Series Thread: LA Dodgers @ NY Mets (7/23-26)

[calsnowskier]

Thanks for beating up on the doggies today, but I am almost more scared of you guys than I am of the doggies. Good pitching beats good hitting in the playoffs, and you guys got the pitching.

Please stay out of the playoffs. You scare any sane team...

 

[tabascojet]

the greinke streak is dead....nice work mets

 

[tabascojet]

Familigia!!

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Doh. Familia has blown both save opportunities in the 2nd half of the year. He blew 2 the entire first half. Really glad we let Justin Turner walk for nothing.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

To be honest....that ump squeezed the low part of the plate on him w/ 2 strikes for both Gonzalez & JTO...

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Out of town final....Pirates 3 - Nationals 1

We need to TCOB.

LGM!!!

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Ugh, awful pitch to go after. Come on Flores.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

And now as the rain is falling...Mejia walks Rollins to begin the 10th..he steals 2nd, and takes 3rd on a sac bunt....

This is becoming shamefully ominous...

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Wow...nice comeback by Mejia to K Pederson and Kendrick to fly out, stranding rollins at 3rd.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Nice.....Grandy leadoff double, bottom 10th...

....but my goodness, the mets really suck at bunting....Yikes!

Tejada fail....

Murphy gets IBB'd

Uribe up...2 on, 1 out
Dodgers bring in Jansen....
LGM!!!

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

UUUUUUUUU ---- RIBEYE!!!

Mets walk off with 3-2 win, and a 2-2 series split.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

So far all the recent additions have contributed (Conforto, Johnson, Uribe). Need Murphy or Duda to turn it on and if we could get another player (Parra, Upton, Tulo, Cargo, whoever) plus a healthy D'Arnaud and that is a fucking lineup.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Mets beat Dodgers on walk-off as Jacob DeGrom outduels Zack Greinke

Rapid Reaction: New York Mets 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2 (10) - Mets Blog - ESPN

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

The crucial at-bat of the game in the New York Mets' 10-inning win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, was Joc Pederson's turn against Jenrry Mejia with a runner on third and one out, and the score tied 2-2.

A run would likely have deflated the Mets and put the Dodgers in great position to get their third win in four games.

Mejia needed a strikeout and he got one, but it didn’t come easily.

ESPN Stats & Information

The image above shows the sequence of pitches in the at-bat (the third pitch and fifth pitch are green because they were taken for balls).

Mejia repeatedly tried to get Pederson down and in, which was a risky move. If he left a pitch too far up, Pederson could crush it.

Pederson’s strength is within the area that represents the lower third of the strike zone. He’s hitting .304 with seven home runs and misses on only 18 percent of his swings in that area.

Six of Mejia’s eight pitches were in the lower third of the zone or below it. Pederson took one (the first pitch) for a strike, but also took one for a ball and fouled off the other four.

On the eighth pitch, the Mets changed their approach. Mejia went with a high fastball clocked at 94.5 mph. He threw it to the spot in the strike zone where Pederson has the most trouble -- an area where he misses on about half his swings.

He missed there for strike three and the second out.

One batter later, the Mets were out of the inning.

They won the game in the bottom of the frame on a Kenley Jansen pitch that didn’t get elevated as high as the one on which Pederson struck out.

Juan Uribe didn’t miss it. He crushed it for a game-winning hit.