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[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

250th career homer for Lindor (and that thing was *gone*!), 254th all-time.

Somebody snuck up on Pete (and Jimmy Rollins) and tied for 299th with 231 dingers last night. Shohei Ohtani!

First observation: Lindor's number is eye-opening. I never thought of him as a power hitter (5ft-10in, 190lb) but sure enough, there he is at 250. He's poked 30 or more in five seasons. Overall, it took him 10 years but he's still only 31 years old.

Second observation: If you look quickly in Sports-Reference (today, before they update with today's games), you will see that Alonso and Ohtani indeed have the same amount of homers . . . in almost exactly the same number of plate appearances! 3,693 for Alonso and 3,694 for Ohtani. Who will prevail in the end?

[Westheim]

They're also the same age (okay, that's perhaps not that much of a shocker at this point)

Shohei might have the edge on Big Pete in terms of raw hitting qualities, but you never know when he gets pitching into his head again and how that's gonna mess up his numbers.

[Westheim]

See ya, Jimmy. Pete flicked one into the upper deck in the eighth of a 3-0 win against the Cards like it's nothing.

Lots of moving targets around him at this point, but as of now Pete is t-298th with 232 thumps.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

See ya, Jimmy.

Plus, he's leaving Ohtani in the dust (for a day, at least).

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Plus, he's leaving Ohtani in the dust (for a day, at least).

Shohei-sama is on paternity leave though. It's a girl, but with those genes could still be a perpetual MLB All Star.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Shohei-sama is on paternity leave though. It's a girl, but with those genes could still be a perpetual MLB All Star.

Sometimes I wish I had many more years to live in order to see such a thing.

[Westheim]

I'm 38. There are nine (9) MLB players left that are older than me. When kids born today reach semi-mandatory retirement age in MLB, I'll be 76.

Or with my lifestyle, also dead.

I'm in the yellow bit down there.

Okay, with the way Snottavino's going, probably eight MLB players.

[Déjà Bru]

Heh. At my age, I am more interested in where I would place on this list: Living Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Which keeps shrinking due to this:

Recent Deaths
Rickey Henderson
Orlando Cepeda
Willie Mays

But new life is added nearly every year, too! Thus, Dave Parker, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki, and Billy Wagner can all follow their own inevitable progress to the top of the list. (The other member of the 2025 HoF class, Dick Allen, is no longer eligible, alas.)

One of those men may someday earn the coveted title of Oldest Living Hall of Famer! Currently, the oldest living Hall of Famer is Luis Aparicio (born April 29, 1934). He inherited the title from Willie Mays when Mays passed away on June 18, 2024.

[Westheim]

Mets continue to suck w/RISP.

Mets also got their first 4-game sweep against the Cardinals since *1986*.

The Cards sure had a hand in making both of these statements true.

Gary Cohen: “Vince Coleman played on both sides of the rivalry… (pause) … better with the Cardinals.” – Quite the understatement!

I hope when Squirrel McNeil comes back we’ll get rid of Baty. I am so done with Baty. Meanwhile, Luisangel Acuna’s talents, while the edges are rough, are really refreshing on the roster. I can’t think of any other Met in the last ten years that would have gotten a double out of that chomper in the bottom 8th.

And you can’t trust Butt-Oh further than you can throw him. In my case, that’s not very far.

[Amazin69]

That was a nice win on Saturday. And I was even able to see it, thanks to FS1 running the whole replay this morning. (6.30-9.00 ET.)

Unfortunately, I was spoiled for the result not by Fox's ticker…but by WrestleMania! Apparently, announcer Michael Cole is a Mets fan and worked it into the telecast by noting how one of the referees. (Eddie Arango) is also a Mets fan and noting that the Mets won. Didn't see that coming.

Of course, the idea that the Mets are one of the hottest teams in baseball and have one of the best pitching staffs caught me by surprise like a nut-shot from behind, too. Do we think Jeremy Hefner found a spare jar of Spider-Tac somewhere, or what?

[Westheim]

What the **** happened to Aaron Nola (0-5, 6.43 ERA), and I see Boom-Boom Diaz did the good Lord's work again on Monday night.

