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IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Frayed Knot Sep 12 2019 07:31 PM

Triskaidekaphobists of the world unite!!! 7:10 -- Syndergaard vs Clayton Kershaw [13-5; 3.06] Kershaw seems like the type who'd believe in superstitions and get freaked out by them. In fact, all of LA probably does. We had a four-game series vs these guys in late May. Lost 3 of 4 but should have, at worst, split the series. The killer game of that set was Game #3. Back to back HRs leading off the 7th by Rosario & Dom Smith made it 8-3. LA closed it to 8-5 with solo runs in bottom 7 and 8 (off Gsellman & Familia). But it was the Diaz meltdown in the 9th (probably his first MAJOR one of the year) which really spun not just the series around but the season as well. Joc Pederson led off with a HR on the 9th pitch of the AB, followed by: Max Muncy HR; J Turner 2B; C Bellinger 2B (game tied); C Seager IW; M Beatty infield single; A Verdugo Sac Fly/Game Over So a four-run lead was blown essentially without having a batter retired until the SF which lost the game. Diaz threw 30 pitches in that debacle. So after coming into that series having won 6 of 7 (including that 4-game sweep fo the Nats) and then winning Game 2, we'd lose that night, the next night, and 22 of the next 34 Worse yet, we'd see that type of blown save, seemingly a once in a generation level of meltdown, again before the summer was out. Saturday - 7:10 -- deGrom vs Hyun-Jin Ryu [12-5; 2.45] Ryu looked like a lock for the CY earlier this year, but he was IL'd briefly and has been rocked in several of his recent starts: 4, 7, 7, & 3 (21) runs allowed in his last 4 starts/19 innings Sunday - 7:05 (ESPN) -- Wheeler vs Walker Bueller [13-3; 3.14] Out last network game of the year ... well except for our entire post-season run which means we've really got close to 20 more.

G-Fafif Sep 13 2019 01:04 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Pete sits... Amed Rosario – SS J.D. Davis – LF Jeff McNeil – 3B Wilson Ramos – C Robinson Canȯ – 2B Todd Frazier – 1B Michael Conforto – RF Juan Lagares – CF Noah Syndergaard – RHP

Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 13 2019 01:14 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

That's a little disappointing. Wonder if that foul off his leg yesterday is a factor?

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 01:29 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Dodgers activate 2B/slugger Max Muncy despite being on the IL with a fractured wrist only since August 29! I think I've seen longer IL stints due to the sniffles.

Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 13 2019 01:53 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

The whole Lunch Family will attend tonight

ashie62 Sep 13 2019 01:55 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Alonso is sitting? That is either a sick joke or he is hurt Better be real hurt as each game is a must win. Sit next month

kcmets Sep 13 2019 01:57 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Pinch hit homer by Alonso in the 8th for Los Lunches, please. Rotosphere says it's a regular day off. To me there are no regular games going forward but whatevs...

ashie62 Sep 13 2019 01:58 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Anthony DiComo @AnthonyDiComo · 3m Mickey Callaway confirms this is just a routine off day for Pete Alonso. "He's totally fine," Callaway said, noting Alonso has been chasing some pitches lately. "We just all felt like he needed an off day." Eff you Mickey. routine day off? Are you shiteing me?

Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 13 2019 02:05 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Well he has looked like shit this week

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 02:10 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Yeah, since his two HR game I'm not sure if he's gotten the ball out of the infield, even in those few occasions where he's made actual contract. Ideally you don't want to sit him vs a lefty, but we're seeing nothing but lefties recently (including again tomorrow) and McNeil seems to be coming around a bit after also looking like shit for about a week, plus this keeps JD in there to do damage to the southpaws (or to give the south pause ... either way)

bmfc1 Sep 13 2019 02:24 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Let him rest for a day instead of facing Kershaw. He needs a day to chill.

