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I think I might rather pitch to Pages than Walker.

Williams digging a well.

They could and probably should pinch-run for Polancky, but Jared Young is the only option. (Unless you want to use Nolan McLean.)

Big ninth inning coming down.

Keith has a disc pinched in his back, giving him some pain and cutting off some function in his leg. He was talking about it yesterday and expects to be fine, but wasn't looking forward to flying, also describing that it was interfering with more everyday stuff like negotiating stairs. So I imagine getting treatment sooner rather than later spared him some difficulty.

But it kind of jibes with the Lunchbucket thesis of propping guys up in the hope that they can figure it out for themselves.

The Cards have gone to the Stanek Well one time too many here.

Five and a third and 92 pitches ... and done. This is not going to be easy lead to hold.

Licky-boom-boom down!

A very head-in-ass day for LIndor.

He got plenty of run support his last start, of course.

He doubled past the thirdbaseman, but it ricocheted off the cutout back toward Winn, so that is ... technically accurate.

Swaggy can't be held down for long. Not against Liberatore.

Gary just stated that the only other Met to get his first Mets win on Opening Day was Johan Santana. He must mean among newcomers or among starters, because I don't think that's true. I'm pretty sure Doug Sisk walked away with his first win on OD 1983 in relief of Seaver.

Weird how they are again shut down by the opposition with a paucity of strikeouts needed. Like it's 1980 or something. The Mets have had some hard hit balls find gloves yesterday and today. No remarkable plays, but solid defense from the Cardinals all around. I might misremember but I think two of the Mets hits yesterday came on soft contact.

Notable that there is no backup designated jock traveling with the team for such situations. It would have been interesting if J.D. Martinez got pressed into emergency service on his first full day on the payroll.

Feel better, Keef.

I know Keith was hurting, but was he expected to head out mid-series, or is Zeile a sudden late addition?

What is the theme of the festival?

Some Sports Illustrated-affiliated outlet (I don't know where reports are coming at me from anymore) told me that the reason this took so long going down is that the Sox were asking for Baty, and while the Mets were turning that down, they were countering by offering Vientos. They apparently split the difference with Luisangel Acuna and Truman Pauley.

All accounts say that he "crushed" the ball, but the pitch was in on his hands a little bit, and he was still able to muscle it about seven feet past the fence. deGrom growing his hair again, though.

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Keith made a Lou Brock reference without a graphic flying across the screen. Sleeping in the booth, or they've moved on.

The real problem is the guys they aren't pitching instead of him. No matter who it is, using the last guy in the pen as the first guy out of the pen isn't a winning play.