Horrible Gelatinous LOB: Brewers 4, Mets 2

by Eric Simon on Apr 19, 2009 9:36 PM EDT

Game Result

SB Nation Coverage

* Boxscore
* Amazin' Avenue Gamethread
* Brew Crew Ball Gamethread

Recap

You can't ask much more out of Nelson Figueroa, who filled in for Mike Pelfrey and pitched better than Pelfrey in either of the latter's two starts this season. Three runs in six innings was enough to keep the Mets in the game.
The Mets left ten more men on base tonight, six of them in scoring position. The clutch hitter may be a myth but clutch hitting is very real and very lacking on the Mets' part so far this season.
Omir Santos: still better than Brian Schneider.
Fernando Tatis was fine at second base but less so at the plate. He has 0.0 hits this season.
David Wright went hitless for the first time this season but looked generally underwhelming at the plate for the twelfth time.
Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes and Daniel Murphy reached base three times apiece; Beltran and Reyes both have .400+ on-base percentages.

For more coverage, check out AshleyMarshall's recap in the FanPosts.

Swag contest results can be found here and the next game's swag form already available. You can read more about the swag contest here.

Win Probability Added

Big winners: Jose Reyes, +14.1% WPA, Gary Sheffield, +14.0% WPA
Big losers: Carlos Delgado, -29.0% WPA, Fernando Tatis, -26.5% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Santos leadoff triple in seventh, +14.1% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Delgado comebacker double-play in seventh, -30.6% WPA
Total pitcher WPA: -2.9% WPA
Total batter WPA: -47.1% WPA
GWRBI!: Mike Cameron

Game Thread Roll Call

Nice job by zmanmetfan; his effort in the game thread embiggens us all.

Num	Name	# of Posts
1	zmanmetfan	199
2	future	126
3	squid92	117
4	Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright	103
5	Gina	80
6	itsmetsforme	75
7	gogomets	68
8	JADDENHOPKINS	42
9	Prince	40
10	JamesK	38

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I took a day off from the mets today

had to study. I’m glad I did. I hate Mets LOB. I would murder Mets LOB if I had a gun.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Apr 19, 2009 9:40 PM EDT reply actions

Fun facts.

If you rearrange the letters, it spells Mets BLO. And if you say, “Gee, Mets LOB?” you can make “EE, Mets BLOG!”

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 19, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions

The double plays

in the 7th and 8th inning were at once ridiculous, amazing and horrible. You want to talk about not getting breaks? Those two plays just about sum it up.

Also, Todd Coffey just made the list.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 19, 2009 10:19 PM EDT reply actions

"On Notice" or "Dead To Me"?

by Eric Simon on Apr 19, 2009 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions

More of a "Richard Nixon's Enemies List" list.

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 19, 2009 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Like "Francis" from "Stripes"

“You just made the list buddy”

by zmanmetfan on Apr 19, 2009 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Did the home plate ump have a weird strike zone?

The crowd at the game seemed to think so but it was tough to tell from where I was sitting.

by JoshNY on Apr 20, 2009 9:02 AM EDT reply actions

haha

i guess you didn’t read the yesterday game thread yesterday….

by englishgrey on Apr 20, 2009 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions

well, there are like 1100 posts in there

by JoshNY on Apr 20, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions

i'm just saying

the complaints about the strike zone in the game thread were pretty rampant…hard to miss

by englishgrey on Apr 20, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm not surprised

but with that many posts, I’m not really even that likely to take the time to skim them.

by JoshNY on Apr 20, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh yeah

it was pretty awful.

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 20, 2009 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions

31 LOB for the series

13 friday night, 8 on saturday, 10 more on sunday.

by meigs1414 on Apr 20, 2009 10:28 AM EDT reply actions

.236 RISP as a team

Again, just throwing stats out there. 22nd among all MLB teams, ahead of the Reds (.211, 28th) and the Brewers (.209, last). San Diego is 16th (.260) and Florida is 3rd (.317!!!), while St. Louis is 5th (.300).

BTW got this from ESPN.com because baseball-reference is confusing the hell out of me. Anyone else with this problem?

by meigs1414 on Apr 20, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions

We're also 10th in runs scored with RISP

And right now Florida is opsing .933 with RISP, I feel like there’s a good chance that’s not going to be sustained

Also I always forgot about how awesome ESPN’s stats features can be. They need more stats but it’s one of the more user friendly organizers.

by Gina on Apr 20, 2009 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions

ESPN might just end up being my goto place for stats now

Overall, lots of stuff to factor in. They had a bad weekend LOB wise but won two games. The braves and the phils are right near us, FLA will eventually come back to earth and it will be a dog fight till the end. And they’ll fix LOB at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later. But its something to keep an eye on going forward.

by meigs1414 on Apr 20, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions

You know what? I'm not THAT angry about this loss.

I mean, like was said above, we got 2 incredibly tough breaks on the 7th and 8th inning DPs. But also, the umpires were atrociously bad, to the point where they probably cost one team or the other a run or two.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 20, 2009 11:20 AM EDT reply actions