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The delay maybe means they can go one more turn through the rotation before calling up a starter.

G-Fafif wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:31 pm Mets have corrected Thursday start time to 1:10 PM.

12:10 will be the first pitch for the doubleheader after tomorrow's game is "banged".

Hard to see a game being played today, miserable here

metirish wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:02 pm

Gary has had it

That was weird!

bmfc1 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:03 pm

G-Fafif wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:31 pm Mets have corrected Thursday start time to 1:10 PM.

12:10 will be the first pitch for the doubleheader after tomorrow's game is "banged".

This seems likely to me, if the NYC weather is anything as dreary as it is up here in the 'Cuse

Sun just came out in Baltimore for the first time in April. Don't know if it's going to stay but the teams have Mize and Houser each bumped to tonight's game, so let's keep this IGT going for tonight's (scheduled) punch-up.

Orioles have a 1:00 home game today, Phils are at 4:00, Nats at 6:45
so we'll see how the weather is at those while waiting for our time slot.

It's goofy, in that April rainouts used to be no big whoop. Not only was the schedule more tilted toward division play, but teams tended to open the season against division rivals, so if a game couldn't be played in April, you knew that opponent would be coming through town for a couple more series later in the year.

Now, scheduling exotic matchups like Mets-vs.-Tigers-for-three-games in April seems to set us up for "Let's stand by for 36 hours to see if we can get six innings of cold, wet, poorly played baseball in" disasters, leading even baseball's greatest cheerleaders like Gary Cohen for "Sometimes, I hate this game" moments.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:18 am

metirish wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:02 pm

Gary has had it

That was weird!

This will never get old.

I like that there is all of one person visible in the ballpark behind them — a lone raincoated figure standing in the rain like Charlie Brown except down the left field line.

12:10 twinbill Thutsday.

The Tigers must be loving this.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:21 pm The Tigers must be loving this.

Weather is not much better here.....

So one week into the season and the results are 4 losses plus 3 rainouts.
Ugh!


Aaaand, the make-up games have eaten up the only two off days they had between the start of the season
and April 17th so from here it's 15 games in the next 14 days ... weather permitting of course.

G-Fafif wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:15 pm12:10 twinbill Thutsday.

They should have free general admission!

NOAA - Corona, New York:
Thursday
Showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. North wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:38 am It's goofy, in that April rainouts used to be no big whoop. Not only was the schedule more tilted toward division play, but teams tended to open the season against division rivals, so if a game couldn't be played in April, you knew that opponent would be coming through town for a couple more series later in the year.

Braves @ ChiSox rained out today, re-sked for a mutual off-day on June 27 when the Braves will play consecutive games in StL (Wed) CHI (Thu) and ATL (Fri)


Meanwhile they're still waiting out weather in the scheduled 1:00 start in Baltimore and the 4:00 in Philly
Neither has started but neither has either been postponed.

It's goofier.

Interleague play is the culprit!

We got sun this morning and mostly pleasing temps, but actual talk of snow flurries or ice pellets spiraling into the area this afternoon.

How often does a DH bat 9th? I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying that it says something about Stewart and the decision to keep him around despite a terrible ST.

Tigers trot out the same lineup they've been trying to get on the field since Tuesday evening. Mets release Nimmo from DH jail, slide Taylor into center, and replace Bader with new DH DJ Stewart in (as noted above) the nine-hole.

#	Player	Pos.	#	Player	Pos.
1	Parker Meadows (L)	cf	1	Brandon Nimmo (L)	lf
2	Spencer Torkelson (R)	1b	2	Francisco Lindor (S)	ss
3	Kerry Carpenter (L)	dh	3	Pete Alonso (R)	1b
4	Riley Greene (L)	lf	4	Francisco Álvarez (R)	c
5	Matt Vierling (R)	rf	5	Brett Baty (L)	3b
6	Colt Keith (L)	2b	6	Starling Marte (R)	rf
7	Carson Kelly (R)	c	7	Jeff McNeil (L)	2b
8	Gio Urshela (R)	3b	8	Tyrone Taylor (R)	cf
9	Zach McKinstry (L)	ss	9	DJ Stewart (L)	dh
	Casey Mize (R)	sp		Adrian Houser (R)	sp

I want to note that the Tigers have perhaps as many as six guys in the lineup with last-name first names. It's like a Nelson Doubleday class reunion out there.

I have the game on now. This is the first game I'm watching live this season! (I watched Monday night's game on Tuesday morning.)

I still can't get over how bad the names on the uniform jerseys look.

Let's win two!

Or at least one

I think, as a short-notice double-header, the teams only get to add an extry player for Game Two. And that stings the Mets a little more, as they are already without Yohan Ramirez for Game One.

Good to see Nimmo getting his walk game back in gear.

Citi Field looks pretty empty. It's like Shea Stadium in 1980.