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He better watch out for that 5-year-old Mini-Thor.

Well, it was the first time in a while he looked like vintage Harvey. Good crisp game, as Quintana was on point as well. And glad to see vintage Fammy also.

Can Reed pitch the 9th too?

At the game, and they just showed a guy with a sign saying 'Make Harvey Great Again'.

A good effort wasted. Oh well.

Jeez Louise.

Jeurys, testing my patience again with the leadoff hit. But then he makes Utley look bad, so bygones.

Edgy MD wrote: MLB.tv gave me the Fox telecast last night, but won't give me the ESPN one tonight. Freaking Disney. Consider yourself lucky. You missed Aaron F'n Boone try to imitate Keith's swing. And the Random Baseball Team is doing absolutely nothing against Kershaw.

Can't Loney get here any faster than Tuesday?

Boy, Colon in those '86 racing stripes looks even fatter, if that's possible.

ESPN has chosen their story line. CLAYTON KERSHAW vs some random baseball team whose name seems to elude them.

Wow, everybody should try to hit it to left- there's nobody there.

Well, if he could hit Utley in the dugout, that'd be an ejection worth taking.

Ugh.

So, does this count as: PANIC!!! TRADE FOR A VETERAN 1B NOW!!

Bastardo has been pretty awful this year. I know they were in a bit of a bind pitching-wise, but they need to bury him for a while.

Yeah, someone's getting voted off the island. Please be Eric Campbell.

Can we pay a pitcher from another team to hit him?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Some stuff to chew on regarding a lot of what's been discussed in this thread. http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/13/david-wright-is-living-the-best-case-scenario/ I'll need to digest this a bit more fully when I have some time. This is what I kinda thought was going on. If Wright is making less overall contact -- and he undoubtedly is -- but hitting the ball harder, then he's likely being more selective. Probably with pitches at and near the edges of the plate that he recognizes that he can no longer hit -- at least not as good as he used to. On those pitches, he's just letting them go by, hoping to get the ball instead of strike call. If this is an accurate explanation of what's going on with Wright, then i don't think that he'll be able to sustain his current level of effectiveness -- I'd expect more decline, probably in-season. The reason being that pitchers that haven't yet figured out Wright's new vulnerabilities will find out soon enough and then those pitches at the edges that Wright can't handle will suddenly appear more and more so right over the fat part of the plate where Wright won't be able to take them and hope for a ball call. I hope I'm wrong. Interesting. Certainly explains all those strikeouts looking. And last night, just one hit but that hit left the yard. He's hitting .226, but has a .788 OPS.

That teammate is always Asdrubal Cabrera. It's a tradition of his.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I didn't see Harvey in that welcoming party. I did. He went to give Curtis a high five but missed up and away.

This one's all on Terry. Familia never should have been in. Now he's wasted for tomorrow too. Bad managing.

And Reed gets it done with the DP.

Listened for a bit- it was a terrible recording. Fire those sound techs at WHN.

d'Kong76 wrote: *hint*First two letters are Cal Ripken*/hint* Aaaaaaah. Now I get it. Fine dining.