Lefty Specialist Sep 13 2019 02:30 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

He's been striking out a lot. Resting him against Kershaw probably isn't a bad thing.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 13 2019 03:23 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

A coupl'a days ago, I thought Alonso was gassed. I thought he was really late on a few fastballs and I figured maybe he's wearing down as the season ends, never having played a season this long and maybe not knowing how to pace himself, him being a rookie, and on top of that, all gung ho with the season he's been having. Plus, he's. been so sensational that he's in the lineup every day. But then he hits two homers in one game against the DBacks and so I say to myself: "what the hell do I know"?

kcmets Sep 13 2019 05:17 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Seems a rather sparse crowd considering Friday night, it's the Dodgers and it's like the most important game of the decade.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 05:41 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Yeah, Alonso needed a blow. Stinks to be against a lefty. But apparently, Davis can pick up some of the righthanded-hitting slack.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 06:03 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

We've got a crazy big strike zone tonight.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 06:14 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Bellinger or no Bellinger, walking dudes in front of the middle of this lineup is a fast way to an early dugout rest.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 06:17 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Cano was right there, and couldn't knock it down. Farts. Not to mention that we're pushing 80 damn pitches in the fourth.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 06:23 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Luxed.

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 06:27 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Nearly six innings worth of pitches to get thru four, more than 1/4 of them just from the two ABs to Bellinger. Even without that HR, Noah wasn't long for this game anyway.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 06:28 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Well, yes, but handing the bullpen a three-run deficit to preserve over four innings is probably a little less win-conducive than handing them a one-run lead. Not a terrible idea by McNeil there... just not crazy-well-executed.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 06:32 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Hunter W. must have machine-dried his strike zone on high between innings.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 06:36 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Two pitches to hit-- 3-1 high-'80s fastball middle-out; 2-1 mid-'80s slider left on the plate-- squandered by Frazier and Conforto.

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 06:51 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Y'know, if they really wanted to spice up the broadcasts with these out-of-booth refreshment samplings for G, K, & R, I have four words for them: Jim Beam Bourbon Bar

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 07:14 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

I either never realized, or forgot, how pissy Kershaw gets when he doesn't hit his spots.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:17 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Poke it leftward against a shift? WHO WOULDA THUNK

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:25 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Why pull Familia after 25 pitches, plentiful weak contact, and the only baserunner coming on a cueshot to beat the shift?

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 07:26 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

I was just starting to look up how many 'perfect' appearances Familia had this year when that dribbler down the 3rd base line messed up a possible two perfect innings. I counted ten 1-2-3 one-inning outings (plus a few shorter ones) but none of his 64 prior appearances were both perfect and any longer than three outs. And now, not only did he give up a hit but that hit has come around to score after he's out of the game so he doesn't even get away scoreless. Still an encouraging night for him overall, but ultimately short of what we needed.

kcmets Sep 13 2019 07:27 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Game's starting to stink like rodent ass.

Gwreck Sep 13 2019 07:35 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

You are down 6 runs and they are giving you a free single. Learn to freakin bunt.

kcmets Sep 13 2019 07:36 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Frazier yucking it up with Belinger at first down 7-1.

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 07:39 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

So three tack-on runs after two were out and nobody on. That's what that 5th inning was like in Chicago today, except more than twice as long and producing seven runs with hit after hit (and some bad defense mixed in) to the point where you weren't sure if it was ever going to end.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:40 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

People make a lot of the Dodgers' talent, and they do have a lot of it. But they've just plain outplayed us tonight-- hitting against the shift, running hard, working deep into counts-- too.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 07:42 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

I'm feeling good about Alonso pinch-hitting here.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 07:44 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Cool. A four-pitch walk. There isn't a new rule that says Lowrie has to bat here, right? They can still send up Nimmo, right?

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:45 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Roberts looked like he was about to leave Kershaw in until Lowrie was announced. If I were Callaway, I might have left walky-walky Nimmo in to PH.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:45 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

So... burn Lowrie, then?

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 07:46 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

I guess they can.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:50 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Rosario looks like he's playing defense up there.

