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IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 11:40 AM

NY Mets at San Diego When: 10:40 PM ET, Friday, May 6, 2016 Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California SportsDirect Inc. The San Diego Padres cooled off New York in the opener of a four-game set and look to post another victory over the visiting Mets in Friday's encounter. New York had won 13 of 16 games before being mesmerized by San Diego right-hander Colin Rea, who didn't allow a hit until two outs in the seventh inning and took a shutout into the ninth before needing bullpen help to finish off a 5-3 victory. Rea gave up three hits and departed after right fielder Curtis Granderson slugged a leadoff homer in the ninth, and New York made things interesting when red-hot center fielder Yoenis Cespedes hit a two-run blast off reliever Brad Hand. San Diego reclamation project Fernando Rodney retired the final two hitters for his seventh consecutive save and the 39-year old, who lost his closer's job with the Seattle Mariners last season, has yet to allow an earned run in 11 appearances this season. The Padres have won five of their last seven games as they continue to attempt to recover from a poor start. The Mets (17-10) have the fourth-best record in the majors but trail the Washington Nationals by 1 1/2-games in the National League East. TV: 10:40 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), FSN San Diego PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Noah Syndergaard (2-1, 2.51 ERA) vs. Padres LH Drew Pomeranz (2-3, 2.48) Syndergaard lost his last outing when he allowed four runs and five hits in 5 2/3 against the San Francisco Giants. He has given up seven runs in his last two starts after allowing just two total runs in his first three turns. Syndergaard is 1-1 with a 5.25 ERA in two career starts against the Padres and has struck out 19 in 12 innings. Pomeranz lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers despite a stellar outing in which he gave up one run and three hits in seven innings. The Padres were blanked 1-0 by Clayton Kershaw, marking the second time in five starts that Pomeranz was on the wrong end of a shutout defeat. Pomeranz lasted just four innings in his one career start against the Mets, giving up two runs (one earned) and five hits on April 27, 2012, as a member of the Colorado Rockies. WALK-OFFS: 1. Cespedes has eight homers and 24 RBIs over his last 15 games. 2. San Diego C Derek Norris went 3-for-3 with a homer in the opener after being 3-for-38 over his previous 11 games. 3. New York 2B Neil Walker was hitless in four at-bats Thursday and is 0-for-13 over the past four games.

cooby classic May 06 2016 11:41 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Neil walker better eat his Wheaties

TransMonk May 06 2016 11:44 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Looks like lots of rain today (all through the day) in San Diego. I'm hoping that if they decide to call this one and do two tomorrow they decide earlier than 10:40 ET. It would be a bummer to stay up late and then not have a game to watch.

Benjamin Grimm May 06 2016 11:46 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Seems it never rains in southern California Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before It never rains in California But girl don't they warn ya It pours, man it pours

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 11:47 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

cooby wrote: Neil walker better eat his Wheaties I was going to reply, "Or his Maypo!" I googled to see if Maypo was still around and type Mapo and got a Korean bbq place in Flushing!

cooby classic May 06 2016 12:02 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Ew maple bbq!

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 12:11 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I don't remember eating Maypo when I was a kid, but I remember that there were a lot of commercials for it. (I was born in a house with the television always on)... [youtube:3razn9n7]hoU09xdPkbs[/youtube:3razn9n7]

cooby classic May 06 2016 12:12 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I never did either but I remember the ads too!

batmagadanleadoff May 06 2016 01:39 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

This ad campaign was based on Maypo's.

cooby classic May 06 2016 01:49 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Never realized!

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 03:15 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I keep thinking I should check for lineups. Game time is like six hours from now.

Ashie62 May 06 2016 04:19 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Rain?

TransMonk May 06 2016 04:27 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

The next chance of rain looks to be around game time.

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 06:25 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Jay, CF Myers, 1B Kemp, RF Wallace, 3B Upton, LF Ramirez, SS Norris, C Weeks, 2B Pomegranate, P

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 06:33 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Granderson, RF Lagares, CF Wright, 3B Cespedes, LF Duda, 1B Cabrera, SS Flores, 2B Rivera, C Syndergaard, P

Zvon May 06 2016 08:14 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

d'Kong76 wrote: I don't remember eating Maypo when I was a kid, but I remember that there were a lot of commercials for it. (I was born in a house with the television always on)... [youtube]hoU09xdPkbs[/youtube] Ditto, recall the name and commercials. I'm not even sure what it was (or is). Just the name though...Maypo. I couldn't get past that.

Zvon May 06 2016 08:32 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

10:40!

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 09:32 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

The Mets have my immediate attention! (until around midnight)

soupcan May 06 2016 09:36 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Just means more espresso pour moi.

soupcan May 06 2016 09:40 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

The Padres are like the Oregon U. of baseball - a new uniform every night.

