Series Thread: Subway Series..Yanks @ Mets (9/18-20)

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Johnson PHing for Thor slaps an oppo leadoff single away from the shift..

LGM!!!

 

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Grandy goes the other way too.....1st & 2nd for Yoenis....

But he fans on 3 pitches....1 down

And now Pineda's day is done as well....Girardi goes to the pen....

 

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Murphy walks...bags drunk for the captain....

Damn...Wright whiffs.
2 down
Uribe in to PH for the Duda....

WHIFF!!!!

Bupkis.

* I would've stayed w/ Duda in that spot....


TC rolled the dice and came up craps.
Not in the cards today fellow, Mets fans.....oh well...

Golden opportunity goes by the wayside...

Get 'em tomorrow night in the rubber game..

 

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Not looking too good at the moment, but they've come back from bigger. Missed a golden opportunity in the 6th

 

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Gilmartin tosses a clean 1-2-3 7th....
Stretch time in Queens...

Oh yeah......Go Fish!!!

 

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Looks like the breeze has picked up at Citi...from all the swings & misses by the mets bats


Oy vey....

 

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Not looking too good at the moment, but they've come back from bigger. Missed a golden opportunity in the 6th

I like the optimism...but I don't see that happening today.


*Silver lining....Sean Gilmartin's 2 solid IP out of the BP.

 

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I like the optimism...but I don't see that happening today.


*Silver lining....Sean Gilmartin's 2 solid IP out of the BP.

Nah prolly not. Go gettem tomarrah

 

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Good Grief....Whiff City

 

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TC waves the white flag.....puts Parnell in to pitch the 9th giving him that "low leverage" appearance.

 

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The Captain gets the hat trickkk.....yikes.

 

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Cuddy & Flores reach on b2b 2 out singles in the bottom 9th.

LOL @ Girardi burning thru that Yankee bullpen.

That could come back haunt them to the Mets advantage tomorrow night.

 

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Td'A grounds out to end it....(hey at least he didn't whiff...lol)

 

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Mets fall flat in game 2....lose 5-zip.



* Marlins up 2-0 on the Nats in the 2nd.


Go Fish!!

 

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Rapid Reaction: Yankees 5, Mets 0

NEW YORK -- Noah Syndergaard became too reliant on his fastball early … and paid for it.

Carlos Beltran produced a three-run homer on a 100 mph fastball before Syndergaard recorded an out and the New York Yankees went on to beat the New York Mets, 5-0, Saturday at Citi Field before a sellout crowd of 43,630.

The Mets’ magic number remained eight, while their National League East lead dipped to 7½ games over the Washington Nationals, who host the Miami Marlins at 4:05 p.m. ET.

Syndergaard answered the Beltran homer by retiring the next 12 batters, but the damage was done.

Michael Pineda took a scoreless effort into the sixth inning before departing with one out and a pair of runners on base. Left-hander Justin Wilson entered with the Yankees leading 5-0 and walked Daniel Murphy to load the bases. However, Wilson then struck out David Wright and Juan Uribe, who was pinch-hitting for Lucas Duda. That began a streak of seven straight strikeouts by Mets batters.

The long ball by Beltran came with an 0-2 count, after Beltran had seen three straight 98 mph fastballs from Syndergaard. Syndergaard only threw one non-fastball among his 10 pitches to the game’s opening three batters.

Syndergaard overcame a leadoff triple by Dustin Ackley in the fifth by striking out Didi Gregorius and Pineda and coaxing a groundout from Jacoby Ellsbury. However, an inning later, Beltran singled with one out and Brian McCann followed with a two-run homer as the Yankees opened a five-run lead. It marked the 11th homer allowed by Syndergaard in his past eight starts.

Syndergaard (8-7) was charged with five runs on seven hits in six innings. He struck out eight in an 88-pitch effort as his ERA climbed to 3.39.

Quiet homestand: Yoenis Cespedes is now hitless in 17 at-bats. He went 0-for-4 Saturday, including a sixth-inning strikeout against Pineda with two runners on base.

Citi Field, in general, has not been kind to Cespedes since he joined the Mets in a July 31 trade with the Detroit Tigers. Cespedes is hitting .195 (15-for-77) in Queens, albeit with five homers and seven RBIs in 20 games.

Cancel the campaign: Michael Conforto will not win the 2016 NL Rookie of the Year award. A second-inning lineout to center field was Conforto’s 131st at-bat this season in the majors, meaning he will not be considered a rookie beyond this season.

Conforto went 0-for-2 Saturday before departing for a pinch hitter. He did race into the left-center gap to snare a deep shot off the bat of Brett Gardner in the third inning.

What’s next: Matt Harvey (12-7, 2.88 ERA) opposes left-hander CC Sabathia (4-9, 4.93) at 8:08 p.m. ET on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. Harvey, skipped his last turn, pitches for the first time since allowing seven runs in 5 1/3 innings at Washington on Sept. 8. ESPN’s Buster Olney reports that Harvey is expected to be limited to 70 pitches.


• Beltran, McCann homer to back Pineda as Yanks beat Mets 5-0

 

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Morning Briefing: Happy Matt Harvey Day ... while it lasts

NEW YORK --(9/20)

FIRST PITCH: It's Matt Harvey Day for the New York Mets … at least for part of the game.

ESPN's Buster Olney reports that Harvey will have two starts of about 70 pitches apiece, including on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball against the New York Yankees. Harvey then will have a shorter start, possibly three innings, as the regular season winds down.

