With all the funny/dumb quotes of Yogi, it’s kind of easy to forget/never realize how good he was at baseball. 18-time All-Star, 13-time World Champion, 3-time MVP, over 2,000 hits and 350 dingers.
I can't agree with this. It's the bottom of the 9th, they are guaranteed 1 more inning to bat than what we do. Home team I would think it always favored in extra inning games, so there's that as well. Hader will need to pitch 2 innings.
And Hader. That's still on par or better than what the Mets could possibly have... but they have the advantage in that they get to bat last.
I'm expecting that the offense will have to win this game in extras against their beleaguered bullpen. Not just one courtesy "free" run... but 3-4 runs. Of course Hader needs to get 3 outs first to get it there.
Once again, it’s not an advantage to have Hader left unless you think he’s going two innings. I’d rather not have Hader left as that would mean we are in the 10th already.
They have to kill this bullpen if he holds it in the 9th. multiple runs needed. Also the only way they've won extra inning games this year is Hader going 2.... guess it depends on how bad the 9th is. He's not going to be available tomorrow regardless... (neither will Pressly... and Abreu just threw 20+ pitches).
You know what ticks me off, the expected W-L of the Astros and Mariners: 44-38 Astros 43-42 Mariners MLB is saying we should have a 2 1/2 game lead, not a 4 1/2 game deficit. A whopping collective of 7 games of "bad luck" this season. Translation: crappy ass Servais has been 7 games better than Espada. Sheesh. And Seattle is about to luck into another win. We're about to throw one away. That's your season in a nutshell folks.
We are also missing Altuve. If Cabbage doesn’t come through with a hit, we are screwed with Chas due up 2nd instead. Don’t care who the Mets have out there, what I’ve seen from him lately pretty much guarantees an unproductive out.
Saw a post on Reddit the other day that showed what the standings in every division would be if teams records in 1 run games were flipped. We would have a 12 game lead on the Ms right now. That pissed me off more than anything.
A lot of that is circumstantial/luck related... you can keep posting it, but that's why they play 162 where most of that usually evens out. For the most part, Espada has put the pitchers out there that "should" be out there in those situations... they weren't doing their jobs as well in April/May... started doing them better in June and the team has been winning.
Again, it evens out. I'd be very concerned if the roles were reversed and the Astros were winning all those 1 run games. That's not sustainable.