Zvon May 06 2016 09:45 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I'm awake Gary! I have half a cup of coffee. Anymore than that I'll be up all night. I'm planning on hotdogs at midnight.

Zvon May 06 2016 10:07 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Ha. I missed the scoring. Looks like good baseball. Double, advance on groundout, Sac fly. One of these two teams is playing good baseball. 1-0 Fathers

Fman99 May 06 2016 10:10 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I didn't realize until nearly 9 PM that it wasn't a 10:10 start. I'm generally pretty soused by 10:40, but I'm fighting the good fight. Love the brown and yellow uniforms. LGM

Zvon May 06 2016 10:15 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Fman99 wrote: I didn't realize until nearly 9 PM that it wasn't a 10:10 start. I'm generally pretty soused by 10:40, but I'm fighting the good fight. Love the brown and yellow uniforms. LGM I thought 10:10 too. Bastages. Also like the unis. And I want to see the Mets go with the new chic flat blue helmet look.

Zvon May 06 2016 10:16 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Whoa! Rivera gets my attention. Niiiiice!

Zvon May 06 2016 10:22 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

If I was Thor I'd want Rivera catching my games all the time. And the way our catching has been going we just might see that.

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 10:26 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift.

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 10:34 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Rivera with d'Gun!

Zvon May 06 2016 10:35 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift. Yesterday Gary said something about TC saying that Duda was hitting to left with authority. He has hit to left, but not with authority imo. He won't "go" to left. He'll go to right and swing late. He's not changing his swing or weight shift, or lead foot. Just swinging late, sometimes chopping, sometimes blooping to left. If that's the only way he can do it, so be it, I'll take it. Cause it does work from time to time. But I wish he had a swing just for going to left. Don't swing late as much as shift your weight later, let the swing & your hips follow that. Square some up that way.

batmagadanleadoff May 06 2016 10:38 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift. That's why shifts work. That's also why there's so much luck in baseball. Because the action revolves around the batted ball, and the batters, by and large and to a great extent, can't control where the batted ball goes. It's tough enough just to hit the ball. And to the extent that some batters have some control over where the ball goes, it's not nearly the kind of control or precision that, for example, a basketball player needs to sink a free throw or a quarterback needs to complete a pass 30 yards downfield. Otherwise, there wouldn't be shifts. Ever.

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 10:42 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

I'd just lay down a bunt against the shift until they stop. But that's just me.

batmagadanleadoff May 06 2016 10:46 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

d'Kong76 wrote: I'd just lay down a bunt against the shift until they stop. But that's just me. You would think. Some of those shifts, it looks to me like the batter can bunt for a double.

Zvon May 06 2016 10:49 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

batmagadanleadoff wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: I find it hard to believe that professional guys, like Duda, can't slap a pitch to left field against the silly shift. That's why shifts work. That's also why there's so much luck in baseball. Because the action revolves around the batted ball, and the batters, by and large and to a great extent, can't control where the batted ball goes. It's tough enough just to hit the ball. And to the extent that some batters have some control over where the ball goes, it's not nearly the kind of control or precision that, for example, a basketball player needs to sink a free throw or a quarterback needs to complete a pass 30 yards downfield. Otherwise, there wouldn't be shifts. Ever. True, and good point. But the best hitters can adjust to a pitch. Now playing in an actual game, all bets are off because of the human factor, the pitcher's stuff. But in batting practice a good hitter will practice spraying them all around and try to apply that to the game. We don't see that much today. Not at all from the sluggers. Sluggers have one swing and that's all they think they need. To me that makes for a one dimensional hitter. We see too many hitters doing that these days. Meh, it's part of today's game.

Zvon May 06 2016 10:51 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 06 2016 10:55 PM

batmagadanleadoff wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: I'd just lay down a bunt against the shift until they stop. But that's just me. You would think. Some of those shifts, it looks to me like the batter can bunt for a double. Oh, me 3. If no one is on the left side tight, yea, I think I would bunt until they stop. Why doesn't one of these players today just do that?!

d'Kong76 May 06 2016 10:53 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Bunt the ball towards third a few times, shift stops..

Zvon May 06 2016 10:54 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Zvon May 06 2016 10:55 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

d'Kong76 wrote: Bunt the ball towards third a few times, shift stops.. Do they consider it bad baseball etiquette or something, not to do that?

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:08 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

No, they just consider 250 lb slow-footed sluggers to generally be really bad bunters.

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:09 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Just what you want from a 10:40 start: a 1-0, yet still slow-moving, game.

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:18 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Damn, one of the Blash brothers is now up!

Fman99 May 06 2016 11:21 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Fuck Jon Jay. You think just because you wrote the Federalist papers you can drive in runs against us? Dammit.

Zvon May 06 2016 11:22 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Ugh, Flores, straddle the bag...let the ball come to you. Ronnie says bad throw. I disagree, bad play Wilmer. GAH! RBI single by that Jay guy.