MFS62 Sep 13 2019 07:51 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

If Diaz doesn't pitch in this game, we know he floating in the sewer deep beneath the Empire State Building. Later

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 07:52 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Maybe they should have run for Alonso. On the other hand, the throw was so good that maybe it's good they didn't. They might have sent Matz and seen him cut down.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 07:53 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Fleb.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 07:53 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Do you maneuver to keep Alonso in the game at this point?

Gwreck Sep 13 2019 07:57 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Might not have necessarily, but with Davis making the last out, sure.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 08:03 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

I don't know if these bullpen dudes are afraid of not being able to escape in time ICOE, or whether they just don't want to climb too many flights en route to work, but outside of Familia, nobody wants off the ESB ground floor.

Gwreck Sep 13 2019 08:09 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

I understand we are unlikely to win, but still. If you are unable to take a free hit, Robinson Cano, then you need to take bunting practice every single day until you learn.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 08:14 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

That, of course, goes to everybody on the team. And everybody in the minor league system. An everybody that wants to be on the team. And everybody that wants to be in the minor league system.

LWFS Sep 13 2019 08:19 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

AND Bellinger's sprinting in the ninth on a dribbler when they're up 9-2, because he's got a shot at a hit.

Edgy MD Sep 13 2019 08:26 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

AND Todd swings 2-0 down seven in the bottom of the ninth. He should have to walk home after that.

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 08:26 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

If I were the replay umps I'd have turned down that challenge even if the evidence showed otherwise, just to reward Bellinger for the hustle and to punish Lockett for his laziness.

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 08:33 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 14 2019 03:22 AM

And yet another 3-1/2 hour game in a season full of them.

kcmets Sep 13 2019 08:34 PM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Miserable game.

MFS62 Sep 14 2019 05:00 AM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Frayed Knot wrote: If I were the replay umps I'd have turned down that challenge even if the evidence showed otherwise, just to reward Bellinger for the hustle and to punish Lockett for his laziness. Plenty of punishment to go around for this one - a lot of flat Schaefer, just like their performance. Later

Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 14 2019 07:07 AM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Mets did everything wrong from the start in this game, including having lines at the entrance so congested and slow that me and thousands of others missed the first 2.5 innings. More people were outside than in. I have little sympathy for those who show up too late to get in on time, and due to meeting up with a bunch of folks all arriving separately got a later start than I would have intended (Wifey Bucket + Lunchpail had separate tix and they went in ahead of us) but getting in line at 6:50 for a 7:10 game ought to be enough for a competent and adequately staffed organization to get us through even on amateur night. Instead it took an hour. An hour! They gave out "free shirts" at the entrance but not the ones advertised, they ran out of those. The game was the same, they were just unprepared for and overwhelmed by the visitors.

Gwreck Sep 14 2019 07:22 AM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

That was my experience as well. And it is completely fixable: hire enough people and get enough security screening points set up to move people in faster. But the Mets can't be bothered. Nevermind the fact that the security theater is so offensively ineffective. And that having thousands of fans stuck outside in those lines creates an exponentially greater safety risk.

Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 14 2019 08:10 AM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

there has to be a more effective way to let the Mets know how unacceptable this is than mad-tweeting them

cal sharpie Sep 14 2019 11:08 AM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

Got in on time entering in the right field entrance but lotta folks came in in the 3rd or 4th inning. It was kinda cold so happy for the crappy t-shirt. Game was terrible and too many Dodger fans. Mariska Hargetay came out to throw a first pitch and then some corporate guy came out to also throw a first pitch (second pitch?). Mariska's was much better thrown.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 14 2019 11:31 AM Re: IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

=kcmets post_id=21894 time=1568428444 user_id=53]Miserable game.

Not to worry. The Mets won four out of their last five and that's even better than two out of three!

The way I see it, if they lose today, and with deGrom starting, you know how likely that is, that'll be four out of six which is two out of three times two. Doubly good!