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IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

G-Fafif Aug 23 2014 08:34 AM

Following a brief stint on the dL, deGrom takes on the doDodgers. An hour earlier tonight. Channel 11 in the NY Metropolitan Area. Also, Greinke on the hill made famous by Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, lest their names not come up in the course of the game.

d'Kong76 Aug 23 2014 10:01 AM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

NY Mets at LA Dodgers When: 9:10 PM ET, Saturday, August 23, 2014 Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California SportsDirect Inc. The Los Angeles Dodgers look to continue their dominance against the New York Mets on Saturday when the teams continue a three-game series at Dodger Stadium. New York has lost five straight in Los Angeles and 12 of its last 14 games overall against the Dodgers, who stand 3 1/2 games ahead of San Francisco in the National League West following back-to-back wins. Former Met Justin Turner has been a valuable cog for the Dodgers while batting .380 in 18 games this month. The Mets have been out-homered 118-94 this season, and general manager Sandy Alderson said it's a big reason why his team has fallen 14 games behind Washington in the NL East. “We need to hit more than the opposition,” Alderson told Newsday. “Right now, that’s not happening. That’s in part because we're not hitting enough, and in part because we're giving up too many.” The Dodgers have four players in double figures in home runs, including outfielder Yasiel Puig, who saw his homerless drought reach 77 at-bats in Friday's 6-2 victory. TV: 9:10 p.m. ET, PIX11 (New York), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles) PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Jacob deGrom (6-5, 2.87 ERA) vs. Dodgers RH Zack Greinke (12-8, 2.75) deGrom is set to make his first start since being placed on the disabled list Aug. 8 with right shoulder rotator cuff tendinitis. The 26-year-old has been a pleasant surprise for the Mets while leading all National League rookies with 94 strikeouts. deGrom, who is 6-1 with a 1.82 ERA over his last nine starts, allowed three runs over six innings in a loss to the Dodgers on May 21. Greinke is pitching on two extra days of rest due to a sore elbow that could be a concern for the rest of the season. “It’s something that comes and goes,” Greinke told the Los Angeles Times. “I can’t guarantee it will be good from here on out, but I don’t plan on having issues with it.” The 30-year-old, who is 1-1 with a 2.84 ERA in three career starts against New York, owns a 2.48 ERA in 11 starts this season at Dodger Stadium. WALK-OFFS: 1. The Mets optioned RHP Rafael Montero to Triple-A Las Vegas to make room for deGrom. 2. Los Angeles OF Matt Kemp has hit safely in 21 of 24 games against the Mets since 2010. 3. New York RHP Vic Black has stranded 23 straight inherited runners.

G-Fafif Aug 23 2014 04:34 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

All dem little d's, lined up in one place... Granderson-9 Murphy-4 Wright-5 Duda-3 d'Arnaud-2 Lagares-8 den Dekker-7 Flores-6 deGrom-1

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2014 05:06 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Sandy Alderson wrote: “We need to hit more [Home Runs] than the opposition. Right now, that’s not happening. That’s in part because we're not hitting enough, and in part because we're giving up too many.” Can't argue with that logic.

G-Fafif Aug 23 2014 05:41 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Others... Gordon 2B Crawford LF Gonzalez 1B Kemp RF Ethier CF Arruebarrena SS Butera C Rojas 3B Greinke P

Benjamin Grimm Aug 23 2014 06:26 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

G-Fafif wrote: All dem little d's, lined up in one place... Granderson-9 Murphy-4 Wright-5 Duda-3 d'Arnaud-2 Lagares-8 den Dekker-7 Flores-6 deGrom-1 Maybe Olivia de Havilland can drop by!

Fman99 Aug 23 2014 07:28 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Listening via iPhone/XM/Howie and Josh so I'm likely a batter or two behind.

Fman99 Aug 23 2014 08:07 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

KABOOMAGE for Lagares!

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 08:25 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Yeah, but now two thirds of that lead be lost.

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 08:28 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Wright is getting pretty reliable with regards to the GiDP.

Fman99 Aug 23 2014 08:31 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Wow the Captain is scuffling these days.

themetfairy Aug 23 2014 08:38 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

ShitFuck!

Ashie62 Aug 23 2014 08:39 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

deHair lost the lead...

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 08:43 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Duda likes that curve these days.

themetfairy Aug 23 2014 08:54 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Gotta like deGrom's bounceback inning - the kid is composed.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 23 2014 09:12 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Kind of ironic how Keith Hernandez comments on how much of a shell of his former self Brian Wilson is ... just as David Wright is about to take an at bat.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2014 09:23 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Giving it away ... again!

