Re: MLB 16 Franchise Progress Thread
PlayoffS! Nothing quite as satisfying as playing every out of a 162 game season and finally making the postseason. Really makes every pitch in the postseason feel like it could be the one to make all your hard work be for not.
The Mets finished at 100-62 and the #2 seed in the NL behind the Giants. We drew the Cubs (ugh) in the NLDS and their lineup gives me nightmares. The 2-4 combo of Bryant, Rizzo, and Schwarber has me holding my breath longer than what is probably healthy.
Game 1: Syndergaard v Arrieta. I go up 2-0 on a two run blast by Lucas Duda in the 4th inning, but that's all I would get off Arrieta. Syndergaard gave up 4 runs (only one ER) in the sixth thanks to a Duda error (Duda giveth and Duda taketh away). 4-2 was the final.
Game 2: deGrom v Lester. I go down 2-0 thanks to a Schwarber 2 run bomb that wrapped itself around the right field foul pole. An inning later, Cespedes ties the game with a 2 run home run of his own. In the 5th inning, Cespedes hits another to the same exact spot and gives us a 4-2 lead. The 6th inning brings trouble as the first two get on against deGrom. Hansel Robles comes in and gives up a 2 run double to Ben Zobrist, and the game is knotted up again. Enter Kris Bryant... exit baseball. 2 run bomb. 6-4 Cubs. I get a run back in the eighth but squander a bases loaded opportunity and fall 6-5. Down 2-0 in the series.
Game 3: Harvey v Hendricks. I get to Hendricks early and I get to him often. Through 5 innings I have managed 10 hits, but only 1 run to show for it on a David Wright single. The Captain launched 2 home runs in the later innings, and Cespedes continued his torrid postseason, going 3-4 with a double. Matt Harvey held it down and we got on the board with a 6-1 win.
Down 1-2 to the Cubs with another game in Wrigley before heading back to NY for Game 5 (hopefully).
PlayoffS! Nothing quite as satisfying as playing every out of a 162 game season and finally making the postseason. Really makes every pitch in the postseason feel like it could be the one to make all your hard work be for not.
The Mets finished at 100-62 and the #2 seed in the NL behind the Giants. We drew the Cubs (ugh) in the NLDS and their lineup gives me nightmares. The 2-4 combo of Bryant, Rizzo, and Schwarber has me holding my breath longer than what is probably healthy.
Game 1: Syndergaard v Arrieta. I go up 2-0 on a two run blast by Lucas Duda in the 4th inning, but that's all I would get off Arrieta. Syndergaard gave up 4 runs (only one ER) in the sixth thanks to a Duda error (Duda giveth and Duda taketh away). 4-2 was the final.
Game 2: deGrom v Lester. I go down 2-0 thanks to a Schwarber 2 run bomb that wrapped itself around the right field foul pole. An inning later, Cespedes ties the game with a 2 run home run of his own. In the 5th inning, Cespedes hits another to the same exact spot and gives us a 4-2 lead. The 6th inning brings trouble as the first two get on against deGrom. Hansel Robles comes in and gives up a 2 run double to Ben Zobrist, and the game is knotted up again. Enter Kris Bryant... exit baseball. 2 run bomb. 6-4 Cubs. I get a run back in the eighth but squander a bases loaded opportunity and fall 6-5. Down 2-0 in the series.
Game 3: Harvey v Hendricks. I get to Hendricks early and I get to him often. Through 5 innings I have managed 10 hits, but only 1 run to show for it on a David Wright single. The Captain launched 2 home runs in the later innings, and Cespedes continued his torrid postseason, going 3-4 with a double. Matt Harvey held it down and we got on the board with a 6-1 win.
Down 1-2 to the Cubs with another game in Wrigley before heading back to NY for Game 5 (hopefully).
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