The New York Metropolitans come to Target Field for a two-game interleague series. The Mets have had another disappointing season and signs are they may be dumping players at the deadline. Maybe Noah Syndergaard or Jacob DeGrom can change lockerooms before they move on from Minneapolis. Zach Wheeler, who was also probably on the trading block, goes on IR, so the Mets probably have no chance to trade him.
Steven Matz on the mound for the Mets and he's been not super great this year. Michael Pineda for the Twins and has been a 6 inning, 5 hit guy recently, which has been nice especially after a rough start to the season. Looks like a nice set up for a Twins win and hopefully sweep as the Athletics and Yankees line up for visits to Target Field later in the next 10 days.
Rain late afternoon but forecast looks like game will get in.
Twins Line up:
Polanco
Gonzalez
Cruz
Rosario
Cron
Kepler
Sano
Schoop
Castro
This is the first Mets game I've attended. After today, the only teams I have not seen in person are the Dodgers and Phillies.
Not exactly a promising start. Pineda's going to need to do some quality wiggling.
The one thing he always does is wiggle. He is the fidgetiest pitcher I have ever seen.
I’ll bet Mets fans are glad they have Robinson Canó (84 OPS+) locked in for $20 million per year through 2023.
Missing Buxton already.
YDROMK, at least in this situation.
Max Jacque Jones'd that throw
Good grief. Two pitches to the backstop already. One of them was scored a passed ball, but still. Let's wake up, boys. The game started.
C’mon, guys. The Mets are Not Good.
And now an error. This is not TWINS BASEBALL!!. At least, it shouldn't be.
Two gift runs for the Mets in the first inning. That better be it.
The Indians are beating up on Detroit again, so we're not going to get any help there.
Feels like theyve only played Detroit for the past month
The Gardys are not doing the Twins any favors in those games, either.
It seems like Eddie has had a ton of hard hit balls right at fielders this season.
Hi everybody!
SCHOOP!!!!!
well, what do you know
Well, isn't that special.
Jim Breuer is here tonight; Dana Carvey isn't (afaik).
But why do you know that Jim Breuer is there?
They put him on the scoreboard. Jack White is also in the house.
What about Randy Breuer?
We've sure had a lot of hard-hit outs so far.
That was a hell of a ride, and a hell of a catch.
No give-backs -- yay!
Who's in the booth with Dick? If I hear "big end of the bat" again I may switch to the Mets feed.
And switched to the mets.
Roy Smalley
Tie game!
Well, we ran ourselves out of that inning.
I didn't have a lot of confidence in Castro against the lefty with 2 strikes. I do wonder why Cron never took off from third.
That was not successful.
That's three to the backstop now. Three free bases, plus the error.
give-backs *shakes head*
No effing bunts!
Ugh, Gladden. "Ground ball . . . caught! And he doubles off Polanco."
Good to hear the “EDD-IE!” chant again.
Bats of ass.
They just had Simba Cam (parents holding up their children like at Pride Rock) between innings. Hilarious.
6 innings,
56 hitsI don’t think the boyos will go out with a whimper, but I’ll be disappointed if they do.
What is going on with Parker out there?
LOLMets
Whoa. Nice.
It's nice to play other teams that look sloppy
I'm tired and I find watching Parker pitch nauseating, so I'm going to bed.
Maybe a minute too soon.
I don’t have that kind of double play on my bingo card
Bad baseball is contagious
If Diaz keeps getting that pitch this'll be impossible
ass battery
*sigh*
Man, Arraez cracks me up. His plate appearances are just fun to watch.
Hell of an at bat by Arraez.
ARRAEZ! That was awesome.
Good gravy, Arraez was great in that at bat.
An absolute delight
Man I love him so much
All- time great walk
Columns must be written about this walk.
Shucks.
Oh boy.
Rally caps on, boys.
So......
We can has....
...... derp!
too little, too late
dammit Nelson, that was ball four
Dammit.
That was a crappy loss.
Exciting way to lose. Blarf.
again the pitching showed up, but let down by defense and offense
I only tuned in to hear Cruz strikeout, Eddie get a hit, Cron fly out and Max follow Nelson’s example. Later checked the boxscore and, to my disappointment, saw that they didn’t do much more than that all game. 1-9 with RISP ain’t getting it done boys.
dang
Boomstick just needed to leave his elbow in harm's way and this would have been a win.
Boomstick just needed to leave his elbow in harm's way and this would have been a
wintie.FTFY