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Esky has a little hitch in his swing.

Come on, here.

Tempted to pinch-run here. Tempted, but ...

I was thinking that hitting to right, where Betts was struggling with the sun, may have been the best bet. Silly, but it worked. TIE GAME!!!

Six more outs. Totally within reach.

Schimmo took some trauma on the hand there. I know that guys with hurting hands can still run, but then there's sliding.

shmugly swing for strike there, Escobar.

Urias pulled. Good chance here to jump in and turn this game around, get Williams a win.

WOW! Gets Turner to chase despite the Dodgers being the least chasiest of teams. And yeah, Trevor Williams is for real.

Big at-bat here for Trea Toiner, first and third and two outs.

Escobar just threw Justin Turner out from Chinatown.

Nimmo gilding his glove this inning.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Luis Castillo goes against the Nats today. For fun, let's test my "We'd do better on this road trip if Williams was a long believer and Castillo was our starter" theory The experts are saying that there are way better suitors for Castillo than the Mets because Castillo will likely be the most desirable player available at the trading deadline and the Mets dont have the prospects other teams do that it will take to get Castillo. Which experts?

Nah. Just a layout dork.

We have a change in the homerun top 10, and Kingman is back in play. It's kind of appropriate, as Kong used to pile up homers during west coast trips too. Career Homers as a Met 1) Darryl Strawberry: 252 2) David Wright: 242 3) Mike Piazza: 220 4) Howard Johnson: 192 5) Dave Kingman: 154 Pete Alonso Projected to End of Season:153.13 6) Carlos Beltran: 149 7) Michael Conforto: 132 8) Lucas Duda: 125 9) Todd Hundley: 124 t10)Pete Alonso: 122 t10) Kevin McReynolds: 122 11) Edgardo Alfonzo: 120 12) Ed Kranepool: 118 13) Jose Reyes: 108 =#FF5910]Pete Alonso at Start of Season: 106 14) Carlos Delgado: 104 15) Pete Alonso: 101 16) George Foster: 99 T17) Curtis Granderson: 95 T17) Bobby Bonilla: 95 19) John Milner: 94 20) Cleon Jones: 93

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Figured out one: George Brett and Frank White. Jim Gantner, man. Who knew?

An interesting unintentional outcome of recognizing Negro League service as Major League service is that many players who had previously been understood as single-MLB-franchise players no longer so qualify.

Fuckin' Dodgers. I had no idea!

Belanger and Palmer. BAM!

Bench and Concepción. OE: Not quite.

Bombinic.

I hand traced with Gimp — a free alternative to PhotoShop.

Holderman gets credited as winning pitcher, despite getting only one out, and coming out of the game before the end of the fifth. Relievers can earn wins before the 15th out, but starters cannot. Weird. Apart from the weirdness, though, Colin Fucking Holderman is three and fucking oh in his big league fucking career.

C.B. Bucknor is no rookie, either.