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Mets on their fifth pitcher. I think the intent is to use Diaz in this one.

Brad Hand sighting is nice.

Shall we show them how to do the second/home double-steal again?

Looks like we're going to try and bucket-brigade it through the bullpen all day. Also looks like Brett Baty doesn't have David Wright's popup-catching skillz. McNeil does, and more, though, and the Mets get out of the inning with only one run home.

That's not an entirely unfair thought. That you can still give an audience thrills and suspense with a true-story adventure movie we already was proven by Ron Howard himself with Apollo 13, and subsequently by Ben Affleck with Argo, but that guarantees nothing. And indeed Howard isn't seemingly going for thrills here, instead building a tone that is more like a police procedural, where the viewer satisfaction, I guess, is the reassurance that competent people are in charge and things therefore should work out. I don't watch those shows, and in fact, nothing about my experience of the world in recent times tells me that this is a particularly healthy worldview. And if even scratching just a little below the surface of what Howard is presenting here tells me a story beneath the story that Howard seems to not want to frame — the organization around the rescue effort seems like a clusterfuck. The governor of the region is federally appointed, and he's supposed to be transferred out of the position that week, but he's left in charge so the government has an easy fall-guy. Thai SEAL divers butt up against the foreign volunteers as a point of pride, and the most experienced volunteer is kinda pissed when he finds the kids alive, because he thought he was called in to recover corpses. It's odd, because the world remembers Viggo as the very soul of resolution from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, keeping heart even when Legolas and Gandalf waver, but he's the embodiment of doom and gloom here, basically sucking morale out of everybody he encounters, and the audience too, for my part. When they arrive at a plan, the guys pitching it have no confidence it will work, the governor shrugs, having no better ideas, the SEALS are all, whatever, and the rescue begins, with everybody assuming that even partial success would be a victory. It has the scale of a feature film, but the content mostly suggests made-for-TV fare (only twice as long), and tone is little more than a re-enactment for an educational film. They don't even subtitle most of Thai dialogue. The real story, to me is that the effort was actually three concurrent efforts that had little or no contact depicted in the film. The first is the divers, the main heroes of the film, but the second are engineers and local volunteers who go up on the mountain above the cave to rechannel all the constant rainwater that has been pouring into sinkholes and flooding the caverns below. Lastly come the team of water engineers pumping the caverns out, who don't get any play at all. Their only mention is when someone dismisses how futile their work is because that cave floods completely every year during monsoon season. But they and the workers above the mountain are the ones who bought the rescue divers the time they needed. And the divers seemed to need every second of it. I'm not sure what I missed. Ron Howard is a hit-and-miss director with me, but I usually think of him as a pro. Either he just mailed this one in, or I'm just a robot, which I guess is possible.

What a gift from whoever decided to challenge the call for the Phillies. If Perez had missed the tag, how do you reset the game-play? Clearly he had all the time in the world to re-tag the runner who flew well past the plate, but didn't see the need after getting the out call from blue.

What a gift from whoever put the second/home double-steal in the Phillies' playbook.

Mets enter the hit column on an infield roller by Marte in the fourth. He can run when he wants to.

Chasing Nimmo is bad Nimmo.

Hey, Rhys Hoskins, none out of none umpires would have called that a ball.

Damn. 0/5 with 5 K's and they run Naquin right back out there the next day. I remember Kingman's five-strikeout game and Ryan Thompson's. I think Newsday had a back page that read, "K-K-K-K-KINGMAN!"

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=kcmets post_id=104647 time=1660962411 user_id=53] Marte has two doubles tonight, no? I'm fading, trying to hold out for books.

Joely now has his ERA down in the fours.

I guess they're waiting until after this series to give any of their top players a day off, but Marte looks like he needs a blow.

Suddenly, Ottavino is borrowing Diaz' slider. Did ya see those two?

Two in, kids. That pinch-running assignment for Ruf seems like genius right now.

Naquin is lost in the woods, man. I think the monkey is on him too.

Man, the strike zone seems like a mystery for Bellatti.

Vogie needs to lay one down sooner or later.

Orel can be a real jerk that way. Man, even Marte's fouls are hard tonight.