Zvon May 06 2016 11:28 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

6th inning. We can score 2 runs. Come on!

Zvon May 06 2016 11:31 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Damn! These pesky Padre position players! Cespedes is robbed by a fired up Kemp.

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:44 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

What's this now, three different games this week with no hits or just one hit through the first six? Someone's got to figure out how to get a hit here.

Zvon May 06 2016 11:50 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Frayed Knot wrote: What's this now, three different games this week with no hits or just one hit through the first six? Someone's got to figure out how to get a hit here. Too many famines in too little time. Not good. TC said right at the get-go that this team will live and die by the longball. And I thought: don't be saying that TC, you have some power guys and some contact guys. But then everyone started hitting homeruns and I shut up. Whoa, that woke me up. And that was small ball. He did not make the transfer! Challenge!!!!

Zvon May 06 2016 11:52 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

WHAT!! what the fuck do u have a challenge for!!!!!!!!!!!--the replay shows he never transferred it and they still call him out!!! WTF!!!!

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:53 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

1) (another) bad send by Timmy. I was saying 'No' the entire way. 2) Ump made the out call too early 3) I hate that calls like that can be overturned - but that one should have been and we've certainly seen much less decisive calls flipped

Zvon May 06 2016 11:54 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Wow, that was a ballsy send by Tueffel. It should be 2-1. Not reversing that call was a travesty my friends.

Zvon May 06 2016 11:55 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 06 2016 11:56 PM

HA! Cabrera didn't even try to touch home plate afterwards. Awww man.

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:55 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Zvon wrote: Wow, that was a [crossout]ballsy[/crossout] stupid send by Tueffel.

Frayed Knot May 06 2016 11:58 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Zvon wrote: HA! Cabrera didn't even try to touch home plate afterwards. Awww man. We don't know if that was the reason for the non-reversal or not - but it's just another flaw in the whole system. He didn't touch the plate afterward because he was called out and it's simply not logical to play the game as if each call made needs to be ignored like it never happened.

Zvon May 06 2016 11:59 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: Wow, that was a [crossout]ballsy[/crossout] stupid send by Tueffel. The way we aren't scoring? Cabrera isn't the fastest and that low ground view did make it look stupid, but I wanted him to try.

Zvon May 07 2016 12:00 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: HA! Cabrera didn't even try to touch home plate afterwards. Awww man. We don't know if that was the reason for the non-reversal or not - but it's just another flaw in the whole system. He didn't touch the plate afterward because he was called out and it's simply not logical to play the game as if each call made needs to be ignored like it never happened. They are tryin' to ruin our game F.K.!

Frayed Knot May 07 2016 12:05 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: Wow, that was a [crossout]ballsy[/crossout] stupid send by Tueffel. The way we aren't scoring? Cabrera isn't the fastest and that low ground view did make it look stupid, but I wanted him to try. Not when the shortstop has the ball just as Cabrera is only a stride past 3B. I probably wouldn't have sent him with two outs and definitely not with only one.

Zvon May 07 2016 12:10 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Wow, that was a [crossout]ballsy[/crossout] stupid send by Tueffel. The way we aren't scoring? Cabrera isn't the fastest and that low ground view did make it look stupid, but I wanted him to try. Not when the shortstop has the ball just as Cabrera is only a stride past 3B. I probably wouldn't have sent him with two outs and definitely not with only one. Yea, that ground view plainly showed that. But I didn't see that as it was happening. So, you're right, but I stubbornly stick to my guns and admit I was yelling GO! GO! lol.

Zvon May 07 2016 12:34 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

9th inning. One man on. No outs. Cespedes at the plate.

Zvon May 07 2016 12:38 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Cespedes pulls one off the end of his bat, lines out to left. Duda...walks! 2 on, 1 out, Cabrera...

Zvon May 07 2016 12:40 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Ugh, Cabrera swings over a tight fastball. 2 out. De Aza, be my hero.

themetfairy May 07 2016 12:41 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

That was fugly. Not worth the loss of sleep.

Zvon May 07 2016 12:44 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

[youtube]O3DflasfM3Q[/youtube] OE: lol, the song has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Haven't heard that in years though. That was a pretty song.

Ashie62 May 07 2016 07:08 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Glad I didn't stay up both nights.

cooby classic May 07 2016 08:37 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

themetfairy wrote: That was fugly. Not worth the loss of sleep. :( Always hated that. And back when I was able to watch I was compelled to watch every last pitch.

Benjamin Grimm May 07 2016 09:57 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Cast your vote!

d'Kong76 May 07 2016 10:06 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

[youtube:2avxrp9i]mRKOz94yqSs[/youtube:2avxrp9i]

Frayed Knot May 07 2016 10:09 AM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres

Nice spelling tweak.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 03 2016 09:36 PM Re: IGT 05/06 - Mets @ Padres