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IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Kong76 Sep 15 2013 12:07 PM

Jeez, people ... no IGT yet??

Zvon Sep 15 2013 12:17 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Winner always starts the next, as tradition has it. Great stories from Ralph today. He has sounded better. Still, as always, great to hear from him.

Ashie62 Sep 15 2013 12:21 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Fast moving game..0-0 in the fifth.. For the record.. Coghlan 5 Solano 4 Yelich 7 Stanton 9 Ruggiano 8 Morrison 3 Lucas 6 Hill 2 Koehler 1 Young Jr. 7 Lagares 9 Murphy 4 Duda 3 Flores 5 den Dekker 8 d'Arnaud 2 Tejada 6 Gee 1 Ralph Kiner in the booth...

Zvon Sep 15 2013 12:34 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

One of the best Ralph days. Some really nice stories. I like how he said he had a hitting secret he would never divulge, and then without even being prodded he gives it up,lol. Garys going over it now. He told stories I had never heard. Beating his pregnant wife! That don't look right out of context.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 12:38 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

HA! Ruggiano is an idiot who sucks!

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:03 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Shame on you Muffy. That was a weird swing by Flores. The weirdest ever.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 01:27 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

NY Met bats: Making mediocre pitchers look good since April Tejada just put everything he had into one and it almost reached the warning track.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:29 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Hawkins coming on in a 0-0 game. He's been pitching great. I'd really like to win this game. But we know whats gonna happen now, don't we?,... cuz we're Met fans.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:31 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

[bigpurple:ojzvs76o]WOW[/bigpurple:ojzvs76o]

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 01:32 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Interesting game for Murph. Hell, it's been an interesting inning!!!

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:32 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

CRAZY THROW DAN! [bigpurple:7b506p43]GREAT[/bigpurple:7b506p43] TAG FLORES! WTF!? And now Murphy drops the force at second. Bad throw by Flores.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:35 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Come on Hawkins me boy, get out of this.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:36 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Whew. Baseball is one caaaaaaRazy game. Hawkins does get thru that wacky and wild inning.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 01:48 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

I could say that we're at an advantage here as they have the bottom of their order up while we have the middle (3-4-5) of ours due up ... except that with this line-up that doesn't mean anything.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:51 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Frayed Knot wrote: I could say that we're at an advantage here as they have the bottom of their order up while we have the middle (3-4-5) of ours due up ... except that with this line-up that doesn't mean anything. Both teams have been hitting like shit with some pop. There's that. This is the guy I worry about. Our future outfielder Stanton.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 01:51 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

German makes quick work of him. Niiiiiiiice.

Ashie62 Sep 15 2013 02:00 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Zvon wrote: Shame on you Muffy. That was a weird swing by Flores. The weirdest ever. d'Arnaud has a real doozy now and then..

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:00 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

It's encouraging, and sad at the same time, that I have more faith in Brown right now than I do in any other hitter on the roster.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:03 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

You get the opinion that this game could go a few dozen innings without the Mets scoring. And now we have both Tejada AND Quintanilla in the lineup!!

Edgy MD Sep 15 2013 02:13 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

It's like the two teams are conspiring to pay tribute to Justin Turner.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:14 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Frayed Knot wrote: You get the opinion that this game could go a few dozen innings without the Mets scoring. And now we have both Tejada AND Quintanilla in the lineup!! Wow, Q at third and really nice try there on the line single. Q trying to pull a Brooks. The only advantage we have here, and I mean the only, cause both teams offense were dead on arrival, is that we get last licks.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:15 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Was it over when the Germen K-bombed Biscayne Bay? ... Let's hope so.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:16 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Travis has got to be tired. Don't try to hit it out d'. Just slap a double. Or a lead off single. Nice.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:18 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

T sac puts d' on 2nd, one out.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:23 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

I'm surprised they're even pitching to EYII

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:24 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Hellzyea, why not bunt for the single here. That would make sense for a change. Risky but with Young running I'd like the odds. And of course he's swinging away. Two strikes on him now.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:25 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm surprised they're even pitching to EYII Ugh. I thought they'd pitch around him at least. No need, he Ks to end the inning.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:28 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Pitching to ANY Met is not considered dangerous these days.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:44 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

What a great piece of hitting by Danny. He hit the same pitch that Duda took for ball four. I thought that was a strike. Bases juiced, no out. This game is ours.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:47 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

EX-ZACH-LY what we didn't need!

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:48 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

unbelievable. Come on Mets. 2 out now for Travis.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:48 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

The fact that virtually all of our outs for the entire game haven't left the infield makes this inning no surprise at all.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:49 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaababy!

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:51 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Nice to see them jumpin around out there. Turner & Hawkins with the pies! Subguys takes a pie!

Edgy MD Sep 15 2013 02:52 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

That's Tracky filling in for Guys?

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2013 02:54 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Boy that was some display of hitting there -- a rally which consisted of a walk, a seeing eye hit, a walk, two ground-outs too soft to be turned into DPs, and a seeing eye hit.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 02:59 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Frayed Knot wrote: Boy that was some display of hitting there -- a rally which consisted of a walk, a seeing eye hit, a walk, two ground-outs too soft to be turned into DPs, and a seeing eye hit. It was like that with the Fish all game. Gettin them om, pushing them along. But they couldn't plate a run. Baseball is so wacky. The first ground out by Lutz should have been two and we got a break there. The key was Muffys single on a pitchers pitch.