[Déjà Bru]

I just saw this on an encore presentation:

Juan Soto suffers same pain as Aaron Judge 24 hours after Yankees controversy

Which is a bit of an unfortunate comparison because you can clearly see Soto's ball on the replay, sailing past the foul pole. The umpire was rightly overturned. [See what I posted in the Yankees thread for a video of Judge's HR.]

The "pain" of losing a home run is the same, though.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

I see Boom-Boom Diaz did the good Lord's work again on Monday night.

I highlighted the remarkable thing in this bulletin:

[Westheim]

Ooooh, a 3-inning scoreless streak...!

That turd goes out three days a week and without ******* fail walks the first batter he faces...!! He gets taken deep and deeper! And he was ***** from the moment the Mets got him...! It's gotten *worse* after the knee injury, but I remember that one game in LA, must have been 2019, where he came in with a 3-run lead and just got bombed to Kingdom Come for a walkoff.

I don't remember what I had for breakfast, but I will remember that forever.

I don't remember much of anything from the 2015 postseason (except for Murph's homering and his blinding steal from first-to-third on a walk drawn by Lucas Duda), but I will remember that one until the sun stops shining.

The Mets having a 3-run lead is such an agony, because of course they're gonna default to their turd-in-residence in the ninth inning.

"First home run allowed since April 9" - oh boy, he managed FOUR appearances without hanging a clonker to somebody! Absolute Cy Young material ...!

Three-game scoreless streak, my furry tush!

[Amazin69]

How you can recall one particular failure from 2019, I'll never know. That season was a collage of gar-bage from our pal, Edlose.

(And we still nearly won it for Eddie Kranepool, with that 16-2 stretch in the second half [McNeil playing Spider-Man in Comiskey II, etc.]. Imagine if Mickey Callaway had had his mind on the game, instead of…other things…and had the balls to demote Boom-Boom before the Suzuki Salami [which was actually a 3-run shot], for example.)

Sigh.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

How you can recall one particular failure from 2019, I'll never know.

If it leaves a scorch mark on your soul, you'll always remember.

At least the Mets took another one from the Philthies while I was a-zzz. May I have a sweep for the game I can actually watch tonight? Pleeeease?

[Westheim]

Pete doubles home the (bogus) tying run, then rumbles home himself on a 2-out dinker by Starling Marte (not quite dead yet! ) to complete a sweep against the Phillies in ten innings!

Peeeeete!

Vientos fell over like a bag of wheat on that go-ahead single in the top 10th. Same inning, Boom-Boom Diaz left with an apparent injury before he could blow the game completely, so there might be hope yet for the season...

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Pete doubles home the (bogus) tying run, then rumbles home himself on a 2-out dinker by Starling Marte (not quite dead yet! ) to complete a sweep against the Phillies in ten innings!

Peeeeete!

Vientos fell over like a bag of wheat on that go-ahead single in the top 10th. Same inning, Boom-Boom Diaz left with an apparent injury before he could blow the game completely, so there might be hope yet for the season...

I was watching that 10th inning, live. Rather exciting! I admit, I expected the Mets to roll over when the Phillies were ahead 3-2 and had the bases loaded with only one out. Kranick looked cool, calm, and collected getting the last two outs. He certainly deserved the win.

[Westheim]

Best record in baseball, right here in Metseritaville!

Should be about the point where the duct tape and gum lets go on the pitching staff.

[Westheim]

What the actual **** do we have replay for when we can’t review Winker’s ghost triple play then?? I thought it was supposed to solve the egregious and obviously wrong calls, and that was egregious and obviously wrong! The second base umpire even made the safe sign as whoever-the-back-runner-was-I’m-too-enraged-to-remember stepped into second base!!

GAH!!!

The bases-clearing triple for Vientos (score an assist for Crews) was too good to be true, of course, and the universe had to readjust itself with Stanek blowing the lead in the ninth, and Minter completing the meltdown with Squirrel lending a helping paw to allow Abrams to score the winning run from first base on a single...

Not sure why we blow Brazobán in the seventh inning in a losing effort to go to Stanek in the end, but what the heck do I know…

W7 over. They’ll have to start all over again now.