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Gwreck
Apr 15 2012 11:42 AM

Again, not to step on Monk's streak but...love those first inning runs!

KABOOM for Ike!

Ceetar
Apr 15 2012 11:43 AM
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Gwreck wrote:
Again, not to step on Monk's streak but...love those first inning runs!

KABOOM for Ike!

Mets score before we get up an IGT again? Procrastinators unite!

Gwreck
Apr 15 2012 11:59 AM
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Jeez, Pelfrey.

Gets ahead of Nix 1-2 and then throws three fastballs high, not particularly close to the zone.

Ceetar
Apr 15 2012 12:16 PM
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2-1 through 2. Pelfrey laboring, missing zone with fastballs, floating curves. but hey, the Phillies suck so they can't string together enough bleeders t oscore.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 12:45 PM
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Still, man, so great to see Davis' season finally under way.

PiggiesTomatoes
Apr 15 2012 12:50 PM
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Same Old Tall Glass of Water. Physically, he seems to have all the tools. It's got to be in the head.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 01:01 PM
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Maybe, but mechanical perfection and consistency isn't just born of the mind.

Meanwhile, stop bunting, world.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 01:15 PM
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Pelfrey hanging in there through five. One run allowed and 87 pitches in.

Meanwhile, Wright gets his average up to .600. .600!

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 01:15 PM
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His stealing game, not so much.

PiggiesTomatoes
Apr 15 2012 01:17 PM
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Agreed it's not born of the mind but the mind is necessary to execute once/if the other pieces are in place. There are plenty of examples where athletes of "limited" physical ability produce because of the mind. There are many others where physically "superior" athletes never realize their potential -- generally due to shortcomings north of the shoulders.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 01:34 PM
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Hey, it's Everybody-Wear-42 Day.

PiggiesTomatoes
Apr 15 2012 01:39 PM
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Or, as God tweeted today, "65 years ago today, Jackie Robinson became the Jackie Robinson of being the Jackie Robinson of something."

metsguyinmichigan
Apr 15 2012 01:43 PM
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Dammit. We pay for the wild pitch right there.

metsguyinmichigan
Apr 15 2012 01:44 PM
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Dammit,again.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Apr 15 2012 01:47 PM
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The magnanimous way to describe early returns on the Pagan trade is "inconclusive."

Nymr83
Apr 15 2012 01:55 PM
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Wright smoked that ball right at the guy, he's on fire right now!

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 02:06 PM
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Rube trying to put this game beyond our reach.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 02:08 PM
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Walk to Rollins and it's Hunter Pence with the bags loaded.

Gwreck
Apr 15 2012 02:09 PM
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I have the sick feeling that I'm not going to like how this ends.

metsguyinmichigan
Apr 15 2012 02:12 PM
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Walking in runs sucks.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Apr 15 2012 02:16 PM
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"I'm Acosta. I a-come to a-cost-a you any a-reasonable chance of a comeback."

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2012 02:18 PM
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Real shit effort from Rube today. Careless error, didn't run out a near-fair drive, buncha K's...

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2012 02:18 PM
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It's as though he has no respect for Ron Hodges at all.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2012 02:19 PM
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Ugh the whole team is like, F you, Chuck Taylor.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Apr 15 2012 02:20 PM
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Hey, guys-- the Penguins-Flyers game is hilarious!

PiggiesTomatoes
Apr 15 2012 02:20 PM
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Wow, this inning turned into a CF.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Apr 15 2012 02:23 PM
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Hey, on the plus side, the Met team ERA stays nice and slim!

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2012 02:37 PM
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Let's go Red.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2012 02:42 PM
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Sloppy game, Mets. We deserve a better effort.

Fman99
Apr 15 2012 02:46 PM
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Yeah, BOO to Rotunda day. Eh, we'll get em in Hot Lanta tomorrow.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 02:59 PM
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Not good.

My issue --- and it's always the same --- is that we signed Pelfrey to be a hoss and then lift him after 99 pitches. Wasn't even due up and double-switched or pinch-hit for or nothing.

