Mets at Pirates, 8/15-8/18

lots of hard hit balls that inning but only 2 runs

 

Sorry Keith, there is no argument that Al Oliver belongs in the Hall of Fame - he had exactly one exceptional year in his career (1982). And he wasn't 50 hits short of 3000, he was 250.

 

J Reyes was obviously safe on the stolen base, and now A Reyes follows up with a base hit.

 

Pelfrey recovers from the bloop double with two nice defensive plays. Only 86 pitches through 6.

This game is going remarkably quickly - it's on about a 2:15 pace.

 

Someone might want to mention to Gary and Keith that the Braves have a .490 winning percentage over the past three seasons - they actually haven't been anything special for a while now.

 

Beltran throws LaRoche out at the plate!

 

laroche gunned(sort of) at home by beltran didn't have much on it but right on target

 

solid 7 from pelfrey

 

Pelfrey with 7 shutout innings and 98 pitches - I wonder if he'll come out for the 8th?

I'd like to see a few more runs right now.

Still on a 2:15 pace here.

 

Wonderful start for Sanchez.

 

here we go

 

Here come the situational specialists.

 

mets get out of it for now. i still can't believe sanchez gave up a hr to jack wilson

 

Feliciano gets through the rest of the inning. Really need some insurance here.

Who pitches the 9th?

 

probably feliciano, there's a lefty up 2nd in the inning

unless they're going to try to go smith/show/heilman or something ridiculous

 

Classic example of not being able to get any add-on runs. Hope it doesn't end up hurting.

Heilman coming in to try to pick up the save.

 

heilman, might as well turn it off.

guess no one told the home plate umpire that the pirates were unintentionally intentionally walking reyes. mets pitchers better get that giant strike zone in the bottom of the inning