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IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids...

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 09:50 AM

Ruh roh. Kris Medlen is 4-0, 1.84 lifetime against the Mets, having made seven starts and ten relief appearances against our boys. Carlos Torres hopes to keep up his fine work in a matchup that, from all appearances, might go scoreless for a while.

G-Fafif Jul 23 2013 01:31 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Eric Young, Jr. – LF Daniel Murphy – 2B David Wright – 3B Marlon Byrd – RF Ike Davis – 1B John Buck – C Juan Lagares – CF Omar Quintanilla – SS Carlos Torres – RHP

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 02:04 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

There you go, Laggy getting the call vs. a righty. (After striking out last night in the ninth on ball four from a righty up by his chin, but there you go.)

G-Fafif Jul 23 2013 02:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Simmons SS Heyward CF JUpton RF Freeman 1B McCann C Gattis LF Uggla 2B CJohnson 3B Medlen P

Frayed Knot Jul 23 2013 02:49 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

28 (under pressure) pitches from Kimbrel last night, do you suppose that burns him for tonight's game? Yeah, me either.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 05:01 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Star Wars night with the Mets. I hope Jason Fry is medicated.

Ashie62 Jul 23 2013 05:09 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

I am calling this a near must win game. The Mets do not have even one 3-4 game swoon to spare if they are to contend for the NL East title...and I believe they can... Now win dammit..

Ashie62 Jul 23 2013 05:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Dang that was fast 0-1

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 05:14 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Yeah, tough, but they're going to point Medlen. POUND.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 05:15 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Not a good start. Simmons leads off with a long ball. Nice play by Q. Settle in Torres.

Ashie62 Jul 23 2013 05:21 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

LAGGY!!!!!!!

Zvon Jul 23 2013 05:22 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Not a great throw by Lags but a nice out. I thought Buck missed with the tag. Replay shows he got him good.

Ashie62 Jul 23 2013 05:33 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Torres has nothing tonight..Who will be the hero in long relief?

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 05:37 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Ashie62 wrote: Torres has nothing tonight..Who will be the hero in long relief? Torres will relieve himself.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 06:02 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

He'll relieve himself, he'll drive in the runs, etc, etc.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 06:25 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Torres is one tuff cookie. Doubt we can get more than 5 innings out of him tho.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 23 2013 06:32 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Back to Vegas, Ike.

Frayed Knot Jul 23 2013 06:52 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, tough, but they're going to point Medlen. POUND. Pounding has yet to commence.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 06:55 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Torres will go out for the 6th. 86 pitches. Dodged a lot of bullets, drove in the only run....oh yea.... SCORE SOME RUNS YOU BUMS!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta tip my hat to Torres.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:02 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Great freakin job Torres. *salute

Nymr83 Jul 23 2013 07:03 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Good effort by Torres... now how about some fucking runs???

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:04 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Pounding time is here.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

My wife just said Medlen looks like a lighter version of the asshole prospect in Trouble with the Curve. I had eliminated that film from memory.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 07:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:07 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Two on no out for BigByrd. Stay out of the DP.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:10 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Man, lucky Medlen. Knock that flat brim off his head.

Fman99 Jul 23 2013 07:10 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

So we need Ike to not hit into a double play, basically.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:11 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Quick, somebody set McDowell's foot on fire.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:11 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Medlens gassed. Knock him outta there! Cripes, another RBI hit robbed. 1st and 3rd, 1 out for Ike.

Fman99 Jul 23 2013 07:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Yeah Ike!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 23 2013 07:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Whoa, Ike saves his job.

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 07:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Ike Davis, professional hitter.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Ike rips a double off the RF wall. WOOT! 2-1 Mets

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:13 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

First low curve I've seen him hit all year I think. Feels like the first curve of any variety.

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 07:14 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Buck can not strand these guys.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:14 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Too bad they don't have a lefthanded contact hitter to send up here. Mike Baxter, I cry out for you.

Fman99 Jul 23 2013 07:15 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Yeah Bucky!

Nymr83 Jul 23 2013 07:15 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Buck You!!!

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 07:15 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Edgy MD wrote: First low curve I've seen him hit all year I think. Feels like the first curve of any variety. Last one he hit was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:15 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Buck getting in on the action. Hit so hard up the middle Ike couldn't score with Byrd.

