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IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Chad Ochoseis May 02 2016 10:13 AM

Promising young pitcher Mike Foltynewicz goes up against promising old pitcher Bartolo Colon. Hijinks ensue.

themetfairy May 02 2016 10:18 AM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Go Bartolo!

d'Kong76 May 02 2016 10:53 AM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Atlanta at NY Mets When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, May 2, 2016 Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York SportsDirect Inc. The New York Mets had an eight-game winning streak come to an end on Sunday but are in a strong position to start another with the major league-worst Atlanta Braves coming to town for the start of a three-game series on Monday. The Braves are on what constitutes as a hot streak for the team right now with wins in two of the last three games. Atlanta snapped an eight-game slide that included three home losses to the Mets with a 5-3 win at Boston on Thursday and managed a 4-3 victory in 10 innings at Chicago on Sunday in the rain-shortened series. The punchless Braves have hit a league-low five home runs – six fewer than Colorado Rockies slugger Nolan Arenado has hit by himself – and are last in the National League in runs scored. The Mets pounded out 19 runs in taking the first two of a series from the San Francisco Giants over the weekend but could not offer the same support to Noah Syndergaard in Sunday’s 6-1 setback. New York is trying to keep pace with the Washington Nationals in the NL East and is trying to finish up its nine-game homestand strong before hitting the road for 11 straight beginning on Thursday. TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, FSN Southeast (Atlanta), SNY (New York) PITCHING MATCHUP: Braves RH Mike Foltynewicz (2015: 4-6, 5.71 ERA) vs. Mets RH Bartolo Colon (1-1, 3.42) Foltynewicz is being recalled to take over a rotation spot from Bud Norris, who posted an 8.74 ERA in May. Foltynewicz failed to earn a rotation spot in spring training but posted at 2.05 ERA in four starts for Triple-A Gwinnett despite issuing 14 walks in 22 total innings. The 24-year-old has made two career appearances – one start – against the Mets and allowed a total of nine runs – eight earned – and 12 hits in 6 2/3 innings. Colon is trying to earn his 220th career win to move past Pedro Martinez and into second place among Dominican-born pitchers. The hefty veteran did not earn a decision in either of his last two outings while yielding a combined six earned runs in 11 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. Colon is 8-2 with a 2.69 ERA in 11 career starts against Atlanta. WALK-OFFS: 1. Atlanta is expected to add a player on Monday after playing with a 24-man roster Sunday due to a procedural error. 2. Mets LF Michael Conforto went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts on Sunday, ending a streak of six straight games with at least one extra-base hit. 3. New York has taken eight of the last 10 in the series.

Centerfield May 02 2016 11:15 AM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Start a new streak tonight.

d'Kong76 May 02 2016 02:16 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Granderson RF Wright 3B Conforto LF Cespedes CF Duda 1B Walker 2B Cabrera SS Plawecki C Colon P

Lefty Specialist May 02 2016 02:36 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Only a game ahead of the Phillies? WTF? Put the hammer down on these Bravos, boys.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 03:11 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

They got the hammer lineup. Hopefully Colon's homer vulnerability will be offset by Atlanta's general power shortage. I tend to think Colon's starts a good day to play Laggy.

d'Kong76 May 02 2016 03:40 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Markakis, RF Castro, 3B Freeman, 1B Garcia, LF Pierzynski, C Brignac, 2B Aybar, SS Foltynewicz, P Smith, CF

Zvon May 02 2016 03:45 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Do we get Fkn frd or Funky Frd?

Frayed Knot May 02 2016 04:12 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

d'Kong76 wrote: Markakis, RF Castro, 3B Freeman, 1B Garcia, LF Pierzynski, C Brignac, 2B Aybar, SS Foltynewicz, P Smith, CF Reid Brignac must have been a call-up earlier today*. His appearance here tonight will make him the Braves' 6th different starting 2B-man of the still-young season. He's been hitting well in AAA Gwinnett, but his ML record doesn't bode well for much of an upgrade at that position. From 2011-15 he's amassed just shy of 500 trips to the plate combined spread over those five seasons and five different orgs and has managed a stunning .189/.236/.241 line over that time with just 3 HRs and 17 XBH. * looks like Opening Day starter Jace Peterson has been disappeared to make room

Edgy MD May 02 2016 05:51 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Frayed Knot wrote: From 2011-15 he's amassed just shy of 500 trips to the plate combined spread over those five seasons and five different orgs and has managed a stunning .189/.236/.241 line over that time with just 3 HRs and 17 XBH. And he's batting sixth. Let's win this one.

themetfairy May 02 2016 06:29 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Cespedes!

