Game Thread (9/19/2022): Mets (Scherzer) at Brewers (Burnes) - 6:40 PM CDT

[HarryDoyle]

Not an easy feat to give up back to back triples.

[The stache]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

These Mets uniforms are one of my favorites in MLB. 

Is anyone old enough to know why the Mets use orange and blue as their colors?

Chosen as a tribute to New York’s former teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

[The stache]

I don’t recall ever seeing that happen before, in 43 years of watching baseball.

[rondoman]

Burnes has been crap for 2 months. Given up 23 homers this year already vs 7 all of last year.

[willie key]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

I don't know but whatever it is if they don't fix it before his next start they're pretty much screwed.

Do you honestly feel like the Padres and Phillies are sweating the brewers at all?

They aren’t worried about them

[yfinn6]

1 minute ago, rondoman said:

Burnes has been crap for 2 months. Given up 23 homers this year already vs 7 all of last year.

He's too much in the middle of the plate. 

[willie key]

2 minutes ago, rondoman said:

Burnes has been crap for 2 months. Given up 23 homers this year already vs 7 all of last year.

Since the all start break you could pretty much mix and match all our pitchers other than woodruff.   Just a bunch of blah blah blah garbage

[HarryDoyle]

Maybe if Burnes and the pitching staff would get their stuff together and putting pressure on the offense, they could get on base......

[yourout]

The only drama left in this one is will the Brewers have a base runner.

[rondoman]

Scherzer is on a pitch count. No way he pitches 9 innings tonite.

[NBBrewFan]

Just now, rondoman said:

Scherzer is on a pitch count. No way he pitches 9 innings tonite.

If it's less than 100 then he has a pretty good chance.

[bulldogboy0733]

Brewers could have really used Vogelbach this year as a dh. Makes you wonder why he wasn't asked back. Stearns off season was pretty horrible minus having Renfroe fall into his lap.

[NBBrewFan]

I think the Brewers strategy to break up the perfect game is to have Scherzer sit for as long as possible between innings.

[yourout]

Pull him......crap start to say the least.

[bulldogboy0733]

Burnes just doesn't match up as an ace when needed. He will always have last season but we might have seen his best already.

[BruisedCrew]

3 minutes ago, The stache said:

Chosen as a tribute to New York’s former teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

Correct.

Not just a tribute, they were hoping to attract the fans of the Dodgers and Giants who were left without an NL team when those teams fled to California. 

Despite being terrible until the Amazin’ Mets of 1969 won the World Series, the Mets were more popular in NYC than the Yankees. 

There was a joke about the Mets in the early 60’s when they beat the Cubs 19-0. A guy runs up excitedly to a friend and says “Did you hear the Mets scored 19 runs”. The friend replies “Amazing. Did they win?”
 

[rickh150]

1 minute ago, bulldogboy0733 said:

Brewers could have really used Vogelbach this year as a dh. Makes you wonder why he wasn't asked back. Stearns off season was pretty horrible minus having Renfroe fall into his lap.

A DH that can hit righties…. Hiura is better than Goldshmidt at that!  And he sits all the time! Gotta play that McCutchen and his sub 700 OPS.   

[rondoman]

4 minutes ago, NBBrewFan said:

If it's less than 100 then he has a pretty good chance.

It's about 70 according to Mets announcers

[NBBrewFan]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

There was a joke about the Mets in the early 60’s when they beat the Cubs 19-0. A guy runs up excitedly to a friend and says “Did you hear the Mets scored 19 runs”. The friend replies “Amazing. Did they win?”
 

Good thing there wasn't the internet back then because that "friend" would have been hounded to death for his pessimism.

[rickh150]

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1 minute ago, rickh150 said:

A DH that can hit righties…. Hiura is better than Goldshmidt at that!  And he sits all the time! Gotta play that McCutchen and his sub 700 OPS.   

Vs. Righties

Hiura .944

MC .680

[yourout]

Embarrassing.

[adambr2]

That moment you realized we aren't going to make the playoffs.

[yfinn6]

Nice that Scherzer gets a tune up against a squad like the Brewers before the playoffs begin for the Mets. 

[NBBrewFan]

Sure the pitching has had tons of issues, but the thing that just keeps holding this team back is the offense can't seem to find a groove where they can go a week or 10 days and just smack the crap out of the ball.  After a very impressive weekend against the Yankees they can't seem to extend that past 3 games and we have this.

[bulldogboy0733]

The McCutchen thing is crazy. The only explanation is that the Brewers had to guarantee that he was going to play this much to get him to come. Why I don't know since he was sitting at home when they got him. Nothing else make sense on a baseball level. Good thing we had the gm on and we asked him nothing related to the mystery of the personnel problems this year.