Olney reports that the decision resulted from a series of phone conversations between general manager Sandy Alderson, agent Scott Boras, Dr. James Andrews and Harvey.

Still, manager Terry Collins insisted late Saturday: "There's no pitch count involved. I'm just going to limit his workload, and that'll be my decision when I think he should come out. Obviously if he's working very, very hard, it might be earlier. If he's cruising, it might be a little bit later. He's not going to go deep into the game. We'll just see how he does and how they react to him."

Harvey (12-7, 2.88 ERA) opposes left-hander CC Sabathia (4-9, 4.43) in Sunday's 8:08 p.m. ET rubber game.

Harvey sits at 171 2/3 innings this season. He last pitched on Sept. 8, when he was charged with seven runs in 5 1/3 innings in what became an 8-7 win against the Washington Nationals in D.C.

"He's Matt Harvey. I always feel good. When I come to the ballpark and he's pitching, there's a smile on my face," Collins said. "And he gets up for these kind of games. You look any night he's pitched, especially Sunday night games on national TV -- big audience, big crowd, the Yankees. He loves to pitch against the Yankees. And I expect him to step up. Unfortunately, I'm going to have some reins on him."

Despite Collins using Juan Uribe as a pinch hitter for Lucas Duda against a southpaw on Saturday, the manager said Duda will start on Sunday against the left-handed Sabathia.


SUNDAY'S NEWS REPORTS:

• Noah Syndergaard surrendered a three-run homer to Carlos Beltran in the first inning, then retired 12 straight batters. However, Michael Pineda blanked the Mets for 5 1/3 innings and the Yankees went on to a 5-0 win on Saturday at Citi Field. The Mets' magic number remained eight. The Nationals beat the Miami Marlins to reduce the Mets' division lead to seven games with 14 to play. Syndergaard also surrendered a two-run homer to Brian McCann in the sixth. "If you look at the tape at all, he made two bad pitches," Collins said. "He made the pitch to Beltran. He tried to go up and in and left it on the plate. He tried to go down and away to McCann and left it on the plate." Read game recaps in the Post, Daily News, Times, Newsday, Record and at MLB.com.
  
  
• Assuming the Mets are in the postseason, Syndergaard will be in the rotation, Collins declared Saturday. Collins did not specify his full rotation for the expected Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, but Jacob deGrom, Harvey and Syndergaard obviously are locks, with Steven Matz seemingly the proper choice to round out the rotation. Matz has allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of his five career starts. That would result in Bartolo Colon serving as a multi-inning reliever, if a starting pitcher has a short outing. Read more in the Daily News.
  
  
• The Mets plan to skip deGrom on Tuesday and instead will use Logan Verrett that night against the Atlanta Braves. DeGrom is not subject to a tight innings cap, but has struggled of late and potentially can use the rest, the Mets believe. Read more in the Record, Daily News, Newsday and at MLB.com.
  
  
• Yoenis Cespedes is hitless in his last 17 at-bats. Even Mets staff wonders if getting hit by a pitch from Miami's Tom Koehler last week helped cause the rut. Cespedes declined to speak to reporters postgame Saturday. Columnist David Lennon in Newsday opines about that silence: "Even with the intervention of Mets PR officials, who tried to convey the importance to Cespedes of answering a few questions -- especially during the max exposure of the Subway Series -- he declined. That's his prerogative, of course. But we've seen a ton of talented players go through much longer periods of soul-searching and still have steel skin. Scenarios like these aren't written into $180 million contracts. There's no speaking clause. It is something to consider, however, when you're a New York owner or general manager weighing the entire package, wondering how somebody will perform over the length of a sizable deal." Read more at MLB.com.
  
  
• Tyler Clippard remained unavailable for a second straight day Saturday with back tightness.
  
  
• Columnist Mike Vaccaro in the Post suggests Beltran deserves to be thought of more fondly in Queens.
  
  
• Read more on Harvey's upcoming start against the Yankees in Newsday.
  
  
• Read more on Syndergaard's outing in Newsday.
  
  
• Six out of eight scouts prefer Michael Conforto over Greg Bird if forced to choose, Joel Sherman writes in the Post.
  
  
• From the bloggers … Faith and Fear prefers its Subway Series hype somewhere east of August.

 

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Don't worry...........



The Yankees are throwing CC today..

 

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Goddamn Fish are laying down like the dogs they are against the gnats.
How in the hell did we lose that last series against them at home??
Oh, that's right....because the Mets manager's name is Terry Collins.

 

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Don't worry...........



The Yankees are throwing CC today..

I hope you're right...lol.....but the Yanks are gonna see that the Jays lost to Boston earlier and will have even more incentive and motivation tonight.

That being said, so will the Mets....as they'll know the Nats have won already today....and hopefully the Dodgers will lose their game later...

LGM!!!

 

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NEW YORK -- Here are the lineups as the New York Yankees and New York Mets meet on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, with first pitch at 8:05 p.m. ET at Citi Field:

Mets

Ruben Tejada, SS

David Wright, 3B

Yoenis Cespedes, LF

Juan Uribe, 2B

Travis d'Arnaud, C

Lucas Duda, 1B

Michael Cuddyer, RF

Juan Lagares, CF

Matt Harvey, RHP




Yankees

Jacoby Ellsbury, CF

Brett Gardner, LF

Carlos Beltran, RF

Brian McCann, C

Greg Bird, 1B

Chase Headley, 3B

Dustin Ackley, 2B

Didi Gregorius, SS

CC Sabathia, LHP