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 15 2012 03:08 PM
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Oh well, a sweep would have been so nice, but two out of three ain't bad.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 05:07 PM
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Seriously, shmanybody else disappointed by Terry's quick hook on days like today? Do you think he'll let his starters go deeper as the season goes deeper, or does he have Jerry's Disease, believing the Seventh-(Eight-, Ninth)Inning Guy must defend leads in that inning whether he is explicitly needed or not?

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 15 2012 05:35 PM
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Oh, I'm with you. I'm just not convinced it's Jerry's disease. I suspect it may be the overall conventional "wisdom".

Ceetar
Apr 15 2012 05:47 PM
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I think it was more that Pelfrey was kinda laboring at time and it was the "heart" of the lineup and the 4th time through.

I expected him to come out for the 7th though.

Edgy MD
Apr 15 2012 08:14 PM
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Well, at the time, being the period immediately preceding him being yanked, he was laboring at holding the bench down with his ass, since he was lifted before the start of the inning.

The previous inning? Gave up a leadoff hit and got the next three guys.

Bottom 6
Batter: C. Ruiz
Pitch Speed Type Result
1 93 Sinker Ball
2 91 Sinker Foul
3 94 Sinker Ball
4 95 Sinker Ball
5 95 Sinker In play, no out

Carlos Ruiz singles on a line drive to center fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis.

Batter: P. Orr
Pitch Speed Type Result
1 75 Curveball Swinging strike
2 93 Sinker In play, out(s)

Pete Orr flies out softly to left fielder Scott Hairston.

Batter: C. Hamels
Pitch Speed Type Result
1 93 Sinker Missed bunt
2 84 Splitter Foul bunt
3 88 Splitter In play, out(s)

Cole Hamels out on a sacrifice bunt, catcher Mike Nickeas to second baseman Daniel Murphy. Carlos Ruiz to 2nd.

Batter: J. Pierre
Pitch Speed Type Result
1 94 Sinker Called strike
2 93 Sinker In play, out(s)

Juan Pierre grounds out, pitcher Mike Pelfrey to first baseman Ike Davis.

I don't know. A 12-pitch inning (the platonic ideal of pitches in an inning, according to Ron Darling), the last eight going for strikes, still touching 95. Pierre not getting it past the mound. We should all labor that much.

Fman99
Apr 15 2012 08:17 PM
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Yeah, I missed this part of the game, I was napping. But given that sequence I trot his big dumb country ass back out there for another inning.

Ceetar
Apr 15 2012 08:37 PM
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you're right, it was the fourth he was laboring, not the 5th. (and he didn't have problems in the 6th but then I'm not sure _I'd_ have trouble with those guys) Victorino, Rollins and Pence are the actual hitters there, coming up for the 4th time.

Pelfrey all in all pitched pretty well, grounders and settled in. Pitchers get lifted way to early in general when they seem to 'settle in' late in games.

But Ramon Ramirez didn't even really pitch that badly. got victimized by some blooping and some bad jumps by outfielders. And the wild pitch/passed ball.

Manny Acosta on the other hand.. There's something to be said for treating 1-run deficits like 1-run leads, especially when an offense as good as the Mets have. Bring in Rauch there.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2012 09:23 PM
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In retrospect it might have been a good idea to yank Pelfrey before he bunted into a DP the inning prior. Not 4 nothing but what irritates me most about Pelfrey isn't his the struggles to put guys away, necessarily, but the fact that he hardly ever helps himself by hitting, bunting, fielding, holding gfuys on, etc etc etc.

That DP was a big mo killer!

Ceetar
Apr 15 2012 09:34 PM
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
In retrospect it might have been a good idea to yank Pelfrey before he bunted into a DP the inning prior. Not 4 nothing but what irritates me most about Pelfrey isn't his the struggles to put guys away, necessarily, but the fact that he hardly ever helps himself by hitting, bunting, fielding, holding gfuys on, etc etc etc.

That DP was a big mo killer!

indeed. a Wright pickoff too. Think there was something else sloppy in failure toget insurance hits/runs.

Pelfrey has seemingly gotten better with his pickoff move, and hey, he had a double last start. But yeah, that bunt was bad.

This stuff bothers me more than pitch counts. Being able to actually square up a ball for a pitcher and hit it hard can be such a huge advantage. I know it's not "easy" easy, but a couple more swings in the cage a week goes a long way.