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Fair enough. I guess if the game goes 26 innings or if Zamora gets run over by the bullpen cart or whatever. 85 Seth Lugo 75 Justin Wilson 50 Walker Lockett 40 Luis Avilan 25 Paul Sewald 20 Daniel Zamora 10 Brad Brach 5 Jeurys Familia 4 Tyler Bashlor 3 Drew Gagnon 2 Chris Mazza 1 Edwin Diaz

No, they're not allowed in the building at all. They're out on the plaza. And yeah, let's throw Lugo around 85. That sounds right.

=Centerfield post_id=21539 time=1568225629 user_id=65] They should wear the hats.

Okay, I'll play. Justin Wilson is on floor 75. He's been a left-handed, short-timed equivalent of Lugo. I'd let Walker Lockett in on floor 40. He pitched to six batters and got them all out the other night, and he looked strong out of the gate in his start at Wrigley. Maybe his stuff plays to the short gamne better. Avilan has looked good recently. Put him on the 25th floor. Take the Washington game out, and Sewald isn't as bad as the numbers say he is, so he's on floor 15. Daniel Zamora, by benefit of his Seawolfiness, is on the 10th floor to get a lefty out if you've burned Avilan already. The rest of them can sign autographs in the Rotunda during the game; we won't need their services. (Yes, that includes you, Edwin.)

=G-Fafif post_id=21525 time=1568222026 user_id=55] The must wins will present themselves in retrospect. For now, there is no yesterday, there is no tomorrow. One one-game season at a time.

Thing is, the numbers bear that out. Staff ERAs: Rivera 2.25 (small sample size, admittedly) Nido 3.76 Ramos 4.51 Nido's not throwing anybody out (just 2 in 29 attempts), so I don't see how that piece helps Syndergaard, but if guys aren't getting on base as much, I guess that mitigates it a bit. Of course, the fact that Nido's got a .549 OPS in 126 PA probably more than cancels that out. But alas.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Just looking this over reminds me how the Mickey Era Mets are seemingly the most unprepared team in the league, simply not ready to compete till its too late Which is endlessly weird to me, because the guy was an allegedly brilliantly successful pitching coach. I thought this staff would be world-beaters.

=Gwreck post_id=21390 time=1568081911 user_id=56]while having the effect of making Syndergaard look bad in the eyes of the fanbase.

I will give Wilmer a standing O from my living room when he comes up.

This is the weirdest thread.

=dgwphotography post_id=21316 time=1567992208 user_id=78] Give up day =mathematical elimination day

I'm not saying we have to go 21-0 now, but something close to it.

This game feels like a getaway day game - it's like they stopped trying after the top of the fourth.

One at a time. Let's get these fuckers.

I could go either way on this. The Phillies have beaten up Matz this year, but getting guys out the first time through the order has been Matz's bugaboo also. I'd almost be tempted to skip him entirely.

Frayed Knot wrote: Mickey said before today's game that if it was 8-4 he would have left in Lugo but Alonso homered and it was 10-4, so scoring more runs (likely) cost them the game. That, more than anything else, drives me fucking bananas about the overbullpenification of the game in the last twenty years. But tell me that Mickey wouldn't have been getting skewered (here and elsewhere) had he re-ramped up Lugo, following the lengthy 20-30 break for the top of the 9th, in order to have him 'protect' a six run lead and effectively killed him for today's game in the process? No, you're totally right there. He's skewered either way, which is why managing sucks and the media suck more. I'm just saying the whole "as a closer, I can't protect a lead that isn't a save situation" thing is bullshit.

Hmm. Lagares goes big fly and we're tied up.

=bmfc1 post_id=20878 time=1567619417 user_id=73] Mickey said before today's game that if it was 8-4 he would have left in Lugo but Alonso homered and it was 10-4, so scoring more runs (likely) cost them the game.

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=Centerfield post_id=20854 time=1567612955 user_id=65] It occurs to me, that it doesn't even matter. Even if the Mets were to win 15 in a row, grab the second WC, beat the Nats in the one game play in, the Dodgers, Cardinals and Braves would absolutely murder this bullpen in the post season. It would be an annihilation.

Player-wise, this is on Cano and Diaz more than anyone else. And by a lot. And of course everyone at any and every level of management, from the clubhouse crew all the way up through the Wilpons.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: They're going to finish the year a game out of the money, is what they're going to do, and this fucking game will live in infamy They've lost a lot of games, honestly, but the fact that they are 10-18 in games started by deGrom means you can pick however many games they miss the postseason by and then just find them on that list of 18 games. They're five games out right now. Here are five gimmes: 1) Last night 2) Giants 1, Mets 0 on July 19 (seven scoreless for deGrom, Mets get a double and two singles and lose in ten when Jacob Rhame loses on a Dom Smith error in left field) 3) Braves 2, Mets 1 on August 23 (seven for deGrom, one run, but Mets get six hits and Familia gives up a run in the top of the 14th) 4) Reds 1, Mets 0 on May 1 (seven scoreless for deGrom, Mets get two doubles and three singles and Diaz gives up a home run to Jose Iglesias in the top of the ninth) 5) Phillies 7, Mets 2 on July 5 (seven innings, two runs, 10 Ks for deGrom, but an Alonso home run is our only offense and Diaz gives up five in the top of the ninth)

And I actually felt confident that Diaz was going to get out of it, until SNY put up that graphic that said that Suzuki was hitting like 100 points better than the league average with RISP. I thought, "he's going to hit one out here, isn't he?" -- and then the next pitch... ugh.

They're going to win like five in a row to fucking toy with us, those fuckers, aren't they? Argh.

What a crazy-ass game. The one thing I remember about Ali Sanchez from yesterday's game is that he makes Charlie O'Brien look fast. He hit a bouncer up the middle that the second baseman dove, caught, stood up, bobbled, did the hokey pokey, and still threw him out by five steps.