Zvon May 02 2016 06:40 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

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Edgy MD May 02 2016 07:07 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Keith giving himself a Strat-o-Matic defense rating. "Ozzie and I were 1's. No question." Awesome. Keith's time off has really energized him. He's nuts tonight.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 07:11 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Nu sideline reporter tonight.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 07:23 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Man, Curtis misses another homer by 12 inches.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 07:24 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Welcome back to the bigs Brignac.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 07:29 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Strikes out Conforto and the go to Bud Norris to face Cespedes? I don't know about that move. Oh, right Fredi González. I guess he's trying to get his pitcher out on a positive?

Edgy MD May 02 2016 07:33 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

And it works. (I'm all alone.)

Mets Guy in Michigan May 02 2016 07:50 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

I'm here! Nice to see Colon getting into the sixth with a shutout.

d'Kong76 May 02 2016 07:52 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Here, enjoying the booth this evening. Uncle Bartolo cruising.

Frayed Knot May 02 2016 07:57 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Be nice if they didn't try to end this by sitting on a 4 run lead for 8 innings.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 08:01 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Mets hitting a lot of hard-hit at-'em balls tonight.

Mets Guy in Michigan May 02 2016 08:09 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

O'Flaherty and Chase d'Arnaud. That's cool. O'Flaherty's got an ERA of 6.75. So nothing has changed, I see.

Edgy MD May 02 2016 08:19 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

He got Conforto, which is what he's out there for, so that's something. Nice to see he and Johnson get their rings. Bart the first 2016 Met starter to pitch into the eighth.

Mets Guy in Michigan May 02 2016 08:31 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Wow! Walker just stole second. It's his first steal of the season. Given our team's speed, that steal might give him the team lead in two offensive categories!

Zvon May 02 2016 08:34 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Interesting conversation about the "straddle" approach. Tell me why that won't work these days. [fimg=400:2wgn8wfp]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QZ0wM7tWJTU/VBKF5NxtzkI/AAAAAAAAUTU/FB5i0SE1LhA-KqC_pUM-NXGHNwoJ3yWBgCCo/s867/74mfc73WSgm1-Buddy%2BTag-z14.png[/fimg:2wgn8wfp]

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 02 2016 08:42 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Familia is not having a good year.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 02 2016 08:43 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

But let's not worry cuz we win! What an astonishingly dull game! Go Mets!

Mets Guy in Michigan May 02 2016 08:44 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Familia is not having a good year. Was thinking that he's not quite as lights out as he once was.

themetfairy May 02 2016 08:44 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

d'Kong76 May 02 2016 08:46 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Zvon May 02 2016 08:47 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Mets win! We all were happy!

Gwreck May 02 2016 08:56 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Duda looked almost as good in the high socks as he did crushing that homer. Are the high socks a new thing for him? (Or have I not been paying enough attention?)

Frayed Knot May 02 2016 08:59 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

And the game checks in in a tidy 2:31 The shortest NYM game this season by a full 13 minutes and only the 2nd one under 2:50

Zvon May 02 2016 09:04 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Gwreck wrote: Duda looked almost as good in the high socks as he did crushing that homer. Are the high socks a new thing for him? (Or have I not been paying enough attention?) Booth mentioned something about the high socks game before this one...I don't think it was Duda though. Might have been.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 02 2016 10:26 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Gwreck wrote: Duda looked almost as good in the high socks as he did crushing that homer. Are the high socks a new thing for him? (Or have I not been paying enough attention?) Doodoo has gone Hollywood. Also pitching BMW on the radio.

Edgy MD May 03 2016 06:05 AM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Man, Duda goes with BMW like Curt Schilling and My Organic Market.

Benjamin Grimm May 03 2016 06:55 AM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 03 2016 09:04 AM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets

Edgy MD wrote: I tend to think Colon's starts a good day to play Laggy. [Points to nose] And high socks look good on everyone.

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Benjamin Grimm Jun 03 2016 09:32 PM Re: IGT 05/02 - Braves @ Mets