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San Fran and Philly tied at 5 and now the Brewers and Rangers are tied at 5 in the 9th. Hader blows the save for Milwaukee.

If these games flip the right way, we could be looking at a team in the 2nd wildcard all to themselves.
 
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Larrybiv said:
Thanks bud, well was it Frazier earlier in year? My memory is horrific, but somehow I had a feeling......did my "Dolittle" reverse jinx by saying we didn't deserve to win. I meant it at the time......jeez, never really expected this. Thought that extra run they scored would bite us in the ass. Thank God it didn't eventually matter.

I would walk Rendon 4 times tomorrow Noah. Dont let him beat you and us.
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I prefer Noah gets Rendon to ground out three times and strikes him out once. In the ninth.
 
darko said:
SBs are the issue. Don't think he'll steal 40.
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They were conservative first half with him. They finally let him loose on the base Pathan after the break. And this is where he’s at. He’s been quoted saying he’s happy to have the reigns off and he wants to prove he can be dynamic. I’m paraphrasing but point is they’re finally letting him run in the second half and he’s looking to swipe bags.
 
will1066 said:
Doolittle was just what the doctor ordered to make the Mets well.
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A little corny but:

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i'm not sure how to quantify how much better rosario has been defensively since the start of the year...but if you look at the hitting splits of rosario, conforto and jd davis the first half vs post allstar break is insance. its a small sample size in comparison but crazy how hot those 3 have gotten
 
Just goes to show how much psychology can be a factor in pro sports. The Mets roster is substantially the same before and after the all-star break.
 
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Figured I would post this here since we're all NYR fans and that the early break will allow everyone to focus on the playoffs for the Yankees and possibly the Mets.

This is a fantastic breakdown
 
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Crease said:
Just goes to show how much psychology can be a factor in pro sports. The Mets roster is substantially the same before and after the all-star break.
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For sure. Also pulling 82 year old, apparent pitcher whisperer, Phil Regan out of retirement. Seems like a lot of stuff turned around when he got to Flushing.
 
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Figured I would post this here since we're all NYR fans and that the early break will allow everyone to focus on the playoffs for the Yankees and possibly the Mets.

This is a fantastic breakdown
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Nice find J.

Amazing, even the "schedule gods" are hooking us up...lol
 
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Vlad jr just hit a single with an exit velocity of 119. Basically a line drive off the top of the fence.
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That's nuts. Getting to the point where when I see or hear shit like this I just go like I used to with Manny Ramirez back in the day it's just "Vladdy just being Vladdy". Alonso will hear this and tonight he'll hit one with a 121 exit velo.

Speaking of Vladdy and Alsonso ever since their epic HR Derby battle, I think of them as the new "Sosa vs McGwire" minus the roids. I got a feeling we'll be seeing them do battle again next year in the Derby in what should be another epic battle royale.
 
Bottom line gentleman. Last night was the beginning of the season for us. All this awesome crazy streak the Mets are on the past month or so was wipe clean 3 months of bad baseball. I mean it's amazing how they did it and that it came out of nowhere but in the scheme of things, that's all we really did.....wipe the slate clean to where we now have a season.

So our "new season" started off in spectacular fashion with last night's miracle win. With us 4 games over .500 at 60-56 and my firm belief that we are going to need to win 85-86 games to nail a WC spot, we need to go something like 25-21...26-20 rest of the way in our remaining 46 games. That my friends is very doable and not unrealistic despite the tough upcoming schedule we got.

Considering how fantastic the team has played, hard to believe we would lose that many games going forward but we most certainly will as the schedule is going to get a heck of alot harder. But we have the kind of team and especially pitching to where we should be a very tough team for our opposition to beat as well and so that's why my thought process of us going 26-20, 25-21 I believe is very realistic....we'll see soon enough.

In the meantime first things first let's win tonight and make the Nats start sweating bigtime....As Tug McGraw said so famously...Ya Gotta Believe and I do...:)
 
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You know, winning tonight means a series win. But that woukd be at worst. A series sweep, (now that the 1st one was won) is not out of the question. Reasons being, we had swept them 4 games at Citi earlier, and with Noah and Jake going.....hmmmm.

Lets just say, we have them where we want them. Take no prisoners, leave them for dead as the league had done us.

Baby steps, beat Corbin AGAIN at home where we have crushed him enough. Noah needs to make this 5 straight of 7 innings plus. Would LOVE another complete game, 1 run outing.
Alonso ties Mets club record of homers in 5 consecutive games. Held by of all people Richard Hidalgo. (Remember him?)
Won last night without the help of McNeil.....go figure.
Calling homers by Rosario and Ramos.
 
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