Mitchell Parker of the Gnats was all over the place and got stuffed with five runs (one on his defensive blunder) while walking four Mets in the first inning, then, since the Gnats are heartless, was sent out again after 43 pitches in that top 1st, only to see Soto sock a double, Pete leg out an infield single (!), and then Vientos nearly swatted two flies with one stone with a pop behind second on which an awkwardly sliding Alex Call rammed his foot into Luis Garcia’s junk as Garcia was making the catch. Soto hustled to third on the tag and eventually scored in the inning, making it 6-0 early on for the Mets, who let Parker go five in the end, which was a bit of a missed opportunity to drain the pen ahead of tomorrow’s wraparound series finale.
At ten at night, my time! I am already frowning, because of course I won’t be able to lay off them cookies.
Megill went six and a third, answering my musings from a day or two ago, how many outs the Mets had gotten from their starters past the sixth inning. Turns out, as of yesterday, it was THREE (all by Kodai Senga). Mets starters couldn’t throw a complete-game win if we still had 7-inning double-headers!!
All was still fun and games at that point, but then came Jose Butt-Oh, and the game escalated rather rapidly back to the Gnats. Butt-Oh’s name is Butt-Oh, because he pitches like BUTT, and then I say “OH, maybe next year” … Get rid of him, bring back Dedniel Nunez! Next Brazobán pitched himself neck deep into trouble but didn’t allow a run because Tena lined out right to Vientos (he with the limited defensive skill set) to keep the bases loaded in a 7-6 game in the bottom 8th, Big Brazo having allowed a double, a walk, and a hit batter before bailing out through no contribution of his own. The technical term for this in German is “Duselbauer”, a compound word of, literally, “dumb luck” and “farmer”. Well, dumb luck says it all, really.
The ninth was a great annoyance between Pete getting smacked and dropped, and then the Mets having insurance runs on second and third, nobody out, and zero capability to, I don’t know, NOT hit it to Abrams??
There’s another German phrase you need to learn when it comes to the Mets, which is “Brot kann schimmeln; was kannst du?” (bread can catch mold, but what can you do, after all?) Which bring us neatly to Stanek, who got his second save opportunity in the series and did his best Boom-Boom impression AGAIN, which is to say he’s now down to 1-for-3 in save opportunities and has now eaten two losses in this series.
What else…
Gary Cohen (on Pete getting hit in the elbow): “No elbow guard.”
Murph: “Maybe next at-bat.”
Doesn’t he usually wear one? oO
Murph (on being told there are other letters in the Expos’ M logo): “Ah! What a… European club.”
A critique normally only reserved by him for living arrangements other than a married man and woman and their herd of kids.
