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Javier Assad 2-0 2.00
Sean Manaea 1-1 3.33

Game time 7:10

Later

Tuesday Night Mets Club will represent in section 301 -- front row of the soft-drink seats in right-center.

Dollar hot dog night

(see below)

$1 hot dogs! Just wheelbarrow me out to the subway stairs after the game...

Vientos goes back down as Marte returns.

Brandon Nimmo (L) LF
Francisco Lindor (S) SS
Pete Alonso (R) 1B
J.D. Martinez (R) DH
Jeff McNeil (L) 2B
Tyrone Taylor (R) CF
DJ Stewart (L) RF
Brett Baty (L) 3B
Omar Narváez (L) C

Sean Manaea (LHP)
1-1, 3.33 ERA, 27 SO


Nico Hoerner (R) 2B
Patrick Wisdom (R) 1B
Ian Happ (S) LF
Christopher Morel (R) DH
Dansby Swanson (R) SS
Mike Tauchman (L) CF
Nick Madrigal (R) 3B
Miguel Amaya (R) C
Alexander Canario (R) RF

Javier Assad (RHP)
2-0, 2.00 ERA, 26 SO

Welcome back, Narvotter.

Sean Manaea using "Just the Two of Us" for entrance music?

Whatever works, man.

Anyway, Mike Trout has a torn meniscus

Man, I forget how much Assad looks like a graduate assistant in the sociology department.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:19 pm Man, I forget how much Assad looks like a graduate assistant in the sociology department.

On his first day, wow ,he looks young

Not a smart throw by Wisdom on the SB attempt.

Terrific first. Only one run, but Assad threw 25 pitches and struck out nobiddy.

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:24 pm Not a smart throw by Wisdom on the SB attempt.

Lindor could have gotten called a second time for abandoning his baseline.

He didn't interfere any more than last time, but he certainly could have been considered to be screening.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:11 pm Sean Manaea using "Just the Two of Us" for entrance music?

Whatever works, man.

Maybe he's schizophrenic.
Later

If the coaches positioned Hoerner a step more to his left, Assad might be throwing a one-hitter.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:31 pm

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:24 pm Not a smart throw by Wisdom on the SB attempt.

Lindor could have gotten called a second time for abandoning his baseline.

He didn't interfere any more than last time, but he certainly could have been considered to be screening.

The rules about where a batter can and can't run are more strict and more strictly defined from home to 1st, and particularly
so since the rules were rewritten this past winter. The ball probably needed to hit Lindor last night in order to get a call where
the simple act of him being on the wrong side of the line there other day triggers the call.

Baty, while not exactly GG material at 3B, looks smoother and much less mechanical as compared to Vientos.



* my spell-check is far too hyper. I was just about to post when I realized my sentence identified Baby and Vents.

DJ Stewart, hitting .196, the second-lowest BA in the lineup, has the second-highest OPS in the lineup. Wacky!

Manaea and Severino pitching like their old selves this year. If they keep it up, their top four will be one for the ages (well, in Mets terms, at least).

Nice play from Pete

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:12 pm Manaea and Severino pitching like their old selves this year. If they keep it up, their top four will be one for the ages (well, in Mets terms, at least).

Whatever else you can say about the Mets historically, there's a pretty high bar to being a top four that's one for the ages in Mets terms.

Javier Assad, especially when said quickly by announcers, sounds far too much like Hafez al-Assad.

Chad ochoseis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:16 pm

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:12 pm Manaea and Severino pitching like their old selves this year. If they keep it up, their top four will be one for the ages (well, in Mets terms, at least).

Whatever else you can say about the Mets historically, there's a pretty high bar to being a top four that's one for the ages in Mets terms.

I can think of two or three sets that were mind-blowing, and a couple more that were solid, but their pitching staffs have been rather spotty throughout their history.

And speaking of going out of the baseline ... I'm not sure what Happ was yapping about over that inning ending play at 1st.