @PHI x 4; @WSH x 3; NYM x 3; @MIA x 3 Probably not smart to count on a lot of help from the Nats or Fish. The Braves & Phils have so far split their first 12 meetings which is semi- encouraging as most of those games came after June 1 when los Bravos got hot.

If this were an SNY game we'd know whether his parents are still in town and in the stands.

They apparently don't like me.

I'm tired and aren't going to see this one to the end (particularly at this pace) so it would be really nice if they'd blow this open right here. C'mon guys, do it for ME!!

So it now appears that leadoff runners DON'T have to be followed by GiDPs

And, maybe more important than the give Bach run, Cookie has thrown a ton of pitches just to get through two innings.

Vogel's Bach!

Yes. It's all about football of course. There was a huge game of musical chairs among announcers and virtually all the big names changed networks. Don't ask me though the details of who wound up where as I don't seem to find that sort of thing as interesting as many do. Kevin Burkhardt is the new lead FOX football guy and will do this coming Super Bowl.

And the third pathetically hit GiDP of the game shows up just in time to end this shit show. At this point I'm not sure of staying ahead of the Phillies much less the Braves.

Frayed Knot wrote: The highlight of the game for me so far: hearing a set on the radio consisting of: Mavis Staples and Levon Helm singing THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME the Rolling Stones: (This Could Be) THE LAST TIME (different songs) Joe Jackson: ONE MORE TIME And now Marvin's Gaye's WHAT'S GOIN' ON

At least we're excelling at breaking fingers in this series. So, y'know, there's that.

Edgy MD wrote: Homers can be good things, though. Getting one prior to our latest GiDP would have made this game more interesting. Right now it's just window dressing as was Pete's HR last night.

=Gwreck post_id=107368 time=1663206561 user_id=56] Cardinals would be 5 back with a Mets loss tonight. Mets also hold the tiebreaker having won the season series, so it's really a 6 game lead.

How many GiDPs is that this week? I'm thinking 25, but that may be low.

Oh shit! Another lead-off hit!

The highlight of the game for me so far: hearing a set on the radio consisting of: Mavis Staples and Levon Helm singing THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME the Rolling Stones: (This Could Be) THE LAST TIME (different songs) Joe Jackson: ONE MORE TIME yes, I've muted GKR with the idea that listening to music instead might help me stay less frustrated

Frayed Knot wrote: If this next AB isn't a 3R HR -- or at least a 2R double -- we may not win another game the rest of the year. Or an incredibly weak grounder ... that works too!

If this next AB isn't a 3R HR -- or at least a 2R double -- we may not win another game the rest of the year.

What's the pct of weak grounders in this series off NYM bats? 70%? 80?

btw, the Cards are 29 - 11 since the 1st of August and are perfectly capable (starting to border on 'likely') of blowing right past the Mets and sending them into 1st round October purgatory even if we somehow hold onto the NLE lead.

I was wondering when the extremely ill-timed, rally-snuffing GiDP of the night was going to first show its face.

Leadoff batter gets on 1st ... and 8 or 10 pitches later that's where he sits when the inning ends.