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IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

kcmets May 27 2021 12:15 PM

Senzatela 1-4, 5.01 Lucchesi 1-3, 7.32

LWFS May 27 2021 12:22 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

This steal 1-3 runs-and-hold-them thing might work, if we can supplement the defense even more. (Which, frankly, might be the only way to upgrade without giving up real talent.)

Edgy MD May 27 2021 12:29 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

I'm not sure we can know with any certainty whether giving up Pedro Quintana wasn't giving up "real" talent. That said, I'm fine with improving defensively as fallback strategy for the time being. I'd just appreciate it if these plan C guys could supplement their defense with hitting and bunting against the shift and not swinging 3-0 when losing by three late in the game with no one on base. It'd be a shame if this pitching didn't produce a playoff team no matter who you have swinging the bat.

G-Fafif May 27 2021 12:37 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Villar 3B Lindor SS McKinney RF D. Smith LF McCann C Mazeika 1B Peraza 2B Maybin CF Lucchesi LHP

Edgy MD May 27 2021 12:39 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Sure took a long time, but they finally got Zeke into a lineup.

LWFS May 27 2021 12:55 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Walking two guys to start the game may be a bad omen, but at least Lucchesi's working at sub-Trachselian speed, to boot

Fman99 May 27 2021 01:09 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

They have to keep showing that one bearded jackass yelling every time Lindor does anything good or bad on SNY? Is he the hairy idiot guardian angel or something?

LWFS May 27 2021 01:14 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Whoever he is, he should've yelled harder at McKinney and Dom.

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 01:21 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Conner Kok-Wy Joe That's a heckuva handle. Where did you come from, where did you come go Where did you come from Cotton Wy Joe?

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 01:23 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Much better inning for Pal Joey. But he's approaching his 43-pitch limit.

Edgy MD May 27 2021 01:25 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

I had a year in the Rockville Centre Soccer Club where I was on a team that tied every game. We were at 0-0-8 and our propensity to draw had become an accepted absurdity. If one team led in the final minute, we knew the equalizer was pre-fated. Then, in Game Nine, we went up against the powder blue team. My classmate Gary lined up across from me and said, "You guys are going to win." "We don't ever win." "Trust me," Gary said, "today you're going to win." The ref started counting players and announced that Gary's team was two players short. "My cousin James is here," I said, "He can play with you." James was two years younger, not old enough to play at this level on any roster. He wasn't a bad athlete. He was a strong and smart defender, but soccer wasn't his game. And he'd be a ten-year-old playing with 12-year-olds or something. But that's where it gets funny. James suited up, and even as we quickly went up 3-0 on Gary's (indeed terrible) team, it became clear that James suddenly had the best skills on the squad. He had never dominated at any level before, but they quickly bumped him up from fullback to striker. He started getting the hint that it was less-than-useful for him to pass, so he started taking on all comers, 1-on-3 or something, having the time of his life getting a couple of shots on goal off. The Powder Blues played along, quickly switching to a strategy of Get-the-Ball-to-James-and-Get-out-of-His Way. He was an utterly mediocre player playing in a division over his head, and they were acting like they just acquired Pelé. So was he. Ultimately he scored the only tally as we ended our tie purgatory with a 9-1 win. I feel like this is more or less the mentality going on with Mets when they fill out the lineup card. 　"Let's bat McKinney third." 　　"Is he good?" 　"He's new." 　　"But is he good?" 　"Listen, he's new. Do you want me to run through the other options we've seen to date?" 　　"No need. Looks like we've got a number-three hitter."

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 01:54 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 27 2021 01:58 PM

I'm surprised SNY hasn't thrown up a picture of big Ted Kluszewski amid all this discussion of sleeveless uniforms. [FIMG=300]http://sabr.org/sites/default/files/images/KluszewskiTed-1957Topps.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=450]https://alchetron.com/cdn/ted-kluszewski-f57c44f1-7965-41d9-bfc6-584691cd960-resize-750.jpg[/FIMG]

Fman99 May 27 2021 01:56 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

I hate the word "churve." It's a curveball that is thrown slow. Call it a damn curveball.

kcmets May 27 2021 02:02 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Seems that term crept in not too long ago not sure when where or why. It's a slow curve.

