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IGT, 4/15/2009 vs. San Diego

Edgy DC Apr 15 2009 09:59 AM

Ollie matches up with Kevin Correja tonight, with a Jackie Robinson Day that includes the dedication of the rotunda. Here's hoping Butch Huskey, Cliff Floyd, Roger McDowell, and Ron Hodges will be in attendance. A biggish story tonight is the debut start of Gary Sheffield (and Alex Cora and Ramon Castro, for all I know), despite the presence of a righthanded pitching opponent. This may be related to the celebrations of the day, as Marlon Anderson's DFA makes Sheffield the last African American born in the fifty states (though it's not like Afro-Caribbeans aren't inheritors of Robinson's legacy also). Look for (but hope against) players taking egregious advantage of the one-day waiver on the retirement of number 42. My thinking remains that one and only one player --- the one who most embodies Robinson's legacy of courage, persistence... um, hygiene? --- should be selected by his team to wear the number for the day each year. And he can only wear it once.

TransMonk Apr 15 2009 12:39 PM

Is it to early to start questioning Jerry? One of the things I really liked about him last year is that he was anti-Willie as far as playing the "hot hand" and FWIW the Mets won a bunch of games last season while he was doing it. This season he has been annoying, if not questionable, in his mathcing up of lefty vs. righty with the bullpen. And now this Sheffield start...why? Sheffield's starting lineup debut should wait for a game against a lefty pitcher, preferably not after an off day and not when Church has been hitting consistently at the plate. This makes no sense to me. I wonder if this has anything to do with the looming #500? I doubt it, but him getting the start tonight blows my mind.

metirish Apr 15 2009 12:41 PM

What I don't like is that it was announced last week that Sheffield would start tonight...why announce that then?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 15 2009 12:56 PM

I forget where I read speculation that he actually wouldn't start tonight. In general my understanding is that Jerry's one of those guys who more or less plays the early games with a different outlook than he would later in the year. He's every much about trying things and tinkering. It's frustrating to see that happen while the team isn't playing well though. There hasn't been real clicking yet

metirish Apr 15 2009 01:00 PM

I'd put Castillo hitting second just to shake things up .

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 15 2009 03:56 PM

Lineups posted Hairston Eckstein Giles Goinzalez Headley Kouzmanoff Hundley Rodriguez Correia Reyes Muffy Wright Delgado Beltran Sheff RF Schnied Castillo Ollie

TransMonk Apr 15 2009 03:58 PM

FWIW, Church makes a great lefthanded bat off the bench.

G-Fafif Apr 15 2009 04:02 PM

Hurrah, Jody Gerut is sitting!

metsmarathon Apr 15 2009 05:20 PM

murphy...!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 15 2009 05:22 PM

Yeah, Muffy is an awful fielder. But we put 'em aside in the first, even the walk didn't come easy, and it's time to hit.

metsmarathon Apr 15 2009 05:32 PM

is it me, or does david look really uncomfortable at the plate, setting up prior to each pitch?

Ashie62 Apr 15 2009 05:32 PM

Please! Enough of Jackie Robinson and the dadgum rotunda..We already know who he is and he never played for the Mets Fred.

Ashie62 Apr 15 2009 05:33 PM

metsmarathon wrote: is it me, or does david look really uncomfortable at the plate, setting up prior to each pitch? Yup..you are most correct..he has developed an uppercut and goten away from going the other way. Murphy may be the better 2 strike hitter in time

TransMonk Apr 15 2009 05:40 PM

Ollie looks slightly better today. We need some runs...I'm actually going against everything that brain is telling me and am rooting hard for Sheff to do well.

metsmarathon Apr 15 2009 06:00 PM

well, i meant wrights getting in teh batters box routine. it seems different to me.

metirish Apr 15 2009 06:22 PM

Jesus , can the Mets get some hits here?

metsguyinmichigan Apr 15 2009 06:23 PM

Joe Morgan forgets that the point of an interview is to ask a question, then wait for an answer. Joe thinks he is supposed to ask the question, then tell people what he thinks. Poor Rachael Robinson. Joe also says "the jury is still out" on the new park. By game 2? Ya think?

metsguyinmichigan Apr 15 2009 06:32 PM

Sure would have liked to have seen Ryan Church up in that situation with the bases loaded. Sheff gets in a run, but the double play is a killer.

metirish Apr 15 2009 06:44 PM

What the fuck was that from Murphy?

