IGT 7/23 Mets at NYY - Keep it Going

[MFS62]

Jose Quintana 4-4 4.13
Luis Gil 10-5 3.17

Game time 7:05

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Mini-KTE

Yanx sit at 18 games over .500 (a loft we haven’t sniffed so far this year) with a +109 run differential … but that doesn’t mean they don’t have issues.

For starters they’re sub-.500 since the start of June. And after going 25-8 from May 3rd to June 6th, they’re 15-23 since; 10-19 since June 15
They, like us, are coming off a four-game split of a wrap-around weekend series with a Florida team.

They relied on their pitching over the first two months allowing a 658 & 595 OPS-against for April and May but that’s turned into 805 & 707 in June/July even with the return of Gerritt Cole. Their ERA in Apr/May were 3.06 & 2.44 which then turned into 5.26 & 3.72

Then, when a playful set of messages to Luis Severino from his ex-teammates accused him of ‘ducking them’ as he’s not scheduled to pitch in this series and missed them in the first one, he responded with ‘why would I do that, you only have two hitters?’ Funny … and not too far from the truth.

Judge & Soto have been ridiculous (1111/OPS/OPS+ and 1029/186 — 1st & 3rd in MLB) and between them have hit 41% of the team’s HRs (60/146). But every other regular is below par w/OPS+ except for Stanton (119) and he’s (say it with me folks) currently on the IL.
- Anthony Volpe: 757 & 812 OPS in Apr/May, 547 & 574 in Jun/Jul
- LeMahieu, Rizzo and Stanton are old and out.
- Alex Verdugo (286 OBA) and Gleyber Torres sport matching 82 OPS+ badges which noses out that of 3B Oswaldo Cabrera (79).
- Recent 1B call-up Ben Rice has an eye and some pop but just a .200 BA and K’s about 30% of the time.

They tend to win lately only when they win big (ie. Judge & Soto go wild). Of their last eight wins only two have been by less than five runs [11, 7, 10, 5, 5, 8]

We'll see Luis Gil and Cole on the mound, the same two we saw in the CitiField series where we beat them both up.
Both though have been better since: two good starts out of the three since then for Gil, three good out of his last four for Cole.

Tuesday SNY. Wednesday is an ESPN exclusive

[Edgy MD]

Dominic has a KTE of his own.

[kcmets]

Today is 7/23.

[metirish]

The Mets might not know what day it is

[Frayed Knot]

The Yanx, meanwhile, played a day game yesterday ... at home.

[ashie62]

Mini-KTE

Yanx sit at 18 games over .500 (a loft we haven’t sniffed so far this year) with a +109 run differential … but that doesn’t mean they don’t have issues.

For starters they’re sub-.500 since the start of June. And after going 25-8 from May 3rd to June 6th, they’re 15-23 since; 10-19 since June 15
They, like us, are coming off a four-game split of a wrap-around weekend series with a Florida team.

They relied on their pitching over the first two months allowing a 658 & 595 OPS-against for April and May but that’s turned into 805 & 707 in June/July even with the return of Gerritt Cole. Their ERA in Apr/May were 3.06 & 2.44 which then turned into 5.26 & 3.72

Then, when a playful set of messages to Luis Severino from his ex-teammates accused him of ‘ducking them’ as he’s not scheduled to pitch in this series and missed them in the first one, he responded with ‘why would I do that, you only have two hitters?’ Funny … and not too far from the truth.

Judge & Soto have been ridiculous (1111/OPS/OPS+ and 1029/186 — 1st & 3rd in MLB) and between them have hit 41% of the team’s HRs (60/146). But every other regular is below par w/OPS+ except for Stanton (119) and he’s (say it with me folks) currently on the IL.
- Anthony Volpe: 757 & 812 OPS in Apr/May, 547 & 574 in Jun/Jul
- LeMahieu, Rizzo and Stanton are old and out.
- Alex Verdugo (286 OBA) and Gleyber Torres sport matching 82 OPS+ badges which noses out that of 3B Oswaldo Cabrera (79).
- Recent 1B call-up Ben Rice has an eye and some pop but just a .200 BA and K’s about 30% of the time.

They tend to win lately only when they win big (ie. Judge & Soto go wild). Of their last eight wins only two have been by less than five runs [11, 7, 10, 5, 5, 8]

We'll see Luis Gil and Cole on the mound, the same two we saw in the CitiField series where we beat them both up.
Both though have been better since: two good starts out of the three since then for Gil, three good out of his last four for Cole.

Tuesday SNY. Wednesday is an ESPN exclusive

I thought tonight was TBS and WPIX locally

No?

[Frayed Knot]

You are correct.
Tonight's game is PIX locally And TBS nationally (although blackout rules likely in play) ... as opposed to Wednesday night which is ESPN exclusively.

[G-Fafif]

Lindor SS
Nimmo LF
Martinez DH
Alonso 1B
Vientos 3B
McNeil 2B
Torrens C
Taylor RF
Bader CF
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Quintana LHP (4-6, 4.13)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Slumpy Alvarez gets a night off

[Edgy MD]

Are Volpe, LeMahieu, Verdugo, and Torres still engaged in their pitched battle to see who can hustle the least?

[ashie62]

And we are off in the belly of the beast

[Fman99]

TBS crew already annoyed me, four pitches in. Sorry Frenchy but this PBP guy sucks a toe

[Edgy MD]

Hey, look — the Yankees have a catcher named Narváez!

[Lefty Specialist]

I was perfectly fine with walking Judge. Quintana made JD Davis look foolish.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, yeah. I forgot about Yankee Stadium homeruns.

[Fman99]

Ugh Vientos apparently wears 27 because that was Stanton's number when he came up with Miami. Well we'll forgive him for that I suppose

[Edgy MD]

Are Volpe, LeMahieu, Verdugo, and Torres still engaged in their pitched battle to see who can hustle the least?

Well, shut my mouth. There's Volpe hustling.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, look — the Yankees have a catcher named Narváez!

Narváez is wearing Ninetyfóurez.

Numerically, it's a tough deal being a Yankee rookie.

[Frayed Knot]

Quintana limiting the damage so far but, geez, 79 pitches thru 4
That's 5-1/3 innings worth of pitches even though giving up just one.



Meanwhile, a couple hits from our side would be nice.

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile, a couple hits from our side would be nice.

Now that that wish was granted, how 'bout some XBHs?

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile, a couple hits from our side would be nice.

Now that that wish was granted, how 'bout some XBHs?

Not quite but it shoulda been !!!

[Edgy MD]

Mets not getting their extra bases at all tonight.

Extreme station-to-station ball. A favorite of David Bowie.

[Frayed Knot]

Gleyber Torres = 340 ft HR
Tyrone Taylor = 390 ft single

[Frayed Knot]

The bases-loaded HBP ... Our go-to move!!!!