The Crane Pool Forum

The good news is that there appears to be a 'window' for getting this game in before le deluge.
The bad news is that window means starting the game NOW!!!! (6:47 EDT)

Game Time: whenever
Game date: whenever
Starters: one for each side, subject to change
Lindor?: maybe

Double header today?

Later

National Weather Service:

Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 78. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Tonight
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 67. East wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Seems whatever window that was open has be slammed
shut and boarded up. Bring in the sandbags!!

Let's say Lindor is in.

Do you DH Acuna?

Martinez is garbage, Winker won't play

Don’t you DH Lindor in that circumstance?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:16 am Let's say Lindor is in.

Do you DH Acuna?

Martinez is garbage, Winker won't play

Would be a huge blow to Martinez 's ego, being benched for a rookie in what is so far, the biggest game of the season.

Gwreck wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:18 am Don’t you DH Lindor in that circumstance?

That's besides the point..

The point is whether Martinez or Acuna plays. The point is the choice between those two.

Two other options include benching Iglesias, whose workload Mendoza was careful to manage through most of the season, but has been ridden hard since Lindor went down, and benching Nimmo against the lefty, deploying Acuña in left.

Both those scenarios mostly depend on Lindor being able to start at shortstop, of course, which still seems pretty unlikely.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:21 am

Gwreck wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:18 am Don’t you DH Lindor in that circumstance?

That's besides the point..

The point is whether Martinez or Acuna plays. The point is the choice between those two.

Yes that's the point. Is the hot rookie hot enough to stay with or do you go to the proven vet in the worst slump of the season. I figure they leave Iglesias in there given he's hot, or at least having a hit or two most nights. You suckas are dodging the question. Pretend Lindor is the DH

If there is a game, Lindor is playing short and leading off.

JD is DH.

Lindor ss
Iglesias 2b
Vientos 3b
Alonso 1b
Martinez dh
Marte rf
Taylor lf
Alvarez c
Bader cf

Lindor SS
Iglesias 2B
Vientos 3B
Alonso 1B
Martinez DH
Taylor LF
Marte RF
Alvarez C
Bader CF

Peterson LHP

I would have had Lindor at short, Acuna at second (I think he played some games there in the minors ), Iglesias at third and Vientos at DH and had Martinez warm the pine.
Later

cal sharpie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 4:19 pm JD is DH.

And Lindor shorty!

And Acuña benchy!

Not that JD Martinez is all that good against Sale: .220/.267/.488 (9/41 - although 2 2Bs & 3 HRs among those 9 hits) but the kid is not likely to have
seen much like Sale during his minor league journey so you'd really be throwing him into the deep end of the pool without swimming lessons.

The real question for me is how much Lindor we're getting — 75%? 80%?

Maybe Mendoza is bluffing, putting Lindor's name into a lineup of a game he expects to be postponed.

SNY posted footage of the field on their IG page. Just now. It's a morass

Ppd. Tonight and tomorrow, sources report.

There you go

Another location? Probably not

1:10 doubleheader (single admission) Monday — just like how 1973 ended, sort of.

Nothing announced other than here

Atlanta draws the life and death to win Royals while Mets draw the Brewers who are locked in

I'm pretty ok with this