Edgy MD

Well, it's a challenge, but sure you can.

Wow, that guy seemed to have lost 10 years to injuries in there.

Ávilan for closer!!!!

I have to say, there's nobody I feel less secure about seeing up in a big spot these days than Conforto. I mean, I feel better seeing Nido up there. Crazy, right?

Well, yeah, that's hardly a stretch, especially since the president owns Doral and other beloved courses. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/04/golf-tour-pros-survey-donald-trump-hillary-clintonhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/04/golf-tour-pros-survey-donald-trump-hillary-clinton

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Have you noticed how the scorecards yellow with age? Pretty clever, huh? I noticed the different tones, but did not associate it with age. Fantasctical!

I sit corrected.

Fartspurs.

The Mets Three-Homer Club September 3, 1965 Jim Hickman tags future-Met Ray Sadecki in each of his first three at-bats, capping his evening with an eighth-inning single by off of future-Met-on-paper Nelson Briles. Hickman had what had to be the least-intimidating walk-up music ever, approaching the dish to the strains of "Tennessee Waltz" on Jane Jarvitz' organ http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=624&font=1> June 4, 1976 Before getting hurt, Dave Kingman's record home run pace of 1976 was stunning. After the injury, even though he would go on to hit around more 400 homers, he never was the same, always looking at least a little uncomfortable on a ball field. This eight-RBI massacre featured one of the most famous Tommy Lasorda rants ever. The Mets 11-0 victory knocked the Dodgers out of first, a perch from which they would continue to tumble, as The Big Red Machine took the ball and ran with it, winning the division by 10 games and securing their last pennant. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=2335&font=1> June 22, 1980 A dreadful offensive club makes a mid-season move for Claudell Washington, a mid-career outfielder with a name, power, and an awesome arm, but needing a change of environment, as he had declined and become excess on his old team. This made Claudell perhaps the second member of a fraternity (after José Cardenál) that would grow to include Ellis Valentine, Kevin Bass, Bobby Abreu, José Bautista, Richard Hidalgo, and others*. Perhaps all of these hoped the mid-season change of address would help re-vitalize their careers, but none pulled off the trick quite like Claudell, who matched Kingman's feat, smashing three homers against Lasorda's team. Dave Goltz — notably homer prone — gave up the first two, and future Mets pitching coach Charlie Hough surrendered the third. This was also the night a portion of Eight Is Enough was filmed at Dodger Stadium, featuring EIE character Merle "The Pearl" Stockwell making his debut for the Mets, I believe while his wife Susan Bradford Stockwell was going into labor. * Maybe Norichia Aoki if you forget the whole "power" thing. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=2995&font=1> August 5, 1985 at Wrigley Field A day game in August at Wrigley Field? A chance to face Derek Botelho and Ron Meridith? That's just more opportunity than anybody should give Darryl Strawberry. Darryl's first-inning homer came with two on after Botelho walked Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter. It might have been an opportunity for a grand slam, but Wally Backman had been thrown out stealing before Hernandez walked. A ninth-inning single gave Straw a four-for-four afternoon. He had a fifth trip to the plate, but he was walked, which, you know, BOOOOOOO!! September 3, 1985 Twenty years to the date after Jim Hickman established the Mets' Three-Homer Club, Gary Carter went deep thrice at the always-challenging Jack Murphy Stadium. Maybe September 3 is a good chance to catch pitchers making their debuts, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The second Met to join the club that season, Carter was in perhaps his best stretch as a Met, homering five times in two days. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=3816&font=1> August 30, 1999 In perhaps the best offensive game in Mets history, Edgardo Alfonzo's three dongs were part of a 6-for6 day that included the aforementioned dongs, a double, two singles, six runs scored and 5 RBI. The beatdown was so devastating that long-lost MOFo poster SEVENTEEN changed his screen name to THIRTEEN the next day. Making the showing somehow more impressive is that it came in the pitcher-friendly Astrodome. I'm going to guess the 17 runs the Mets scored that day is their all-time Astrodome record. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=6035&font=1> August 15, 2006 In the midst of José Reyes' best season as a Met and the near pennant-winning run of Willie Randolph's first-place team. This was a rarity in that the three blasts came in a losing cause, with Reyes driving in all-four runs in an 11-4 loss at Citizen's Bank Park. Forboding! May 12, 2011 Carlos Beltran found a better place to hit than José Reyes did, and that place is called Coors Field. Even more impressive than his three homers was that they included shots from both sides of the plate, deposited in left, center, and right. It was a good day to bat Willie Harris second (and there's a sentence I imagine I've never typed and never will again) as Voltran garnered six RBI, driving Harris in each time. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=7917&font=1> July 28, 2012 The star-crossed Ike Davis actually topped Reyes' dubious feat, with his three homers adding up to the only runs the Mets would score in a 6-3 loss to the Diamond. The performance nonetheless had some poignancy for Davis, as a celebration and commemoration of Ike's late childhood friend was scheduled to coincide with the trip to Phoenix. Ike had been in the midst of a dreadful season, with his average below .200 most of the season, but his OPS rose from .686 to .726 over the course of the game. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=8143&font=1> July 12, 2015 Despite all the names above, no Met before Kirk Nieuwenhuis had ever joined the Three-Homer Club in front of a home crowd. What made it that much more impressive was the boomarang style his big night came in. Despite a really impressive season in a part-time role the year before, Kirk had gotten off to an anemic start in 2015, actually playing his way off the team. After seeing him go only three-for-his-first-38, the Mets were forced to put Nieuwy and his .257 OPS through waivers, when he was gobbled up by Anaheim and asked to join the Angels in the outfield. I'm not sure, but I believe Mike Trout had been injured. Not doing much better on the West Coast (a .436 OPS through his first two dozen plate appearances), the Angels too put him through waivers, and the Mets grabbed him back. OH, there was much derision! But the last laugh belonged to Met GM Sandy Alderson, as the sixth game following Nieuwenhuis' return was the game of his life, homering in each of his first three trips to the plate in the team's 5-3 win over Arizona. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=8617&font=1> July 29, 2015 Nobody could ever hit three homers in Flushing (or even at Polo Grounds) for the Mets, but once Nieuwenhuis showed it could be done, Lucas Duda was all on board, becoming the second guy to pull it off in 17 days. This evening was also (probably more) famous for Wilmer Flores breaking down on the field after getting wind of the fake news of his being traded to Milwaukee as part of a package for Carlos Gomez. The rest of the Mets learned nothing from Nieuwenhuis, as Duda's homers represented three of only five hits the Mets would garner, with Big Boo being the only Met to cross home plate in the 7-3 loss to San Diego. The team would lose again the next night, and then would come August and the trade the Mets made instead of Carlos Gomez, and holy shit, did they start winning. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=8629&font=1> August 21, 2015 The guy the Mets got instead was Yoenis Cespedes, and he would hit (blast, actually) 17 homers over the final third of the season for them, with this August trio making him the third member of the Three-Timers Club to join in the second half of Fifteen. He also became the second Met to perform the trick in front of a Rockies home crowd. Travis d'Arnaud (who joined the Three-Timers Club this season as a member of the Rays) and Michael Conforto added homers of their own, but Céspedes pimped his custom ride with an additional single, double, and stolen base. He bagged seven RBI on the evening. http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=8649&font=1> July 23, 2019 You hardly need any summary, but perennial All-Star Robinson Canó tenure as a Met had been marked by injury, underperformance, lack of hustle, and regret for the talent lost in the trade that brought him and fellow doghouse dweller Edwin Diaz from Seattle. It's too early to see if that narrative has been turned around, but his three-homer show last night launched the Mets to 5-2 win over San Diego, with Diaz getting the save. (Scorecard Uavailable) Fun Fuckin' Fact: The Mets three-homer club includes one guy at each position. And you don't really have to do much moving around — it's one guy legitmately at each position. Reyes, ss Canó, 2b Céspedes, lf Strawberry, rf Carter, c Duda, 1b Hickman, 3b Nieuwenhuis, cf ???, p Yes, the next club member WILL be a pitcher.