Edgy MD Sep 15 2013 03:03 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Baseball is somewhat less wacky if you square up a pitch a couple of times a game and drive it. What's the record for the longest shutout the Mets have ever notched?

Zvon Sep 15 2013 03:06 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Blah game (it would have been exciting if Young tried a bunt back in that spot), but good ending and some wacky baseball. That insane play by Murphy to throw to third and Flores with the push tag was worth the price of admission.

Edgy MD Sep 15 2013 03:20 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

I went and checked the indispensable UMDB . There was a 12-inning 1-0 win 9/28/1965. Ron Hunt singled home Joe Christopher. Turns out a lot of these wars without weapons happen in late September when I really should be back at school. There was a 15-inning 1-0 win 6/14/1969. Wayne Garrett plated Tommie Agee. Same year, on 8/19/1969, they also pulled off a 14-inning 1-0 shutout over Willie Mays' Giants. Agee did the hitting this time, homering off of a distance-going Juan Marichal. Hunt helped out that day by going 0-6. No shutouts of 12 innings or more were completed thereafter until 6/17/1976. The honors were done, as they tended to be done that summer, by a Dave Kingman homer.

Edgy MD Sep 15 2013 03:41 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

In our search for 12-inning bagels, we move on to the glorious 1980s, and we find a game on July 31, 1983, when the Pirates were blanked by Mike Torrez for eleven before Jesse Orosco grabbed the win. This was one of the two Foster-knocks-in-Mookie-from-second games. A rare spring marathon happened on April 23, 1992, as a 13-inning effort by Bret Saberhagen (9), Paul Gibson (2/3), Jeff Innis (1 1/3), and John Franco was capped in the oddest of manners, as pinch-runner Rodney McCray was sent home on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch of Darryl Boston. (Gibson was really the best you could do for the first guy out of the pen?) What I expect will turn out to be the mother of them all took place the following year, in the midst of the miserable season of 1993. On September 29 (shocking), Bobby Jones labored for 10 innings before yielding to Jeff Innis (3), Goose Gozzo (3 more) and Kenny Greer (really?) for the final frame. The 17-inning marathon of futility was put to rest when Jeff Kent doubled in Eddie Murray.

Zvon Sep 15 2013 04:18 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

That's great stuff Edge. I'm gonna make a card for all of them using their corresponding Topps years. I never would have thought of that.

Edgy MD Sep 15 2013 06:44 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

There's a few more that I didn't get to. And since I searched under "walkoffs" at UMDB, those are only the longest shutouts that they've had at home.

Ashie62 Sep 15 2013 10:12 PM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Dennis Ribant 11 shutout innings....

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2013 07:29 AM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Extra inning shutouts that the Mets didn't lose. The value before the stadium name is the number of innings. 1965-08-14 Houston Astros W 1 0 10 Astrodome 1965-09-28 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 12 Shea Stadium 1965-10-02 Philadelphia Phillies T 0 0 18 Shea Stadium 1966-06-22 St. Louis Cardinals W 2 0 10 Busch Stadium 1967-06-06 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 10 Forbes Field 1968-06-10 Los Angeles Dodgers W 1 0 10 Dodger Stadium 1969-05-28 San Diego Padres W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium 1969-06-04 Los Angeles Dodgers W 1 0 15 Shea Stadium 1969-08-19 San Francisco Giants W 1 0 14 Shea Stadium 1971-04-11 Cincinnati Reds W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium 1972-07-27 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 10 Three Rivers Stadium 1973-08-24 San Francisco Giants W 1 0 10 Shea Stadium 1976-06-17 Los Angeles Dodgers W 1 0 14 Shea Stadium 1982-10-01 Philadelphia Phillies W 1 0 10 Veterans Stadium 1983-07-31 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 12 Shea Stadium 1984-08-17 San Francisco Giants W 2 0 10 Candlestick Park 1985-09-06 Los Angeles Dodgers W 2 0 13 Dodger Stadium 1985-10-01 St. Louis Cardinals W 1 0 11 Busch Stadium 1992-04-23 St. Louis Cardinals W 1 0 13 Shea Stadium 1993-09-29 St. Louis Cardinals W 1 0 17 Shea Stadium 1995-10-01 Atlanta Braves W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium 1998-03-31 Philadelphia Phillies W 1 0 14 Shea Stadium 2001-04-12 Atlanta Braves W 1 0 10 Shea Stadium 2001-07-07 New York Yankees W 3 0 10 Yankee Stadium II 2005-04-13 Houston Astros W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium 2006-05-31 Arizona Diamondbacks W 1 0 13 Shea Stadium 2006-07-26 Chicago Cubs W 1 0 10 Shea Stadium 2010-09-13 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 10 Citi Field 2013-05-07 Chicago White Sox W 1 0 10 Citi Field 2013-09-15 Miami Marlins W 1 0 12 Citi Field

Edgy MD Sep 16 2013 07:44 AM Re: IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

Wow, missed the 18-inning tie. Also in late September. Of the 30 games, seven (23.33%) take place after August. Above average (16.67%), but not such a big percentage after all.