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IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

d'Kong76 Jun 27 2014 06:15 AM

NY Mets at Pittsburgh When: 7:05 PM ET, Friday, June 27, 2014 Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania SportsDirect Inc. The Pittsburgh Pirates can move two games above .500 for the first time in 2 1/2 months when they host the New York Mets on Friday night in the second contest of a four-game series. Rookie Gregory Polanco, who homered and had four RBIs in the series opener, has hit safely in 14 of 16 games since he was called up from the minors. "It's a good time for him to be included on our club and he's obviously making a difference since he's been up here," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. Pittsburgh has won five of six and still has nine games remaining against three sub-.500 clubs on its 10-game homestand as it attempts to make up ground in the National League Central. New York also had won five of six and appeared to be turning a corner before dropping its last two games to Oakland and the Pirates. A pair of promising rookie pitchers will square off with New York's Jacob deGrom opposing Pirates right-hander Brandon Cumpton. TV: 7:05 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), ROOT (Pittsburgh) PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Jacob deGrom (1-4, 3.75 ERA) vs. Pirates RH Brandon Cumpton (3-2, 4.93) DeGrom finally broke into the win column in his eighth major-league start, tossing seven scoreless innings of five-hit ball in a 4-0 win at Miami on Saturday. That performance followed the worst outing of deGrom's brief career, when he was shelled for six runs on 12 hits in a 6-2 loss at St. Louis. DeGrom blanked Pittsburgh on five hits over 6 2/3 innings on May 26, a start in which he issued a career-high five walks. Cumpton is also coming off a stellar effort, limiting the Chicago Cubs to two hits over seven scoreless innings on Sunday. It matched the longest outing of the season for the former Georgia Tech product, who has surrendered only one homer in 52 1/3 innings this season. Cumpton also pitched well against deGrom and the Mets in New York last month, giving up two runs (one earned) over seven innings. WALK-OFFS: 1. Pirates CF Andrew McCutchen has six RBIs during a six-game hitting streak. 2. Mets 3B David Wright has hit safely in 10 consecutive games. 3. Pirates 3B Pedro Alvarez collected three hits in the series opener and was 2-for-3 against deGrom last month.

Vic Sage Jun 27 2014 09:54 AM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

When Ike was traded to Pitt, he had an OPS with the Mets of .742. Now, it's down to .735. As for Duda, he had an OPS of .841 before the trade, and now it's down to .828. So neither of them (nor their teams) have benefited much from the trade quite yet, but Duda has still been the more productive hitter overall.

Vic Sage Jun 27 2014 10:02 AM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

I'm hoping to see Nieuenheis in the lineup tonight. Also, with DeGrom pitching, I'd like to see Terry hitting him in the 8th spot again. Something like this: Granderson Murphy Wright Duda Lagares Nieuenheis d'Arnaud DeGrom Tejada

Ceetar Jun 27 2014 01:49 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Granderson-9 Murphy-4 Wright-5 Duda-3 CYoung-7 Lagares-8 Tejada-6 d’Arnaud-2 deGrom-1

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2014 03:24 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Uh oh. Wright scratched with shoulder soreness on way to ny for mri.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 03:46 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Wright told reporters he originally injured his shoulder a few weeks ago sliding headfirst, and then hurt it again twice during Thursday’s game. Revised lineup: 1. Curtis Granderson – RF 2. Ruben Tejada – SS 3. Daniel Murphy – 2B 4. Lucas Duda – 1B 5. Chris Young – LF 6. Eric Campbell – 3B 7. Juan Lagares – CF 8. Travis d’Arnaud – C 9. Jacob deGrom - RHP

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 05:55 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Pirates pull off a 'change of scenery' deal prior to tonight's game with the Angels, swapping one-time closers who had recently lost those positions - sending Jason Grilli to Anaheim in exchange for Ernesto Fieri. Grilli had recently been told the Buccos were handing the closing job to Mark Melancon and Fieri had lost, at least partially, the Angel's closing job to one-time NYM side-armin' Joe Smith

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2014 05:55 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Howzabout that "middle" of the lineup? Duda first-pitch-swinging, no less.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 05:56 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Duda's 2-RBI single past Ike opens the scoring in the 4th and clearly proves that the Mets got the better of the 1B-man swap.

