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IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Ashie62 Jun 08 2015 01:59 PM

Got to like our chances against a Giants pitcher who may be a relative of Charles Heston.

d'Kong76 Jun 08 2015 03:02 PM Re: IGT 7/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Looking forward to a 7:10 start and a winning home stand. Wish it was tonight, but I suppose a day of rest can't hurt.

G-Fafif Jun 09 2015 04:53 AM Re: IGT 7/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Time jump in thread title, unless this is subliminal advertising for Noah on 6/9 to flirt with a perfecto as another young pitcher did on another 7/9.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 05:04 AM Re: IGT 7/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Now that would be weird!

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 05:55 AM Re: IGT 7/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

San Francisco at NY Mets When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York SportsDirect Inc. Two months into the season and the New York Mets sit atop the National League East while the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants battle it out with the rival Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. Both teams will look to make a move forward when the Mets host the Giants in the opener of a three-game series on Tuesday. The Mets have benefited from the Washington Nationals’ recent swoon to jump up in the East and took the top spot behind a two-homer day from Curtis Granderson in a 6-3 win at Arizona on Sunday. "It was good to get the victory so that helps us for this nice long flight,” Granderson told reporters. “It was a nice way to wrap up the series and we have an off day (Monday), so that's even nicer." San Francisco pulled out of a five-game slide with back-to-back wins at Philadelphia but could not pull off the sweep and dropped a 6-4 decision on Sunday. Giants’ pitchers are allowing an average of 5.8 runs in the last eight games. TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, CSN Bay Area (San Francisco), SNY (New York) PITCHING MATCHUP: Giants RH Chris Heston (5-4, 4.29 ERA) vs. Mets RH Noah Syndergaard (2-3, 3.77) Heston appeared to be pulling out of his own slump with a dominant performance against Atlanta on May 28 but struggled in a loss to Pittsburgh last Tuesday. The 27-year-old rookie was knocked around for five runs on seven hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings. Heston, who is making his first start against New York, has allowed at least five earned runs in five of his last eight starts. Syndergaard got rocked for the first time in his major-league career at San Diego last Tuesday, when he was shelled for seven runs and 10 hits in four innings to absorb the loss. The 22-year-old Texan still displayed the dominant stuff that has New York’s front office so excited by notching 10 of the 12 outs via strikeout. Syndergaard, who has not walked a batter in any of his last three turns, is 2-0 with a 0.68 ERA in two home starts. WALK-OFFS: 1. Giants 2B Joe Panik is enjoying a 12-game hitting streak. 2. New York LF Michael Cuddyer has hit safely in 12 straight as well. 3. San Francisco took six of seven in the series last season, outscoring the Mets 35-18.

Ceetar Jun 09 2015 08:37 AM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Hey, I'm going to this one.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 01:21 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

@cgrand3 RF Tejada 2B Duda 1B @mcuddy23 LF Flores SS @juanlagares2 CF Campbell 3B @kplawecki26 C @Noahsyndergaard P @kcmets #cpftoocool

Centerfield Jun 09 2015 01:30 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

You know what would be a great creative writing assignment? Lucas Duda's twitter page.

G-Fafif Jun 09 2015 01:46 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Centerfield wrote: You know what would be a great creative writing assignment? Lucas Duda's twitter page. @MyNameIsLucas Playing first, batting third. I guess.

TransMonk Jun 09 2015 01:58 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 02:43 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Aoki LF Pankik 2B Pagan CF Posey C Belt 1B Crawford SS Duffy 3B Blanco RF Heston P

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 02:45 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

So the Giants tonight are like a poor Englishman in days of yore: Pence-less

Centerfield Jun 09 2015 03:07 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

G-Fafif wrote: Centerfield wrote: You know what would be a great creative writing assignment? Lucas Duda's twitter page. @MyNameIsLucas Playing first, batting third. I guess. Love this forum.

Centerfield Jun 09 2015 03:07 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

TransMonk wrote: Love this forum times 2.

Ashie62 Jun 09 2015 03:57 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

I'd bet Noah would be good with a crossbow.

Ashie62 Jun 09 2015 05:53 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Noah needs to get command of his fastball.

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 06:09 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

So apparently the strategy of this game is: 1) to put on as many Giant leadoff batters as possible 2) to strike out on 3 pitches as often as possible It's nice that they have a plan, but I'm not sure is a winning one.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 06:11 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Hey, Keith's back!!

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 06:24 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

3 run deficit, I think that pretty much falls under the definition of 'insurmountable'. Particularly so when you're getting no-hit.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 06:24 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Nah, we're at home. Villainy will not prevail so easily.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 09 2015 06:26 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

This half-inning was brought to you by Dumb Fucking Luck. Dumb Fucking Luck... underwriting Giants World Series runs since 2010!

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 06:28 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

HbP rally, suckas.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 09 2015 06:29 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Well, we've Utleyed ourselves into a tying-run-at-the-plate-type-sitch here, haven't we?

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 06:32 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

And Campbelled our way out of it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 09 2015 06:40 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

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Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 06:44 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Kind of sad when your only official AB of the game w/runners on results in a GiDP.

