Edgy MD

The Mets, having taken the first three games of an Easter/Passover weekend, wearing three different uniforms and covered by three different TV booths, head out there looking to step up with a now-rarish four-game thundersweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. Will there be a fourth uniform? Will the announcers launch the old-school WPIX broadcast with a fourth lineup? Who knows?! But then, life is for learning! Former Yankee Clay Holmes takes the mound for the Mets and future Yankee Sonny Gray puts the ball in play for the Cards. Along with the usual Sunday lineup fun, both teams are sitting their regular thirdbaseman, but as a deferential nod to the Great Law of Conservation, the Cards are replacing theirs with another guy named Nolan. [TABLE][TR][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/st-louis-cardinals-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=100]https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ed-Kranepool-Patch.png?resize=50[/FIMG] [FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/new-york-mets-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][/TR] [TR][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]1[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Lars Nootbar (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]lf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Lindor (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]ss[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]2[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Thomas Saggese (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]ss[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Juan Soto (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]rf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]3[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Brendan Donovan (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]2b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Pete Alonso (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]4[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Willson Contreras (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]dh[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]4[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brandon Nimmo (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]lf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]5[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Alec Burleson (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]1b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]5[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Jesse Winker (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]dh[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]6[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Jordan Walker (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]rf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]6[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Luisangel Acuña (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]7[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Nolan Gorman (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]3b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]7[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brett Baty (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]8[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Pedro Pagés (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]c [/TD][TD]=#FF5910]8[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Tyrone Taylor (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]cf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]9[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Victor Scott II (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]cf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]9[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Hayden Senger (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]c [/TD][/TR] [TR][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00][/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Sonny Gray (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]sp[/TD][TD]=#FF5910][/TD][TD]=#002D72]Clay Holmes (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]sp[/TD][/TR][/TABLE] (Font sizes in lineup order and defensive position columns have been elevated in response to the request of d'Kong.)

Because no one actually connected to the player lives there, I declare myself to not be creepy.

As mentioned previously, when my family first moved to Long Island, we had the Ray Sadecki family living five doors down. The house — 230 Princeton Road, Rockville Centre, NY — is still more or less the same color. Zillow estimates its market value at $1,084,700. I don't know if that is before or after the Sadecki factor is applied. [FIMG=625]https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screen-shot-2025-04-20-at-1.11.02-pm.png[/FIMG] Call me, Suzy!

You be Kelly Leak, Francisco. Anything you can get to is yours.

Baseball is always happier with a guy named Lars Nootbar on the field.

Acoonie has secondbasin' skillz.

The Mets go for Cardinal sweepage at home, wearing their third home unis in three days — assuming they keep up the pattern of donning the City Connect togs on Saturday. Matthew Liberatore will be deployed by St. Louis while the Mets go for the Ghost with Kodai Senga. The first something thousand fans will receive a (questionably rendered, to judge by the image) Mr. Met Empire State Building Bobblehead Presented by Citi. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BqYAAeSwu6hn653~/s-l500.jpg>

Righthanded power hitters sometimes like to hack at balls up there. Hank Aaron did. Yogi Berra did. Gary Carter did. Carlos Beltran would go after those from both sides of the plate. It might have been above the strike zone, but it was tee'd up pretty sweet. Kenny Wolf, when he was hitting cleanup for my Halperin Shoes team back in 1980, would murder those pitches. He would drive me in from second, but I had these mixed feelings crossing the plate, unable to shed this moralistic notion that, if he swung at a pitch out of the strike zone, he was playing the game wrong, and by failing to discriminate the pitch correctly and lay off, he had failed, even if he had been handsomely rewarded. I had denied myself the joy of scoring standing up on a well-struck ball flying moonward.

