IGT 8/30 White City Matchup Mets vs White Sox 8:10 Megill

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Post by ashie62 » Fri Aug 30, 2024 2:37 pm

Tylor Megill against Jonathan Cannon

Anything less than a sweep feels like failure

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Post by MFS62 » Fri Aug 30, 2024 2:44 pm

ashie62 wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 2:37 pm
Anything less than a sweep feels like failure
That's putting the cart before the herd.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:03 pm

If the Mets sweep the lowly White Sox (and I've learned to be fearful of teams called "lowly") and the Braves lose the next three to the first-place Phillies, neither of which are implausible scenarios, the Mets will wake up on September 2 tied for the third Wild Card berth.

Even if it doesn't turn out exactly that way, the Mets do have an opportunity here to make up some much-needed ground.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:05 pm

Yeah, bad teams win a lot. Even the 2024 White Sox have managed to win 31 times. And each win was against a team currently ahead of them in the standings. Fifty-eight percent of their wins have come at home. They've even shut out their opponents five times.

One game at a time.
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Post by Marshmallowmilkshake » Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:16 pm

Tylor seems to wilt in big games. I don't have data on that, just an impression.
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Post by Centerfield » Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:34 pm

Tonight the Sox have the pitching advantage. Statistically anyway. I don’t really know much about Cannon except he has a great name.
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Post by metirish » Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:38 pm

Sweeps are difficult, let's see
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Post by ashie62 » Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:42 pm

I am kahnfident the Mets can win three against the Pale Hose one game at a time

Beyond that I don't often get to watch the White Sox play very often and am looking forward to this series

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Post by Frayed Knot » Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:41 pm

The ChiSox have won a hair over 26% of their home games this year. So using that as a guide, the Mets have a 74% of winning each game. But to get to a sweep you have to go W - W - W where there's a slightly better than 1/4 chance of losing each ... or .74 x .74 x .74 = .405124
So a 40% chance of a sweepage given those generic parameters.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:42 pm

And here's who will be trying to sweep the first game.

Nimmo and Vientos swapped in the lineup, making Vientos the newest resident of the three-hole.


#PlayerPos.#PlayerPos.
1Francisco Lindor (S)ss1Nicky Lopez (L)2b
2Brandon Nimmo (L)lf2Luis Robert, Jr. (R)cf
3Mark Vientos (R)3b3Andrew Benintendi (L)lf
4Pete Alonso (R)1b4Andrew Vaughn (R)dh
5Jesse Winker (L)rf5Gavin Sheets (L)1b
6J.D. Martinez (R)dh6Korey Lee (R)c
7Jeff McNeil (L)2b7Dominic Fletcher (L)rf
8Francisco Álvarez (R)c8Miguel Vargas (R)3b
9Harrison Bader (R)cf9Jacob Amaya (R)ss
PitcherPitcher
Tylor Megill (R)spJonathan Cannon (R)sp
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:04 pm

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if it was the White Sox doing the sweeping of this series. And if the Mets were out of it, playoff-wise, I'd probably be rooting for a White Sox sweep. I'm one of those Mets fans that wants the Mets to hold their 120 loss record.
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Post by Cowtipper » Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:07 pm

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:04 pm I wouldn't be surprised in the least if it was the White Sox doing the sweeping of this series.
I came here to post that exact thing. It would be a very Metsian outcome.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:36 pm

It wouldn't be Metsian at all. Losing to bad teams is just something that happens sometimes.
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Post by G-Fafif » Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:59 pm

Two out of three lost to the Angels and A’s this month. Not a trend to be continued.
Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Post by kcmets » Fri Aug 30, 2024 7:51 pm

Love when there's a dozen posts in an IGT an hour before game time.
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Post by ashie62 » Fri Aug 30, 2024 7:58 pm

STAIN THE SOX
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Post by ashie62 » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:02 pm

The Mets are calling up Abe Froman tomorrow
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Post by Bob Alpacadaca » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:16 pm

Phillies are not exactly helping us out tonight.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:23 pm

First thing is helping ourselves, and we've fallen behind and gotten Winkie shaken up.

Highest OPS in the Sox' lineup is .679. Lowest OPS in the Mets lineup is .699, so our spreads barely touch.
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Post by kcmets » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:27 pm

That's some stupid fencing wall out there.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:30 pm

Winkie is a'ight.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:33 pm

Cash-in time, Francisco.
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Post by Centerfield » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:36 pm

How many times does that have to happen until he closes his stance. Maddening.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:39 pm

Alvarez is killing this team.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:41 pm

This is the second time the Mets made two appeals on one play, and the outcome was split.

Kind of a loophole in the rules.
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