Re: IGT, ATL@NYM 2024-05-12: Mama Told Me Not to Come

[Edgy MD]

Nothing beats Mother's Day at the ballpark! I mean, probably not, but ... I don't really know, not being a mother and all. Maybe mothers hate coming out to the ballpark after church and brunch. But whether the game is joyous or torment to your typical mum, ESPN cares not, so our Sunday afternoon game is going to be played seven hours after noon.

Twenty-four-year-old righty Bryce Elder goes for the Braves, having not yet found the form that made him effective last season. Luiss Severinno goes for the Mets, coming off a remarkable eight innings of one-hit ball against the Cubs.

[kcmets]

[Edgy MD]

The sore ribcage benches Nimmo and DJ Stewart is your new leadoff hitter.

#	Player	Pos.	#	Player	Pos.
1	Ronald Acuña, Jr. (R)	rf	1	DJ Stewart (L)	lf
2	Ozzie Albies (S)	2b	2	Starling Marte (R)	rf
3	Austin Riley (R)	3b	3	Francisco Lindor (S)	ss
4	Matt Olson (L)	1b	4	Pete Alonso (R)	1b
5	Marcell Ozuna (R)	dh	5	J.D. Martinez (R)	dh
6	Michael Harris II (L)	cf	6	Brett Baty (L)	3b
7	Orlando Arcia (R)	ss	7	Harrison Bader (R)	cf
8	Jarred Kelenic (L)	lf	8	Jeff McNeil (L)	2b
9	Chadwick Tromp (R)	c	9	Omar Narváez (L)	c
	Bryce Elder (R)	sp		Luis Severino (R)	sp

[Edgy MD]

[Cowtipper]

^^ saw them in Johnson City, TN earlier this year.

Let's go Mets!

We might be underwhelming, but at least we're not the Marlins.

[Frayed Knot]

Time to place your bets on how many minutes of game time will be seen on a shrunken screen while ESPN opts instead to more prominently show
the guy being interviewed about the ongoing game at the expense of showing the actual game itself.


Your choices are:
* 0-3 minutes
* 3-5 minutes
* Three or more full innings

[ashie62]

It's their toy and will use it three or more innings

[metirish]

The boith are pushing a "new" metric , I think they are referring to it as "swords "? Something about bat speed

It's painful to listen to

[bmfc1]

ESPN showed a picture of Ozuna and his mother. She must be so proud:

On May 29, 2021, Ozuna was arrested and charged with aggravated assault by strangulation and battery after Sandy Springs Police claimed to witness him grabbing his wife by the neck and throwing her against a wall.[42][43] The charges were later withdrawn after completion of a diversion program. This resulted in Ozuna receiving a 20-game suspension which he served retroactively during the 2021 season.[44] This followed another incident that occurred almost a year prior when Guzman was arrested on her own domestic battery charge against her husband, hitting him with a soap dish which caused a small laceration on his face.[45]

At 4 a.m. on August 19, 2022, Ozuna was arrested again and charged with driving under the influence after Norcross Police noticed his inability to stay in his lane.

[Edgy MD]

When there are two outs and the bases loaded in the first, I don't think I need a constant update in the guy's pitch count. If he's up to 40 after a batter reaches base, sure, spring it on me while we wait for the next guy to come up, but pitch counts have become so ubiquitous that the automatic story for first half of a game seemingly has to be the starting pitcher deathwatch, even as a very-high-leverage at-bat is coming to its conclusion.

[whippoorwill]

I have a hunch the boys’ll win tonight

[Edgy MD]

Leadoff singles in each of the first two innings, but so far unable to advance either.

[Frayed Knot]

Leadoff singles in each of the first two innings, but so far unable to advance either.

It's what we do.

[Edgy MD]

Could have used one or two yesterday.

[Frayed Knot]

A while back I posed a question as to which Marlin OF cast-off would turn out to have the better rest of his career, Yelich or Giancarlo Stanton
The answer is now becoming clear, it's Marcel Ozuna.
OK that's the short term answer right now but it is becoming a three man race particularly as the other two are far removed from their peaks.

[Edgy MD]

DJ's the man we love the most.

[MFS62]

Down 0-1.

I thought they'd be so frustrated after yesterday's pathetic showing, they'd come out like they were on fire and pile up the runs.
I'm not optimistic.
Later

[Edgy MD]

A while back I posed a question as to which Marlin OF cast-off would turn out to have the better rest of his career, Yelich or Giancarlo Stanton
The answer is now becoming clear, it's Marcel Ozuna.
OK that's the short term answer right now but it is becoming a three man race particularly as the other two are far removed from their peaks.

Everything about Ozuna just screams to me that he's a cheater.

[Chad ochoseis]

Nice. Pretty much the same hit as the ball that went foul, except for the not going foul part.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, we have Short on third.

[metirish]

STFU Pérez

[Frayed Knot]

Hey, we have Short on third.

And Michael Harris the 2nd in Center

[Edgy MD]

Give 'em hell, Brett.

[Chad ochoseis]

Hey, we have Short on third.

Didn't Manfred ban that last year?

[Frayed Knot]

As many hits thru 3 innings (now 4) as in the 18 innings of the first two games combined (five)
It's ... something.