Edgy MD

Rojas pulled a Jerry Manuel and went to his hot hand one time too many.

Could Villar hit a ball any further?

=bmfc1 post_id=73540 time=1628188193 user_id=73] For someone who likes to swing a lot, Dom was awfully passive during that AB.

Richard was terrific. I've mentioned this before, but he was one of only four players to be honored by Bob Murphy by seemingly always being referred to by three names. In one of those "athlete knows his body" stories, he'd remove himself from a game when he was pitching brilliantly. Like deGrom, nobody would be touching him, but he knew something was wrong. But being a big black dude back in the day, he didn't get a lot of compassion. A lot of egg ended up on a lot of his critics faces when he suffered a mid-career stroke. He tried to return in 1982 and 1983 but was never close to the same, and the Astros were terrified of using him in a game, not leastwise because his vision was so blurred that there was no confidence he could respond if a liner came back at him. He never fully recovered mentally, either, and went through a bout of homelessness, before former teammates tried to reach a hand out. He amazingly only made one All-Star Game, and that was in his final season. It's fair to wonder, had the stroke never happened, if the 1986 Mets get past an Astros team that had him on the roster, even in his mid-30s. He was that good. Nolan Ryan's arm on Dave Winfield's body.

=kcmets post_id=73533 time=1628187506 user_id=53] Rojas was hallucinating an arm tag? It wasn't even close...

Hess is a mess!

Is anybody on this team not taking batting advice from Joey Votto?

I like the stinky faces that Jorge Alfaro keeps making because they're making him play left. After Jackson came up empty on that tag, Jorge looked like he was trying to pass a watermelon.

Four saves for Trevor May!

Angel Hernandez, making a bid for more post-season assignments.

Nuit de merde for Villar.

“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical that it must be an arduous and heroic matter for the man to live up to it." — G.K. Chesterton

It's interesting when the Mets make a defensive replacement in the outfield, they no longer seem to be bumping Nimmo over to a corner spot.

I feel sorry for Pete's chops as much as he's licking them here.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Marlins playing like a last place team finally. How to beat teams restocking with young and unknown players: Force them to use their baseball skills rather than their athletic skills. Get deep into the pen.

Credit the RBI to Nimmo's force field!

You hate to say it, but sometimes Jazz can be too improvisational.

And the Mets take the lead! Now it's gonna be ... May? ... to close?

Nimmo with questionable legs isn't the same guy with the bat, either. But there's an 0-2 hit.

He looks pretty good, too.

Shaved down to 3-2 and our starter out of the game.

That's really living up to you name, there, Pirates.

Nido hit one pretty hardish.

Not at all.

How in the world did Baez get in there? How in the world did Angel Hernandez get that call right?