Frayed Knot Jul 23 2013 07:16 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Swan Swan H wrote: It took me a second to realize that this was Dana Torres and not a picture of just some random athlete Medalin'

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:18 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Hit so hard up the middle Ike couldn't score with Byrd. Come on. Ike's been going bad, but he's not that desperate. This is the pounding of which I speak.

Frayed Knot Jul 23 2013 07:19 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Gary on Carpenter: 'The Braves picked him up on waivers and he's come in and done a nice job for them' Seems like we've heard some version of that sentence a lot over the years concerning the Braves ... Cardinals too.

Fman99 Jul 23 2013 07:20 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Yeah Lagares! Pour it on, boys.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:24 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Frayed Knot wrote: Gary on Carpenter: 'The Braves picked him up on waivers and he's come in and done a nice job for them' Seems like we've heard some version of that sentence a lot over the years concerning the Braves ... Cardinals too. Considering we signed Aardsma as an in-season free agent after a release by the last-place Marlins, and got Young in a DFA trade for a McHugh, I envy no man with regard to finding diamonds on the street.

Kong76 Jul 23 2013 07:37 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Star Wars delay ... I'm dying here.

Kong76 Jul 23 2013 07:40 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Did Chewie sing God Bless America? Now that would be something to see and hear!

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:41 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Star Wars delay was nice, but Keith's whining that kids shouldn't be in the clubhouse because it's a place of work is the great moment of the broadcast. "It's a place of work!" Keep digging, Keith.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 07:42 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Young has a good argument there. But don't be getting tossed.

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 07:44 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Kong76 wrote: Did Chewie sing God Bless America? Now that would be something to see and hear! If he did Twitter would be ablaze with idiots complaining that it was sung by an illegal alien.

Ceetar Jul 23 2013 07:46 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Kong76 wrote: Did Chewie sing God Bless America? Now that would be something to see and hear! Mercifully the Mets don't subject us to that during normal games.

Kong76 Jul 23 2013 07:51 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Mets' pen cruising ... Yoda musta been out there earlier.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 07:51 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

If Young was in center, that ball bounces three times.

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 07:52 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Kong76 wrote: Mets' pen cruising ... Yoda musta been out there earlier. Give runs up you will not.

Ashie62 Jul 23 2013 08:02 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Wrap it up bullpen people...

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 08:03 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

I hope the old man got that tractor beam out if commission, or this is going to be a real short trip.

Kong76 Jul 23 2013 08:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Parnell Pitchin' Pissed ... details at 11

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 08:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Reed Johnson gets the ESPY nomination for "Weak Hack of the Year."

Fman99 Jul 23 2013 08:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

I like it. Bobby looks pissed off about last night's result and he's taking it out on the Braves hitters.

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 08:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

I love when they're talking about what a great bench player Reed Johnson is and he has an utterly hapless at-bat.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 23 2013 08:07 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

But it in the Pooks!

Fman99 Jul 23 2013 08:07 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Edgy MD Jul 23 2013 08:07 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Nice job, Parnell. For a scruffy-looking nerfherder.

Zvon Jul 23 2013 08:08 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

GJ Bobby Pee. Good game. We really need more than a split here. So keep it goin. Take the next 2.

Swan Swan H Jul 23 2013 08:08 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: But it in the Pooks! Fman did that. Once.

Frayed Knot Jul 23 2013 08:31 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

It's usually a good day when your opponent's scoring ends on the 2nd pitch of the game.

Swan Swan H Jul 24 2013 12:41 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

Frayed Knot wrote: It's usually a good day when your opponent's scoring ends on the 2nd pitch of the game. Usually. This is the third time the Mets have allowed a leadoff homer, and that was the only run their opponent scored. They won last night, and they won on August 19, 1998 when Darryl Hamilton, then of the Colorado Rockies, led off with a homer off of Masato Yoshii. That was all they got, and the Mets got two in the fourth to win 2-1. However, on September 2, 1963 Jay Hook gave up a leadoff homer to Pete Rose, and that was it. The Mets were in the process of being shut out by Jim Maloney, and lost a 1-0 heartbreaker. Not sure if either of those were on the second pitch of the game, but close enough. OE: Forgot to credit Mark Simon of ESPN who posted this factoid on his Twitter account. Well, the year and hitter, anyway. The UMDB provided the details.

Frayed Knot Jul 24 2013 02:06 PM Re: IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids

I was thinking, after I wrote that last night, that it would be possible to be down Two-nothing after two pitches and therefore your odds of that game becoming a win ticks down slightly more.