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IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

d'Kong76 May 19 2015 05:15 AM

St. Louis at NY Mets When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York SportsDirect Inc. The New York Mets attempt to record their fourth consecutive victory when they host the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday for the second contest of the four-game series between the division leaders. After the Cardinals forged a 1-1 tie in the ninth inning on Monday, pinch-hitter John Mayberry Jr. delivered an infield single with the bases loaded in the 14th to lift New York to its third win in a row. The National League East-leading Mets continue to get strong performances from their pitching staff, which has held the opposition to one run in each game during the winning streak. Yadier Molina collected a third of the nine hits and Jason Heyward lifted a sacrifice fly for St. Louis, which resides atop the NL Central. The Cardinals' offensive woes continued as they were held to fewer than four runs for the sixth time in the last eight overall games. They particularly have struggled on the road, scoring a total of three runs in their last three contests away from home. TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, FSN Midwest (St. Louis), SNY (New York) PITCHING MATCHUP: Cardinals RH Michael Wacha (5-0, 2.06 ERA) vs. Mets LH Jon Niese (3-3, 2.49) Wacha was forced to settle for a no-decision at Cleveland on Thursday despite allowing just one run in five innings. The 23-year-old has given up fewer than three earned runs in six of his seven starts this season and has yet to issue more than two walks in an outing. Wacha has pitched well against New York in his brief major-league career, going 2-1 with a 2.81 ERA while striking out 21 over 16 frames in three turns. Niese suffered his third loss in four starts on Thursday, when he surrendered six runs - four earned - in 6 1/3 innings at the Chicago Cubs. It was a rare subpar effort by the 28-year-old, who has given up fewer than two earned runs in five of his seven outings this season. Niese owns a 4-2 record and 2.27 ERA in seven career starts versus St. Louis. WALK-OFFS: 1. Mets 3B David Wright, who went down with a strained hamstring on April 14, resumed baseball activities on Monday as he continues to battle back from a strained lower back. 2. St. Louis CF Randal Grichuk struck out five times in the series opener - becoming the first Cardinal to accomplish the dubious feat since 1998, when Ray Lankford did it on three different occasions. 3. New York RHP Jeurys Familia suffered his first blown save on Monday after converting his first 13 opportunities of the season.

d'Kong76 May 19 2015 02:09 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Bourjos CF Grichuk RF Holliday LF Peralta SS Molina C Reynolds 1B Wong 2B Kozma 3B Wacha P

TransMonk May 19 2015 02:43 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Granderson RF Campbell 3B Duda 1B Cuddyer LF Murphy 2B Flores SS Recker C Niese LHP Lagares CF

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 19 2015 05:52 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Consecutive hits in the first and perfectly-run smallball in the second give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the second. Slightly sloppy D isn't helping. I mean, it hasn't been bad, really... just not clockwork-precise.

Ashie62 May 19 2015 05:53 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

2-0 Cards Bottom two.

Ashie62 May 19 2015 05:57 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Juan just missed and threw a lollipop back. Leadoff Triple.

Ashie62 May 19 2015 05:59 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

3-0

Edgy MD May 19 2015 06:01 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

You don't get to see a popup drop in front of Laggy very often.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 19 2015 06:02 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

What are the odds against a pop-out-of-Laggy's-glove play and a bloop in front of Laggy... in the same inning?

Ashie62 May 19 2015 06:03 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Kinda a Murphy's law half inning.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 19 2015 06:07 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Lagares takes out his frustrations on Wacha's glove hand. Quick! Tag him while his hand's buzzing, guys!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 19 2015 06:23 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

MURPHY. UTLEYED. 4-2.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 19 2015 06:24 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

And now he's giggling in the dugout. Giggling.

Ceetar May 19 2015 06:24 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: And now he's giggling in the dugout. Giggling. gif that please.

Edgy MD May 19 2015 06:41 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Tejadadada woulda had that.

Centerfield May 19 2015 06:50 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Why was Niese left in the game to face Wong? I'm having trouble figuring out who sucks more. Terry or Jon.

Frayed Knot May 19 2015 06:54 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Wacha's had more successful bunts in this game than the Mets have had over the last three years running.

Frayed Knot May 19 2015 06:55 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Centerfield wrote: Why was Niese left in the game to face Wong? The lone LHB in the lineup.

