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Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/28, Game #1 of 2

Frayed Knot May 28 2018 12:06 AM

Well they're probably flying to Atlanta rather than marching (Sherman, after all, didn't start way up in Wisconsin) but go there they will to meet the first place Braves for four games in three days. Of course all of that is conditional on the weather cooperating which it almost certainly will not as tropical storm Alberto is approaching the state of Georgia from the gulf as I/we type/read. Los Bravos are coming off their own 3 losses-in four vs a 1st place club, starting the series by losing the first three in Fenway which caused them to lose their hold on 1st place temporarily. They avoided the long sweep on Sunday by beating Chris Sale and co. which, coupled with Philly's loss, got them a 1/2 game on top again. But Sunday's win was tempered by Ronald Acuna's awkward step while crossing 1st and sending him into a tumble which resembled a slightly less violent version of Bryce Harper's hyper-extended knee last year. No official word yet on (the somewhat cooled-down recently) Acuna's condition. Braves have actually fallen off the lead in NL offense (to our next opponents, the Cubs) but are still both scoring and preventing scoring at better rates than us. Part of their advantage is that they essentially run the same lineup out there every night. Only 3rd base and their brief experiment with trying Jose Bautista there (wonder what became of him?) has been a shifting position for them this year. Kurt Suzuki and Tyler Flowers essentially share the catching position, w/Freddie at 1st and Albies at 2nd have both started every game this season. At SS Dansby Swanson is back following a two week outage and Johan Camargo is now re-established at 3rd while Markakis/Inciarte/Acuna have started every game in the OF since Acuna's call-up on 4/25 (Damn, that must be nice!!) even if Acuna's dance step today will probably break that streak (or does he possess extra-quick healing powers seeing as how he's only 13 years old?) Game 1: 1:10 -- deGrom vs Max Fried Fried (pronounced: FREED) is a 2012 1st round/7th overall pick by the Padres out of sports factory Harvard-Westlake HS in Los Angeles. Dealt to Atlanta in the Justin Upton deal (Dec 2014) the now 24 y/o lefty (well he's always been lefty but has just recently turned 24) made 9 appearances/4 starts for the Braves in 2017 -- including one start vs the Mets: 5.1 IP, 2 ER, 7 H -- and is being recalled tomorrow to make his first start of the season after relieving in 4 ML games earlier this year. Needless to say, a lopsided series in either direction will have a big effect on the team's (and our) psyches over the near future, a future which includes their [u:34cj71v6]third and final trip[/u:34cj71v6] to Atlanta just two weeks from now.

Nymr83 May 28 2018 12:22 AM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

How else would you pronounce Fried? I've never met a person whose name sounds like they were cooked in oil, and I know a lot if Frieds!

Frayed Knot May 28 2018 02:01 AM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Nymr83 wrote: How else would you pronounce Fried? Hey, yaneverknow: Koch = Kotch/Coke; Levine = Laveen/Lavine, etc. On the NYM side, Plawecki is likely to be activated tomorrow with Nido shirley being the odd man out. It would be nice to have a somewhat stable catching situation for a while. While the Braves, for instance, have had their main two guys start 42 of their 51 games this year and all of them since 4/25 (Flowers was on the DL for first two weeks of season), the Mets have started five different catchers, none of whom started even 1/3 of the time and the guys who began the season in 4th and 5th place: Lobaton = 14, Nido = 13, Mesoraco = 11, Plawecki = 7, d'Arnaud = 4 Not exactly how they drew it up to start the year. Also likely to be active for at least one of the two games sked for tomorrow is PJ Conlon and Hansel Robles. Between Ramos heading to NYC to get his shoulder (and maybe head) checked out and the added roster spot during DH days, those two pitchers flew ahead to Atlanta and it's possible that Conlon will start game 2 on Monday depending on all sorts of factors from deGrom's performance and bullpen needs in Game 1 to the rain coming in ahead of tropical storm Alberto.

bmfc1 May 28 2018 02:45 AM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

So they have to: 1) add a 26th player for each game, including a starter for game 2 2) possibly replace Ramos 3) activate Pawlecki 4) possibly replace Wilmer.

d'Kong76 May 28 2018 02:20 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Inciarte CF Albies 2B Friedman 1B Markakis RF Flowers C Tucker LF Camargo 3B Swanson SS Free P

d'Kong76 May 28 2018 03:06 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Nimmo RF Cabrera 2B Conforto CF Bautista LF Bruce 1B Mesoraco C Guillorme 3B Rosario SS deGrom P

bmfc1 May 28 2018 03:59 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

bmfc1 wrote: So they have to: 1) add a 26th player for each game, including a starter for game 2 2) possibly replace Ramos 3) activate Pawlecki 4) possibly replace Wilmer. 1. Bautista/Conlon 2. Robles back (yeesh) 3. Nido down 4. Evans up.

d'Kong76 May 28 2018 05:18 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

On the radio pre-game before they mentioned that it's been forty years since the Mets played a doubleheader on Memorial Day. I thought it would be interesting to go back a re-visit those two games. Here's Game One, courtesy of our friends at Shaefer and Ultimate Mets Database!