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 06:46 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

So if Heston winds up with the no-hitter will that make him 'The Omega Man'?

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:13 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

We're in deep shit now folks. There's been nothing off NYM bats that's remotely resembled a hit.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 09 2015 07:17 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Yeah I think he might get this.

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:23 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Good thing we miss Bumgarner is this series, eh?

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:30 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 09 2015 07:31 PM

Yeah, the 'EVERY BODY CLAP YO HANDS' chant was well timed. Genius marketing I tells ya, Genius!.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 07:31 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

I think they can do without the 'everybody dance now!' thing after foul ball dribblers while getting no hit? Recker will wreck it in the ninth anyhow.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 07:31 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Hah, I typed to slow.

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:32 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

This game could go 14 and we wouldn't get a knock.

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:37 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

So in the 9th inning we'll have: Recker - who has 7 hits this season a PH off our .180-hitting bench, probably Mayberry who has all of 11 hits this year and Granderson who I don't think has made contact yet tonight.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 07:38 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Well, hit or miss, this should spark a transaction or two in Metville.

Zvon Jun 09 2015 07:39 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

So what's goin' on?

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 07:39 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

I don't let Rex bat here.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 07:40 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

But... he's good about taking a pitch to the meat.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 07:41 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Well... that's a wide plate.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 07:42 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Pitching a no-no, and hitting three with no walks, has to be approaching at least tying some weird historical mark.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 07:44 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Hey, Keith: I hate that "You don't bunt during a no-hitter" logic.

Fman99 Jun 09 2015 07:45 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

:(

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 09 2015 07:45 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Geez how humiliating

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:47 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

That zone got more than a bit wide on about 5 different pitches in the 9th there, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 07:49 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

If it's any consolation, we're still in 1st place as the Nats are about to go down to the Yanx, trailing 6-1 in the 9th. and I don't care if 1st place is on the line, I still can't bring myself to root for the pin-stripers.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 07:50 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

He got a comfy inside of the plate early in the game too. I blame Ceetar for attending.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 09 2015 07:57 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Edgy MD wrote: Hey, Keith: I hate that "You don't bunt during a no-hitter" logic. Me too. Who makes up these stupid customs? Baseball at its highest and most ruthless level of competition, and the batter's supposed to compromise his chances to succeed. Yeah right.

Ashie62 Jun 09 2015 07:59 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Fire Terry Collins.

Fman99 Jun 09 2015 08:11 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

d'Kong76 wrote: He got a comfy inside of the plate early in the game too. I blame Ceetar for attending. I blame Ceetar also. My father attended the 1969 no hitter that Bob Moose threw against the Mets at Shea, which the guys in the booth brought up on the broadcast tonight.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 08:18 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Coach Cuddyer on the post game... uggg.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 09 2015 08:22 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Ceetar is the reason all this shit is going on.

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 08:26 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Hey, Keith: I hate that "You don't bunt during a no-hitter" logic. Me too. Who makes up these stupid customs? Baseball at its highest and most ruthless level of competition, and the batter's supposed to compromise his chances to succeed. Yeah right. Keith of all people. Is this a question of honor? I wonder how many times Pete Rose bunted to try and end a no-hitter after the fif... oh, wait. Still, If I'm coaching this team, I want at least one bunt an inning. Ruthless indeed.

d'Kong76 Jun 09 2015 08:34 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Edgy MD wrote: I wonder how many times Pete Rose bunted to try and end a no-hitter after the fif... oh, wait. Or didn't, depending how his action flowed that night!

Frayed Knot Jun 09 2015 09:10 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

The only argument I could make for NOT bunting is that if it's bad strategy at that point in a game that wasn't a no-hitter. Some manager got pissed about a half-dozen years ago after I think it was a 9th inning bunt, but it was also a one or two run game IIRC so I had no problem with it. But we know that Keith is 'old school' to a fault at times and therefore ascribes to the chivalric code.

Ceetar Jun 09 2015 09:13 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar is the reason all this shit is going on. oh yes, definitely my fault. It was my tweet about the deep fried oreos I bet. Here's a question I was pondering early. After he hits TWO guys back to back, in the fourth, if Duda gets angry and yells stuff at Heston, does it result in the benches getting warned? Does it result in an ejection in the 9th when he hits Recker? Or, game-theory, does it result in him pitching a little more carefully, a little differently, and he misses just enough to give up some hits?

Edgy MD Jun 09 2015 09:19 PM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Maybe, but those outlooks are assuming an aggressiveness and gamesmanship that are not characteristic of this squad's offense. And really guys, ceetar's not the one who misdated the thread.

MFS62 Jun 11 2015 11:55 AM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

The good news about the no hitter is that nobody around the country noticed. ESPN and most of the sports pages were featuring LeBron James stuff. I just heard on WFAN that the Washington Post headline sports page article was about a local high school team and the no-hitter was buried in the newswire out of town recap stuff. Later

Edgy MD Jun 16 2015 06:23 AM Re: IGT 6/9 Giants v Mets Syndergaard

Interesting Grantland article about the strike zone ballooning in the ninth inning of this no-hitter, and about how that is the new normal, except it probably isn't that new at all.