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 02:05 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

It's pretty specific to just to the pitch Lucchessi throws.

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 02:05 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

McKinney playing a pretty nice RF so far

Edgy MD May 27 2021 02:08 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

It's a changeup grip with a curve's snap, I think. Lucchesi is starting get hookmarks in his body.

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 02:14 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

A GIDP won't turn the trick here so we might have to get an actual hit to break the tie.

Edgy MD May 27 2021 02:16 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Bases loaded. Six straight balls. Zeke chases one out of the zone.

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 02:17 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Zeke K's on three pitches none of which were in the strike zone.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 27 2021 02:18 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

pErAzA

Edgy MD May 27 2021 02:18 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

I was thinking we might want to pinch run Lee for Smith. And then I saw Smith running, and I'm thinking we really ought to have pinch-run Lee for Smith.

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 02:20 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Boy, Maybin is beyond brutal and into comical now.

LWFS May 27 2021 02:26 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Why exactly did we bring in the lefty to pitch to the lefty-killing lineup?

Edgy MD May 27 2021 02:31 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Jazz brunch for everybody! [fimg=500]https://ablackhillskindoflife.typepad.com/.a/6a0168e61fb2d2970c016765456ac9970b-pi[/fimg]

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 02:32 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Another inning, another bullet dodged.

LWFS May 27 2021 02:33 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

This run-prevention boat's stayed afloat, but it sure is listing

LWFS May 27 2021 02:39 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Our offense, she is Peraza

dinosaur jesus May 27 2021 02:46 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

I've got Cron's disease and he's got mine.

Edgy MD May 27 2021 02:49 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Give Villar a hold.

LWFS May 27 2021 02:51 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

(And an umpire bailout-- the pitch before the one Joe hit was practically mid-thigh)

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 02:51 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Edgy MD wrote: Give Villar a hold. This team would be in big trouble without him.

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 02:58 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Pitching Familia a second inning........mistake.

LWFS May 27 2021 02:58 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

This guy is Justus- not Gary-related, right?

Edgy MD May 27 2021 03:00 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

If Mookie was coaching, Zeke would have danced away from that pitch so the runner could score from third.

Edgy MD May 27 2021 03:03 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Great time to leave the superschneid behind, Cameron.

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 03:15 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

The GiDP and the bases loaded BB: the symbols of our offense. And, oddly, often enough for the 'W'

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 03:15 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

=LWFS post_id=65780 time=1622149104 user_id=84] This guy is Justus- not Gary-related, right?

Nope.



And Justus is the brother (this one is Jordan). Justus was a 1st round pick by Cleveland and a pretty big prospect who went who went to the Yanx in the Andrew Miller

trade and later to the Mariners for James Paxton

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 03:20 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Gselly on for the gsave?

LWFS May 27 2021 03:20 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Villar may not be our best hitter anymore

Frayed Knot May 27 2021 03:21 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Lefty Specialist wrote: Pitching Familia a second inning........mistake. No longer the case thanks to the extended inning and a PH'er Looks like Gselly

Johnny Lunchbucket May 27 2021 03:29 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

HBP, SB, 1B: Tying run up. This pitching change is brought to you by some law firm

bmfc1 May 27 2021 03:30 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Did I miss something amiss with May?

Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 03:30 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Barnes has a recent history of giving up first-pitch home runs.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 27 2021 03:33 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

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Lefty Specialist May 27 2021 03:34 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Whew! DOS LIBROS!!

bmfc1 May 27 2021 03:34 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

Outstanding! 2-0 with McKinney.

Edgy MD May 27 2021 04:42 PM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

McWinney.

Benjamin Grimm May 28 2021 06:50 AM Re: IGT 05-27 - COL @ NYM - Game 2

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