Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Met fans are being taken on quite a ride
As the Mets struggle to keep up with the Giants and Cardinals in the Wild Card race despite their ravaged rotation, their fans are being treated to a great game after great game. The ending may not always be what they are hoping for, but the drama is coming at them in spades. For the …
Yazmani Grandal and the big RBI game
Since Yazmani Grandal joined the team in 2015, he has had some big games, so how does his big games compare against his Dodger peers over the same time span? Pretty damn good. If we look at LAD since 2015 to have driven in at least five runs: Eleven times in that period a LAD …
Grandal and the LAD switch hitting home run numbers
LAD Switch Hitters with two or more home runs in a game: 38 times a switch hitter has hit at least two home runs in a game Grandal has now done it four times in only two years Reggie Smith did it six times over a three year period 1976 – 1978 Eddie Murray did …
Wild, wild card night ends with losses for everyone
Ender Inciarte made sure the Mets couldn’t pull ahead of either the Cardinals or Giants with this walk off catch. ATL@NYM: Inciarte pulls back potential walk-off homer https://t.co/mu3IqXSMNu via @mlb — Phil Gurnee (@meercatjohn) September 22, 2016 While the Mets were losing to the Braves, the Cardinals were blasted by the Rockies 11 – 1, and …
Scott Kazmir – Audition number one
Back in July, it would have been hard to imagine that Kazmir would be auditioning for a spot on the postseason roster, but August came and everything changed. Using Baseball Reference to get the game score and sorting by highest game score to lowest we can see that three of his six worst game scores …
No one expected the cavalry to be the kiddie corps
but that is what happened when the original calvary all came up lame while Clayton was shelved. At first, it was going to be Ryu then McCarthy, then Anderson. None of them survived their charge and all went back to the DL they came from. Instead, it was rookies Urias / Stewart / Stripling who rode …
Vin Scully and the headfirst slide
If you watched the game on TV last night you heard Vin Scully spend a good amount of time lamenting the lack of sliding skills in the major leagues. This was brought about when Brandon Crawford slid headfirst into 3rd base and injured his finger. At my house or at the ballgame or at a …
Wild Card in a Carls Junior Three Way
With the Giants winning, the Cardinals winning, and the Mets losing, every team in the Wild Card hunt have the exact same record of 80 – 71. The Cardinals are 5 -5 in their last ten games but have won four in a row to force their way into the three-way tie. The Mets are …
I’m a Madison Bumgarner fan
and have to admit that may seem weird as a Dodger fan. I don’t mean I’m a fan as though I like Bumgarner. I’m a fan in that I respect him and what he bring to the table for the Giants. As I watched the game last night, it was easy to come to the …
Now that is how you start a big series
That Bumgarner / Kershaw matchup may have been the best since Kershaw bested …………. aw snap, don’t you hate it when you feel a good story forming in your mind and when you go to write the story, reality blows your story out of the water. I was planning on writing about how this was …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 