MFS62 Jun 27 2014 06:01 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Climbing up on my soap box. Isn't there ANY communication in this organization? Doesn't the major league team read the reports submitted my their minor league managers? Don't they read the stats? Over the years, I've followed the box scores of my kid, Lagares, and he has hit about 50 points HIGHER when batting in the top half of the order. Climbing down, now. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2014 06:08 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

You have a link to those numbers, MFS? That sounds curious.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2014 06:22 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

And Russell Martin's leg whip on Ruben to stuff the DP bears fruit... with a hit from the #8 slot. Blech.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 06:22 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

And all this because deGrom failed to cover 1st base.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 06:23 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

MFS62 wrote: Climbing up on my soap box. Isn't there ANY communication in this organization? Doesn't the major league team read the reports submitted my their minor league managers? Don't they read the stats? Over the years, I've followed the box scores of my kid, Lagares, and he has hit about 50 points HIGHER when batting in the top half of the order. Climbing down, now. But do you really think that there's a cause and effect thing with lineup position?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2014 06:27 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Frayed Knot wrote: And all this because deGrom failed to cover 1st base. If the look on his punim as he gets ready to bat is any indication, I have a feeling deGrom gets it.

MFS62 Jun 27 2014 06:48 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Frayed Knot wrote: MFS62 wrote: Climbing up on my soap box. Isn't there ANY communication in this organization? Doesn't the major league team read the reports submitted my their minor league managers? Don't they read the stats? Over the years, I've followed the box scores of my kid, Lagares, and he has hit about 50 points HIGHER when batting in the top half of the order. Climbing down, now. But do you really think that there's a cause and effect thing with lineup position? No link, based on reading the boxes. I think when he is up in the order, he realizes his role is to get on base and he concentrates on being selective. When batting lower, he tries to hit for power more, with OBP a secondary consideration. As I said, just an observation, but I exchanged some notes last year with the minor league maven from Mets Inside Pitch and he supported what I had suspected from what he had observed in games. Again, observation only. Later

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 07:00 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

There may well be stats that show him better higher up in the lineup than lower. But that still doesn't mean there's a cause and effect thing going on, particularly since he's just now getting to the point where he's got a full season's worth of ML stats under his belt. I wouldn't base much of a conclusion on that kind of sample size.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 07:07 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

How many times is this shift against Pedro Alvarez going to backfire before we stop using it?

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 07:59 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

I don't know exactly how this one is going to end but, however it does, I don't think I'm going to like it.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:02 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Free Baseball!!

MFS62 Jun 27 2014 08:11 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Free Wilmer Flores. Later

Lefty Specialist Jun 27 2014 08:13 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Night after night, this team leaves itself absolutely no margin for error.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:13 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Our thrown out on the base paths count for today is two (so far anyway).

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:15 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Lefty Specialist wrote: Night after night, this team leaves itself absolutely no margin for error. And that's how you wind up seven games below .500 with a positive (+1) RS/RA ratio

d'Kong76 Jun 27 2014 08:17 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Waste of a review ... seriously?

d'Kong76 Jun 27 2014 08:21 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Drama ... he was ON THE GRASS!!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2014 08:22 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

jesus

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:22 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

I think you can say that Harrison here tried a bit harder to get out of the rundown than did Chris Young earlier. I mean he was four feet out of the baseline, but if you're Tejada you can't assume you're going to get that call.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:24 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Frayed Knot wrote: I don't know exactly how this one is going to end but, however it does, I don't think I'm going to like it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2014 08:26 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Listen to Josh's radio call of this stupid play when you get a chance.

Zvon Jun 27 2014 08:26 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

I missed the last 15 mins and all the drama. Replay looks clearly like the guy was a fish outta water. Ill have to watch this entire inning later. Maybe in a minute or 2.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:27 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Why do I think that a four run loss is at least as likely here as a one run loss?

Zvon Jun 27 2014 08:29 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

I think Mejia is gonna get outta this.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2014 08:30 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Impressive. Still the chance for a balk-off or HBP-off.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:30 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 27 2014 08:31 PM

This is starting to look like it could be a two-Houdini inning! One for Harrison, and one from Mejia.

Zvon Jun 27 2014 08:31 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Oh man. Don't let up Mejia. Make what you just did really count.

d'Kong76 Jun 27 2014 08:32 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Still the chance for a balk-off or HBP-off. OH, snap

Zvon Jun 27 2014 08:32 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Fuckin'A

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2014 08:33 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

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Lefty Specialist Jun 27 2014 08:35 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Future Me is in the hospital because this team is giving Present Me a heart attack.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:36 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Well, if the Mets failed to score out of that situation we'd be saying 'Only the Mets' could pull off something like that. Not always my friends, not always.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2014 08:41 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

So now, after going out meekly in the top of the 11th, we can lose it in a more conventional fashion.

d'Kong76 Jun 27 2014 08:45 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 27 2014 08:51 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: we can lose it in a more conventional fashion. Uplifting thoughts ... LGM

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2014 08:50 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Josh Harrison is my least favorite Beatle.

Zvon Jun 27 2014 08:50 PM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

Curtis couldn't reach that? Or reach for it? Booooooo.

Ashie62 Jun 28 2014 09:23 AM Re: IGT 06/27 Metros at Buccos

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