Mets

[Westheim]

40 minutes from the advertised start we have played less than an inning, but we're already on our second rain delay and we've already had Lindor getting forcefully tagged in the franciscos by Abrams.

Fun!

[Déjà Bru]

I don't think there is going to be any New York baseball today. The Yankees game went down the tubes hours ago and I just saw them roll the tarp at Nationals Park in a heavy rainstorm.

Eek, they just played a replay of one field attendant getting run over by the tarp roll. He got a bit too eager, went over the top, and then went under. Some guys looked like they wanted to continue in order to save the field, regardless. (Just kidding.)

[Westheim]

Yeah, I contemplate just going to bed and trying my luck in the morning with the archives.

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Eek, they just played a replay of one field attendant getting run over by the tarp roll. He got a bit too eager, went over the top, and then went under. Some guys looked like they wanted to continue in order to save the field, regardless. (Just kidding.)

Back when I was in school, we had a saying regarding field trips, that "20% losses are not unusual" with regards of kids just ending up on the wrong bus or something. Ah, they'll turn up again eventually!

That tarp deployment had the same general vibe.

(I got lost just once, walking ahead with another boy because the rest of the class was just too damn slow on the way to ... wherever. We turned left where the others then turned right. Joke was on us, because "left" was a 5-mile detour. )

[Déjà Bru]

La, what did we do before social media? How could I have shared this moment with you, years ago?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI7IsK0yebR/



The guy wasn't hurt so we can laugh, but watch Jeff's reaction in the video.

[Déjà Bru]

Unlike the wimpy Yankees, Mets-Nationals has resumed! It looks like a late night for you, once again.

[Westheim]

Yeah the game resumed when I was like five minutes from calling it a night and rolling myself under my own tarp.

[Westheim]

The Jeff Franceu- … Francoe- … The Frenchy Memorial Series continues with repeated swimming exercises and the Mets continuing to struggle like heck with the bats.

Jeff McNeil playing center is … bold. Why not play Nimmo in center and McNeil in left? Is Nimmo beyond redemption in centerfield? I mean, going after Jose Siri in the first place was a mighty old cry for help…

Also bold: only scoring on a homer by Alvarez (who looks more and more like a 1950s Western bandit with every season), and then expecting Boom-Boom Diaz to somehow keep the ship afloat. He’s ALL OVER THE PLACE. To the point where batters don’t know whether they should try to hit it or better bail before they get beaned into an ambulance like that pitch that almost took Dylan Crews’ head off. How the Mets keep insisting on using him in the ninth inning is beyond me. But some stupid franchises never learn…

Sometimes a stupid franchise can also have the best record in the league in April.

What else? Ruben Tejada will always be the more famous player (than Chase Ugly) in our hearts.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

The Jeff Franceu- … Francoe- … The Frenchy Memorial Series continues with repeated swimming exercises and the Mets continuing to struggle like heck with the bats.

Jeff McNeil playing center is … bold. Why not play Nimmo in center and McNeil in left? Is Nimmo beyond redemption in centerfield? I mean, going after Jose Siri in the first place was a mighty old cry for help…

Also bold: only scoring on a homer by Alvarez (who looks more and more like a 1950s Western bandit with every season), and then expecting Boom-Boom Diaz to somehow keep the ship afloat. He’s ALL OVER THE PLACE. To the point where batters don’t know whether they should try to hit it or better bail before they get beaned into an ambulance like that pitch that almost took Dylan Crews’ head off. How the Mets keep insisting on using him in the ninth inning is beyond me. But some stupid franchises never learn…

Sometimes a stupid franchise can also have the best record in the league in April.

What else? Ruben Tejada will always be the more famous player (than Chase Ugly) in our hearts.

Heh, sometimes I can't tell if the Mets won or lost from reading your posts. They won! This Clay Holmes as SP thing seems to be working out, although you could eventually stretch him out a bit more than 70 pitches.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Heh, sometimes I can't tell if the Mets won or lost from reading your posts. They won! This Clay Holmes as SP thing seems to be working out, although you could eventually stretch him out a bit more than 70 pitches.

The games they lose I usually lose a lot of "********" and the like.

Apparently the intent was to run Holmes a bit longer today, but the second rain delay kinda ruined that.

I wonder how many outs past the sixth inning Mets starters have collected this year. Probably ten or less.

[Westheim]

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.

[Westheim]

I was gonna write "it's Mets 7, Gnats zilch in the seventh, aka the Gnats have the Mets right where they want them", but just then Brandon Slammo made it 11-0.

Giving up a dozen before getting nine outs sounds doable for a truly dedicated tire fire bullpen, though!

Okay the real question is whether I am smart enough to consider the game done and go to bed at a still almost reasonable time.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Okay the real question is whether I am smart enough to consider the game done and go to bed at a still almost reasonable time.

Like I'll miss a Mets meltdown!

At least now we know that the only question that Jose Urena is the answer to would be "What's for dinner?" ...

[Déjà Bru]

MLB Power Rankings: Mets soar to No. 1 for first time this year, but so much for those unbeatable Dodgers

And this was before today's 19-5 beatdown of the Nationals. (Nimmo, 9 RBIs!)

[Westheim]

Nimmo ties Carlos Delgado as the only Met with 9 RBI in a game.

The funny thing is that while the Mets booth was rooting for him to come back to the plate in the ninth to do more damage - in the event, Vientos cleaned the bases with a 3-run homer just before Nimmo got a chance - I was hoping for a mere triple to complete the cycle.

Meeeets! First team to 20 wins!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Meeeets! First team to 20 wins!

You are . . . happy!?!

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

You are . . . happy!?!

Don't worry. The Mets know ways to make that a temporary state of mind.

[LD84]

12-1 at home is impressive

They are opening up a nice cushion in the NL East

[Westheim]

How does a .700 team run out of pitchers that quickly?

Never mind that Ryne STANK is still going STONK.

[Amazin69]

You know, for a team that's winning a lot of games with one of the best staffs in baseball, they keep getting the (theoretical) bad news. Minter-am-der-pillow and Mount-ass now both on the 60-day Impaired List, I see.

What I didn't see was today's game, because MLBN decides they know what "regional coverage" I deserve and screw what I want. Twins and Ingdians and lots of rain, that's it. The fact that Snakes-Mets is on the other channel and DirecTV gets both channels is irrelevant…blackout! Great.

ETA: They were kind enough to interrupt "Intentional Talk" to show us the Snakes-cast calling the final three outs, as the Mets suffered their first consecutive home losses since late July last season (really? wow!) and their first series loss to the Snakes since August 2017, when I was in the middle of an East-Coast swing (that was my last year in LA) and was too burnt out by my journey to Camden NJ for a concert to get out of my hotel bed for a day game and go to Flushing to see Conforto wreck his shoulder. Yay?

[Westheim]

In today's bleak 4-2 loss to the Snakes, Soto hit his first two Citi homers, and apart from that the rest of the lineup could have stayed home in bed and it wouldn't have made a difference.

The bullpen carrousel keeps spinning with the addition of Ty Adcock (who?) and Genesis Cabrera.

Just in the last few days, the Mets churned through all of:

Brandon Waddell
Chris Devenski
Kevin Herget
Jose Urena
A.J. Minter (DL)
Danny Young (DL)

It's hard to keep track. And it feels like the middle of August of a team bumbling towards 87 losses.