Edgy MD

MJ fell behind 0-and-2 by chasing two balls well out of the zone. That third pitch should have been nowhere near the plate. But it was, and he lost it, and Bonnie Tyler abides.

Mets keep looking to their next reliever instead of looking for one more out from the guy who is in, and eventually they run out of effective relievers.

And that doesn't work. Glubble.

Toby Myers getting the eighth. This means they are trying to keep either Devin Williams or Luke Weaver out of the game.

Brilliant! Ghost of Davey Johnson in the house!

He does it. PInch-hitting for the pinch-hitter! Get it done, MJ!

Wagaman pinch-hitting against the lefty with first and third and one out. The Marlins switch to a righty. Davey Johnson would double-down and go to Melendez, but in the age of the short bench, it is a rare, rare move to pinch-hit for a pinch-hitter.

Come on! Get back in this thread! Tack-on time!

It's down to a one-run game with the tying run on second, and still seven outs to get.

Should've let him finish the inning. This team has a surfeit of respect for Javier Sanoja.

Minty getting a down-up. Or up-down or whatever they call it.

SAVE by A.J.! Now they just need four more saves in a row.

A.J. getting a game situation his second time out after 13 months off.

Inability to get third outs undoes Wile E. Peralta.

I'm under Vientos.

Here's to 38-pitch innings. They happen, but they've never been more of an anathema than they are in this age of pitch-counting.

Peralta in a hole with no visits available to him.

Marlon Boid was not plussed by no Craig Kimbrel, going .400 / .571 / .400 // .971 in seven plate appearances. But only two of those appearances were as a 2013 Met, when he went 1-for-2 with a single. Correct: Lucas Duda (duan) — 9th inning, tack-on, September 18, 2011 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201109180.shtml Mark Vientos (The Hot Corner) — August 21, 2024, 7th inning, go-ahead https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN202408210.shtml David Wright (Gwreck) — May 3, 2013, 9th inning, game tying https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201305030.shtml Incorrect: Pete Alonso Marlon Boid Jay Bruce Yoenis Cespedes Ike Davis Wilmer Flores Curtis Granderson Daniel Murphy (x2) Brandon Nimmo

Getting 33 pitches out of Meyer is almost as gratifying as the four-run lead. Also, Mendoza's stacking of the lineup with lefties paid off nicely in that inning.

Rally was wounded, but not dead.

Bringing in the infield against Ewing with bases loaded in the first just turned a perfect DP-grounder into a two-run single. And now it's in against Vientos?

God and Rob Manfed willing, there is. Mets mostly stacking their lineup with lefties, but keeping MJ Melendez in reserve. MIAMI Starting Pitcher: Max Meyer RHP 5-0, 2.52 ERA, 68 SO Lineup Xavier Edwards (S) 2B Liam Hicks (L) 1B Otto Lopez (R) SS Kyle Stowers (L) LF Jakob Marsee (L) CF Connor Norby (R) DH Owen Caissie (L) RF Javier Sanoja (R) 3B Joe Mack (L) C METS Starting Pitcher: Freddy Peralta RHP 3-4, 3.52 ERA, 63 SO Lineup Carson Benge (L) RF Bo Bichette (R) SS Juan Soto (L) LF Jared Young (L) DH A.J. Ewing (L) CF Mark Vientos (R) 1B Brett Baty (L) 3B Marcus Semien (R) 2B Luis Torrens (R) C

The way to make teams have to at least make some effort to be competitive is to take away all the protections and rewards they get for not being competitive.

While Yoenis Cespedes hit 76 different homers for the Mets off of 62 different pitchers playing for 18 different teams, he never went deep off of any version of Craig Kimbrel. Arizona (1) Kansas City (1) Pittsburgh (1) Robbie Ray Ian Kennedy J.A. Happ Atlanta (9) Miami (10) San Diego (5) Aaron Blair Adam Conley Andrew Cashner Arodys Vizcaíno Jarred Cosart Brad Hand Chris Martin José Ureña James Shields Edwin Jackson Justin Nicolino Joey Lucchesi John Gant Mike Dunn Kyle Lloyd Luke Jackson Nick Wittgren (x2) San Francisco (5) Michael Soroka Tom Koehler Jake Peavy Mike Foltynewicz Wei-Yin Chen (x2) Jeff Samardzija Williams Pérez Milwaukee (2) Matt Moore Boston (1) Junior Guerra Mike Broadway Matt Barnes Zach Davies Ty Blach Chicago-N (2) New York-A (2) St. Louis (3) Jason Hammel Domingo Germán Adam Wainwright John Lackey Luis Cessa Luke Weaver Cincinnati (2) Philadelphia (16) Michael Wacha Brandon Finnegan Aaron Harang (x2) Texas (1) Michael Lorenzen Aaron Nola (X3) A.J. Griffin Cleveland (2) Adam Loewen Washington (7) Bryan Shaw Adam Morgan (x2) A.J. Cole Cody Anderson Clay Buchholz Drew Storen Colorado (6) Colton Murray Gio Gonzalez (x2) Christian Bergman (x2) Jeremy Hellickson (x3) Joe Blanton Germán Márquez Jerome Williams Max Scherzer Jon Gray Nick Pivetta Stephen Strasburg Tyler Chatwood Vince Velasquez Daniel Murphy already guested. Correct: David Wright (Gwreck) — May 3, 2013, 9th inning, game tying https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201305030.shtml Lucas Duda (duan) — 9th inning, tack-on, September 18, 2011 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201109180.shtml Mark Vientos (The Hot Corner) — August 21, 2024, 7th inning, go-ahead https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN202408210.shtml Incorrect: Pete Alonso Yoenis Cespedes Ike Davis Daniel Murphy (x2) Brandon Nimmo Wilmer Flores Curtis Granderson Jay Bruce

Once and future Mets firstbaseman Jorge Polanco played DH and went 1-2 with a line-drive single, a strikeout, and a run scored in his debut for Binghamton, before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the fifth. He then took the next day off, and if one trip around the bases for a DH means a day and a half off, I imagine this is going to be a long rehab assignment.