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Amazin69 · 10-03-2024, 11:53 PM

Look at Westheim! Hanging in there until 04.03 CET to catch this live! (Is tomorrow another off-day?) Well done!

Meanwhile, I took a pre-dinner nap after the top of the 1st (because I need that sort of thing at my age), pausing the TV to let the resumed game wake me after the 90 minute buffer expires.

Except that when I awoke, it was the bottom of the 5th, and I sat through two nervous innings, and after the top of the 7th tried fast-forwarding the ads to catch up…only to discover I was actually live. Apparently, the game started playing almost immediately (for whatever reason), and I was just too zonked/the game was too dull to awaken me for about an hour. Huh.

So I had dinner and went back to the 3rd to see what I had missed (nothing consequential), then went back to the middle of the 7th and quite nearly lost my lunch. How does Butto give up a pinch-dinger to a guy hitting .199, exactly? And then Free Licks goes back to back , and doubles the trouble, considering we had exactly two hits at that point.

(Should we question whether Mendoza should have kept Quintana in for one more inning, given that he clearly didn't trust anybody but Boom-Boom in the pen, for whatever reason? Quintana had only thrown 94 pitches, after all.)

And we go through the 8th without a hint of life. And then the 9th. And then Pete does something rather better than the game-ending, series-ending, Mets-career-ending GiDP I was dreading. Thanks, Pete!

(ESPn later says that this is only the 3rd time ever a team has rallied to win in the 9th inning from more than one run down in a post-season final game. It would be nice if they'd mention the other two, since I'm stumped. The "Shot Heard Around the World" Bobby Thomson 1951 HR isn't it, since that was a playoff to decide the regular season. And they specified that Pete is the first to hit a go-ahead HR in these circumstances.)

Y'know, I get that Jesse Winker makes "friends" wherever he goes, but booing a guy who's checking for a concussion seems a little bit low, Milwaukee. Just saying.

David Peterson enters in relief, and ends things promptly, aided by what Sciambi properly calls a "6-3 double play". Take notes, Gary Cohen! It always makes me want to break the set when Gary calls that a "6-6-3" DP. Scoring lists the players involved, not what they did. If Lindor had bobbled the ball, retrieved it, stepped on 2b and then thrown to 1st, would Gary call it a "6-6-6-3" double-play? [/pet peeve]

And home are the heroes! (For a day, then it's down to Philly. But that's such an easy trip [Giants fans made it by horse and buggy during the 1908 pennant race] that I barely count it as such.)

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In the postgame presser, Brewer skipper Pat Murphy gave credit to those star Mets players who led the rally for the winning runs, saying that "Lindor, Nemo, and Alonso" are on another level. Mr. Pointy may need to ascend a few more levels, if Murphy literally doesn't know how to pronounce his name (he did it repeatedly), but we'll take the compliment, anyhow.

10-03-2024, 11:53 PM	#2821
Amazin69 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 3,964 Infractions: 0/2 (2)	Look at Westheim! Hanging in there until 04.03 CET to catch this live! (Is tomorrow another off-day?) Well done! Meanwhile, I took a pre-dinner nap after the top of the 1st (because I need that sort of thing at my age), pausing the TV to let the resumed game wake me after the 90 minute buffer expires. Except that when I awoke, it was the bottom of the 5th, and I sat through two nervous innings, and after the top of the 7th tried fast-forwarding the ads to catch up…only to discover I was actually live. Apparently, the game started playing almost immediately (for whatever reason), and I was just too zonked/the game was too dull to awaken me for about an hour. Huh. So I had dinner and went back to the 3rd to see what I had missed (nothing consequential), then went back to the middle of the 7th and quite nearly lost my lunch. How does Butto give up a pinch-dinger to a guy hitting .199, exactly? And then Free Licks goes back to back , and doubles the trouble, considering we had exactly two hits at that point. (Should we question whether Mendoza should have kept Quintana in for one more inning, given that he clearly didn't trust anybody but Boom-Boom in the pen, for whatever reason? Quintana had only thrown 94 pitches, after all.) And we go through the 8th without a hint of life. And then the 9th. And then Pete does something rather better than the game-ending, series-ending, Mets-career-ending GiDP I was dreading. Thanks, Pete! (ESPn later says that this is only the 3rd time ever a team has rallied to win in the 9th inning from more than one run down in a post-season final game. It would be nice if they'd mention the other two, since I'm stumped. The "Shot Heard Around the World" Bobby Thomson 1951 HR isn't it, since that was a playoff to decide the regular season. And they specified that Pete is the first to hit a go-ahead HR in these circumstances.) Y'know, I get that Jesse Winker makes "friends" wherever he goes, but booing a guy who's checking for a concussion seems a little bit low, Milwaukee. Just saying. David Peterson enters in relief, and ends things promptly, aided by what Sciambi properly calls a "6-3 double play". Take notes, Gary Cohen! It always makes me want to break the set when Gary calls that a "6-6-3" DP. Scoring lists the players involved, not what they did. If Lindor had bobbled the ball, retrieved it, stepped on 2b and then thrown to 1st, would Gary call it a "6-6-6-3" double-play? [/pet peeve] And home are the heroes! (For a day, then it's down to Philly. But that's such an easy trip [Giants fans made it by horse and buggy during the 1908 pennant race] that I barely count it as such.) *********************** In the postgame presser, Brewer skipper Pat Murphy gave credit to those star Mets players who led the rally for the winning runs, saying that "Lindor, Nemo**, and Alonso" are on another level. Mr. Pointy may need to ascend a few more levels, if Murphy literally doesn't know how to pronounce his name (he did it repeatedly), but we'll take the compliment, anyhow.