7/11 IGT - Nats @ Mets - 1:10

[ashie62]

Maton making a debut

[Edgy MD]

Film a ton of footage of Phil Maton.

[Edgy MD]

I never really liked Miguel Cairo. He was a favorite of Yankee-loving Met fans.

[Chad ochoseis]

I'm too lazy to check if Maton is the first 88 in Met history, but I suspect he is.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

your suspicions would be correct

[Chad ochoseis]

Torrens is really giving Iglesias a run for his money in the Dark Horse Met of the Year competition.

[Edgy MD]

Torrens is really giving Iglesias a run for his money in the Dark Horse Met of the Year competition.

David Peterson's agent just called and he would like to you to keep an eye on his boy as well.

[ashie62]

Well done!

[ashie62]

Mark Vientos Automatic for the fans

[kcmets]

Happy for all the cpf gaydamers in attendance.

Oh wait, they're only up by 7 and still need three outs!

[Chad ochoseis]

7-0 lead in the 9th against a crappy team, and I'm worried.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Ronnie noting Otto's lack of success. "You just can't put him out there when you are playing a lot of close games."

[Edgy MD]

"Hey, we could have our first shutout of the season here!"

"Or ... and hear me out ... we can put in Ottavino!"

I jest! Go, Otto!!

[Chad ochoseis]

And take Young and Diekman with you!

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Otto is making the catcher dive all over the place.

[ashie62]

Books!

Shutout!

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I don't know how he got out of that!

BOOKS!

[kcmets]

Paging Bill, bring out the brooms!

[Chad ochoseis]

Time for the old guy with the broom!

Padres have an off day, so the Mets wake up tomorrow morning in the second WC spot.

[Edgy MD]

I don't know how he got out of that!

BOOKS!

Because baseball is full of awesome. That's how!

[Lefty Specialist]

Totally awesome game. Took a while to get going, but once it did, fun. Of course the bullpun had to load the bases in the 8th AND 9th, but wriggled free.

Hooky games are the best

[Fman99]

We had a great day. Brought my mother in law along for her first ever MLB game. Staying tonight in New Rochelle and hitting the Bronx Zoo to celebrate FGirl's 17th birthday

[Frayed Knot]

On the plus side on Ottavino, nobody hit him: 27 pitches yet only one fair ball (three Ks and a somewhat soft single).
But, man, it was a slog out there. In all the Mets threw, was it three or four?, wild pitches all with a runner on 3rd
and yet not a single one of them came home!!

Other stuff:
- nice aggressive base running:
1) JDM going to 3rd on a single to CF
2) sending Nimmo on the hit following his bases-clearing double; w/2 outs it was the right move but I thought he'd be nailed (nice slide).
3) Pete taking 3rd on a hit which in turn set up the next run

- Juan Yepez sounds like a name David Letterman would have had fun with

- were behind the Nats until just recently (6/24) but now are six full game ahead.

[Lefty Specialist]

Nice to see JD get 3 hits as he'd been slumping.

Alvarez got a full day off, which was nice.

No need to use Diaz, but I'm a little pissed at Young fouling the nest badly enough that they had to bring Dedniel Nunez into a game with a 7-run lead.

Impressed with Matos- K, K, pop-up and didn't seem to be fooling around out there.

[Lefty Specialist]

Also, 21-10 in the Grimace Era.