Kong76 Apr 15 2009 07:36 PM

An rbi pop fly to right. I don't know what irish meant but it just lined up this way in a dead IGT later in the 7th.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 15 2009 07:37 PM

Wow, Padres can't field worth crap.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 15 2009 07:38 PM

Reyes just scored from first on a wild pitch!

Frayed Knot Apr 15 2009 07:43 PM

In the ranks of fielding Hundleys, this dude finishes well behind Todd & Randy. Even before that last inning clusterfuck he had boxed around a bunch of pitches.

Kong76 Apr 15 2009 07:47 PM

A62: Please! Enough of Jackie Robinson and the dadgum rotunda..We already know who he is and he never played for the Mets Fred <<< It will wear off in a few days. I really don't get why it has some people so riled up. I also don't get the whole Brooklyn Fred hate thing either. I could probably come up with five better reasons to dislike the Wilpons but this is an IGT and the Mets are up 6-1.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 15 2009 07:52 PM

Great upper deck KABOOM for Delgado!

RealityChuck Apr 15 2009 07:52 PM

Why does the ESPN game log show the Padres with four outs in the 8th inning?

Swan Swan H Apr 15 2009 07:57 PM

I blame Joe Morgan.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 15 2009 08:04 PM

Some moron threw the homer back! I hat that crap.

themetfairy Apr 15 2009 08:13 PM

Put it in the books!

metirish Apr 16 2009 07:23 AM

Kong76 wrote: An rbi pop fly to right. I don't know what irish meant but it just lined up this way in a dead IGT later in the 7th. A quite IGT . I was talking about Murphy's "cut off" throw that went to Reyes and not Wright.......

Edgy DC Apr 16 2009 07:35 AM

I was stuck out last night.

Frayed Knot Apr 16 2009 07:36 AM

I think Murphy decided that it was best to throw on the run rather than set himself and that if he was going to do that then the longer throw to Wright was out of the question, so he went to Reyes instead. I'm not saying it was the right decision but I think it's what he was thinking. Oddly, that was about the only explanation that did NOT occur to Keith & Ron as they certainly tossed out enough other theories. Then, lost in the whole 'dumbth' of Murphy's play, was how bad of a relay Jose made. Maybe he was so surprised to get it that he never got a good grip on the ball but you can't be three-hopping a throw from deep SS. An even semi-good toss and that guy was dead meat.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 16 2009 07:36 AM

I was out running and listening on the radio. Edit -- Yes, Reyes made a poor throw, but he hadn't expected it, had to short hop it, and then had trpouble making the quick transition. I thought the runner was meat too.

metirish Apr 16 2009 07:42 AM

I thought Keith was spot on when showing how Wright had set himself up for the cut off throw he was expecting. Was that just a bad play by Murphy or lack of baseball instincts?

Frayed Knot Apr 16 2009 08:03 AM

metirish wrote: I thought Keith was spot on when showing how Wright had set himself up for the cut off throw he was expecting. Was that just a bad play by Murphy or lack of baseball instincts? Bad play caused by lack of instincts - at least lack of outfielder instincts. Murphy fielded the ball on the run and figured that getting rid of it quickly was more important than setting and throwing. Wrong! That works for 100 ft throws across the diamond but not 200 ft throws. His job there is to get the ball to the cut-off man inside the basepath - Wright in this case - so that he can decide what to do with it and so that the 2nd throw, if made, is the shorter and (hopefully) more accurate one. There's no reason for an OFer to go to the first cut-off man (outside the basepath) unless he had a go back for a ball to the point where he'd have trouble reaching the inner infield.

metirish Apr 16 2009 08:25 AM

I really hope that these misplays by Murphy won't have a cumulative effect where he starts thinking about them and is going out the the field with that on his mind. He looked lost in the dugout after that play last night.

Edgy DC Apr 16 2009 08:28 AM

I guess thinking "quick release" was him displaying infielder's instincts as an outfielder.