Edgy MD May 28 2018 05:22 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

DO IT AGAIN, DEVIN!

Edgy MD May 28 2018 05:24 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Keith says to give Meso a green light 3-0 with the bags juiced. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! And Mesoraco walks! Yes! Let the guy beat himself!

Edgy MD May 28 2018 05:53 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Braves in first and have a leftfielder named Tucker. It's like old times!

Ashie62 May 28 2018 06:10 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Guillorme & Mesoraco Who woulda thunk it. Amazin!

Edgy MD May 28 2018 06:11 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

You have to roll the ball to the far reaches to score Mesaraco from first. NOT a graceful runner.

41Forever May 28 2018 06:16 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

I like Guillorme.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 06:27 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Bases loaded, one out. Go get 'em, bulldog.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 06:28 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Blows Tucker away. Two out.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 06:32 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

And Camargo goes down as well!

41Forever May 28 2018 06:32 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

de Grom is amazing. Edgy, you're in Baltimore, right? You guys affected by the flooding?

41Forever May 28 2018 06:42 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

We need to go to baserunning school.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 06:43 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Most of the flooding has been in the suburbs. The beautiful historic downtown of Ellicott City got violently submerged after previously drowning in a "once every thousand years" storm just two years ago.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:07 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Hey, deGrom's back out on the field.

Nymr83 May 28 2018 08:11 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

This game is lining up perfectly for the bullpen to fuck it up

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:16 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Not feeling good about seeing Freeman up there against Lugo with a runner on.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:18 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Damn. Wondering if they brought Gonzalez in for firstbase defense, he would have made the play on Gsellie's wide throw. OE: Or cut off the throw from Nimmo and thrown out the trailing runner.

Rockin' Doc May 28 2018 08:26 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Another game, another starter robbed of a potential victory. The Mets keep finding ways not to win games started by DeGrom and Syndergaard. They seem to consistently waste good starts by the only 2 reliable starters.

Rockin' Doc May 28 2018 08:31 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Mesaraco goes Kaboom again.

Rockin' Doc May 28 2018 08:34 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

The best move Sandy Alderson has made in the past few months was unloading the malcontent, Matt Harvey on the Reds for Devin Mesaraco.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:36 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Mesoraco Baldelli.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:37 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

People bunt wrong.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:40 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

On the other hand, stealing 0-2 with two outs is a great play.

Rockin' Doc May 28 2018 08:50 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

All these curveballs up in the strike zone from Lugo are making me nervous.

Edgy MD May 28 2018 08:50 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Well, Lugo had nothing.

Rockin' Doc May 28 2018 08:52 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Just like that a walk off home run to end it. On a hanging breaking ball up in the zone.

Frayed Knot May 28 2018 09:00 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Charlie Culberson, really? A 29 y/o .204 hitting (.228 career) journeyman with 6 career HRs coming into today, half of them at Coors Field. But that's the way Atlanta's season has gone so far. Their hits w/RiSP and late in games is ridiculously high even compared to their overall stats. Streaks like that have to end sooner or later, it just would have been nice if it had done so today.

Ashie62 May 28 2018 09:01 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Callaway is a friggin idiot. Cespedes, Frazier Swarzak, back to work

Edgy MD May 28 2018 09:26 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

I take a back seat to nobody in supporting leaving an effective pitcher in the game and defaulting to roles. But Lugo looked lousy from the get-go.

d'Kong76 May 28 2018 09:47 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Holy suckass bullpen, Batman! Hello. 500, season on the brink in May again.

Frayed Knot May 28 2018 10:22 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Also, if you're going to get as few baserunners as this team has been getting lately, you can't doing their hurler a favor by just gifting back four of them: - two via GiDPs -- OK, those will happen and one of them was smoked (you could say the diff in this game was the hot shot Swanson turned into a DP vs the one Cabrera didn't ... although that takes Swanson off the hook for botching a 1st inning GiDP which led to the first NYM run) - but there's no just saying 'eh, one of those things' to the back-to-back pickoffs. Fried faced three batters in that inning, retired just one of them, and still wound up with a 1-2-3 inning. That's just down right criminal.

MFS62 May 28 2018 11:18 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

Do we know anything about that TBA guy who will be starting the second game? Later

41Forever May 28 2018 11:24 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/27, Game #1 of 2

TBA = PJ

Edgy MD May 29 2018 01:04 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/28, Game #1 of 2

So, Mickey's philosophy of (1) not using the same reliever in both ends of a doubleheader, (2) keeping your #1 guy out of Game One, (3) sticking to that even if Game One is the classic relief ace situation of trying to preserve a one-run lead, and (4) sticking to that even if your Game One alternative is faltering ... seemingly needs work.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 12 2018 01:10 PM Re: Marching to Atlanta -- IGT 5/28, Game #1 of 2