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4/11/18

Tom Brennan - HOT, HOT, HOT!


Tom Brennan - HOT, HOT, HOT!

You probably could have gotten 9-1 odds that the Mets wouldn't go 9-1 before the season started.  

Or the same odds after the 7th inning, when Met killer Justin Bour hit his second opposite field 2 run blast off of Jacob Rhame to give the Marlins a 6-4 lead.

 But Wilmer Flores' solo blast in the 8th was followed by Asdrubel Cabrera's 2nd HR, a tape measure job.  Just like that, tied up. 

 Then in the 9th, a struggling but very clutch Yoenis Cespedes rips a 2 run double down the left field line and Familia gets a clean save.

 Result: 9-1 W/L record.  Nice. 

 So even in a game where Jake had some tough luck and ended up surrendering 4 runs (the last 2 on Bour's first 2 run blast), they win.  Wow.

 Can Zach Wheeler get us to double digits (10-1) today?  Why the heck not?  I think the odds are 10-1 in our favor.

HOT, HOT, HOT!  THIS TEAM'S SIZZLING.
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12 comments:

  1. TexasGusCCApril 11, 2018 at 7:38 AM

    So, after a bad end to spring training and just one five inning start in AAA, Zack Wheeler is fixed? I know the Marlins aren’t good, but they do have talent. Seems like everything going right for Mets, but I don’t know if I want to push that luck too far. Lugo/Gsellman for six innings and then Sewald, Blevins, Ramos would have made more sense...

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    1. bill metsiacApril 11, 2018 at 8:31 AM

      Do you really want to burn the whole pen in one game vs what is virtually a AAAA team, Gus?

      We've got a tough Brew Crew coming here for the weekend, and the pen is already stressed. We need a starter tonight, and the only one ready is Wheels. If he can give us 5 IP, Oswalt can go 3 or 4.

      Jeuris is unavailable tonight, so let's give as many of the others as possible a day pff.

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    2. TexasGusCCApril 11, 2018 at 9:28 AM

      You’re right Bill. I thought Thursday was an off day.

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  2. ViperApril 11, 2018 at 8:03 AM

    I don't understand the Wheeler move either. He should have at least stayed in the minors for the entire month. Why isn't Sewald being used? he is a good reliever.

    Oh well, might as well see what Wheeler learned in one start. 100 pitches by the 4th inning or will he last into the 6th?

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  3. Tom BrennanApril 11, 2018 at 8:10 AM

    Wheeler is on the clock - will he be Rafael Montero or Harvey II?

    I think with a 4 game series coming up, they do not want to completely fry the bullpen, so the Wheeler decision...but if Wheeler bombs, if he has options, he could easily be re-exiled.

    The quick call up seems to have mostly worked great for the previously floundering Robles, but will lightning strike twice? We'll see tonite.

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  4. Tom BrennanApril 11, 2018 at 9:43 AM

    Shame last night - thought Jake would go 7 innings - that 5th hurt him - first, the ground ball to Frazier that (to me) looked foul, but was called fair, that he could not play, then the one that deflected off his glove that Rosario had an easy play to make if Frazier had not deflected it. Those 2 things - and eventually Bour - turned a 0 run inning into a 4 run inning

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  5. Tom BrennanApril 11, 2018 at 9:44 AM

    To complete my thought, that would have eased stress on the pen. But we won - can't have everything.

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  6. Tom BrennanApril 11, 2018 at 9:49 AM

    Amazing to be 9-1 when your starters over the first 10 games have only averaged 5.5 innings per start. Pen has indeed been hugely worked - 40 innings. But that team ERA of 2.61 - wow!

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  7. bill metsiacApril 11, 2018 at 9:52 AM

    Thursday is an off day, Gus, but the pen has been heavily used. Even if Wheeler flops tonight, using 5+ RPs tonight would just be adding stress unnecessarily.

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  8. UnknownApril 11, 2018 at 10:27 AM

    Never in my wildest dreams did I think this team would start out of the gates so quickly

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  9. Dave SchulpsApril 12, 2018 at 7:09 AM

    Can’t even begin to add up the improbables at this point: 10-1, with Cespedes batting under .200 and Thor and DeGrom not really on their games, Wheeler’s outing last night, A-Gon’s renaissance, and Gsellman’s and Lugo’s. And it’s weird knowing that although the team’s biggest stars can all do better, the team (almost) literally can’t. Are injuries all we have to look forward to? And if so, how important is depth that extends all the way to Vegas and Binghamton. We have a professional hitter (if not quite that in the field) in TJ Rivera coming off the DL in a month or two and I can’t see any way he cracks the 25 man. But baseball is a funny game, and you just kind of know he’ll be back in some capacity (maybe he can help bring us a catcher?). Can’t wait for tomorrow’s improbability.

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  10. Tom BrennanApril 12, 2018 at 7:42 AM

    I did not expect them to win 10 of their first 11...but I did expect them to win 90-92. Perhaps I was too conservative :)

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