Frayed Knot

The Marlins hit three potential GiDP balls here in the 7th inning yet we've turned those three into a total of two outs. Our side, on the other hand, are real good at turning grounders into multiple outs.

Alonso robs Aguilar ... Jesus wept.

Edgy MD wrote: This Pablo Lopey guy is on a roll. It helps that he's only had to retire 5 innings worth of hitters in order to get thru 6 innings thx to GiDPs and other erased runners.

Wow Pablo Cruise was great Now there's a sentence I never expected to read. [FIMG=300]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/411/MI0001411879.jpg?partner=allrovi.com[/FIMG]

Jeter Fans: Jeter is clutch!! --- But the stats say otherwise JF: Jeter's not about stats

The third game of this four-game set sees Jake deGrom return after one missed start to face 24 y/o Pablo [CROSSOUT]Cruise[/CROSSOUT] Lopez already in his third season for Miami The Mets beat Lopez ten days ago although he didn't pitched badly and has just a 2.25 ERA over his three starts. His ERA for the previous 21 starts in his career however is just south of 5.00 Lineups to follow, probably by someone who pays attention to Twitter ... iow, not me.

Check out the LOB "leaders", with Tuesday's games included, and see if one team doesn't stand apart just a wee bit 10th most - LAA 157 T8 - SFG 158 T8 - CHW 158 T6 - LAD 159 T6 - BOS 159 5 - SEA 161 4 - ARZ 162 3 - HOU 163 2 - ATL 166 1st -- NYM ... 206 !! I mean, Shyeet, the gap between the last place Cardinals and the team in 29th is right about the same size but that's only because the Cards missed like 57 games in a row or something. But taking just the 25 teams who have played more or less full schedules (20 to 25 games played) the range in LOB from 25th place to 2nd is 38, but then from 2nd to 1st is 40 Now this is somewhat flawed "analysis" because if you have more baserunners you're going to leave more on even if you are knocking them in at a reasonable rate so you'd really want to do some sort of percentage left on thing which is more complicated than my brain can handle right now. But you'd almost have to intentionally screw up with runners on base in order to leave 200+ of them stranded in just 25 games and to be nearly 25% clear of the field.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I believe the Mets lead MLB in base hits and gotta be up there in OBP Coming into tonight: Hits = 1st BA = 2 OBA = 1 SLG = 11 BB = 5 HBP = 1 But then the kicker: RS/G is below average and only 16th best in MLB despite all those 'firsts' above, and LOB = 1st ... nearly 25% higher than the team in 2nd and more than 40% over league average Alonso is likely the worst offender on the team though hardly the only one

I have no memory of this hitter-turned-pitcher Eibner guy. And so far he's retired as many ML hitters as I have.

Dom gets the closest thing to an RBI 'hit' that this team can muster.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wasting a leadoff triple against a AAAA clown Already 1/6 w/RiSP which is how you turn five XBHs including two HRs and wind up with just three runs. Marlins are 2/4

So there will be a second [CROSSOUT]shooter[/CROSSOUT] pitcher in addition to Oswalt.

You can't stop Dom Smith AND you can't even hope to contain him.

At this time last night the game was probably still in the top of the 2nd.

=kcmets post_id=44112 time=1597786844 user_id=53] I'm on my phone so I can't dig right now but Pete's lack of production with men on base (and risp) has been embarrassing for an all-star.

David Peterson (3-1; 2.91) vs Humberto Majia Mejia has pitched one ML game and it came against the Mets on Aug 7 where he was the starter and allowed just a solo HR to Dom But he lasted just 2-1/3 innings because he needed 67 pitches just to get that far (6 Ks, 2 BBs). That was the game the Mets lost when Wacha gave up the early game 3-Run bomb to Cervelli and we never recovered. Aside from that one game, Mejia has never pitched above A-ball Peterson's last outing was 1 run over 5 IP in what became an 8-2 NYM win over the Nationals

Since the ASB in 2019: .317/.362/.582 Now the problem with getting too carried away with those numbers is that it still isn't a huge sample size -- between the missed games due to Covid and several injuries it adds up to 56 games and even within that those games were broken into smaller segments as he missed a 27 game stretch in late 2019, a 9 game chunk this year, plus of course the longer than normal between season gap. Still, it all adds up to a bit more than 1/3 of a full season's worth of PAs so that slash line with a projected 78 XBHs over a full season (~40.5 2Bs + 37.5 HRs) shows that maybe the old goat has something left in him after all. This news probably doesn't make anyone feel any better about the trade but, considering the start he got off to in '19 and the prospect of looking at 4-1/2 more years of that, it's good news in the short term anyway. Now we just need to get the other half of the booty in that deal to get his ass in gear. Plus, he absoltively Key-Rushed those two balls last night.

And in (just barely) under four hours !!!!

Braves drop two two-run HRs in the 9th on Daniel Hudson and the Nats, the second one a two-out walk-off by Dansby Swanson, to steal a win.

Frayed Knot wrote: Just the fact that this game in still in play is ridiculous. And it's not just in play but I'd say it's in danger! Starting to feel a bit better about this one.

(Justin) Shafer is the one pitcher to have when you're hitting more than one

A leadoff triple for Nimmo and 2-3-4 in the order due up. So I'm guessing about a 10% chance at bringing him in? Just the fact that this game in still in play is ridiculous. And it's not just in play but I'd say it's in danger!

So they mentioned earlier that Alonso has had more RiSP in his PAs than anyone else in MLB (was it 30 or 39?) Well that HR he just hit was his 12th RBI of the season and 4 of those RBIs were himself since that was his 4th HR So with all those bodies on base he's driven in just 8 of them. On a related note, only the Giants have hit into more DPs this season than the Mets.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That has to be one of the worst 3-run innings I've ever seen. They should scored about 10. The problem isn't that they scored only 3 times after bags-loaded/no outs (2.5 is about the norm) ... it's that they scored only one additional run after they cashed in two and still had 2nd & 3rd/no outs even though they tacked on another double. Yeah and add in the dumb baserunning, the stupid managerial challenges that are ineffective (I feel like you should win 90% of those you initiate) the hbps, the walks on both sides, the bad outfielding on both sides. Just awful baseball Here's my solution: Lose a challenge and you lose the right to challenge again for a week! THAT would stop those piddley-ass challenges.

Two innings and a combined Four runs ... 70 minutes.