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 09:23 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Listening to Vin Scully at my end. Bad hometown scoring giving a hit on that one-hopper to Murphy.

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 09:24 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Josh Edgin: fielding disaster.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2014 09:25 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

If you told me at this point that this inning would END at 10-4 I'd sign up for it. I'm fearing it could be considerably worse.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2014 09:27 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

SHaMs looking tired and sloppy. I think David & Molly need to have a Marriage Encounter or something.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2014 09:28 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Fman99 wrote: Wow the Captain is scuffling these days. Scuffling? He'd have to improve ten-fold just to get to scuffling.

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 09:32 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Here's to our bats encountering the ball against Wilson.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2014 09:38 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Ballsy play by denDekker. I don't recall seeing him having hit safely ever before.

Edgy MD Aug 23 2014 09:38 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

That's a little bit o' encountering right there.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2014 09:38 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Edgy MD wrote: Here's to our bats encountering the ball against Wilson. Sometimes he feels very sad. Sometimes he feels very sad.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 23 2014 09:39 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Frayed Knot wrote: Fman99 wrote: Wow the Captain is scuffling these days. Scuffling? He'd have to improve ten-fold just to get to scuffling. That's about right. Not only is he having, by far, the worst season of his career, he's also one of the worst third baseman in all of baseball by almost every rate measure among those (31 of those) with enough PA's to qualify for the batting title. Even the canard that David Wright, at 80%, is still better than most third baseman -still repeated frequently- is happy horseshit in 2014.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2014 09:42 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

The bouncer to 3rd has become our team's go-to move with runners on.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2014 09:55 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Kirk. Better than den Dekker.

Gwreck Aug 23 2014 10:45 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Not only is he having, by far, the worst season of his career Baseball-reference says David had a WAR of 2.8 in 2010; and 2.5 so far this year. (He also had 2.0 in 2011, but only played 100 games that year).

batmagadanleadoff Aug 23 2014 11:35 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Not only is he having, by far, the worst season of his career Baseball-reference says David had a WAR of 2.8 in 2010; and 2.5 so far this year. (He also had 2.0 in 2011, but only played 100 games that year). slash lines 2010 .283/.354/ .503 --- 131 (OPS+) 2014 .268/326/.371 --- 100 (ops) I don't see how his 2010 WAR (WAR rate really) could be worse than this year's. Wright even received some MVP voting in 2010. Must be the shady and mysterious defensive part of the WAR that's boosting his 2014 WAR rate to the point that you could suggest that 2010 is his worst season. And even so, his past WAR's are irrelevant to the claim that he's one of baseball's worst third baseman this year. Among the 24 qualified third baseman, Wright ranks 14th in AVG., 18th in OBP, 21st in SLG., 20th in OPS, and 21st in RC27. We're less than two weeks away from Labor Day and he's still on pace to hit just 10 HR's. You think this isn't his worst season?

MFS62 Aug 24 2014 07:55 AM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

I dislike Van Slyke. All of them. Later

Lefty Specialist Aug 24 2014 11:33 AM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Not only is he having, by far, the worst season of his career Baseball-reference says David had a WAR of 2.8 in 2010; and 2.5 so far this year. (He also had 2.0 in 2011, but only played 100 games that year). slash lines 2010 .283/.354/ .503 --- 131 (OPS+) 2014 .268/326/.371 --- 100 (ops) I don't see how his 2010 WAR (WAR rate really) could be worse than this year's. Wright even received some MVP voting in 2010. Must be the shady and mysterious defensive part of the WAR that's boosting his 2014 WAR rate to the point that you could suggest that 2010 is his worst season. And even so, his past WAR's are irrelevant to the claim that he's one of baseball's worst third baseman this year. Among the 24 qualified third baseman, Wright ranks 14th in AVG., 18th in OBP, 21st in SLG., 20th in OPS, and 21st in RC27. We're less than two weeks away from Labor Day and he's still on pace to hit just 10 HR's. You think this isn't his worst season? He's playing hurt, won't admit it and will continue to be in the lineup because he's a gamer. Even though the games are meaningless and he needs to get healthy for next year. Worst season? Without a doubt.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 24 2014 12:08 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that this is his worst season. Hopefully he bounces back; he's signed for another six years!

d'Kong76 Aug 24 2014 12:15 PM Re: IGT 8/23/14 NYM @ LAD: Hair He Comes to Save the Day!

@ *gulp* $20,000,000 per!