Well, that's the concern. The more he swings, the more he's going to get pitches to chase.

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There's some really sweet subtext to it also.

If I recall correctly, that game featured some memorable post-game comments from Valentine. Something along the lines of, "It's nice to have the Dominican community come out in force today, but hey, if you want to celebrate a great countryman, where have they been all year while Benitez has been pitching his ass off?

Gosh, that was a meaty-looking slider to Tatis.

A Wilsonian effort does not get 14 points.

Seeming to want Canó to get his fourth, Wilson opens the ninth with a walk.

I don't think I've ever actually disliked the Padres. Or even passively. But I'm surprised to say that I may actually dislike this bunch. I almost want to congratulate them.

Am I being wishful or has Rosario taken a step forward defensively the last few weeks?

Goose eggs through three. Vargas has his change working smoothly.

It's also an encroachment of advertisement into fair territory. Yeah, that ship has sailed with ads on the wall, but this represents another level of creep*, and ads on the bases or painted into the outfield grass can easily follow. *It's also another level of obstructed-view seating.

That probably was the edge that Casey needed.

Well, more than most roles in a professional sports career, pitching is ephemeral. Quality pitching even moreso. And with all the drastic steps the powers-that-be are currently taking with regard to manipulating workloads to sustain pitchers' health, I'm not convinced it's been particularly effective.

I'm tempted to say that it's been downhill for him since he blew off practice before the playoffs began, but he had a really strong start against the Cubs, and a decent one in Game Two of the World Series. Obviously, he was terrific in Game Five until he seemingly self-saboutaged. You don't want to glean any sort of causality where it doesn't really belong.I guess it would be more accurate to suggest it was downhill from that point.

Man, Casey's a great subject so I can't be too disappointed. But ARMED FORCE is what you want your layout staff to go for. Such perfect framing, with one of his toes tucked into the bleed corner and the other tucked into the corner above the UPC code. The head is laid in front of the logo, but only screens half of one letter. This allows an illusion that makes his gloved hand really come forward. Even the fonts don't look dated.

Disgusted Howie is good Howie, isn't he? Cohen was disgusted yesterday in discussing how absurd it was that baseball is playing pretty much a full schedule of games at the time of the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. And while he was flabbergasted ("Can't they figure out a way to work it into the schedule?"), there wasn't the same subtext that Howie has that suggests idiots are running the show. You could almost hear his trapped junior partners over the years, thinking, "I totally agree with this guy, but I'm not sure how strongly I can voice that, because I've got none of his juice."