Zvon May 19 2015 06:57 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Muffy, you're amazing. AMAZINGLY STUPID! I've been watching baseball for almost 50 years. I have never seen a team screw up fielding a bunt in that way. Incredible. This game is gone, G'bye. 9-2 Cards.

Edgy MD May 19 2015 06:58 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

I dunno what's in that Book of Cardinal Fundies that Keith was talking about, but the second baseman charging the squeeze bunt probably isn't there.

Ashie62 May 19 2015 07:03 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

10-2 Well, the Yankees are up 6-5 mid-game anyway. Tomorrow is another day. Later.

Frayed Knot May 19 2015 07:03 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Muffy reminds me of the old ODD COUPLE line where Oscar tells Felix that whenever he tries to help he winds up making the situation worse. "You're like a vicious Saint Bernard"

Frayed Knot May 19 2015 07:06 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Ashie62 wrote: Well, the Yankees are up 6-5 mid-game anyway. 6-6 now. Turns out that's only a two-game series so I've decided I'm rooting for a split. Right now they're staging a HR contest down in DC: Teixeira, Desmond, Ramos, and, yes, Harper. No ARod w/o the DH

Ashie62 May 19 2015 07:08 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Poop.

Zvon May 19 2015 07:09 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Frayed Knot wrote: Muffy reminds me of the old ODD COUPLE line where Oscar tells Felix that whenever he tries to help he winds up making the situation worse. "You're like a vicious Saint Bernard" lol. I have noticed that when Murphy screws up he does it so aggressively. No half measures. He's totally committed. A good quality in a ball player (who does the right things).

Zvon May 19 2015 07:20 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Gratz 2 Ceciliani. 1st MLB hit, a chopper over the pitcher.

Ceetar May 19 2015 07:30 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

I don't think they're pulling this one out.

Centerfield May 19 2015 07:43 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

What's pathetic is how quietly the batters went the rest of the game. This team has no fire. No pride.

Edgy MD May 19 2015 07:43 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Leatherboy, you just walked the mailman.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 19 2015 08:00 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

I'm a little concerned about Niese. Appeared he'd been fortunate early and now his luck run out. Especially discouraging to see him crap all over Muffy's modest attempt to get him back into the game.

Zvon May 19 2015 08:01 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Well, we ain't gonna win em all. My turning point of the game: When Campbell came in early on the bunt with a Card on third. No other booth would have picked up on that. Soupy gave them the run.

Edgy MD May 19 2015 09:56 PM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Yeah, that's notable in light of the booth's waxing on about the Cards' consistently solid fundamentals over time. One could write that off to typical Cardinal-fluffing, but Keith knows enough to be privy to the existence, contents, and priority of the Cardinals' fundamentals manual, and also knows enough to call bullshit bullshit if it's bullshit he knows. And he wasn't calling bullshit. Gary asked why, when presumably other teams have an explicit, written fundamental standards, the Cardinals have long seemed to embody them better. One answer that wasn't suggested might be that they're not above trading off a player, no matter how good, if he grows aloof from the team's fundamental standards, or perhaps thinks himself above them. Keith, of all people, should be able to speak about getting dumped by the Cards at what should have been his prime. I mean, they dealt off Shelby F. Miller who almost pitched a no-hitter yesterday and they're flourishing. They really are — and have long been — a team unafraid of dealing from the top of the deck if they see what they like. And they win doing it. Probably very overstated, but it's something I was thinking about when I saw the team completely unaware of how to shift around the infield on a bunt play. My other complaint is that Terry just doesn't seem hungry to find an edge on his opponent.

Ceetar May 20 2015 06:45 AM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

Edgy MD wrote: My other complaint is that Terry just doesn't seem hungry to find an edge on his opponent. I agree with this. A lot of it is perhaps marginal, but marginal edges add up. But my main reason for supporting Collins is that I don't think the Mets would hire the guy looking for that edge, and I don't think Backman would. I kinda feel the same way about Warthen though.

Benjamin Grimm May 20 2015 10:00 AM Re: IGT 05/19 -- STL @ NYM

That's pretty much why I'm sort of ambivalent about Terry. I think there are better managers to be had, but I don't expect that whoever replaces him would be significantly better. But I'm starting to think that I'd like to find out.