Edgy MD

Newly signed minor league free agent Josh Zeid made his 2016 debut throwing 6 2/3 scoreless for the B-Mets as the Krabapled the Hartford Yard Goats 8-1. Red-hot Phil Evans went 2-4 with a double and a homer, upping his average to .323. Here's the weird shit, though. Evans was promoted from St. Lucie on April 22. Like, seven weeks ago. In that time, he's played in 29 games and come to the plate 96 times, and ... his next walk will be his first. In the kind of statistical oddity that sometimes happens after a handful of games, but usually disappears a week or so, Evans actually has an on-base percentage that's lower than his batting average. He's hitting .323, but reaching base at .320. In other words, he has a negative isOBP. That's just so very sad. Anyhow, YAY BMETS!

This swinging at the first pitch down four in the ninth is insane.

So, the number of boners the Brewers� middle infield committed on what eventually turned out to be the game-losing play: [*:3sq7nkmt]Villar dropped an utterly catchable liner.[/*:m:3sq7nkmt] [*:3sq7nkmt]He elected not to go throw home. It would have been forsaking the double-play, but the presence of the force and hard-hit ball made it a perfectly sound (if not risk-free) option for preserving the tie.[/*:m:3sq7nkmt] [*:3sq7nkmt]He made a bad feed to second, further undermining the double play (which would have been a cinch had he caught the liner).[/*:m:3sq7nkmt] [*:3sq7nkmt]Second baseman Gennett still could have possibly held the bag while fielding that ball, but failed, and instead had to come off and double back for the force, killing any sliver of a chance remaining for the no-run-scoring double-play.[/*:m:3sq7nkmt] [*:3sq7nkmt]Gennett chased down a runner that was already out.[/*:m:3sq7nkmt] [*:3sq7nkmt]A runner that was safe (Flores) panicked and came off the bag, and Gennett ignored him, allowing a potential insurance run to reach third instead of ending the inning.[/*:m:3sq7nkmt][/list:o:3sq7nkmt] So yeah, if we can continue to hold teams to three hits or fewer over 11 innings, and get their go-ahead runs overturned on appeal, and just hold out until they eventually trip over their own feet and set themselves on fire, we should be good. Sound like a plan?

I'm choosing to like Colby Woodmansee — in part because his last name makes a nice adjective, and in part because when you say "Sun Devils shortstop," I say "Hubie Brooks."

Only the fourth time in team history the team has allowed three or fewer hits in a game that went 11 innings or more. The team is the first Wild Card team with a game-and-a-half lead on the second. They've won three in a row and sit two and a half off the division lead. All sounds pretty good... for a team not playing particularly well.

#3 behind the plate kept throwing Fonzie thumbs up after every pitch. Best save in months for Familia.

I'll tell you, Elvira hasn't moved the whole game.

Now Familia has to pitch with a one-run lead. Crazypants baseball tonight.

Also notable is that, once the play was made at second, the force is lifted off of Flores, but he took off anyshmutz. What the hell?

That's some solid Babe Ruth-level beisbol right there.

One. And yes, I would have sent Cabrera on that popup. To his likely doom, of course, but I'd've sent him.

I might've sent Cabrera just because I don't want to face the three more at bats with the go-ahead run on third. But he broke stride less than half-way to third.

Anudder giftwrapped item for the Mets.

Ceetar wrote: Hyperlocal you-are-old tweet: Mets no. 1 pick Justin Dunn was born in Freeport, but after Nunley's closed. Hyperlocal yes-indeed-you-are tweet: Realizing that Nunley's closed so long ago that you've forgotten that it was, in fact, in Baldwin.

Ex-Brewer for the Mets whiffs the ex-Met for the Brews. YAY! Yay?

Tough return engagement for Kelly J.

On Geico Sports Nite after the game: "Paul Lo Duca Talks Horses." Do we really need that one?

Golly.

Mortality.

Let's introduce the concept of mortality to Thornburg.

And swinging through the high heat.

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Huge homer. Hopefully someday that sort of contact happens with runners on the bases. Not even sure it was in the zone.

Now we're just getting weird.

Anytwitch ... run taken off the board for the Brewskis!