Homeruns by an MLB Shortstop 1) Cal Ripken Jr.: 353 2) Alex Rodriguez: 345 3) Ernie Banks: 298 4) Miguel Tejada: 285 　[MetsBlue]Francisco Lindor Projected to End of Season: 265.05[/MetsBlue] 5) Derek Jeter: 260 6) Francisco Lindor: 250 　[MetsOrange]Francisco Lindor at Start of Season: 248[/MetsOrange] [MetsBlue]　Corey Seagar Projected to End of Season: 235.11[/MetsBlue] 7) Jimmy Rollins: 231 8) Troy Tulowitzki: 225 9) Vern Stephens: 214 10) Corey Seager: 204 Earlier reporting suggested that Francisco passed former Met José Valentín in homers by a shortstop, but this list includes homers hit only as a shorstop, which knocks José back to 17th on the list, with 173.

Frayed Knot wrote: I don't recall Gary missing tonight's game being discussed during lThursday's telecast. If it were a planned/Passover kind of thing you think it would have been mentioned. And they would have a backup sideline person — Margaux or Eamon McIneny or somebody — ready to fire.

Poor Gelbsy. Philosophically, I prefer mining the radio booth for your backup play-by-play guy, but I suspect that isn't an option, as those guys are not SNY employees. Also, Michelle Margaux didn't get the call as backup sideliner.

Attendance: 39,627 Time of Game: 2:43

Friday. Night. Special.

The Brazoban-for-Closer movement gets some cold water thrown on it.

Luis Torrens is the hero! Odd how Arrenado didn't get anywhere near that.

I dunno how this is gonna break, but my heart says out.

We may end up needing a hero tonight — quite possibly a walkoff hero.

Big Winkie plate appearance coming. (Or, possibly, a big Marte plate appearance coming. Back after this.)

Kranick is becoming a folk hero.

That was a great leap by Scott on that homer, but nobody pulls back balls in left field at Citi because of that railing fence. You are more likely to injure your wrist with a jump like that.

If this doesn't turn into an all-purpose Boyhood Homes of the Mets or Places Mets Have Lived thread, I will be steeply disappointed.

Armed with David Peterson and a newly productive Baty/Vientos duo, the Mets return to the fray against the Cardinals. Tonight is Brandon Nimmo Hoodie Jersey presented by Invesco QQQ Night, so get to the park early and claim your pullover. [FIMG=500]https://fanatics.frgimages.com/new-york-mets/mens-brandon-nimmo-royal-new-york-mets-fastball-player-name-and-number-pullover-hoodie_ss5_p-201268699+pv-1+u-nacr3esfvvfe7seges86+v-bqlr476si1whpy2fqxj9.jpg?_hv=2&w=900[/FIMG] And hey, look! Another exciting gate attraction is that Victor Scott II has been elevated from batting ninth to batting leadoff. What better way to show the world you're just throwing stuff against the wall and hoping for the best? [TABLE][TR][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/st-louis-cardinals-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=100]https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ed-Kranepool-Patch.png?resize=50[/FIMG] [FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/new-york-mets-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][/TR] [TR][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]1[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Victor Scott II (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]lf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Lindor (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]ss[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]2[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Luken Baker (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]dh[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Juan Soto (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]rf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]3[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Willson Contreras (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]1b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Pete Alonso (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]4[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Nolan Arenado (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]3b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]4[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Jesse Winker (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]dh[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]5[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Brendan Donovan (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]2b[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]5[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Mark Vientos (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]6[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Jordan Walker (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]rf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]6[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brandon Nimmo (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]lf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]7[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Thomas Saggese (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]ss[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]7[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Luis Torrens (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]c[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]8[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Pedro Pagés (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]c [/TD][TD]=#FF5910]8[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brett Baty (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00]9[/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Michael Siani (L)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]cf[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]9[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Tyrone Taylor (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]cf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FEDB00][/TD][TD]=#C41E3A]Miles Mikolas (R)[/TD][TD]=#0C2340]sp[/TD][TD]=#FF5910][/TD][TD]=#002D72]David Peterson (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]sp[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Amazing how he has to first find his slider control, then his fastball control, and then his velocity ticks up and his slider finds its bite. He'd still be a pretty magical pitcher if he could just work out in the bullpen whatever he has to work out during his first two batters.

Diaz niads a new song.

Always funny to see Stubby Clapp positioned over there in Pete Alonso's shadow.