Edgy MD

Bichette walks matter. Soto injuries matter more.

It may be a ticky-tack call, but once the Mets make the challenge, the umps in the replay booth have to call what they see.

Amazing that the booth is confused and the DJ plays "What's Goin' On"? I think PCA could have broken contact in between his first hand and trailing hand, or at least the Mets might have convinced themselves of that.

Well, I asked please.

Please try harder. Is there even a joke in there?

Cabrera sure earned the win on that play. Why the fuck people are reacting to his injury by doing the "Seven Nation Army" chant is beyond me.

Because swinging at everything is the way to lose. Vientos just became perhaps the first guy to earn a walk after being down 0-and-3.

Amazing that Cabrera is still out there. Mets swinging at near everything now.

That's what you get for not letting the kid kidcast.

Let the kid call the game, guys.

When dudes don't want to throw a strike, wait for your reward. Cubs doing a better job than the Mets in that regard. Cabrera was afraid to throw strikes to Young and Ewing last inning also, leaving the team to do all their work with two outs.

Patience be a virtue.

Alvarez can't hit into a DP here!

it is actually interesting in that, in this period of low averages and high power, the Mets are recovering (too slowly, yes, but recovering) from early-season hitlessness not by chasing power but by making modestly better contact and raising batting averages. This is mostly characterized by Carson Benge, who has raised his BA for eight weeks, but only recently re-discovered his power stroke. May others follow his lead. I don't know. Maybe this trend is being felt across the league.

I like how the back of the card lets you know he no-hit The Big Red Machine, and the pose on the front suggests he couldn't get Pete Rose's grandmother out.

I think there was some confusion. Ashie likely read a story from yestiddy and thought it referred to today.

Today in 1971, Rick Wise hit two homeruns. While pitching a no-hitter. Against The Big Red Machine — or at least the 1971 version of The Big Red Machine, which was still a pretty potent bunch. Philadelphia Phillies vs Cincinnati Reds Box Score: June 23, 1971 | Baseball-Reference.com Struck out a total of three guys doing it.

And how much of that 22 was entirely contained within The Tyrone Taylor Game?

Backs-against-the-wall teams are great viewing. Anything can go down.

Being as good the last six innings of a game as you are bad the first three innings of the game should be a plus on the whole. Six is greater than three, and later innings should tend to be higher leverage than earlier ones. It also amounts to being more correctable, perhaps with adjustments like the one above. But then there is the offense.

Days off have been some of their most productive days, standings-wise.

Ewing losing traction in that lineup, somehow.

I like that it's two pitchers who came over from NPB at 30 — one in 2023, one in 2024. Both initially prospered but fell on hard times. Both have really struggled of late. If Senga hadn't come a year earlier, they'd probably have some sweet similarity scores. A hundred Cranes on the Mets.

If there has to be openers, let Devin Williams be one of them. It is absurd to save him for situations that arise with increasing rarity. He is regularly missing entire series. He is on a pace to throw 51.19 innings over the course of the season, and when he does get on the mound in a tight spot, he initially seems so rusty for the first several pitches, like he isn't quite sure how he got there. As Steve Gelbs reports: Let's invert some of that usage. Yeah, it will be robbing Peter to pay Paul, to some extent. But it will be getting use out of a guy who tends to be deployed too little too late. A week or two of some regular usage might be nice, and if and when the rotation stabilizes, he can return to the tomato patch. In the meantime, teams with nothing to close don't need to pretend they need a closer. And if they somehow do, and Williams has been rendered unavailable by an appearance as an opener, they've demonstrated they have several late-inning alternatives available. Kooky proposal, I know — but not the kookiest one that has occurred to me in the last 24 hours.

I imagine, if they find the market is where they like, they will do just that.