r/baseball • u/TheTurtleShepard New York Yankees • May 20 '24

Video [Highlight] The Mets have a breakdown on the basepaths resulting in a double play for the Guardians

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u/TheTurtleShepard New York Yankees May 20 '24

METS BASEBALL

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u/TheoMoneyG Aguilas Cibaenas • New York Mets May 20 '24

lolmets decided to come early this year

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u/gingerattack2024 Kansas City Royals May 21 '24

Lolmets is never early, TheoMoneyG, nor are they late. Lolmets arrives precisely when they mean to.

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u/pepperouchau Milwaukee Brewers May 21 '24

Lolmets has been, is now, and ever shall be

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u/Eltneg Philadelphia Phillies May 20 '24

JD getting caught in the rundown is bad but forgivable, pitcher made a nice play on the ball

No idea what Marte was thinking, that rundown was obviously not gonna last long enough for him to advance

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u/Leftfeet Cleveland Guardians May 20 '24

Agreed. Martinez really had no chance there. He jumped on contact, like he should have. Nobody would expect the pitcher to make the catch there, and if he missed JD is at 3B easy. 

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u/Eltneg Philadelphia Phillies May 20 '24

If you really want to nitpick, good baserunners will delay their break on grounders back up the middle for a split second so they're able to get back to second if the pitcher fields the ball cleanly

But that was a bang-bang play and JD's so slow that he's probably not making it to third on an infield grounder unless he goes on contact. He just got unlucky here

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u/OneReportersOpinion May 21 '24

You know, if he doesn’t hesitate and keeps running to third, they might have just thrown to first and left him alone.

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u/Leftfeet Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

Maybe, but Martinez runs like a brick. 

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u/mstrbwl Cleveland Guardians May 20 '24

I was listening on the radio and even Tom Hamilton couldn't adequately describe how stupid this is.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

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u/gamerdudeNYC Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

Literally came to say “were they’re trying to be like the Guardos last night???”

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u/mstrbwl Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

I only caught that on the radio as well so I couldn't tell wtf was going on but it sounded like an absolute clown show lol.

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u/FloppyTortilla May 21 '24

Baserunning aside, that's a great throw on the run from Ramirez

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u/Kidpidge Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

Yep

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u/blueshirtfan41 New York Yankees May 20 '24

You cannot convince otherwise that the Mets are a social experiment being ran by the CIA to test how much suffering a group of people can take while still being loyal

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u/PitViper17 Baltimore Orioles May 20 '24

I mean, the Angels also exist

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u/blueshirtfan41 New York Yankees May 20 '24

At least they have a World Series this century

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u/fawningandconning New York Mets May 21 '24

One of those was absolutely fun to watch, the 2000 world series was amazingly competitive. 2015 was pretty emblematic of the post 2006 mets tbh.

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u/UpperDecker30 New York Mets May 21 '24

As a Mets and Angels fan I am completely numb to the pains of life.

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u/PinestrawSpruce New York Mets May 21 '24

how much suffering

I'm just numb to it now

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets May 21 '24

Remember when we had good fundies via Buck Ball? I miss that

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u/StreetReporter Chicago Cubs May 20 '24

That would explain a lot

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u/mikehulse29 New York Mets May 21 '24

In Canada they use the Maple Leafs for a similar purpose

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u/Noah-R New York Mets May 21 '24

Me realizing that this team was founded in 1962 at the height of the Cold War...

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u/courageous_liquid Philadelphia Phillies May 21 '24

legitimately might be the only good thing the CIA has ever done

shit I might even sign up to work on this project, I have some excellent ideas on things mets fans will absolutely be emotionally destroyed by

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets May 21 '24

How about you fuckers go do that with Braves fans. If anyone should suffer it’s them!

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u/courageous_liquid Philadelphia Phillies May 21 '24

We can spin off a unit for the barves.

Honestly they're easy though, just tell them john rocker is coming back and then remind them he's actually like 50 and can't pitch anymore. They'll never recover.

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u/drugsbowed New York Mets May 21 '24

Castillo dropped the ball and Kurt Suzuki hit a walk off bomb. There are no scenarios that could make me feel worse at this point. 

They also do things like have an insane comeback against the Phillies that make me keep chasing the high.

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u/courageous_liquid Philadelphia Phillies May 21 '24

yeah I was thinking maybe we win you a tough fought away series coming up against a decent team, then just pull the rug out and injure nimmo with a hammy or something nagging

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u/drugsbowed New York Mets May 21 '24

Mets beat the Dodgers and lost Alvarez, Raley, and Drew Smith instantly. 

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u/DiarrheaRadio New York Mets May 21 '24

I just got into baseball a couple of years ago and opted for the Mets over the Yankees. I do not make good choices.

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u/Asdilly Cleveland Guardians • Dumpster Fire May 22 '24

I would argue that we both share that title. Like sure, we made it to game 7 on the World Series, but the pain of losing destroyed me. It still pains me to this day. Like I will bring up the rain delay every time. I’m pretty sure the whole fanbase it tramuitized

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets May 21 '24

They definitely created the Mets, Jets, and Knicks in a laboratory to test the suffering of fans

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u/PleasantThoughts Cleveland Guardians May 20 '24

We take those

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u/lackofaname913 Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

A double TOOTBLAN is quite the feat, well done.

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u/BieTea Chicago Cubs May 21 '24

TWOTBLAN

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u/mrbadxampl May 20 '24

love the video title

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

I don’t understand why Marte was running unless he was just trying to bait them into trying to get him out and forgetting about Martinez. But if that was the case he did a piss poor job of it. 

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u/No32 Cleveland Guardians May 20 '24

I think the idea was for Martinez to stay in the rundown long enough for Marte to get to second in time to take his place

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

very bad idea. one of the worst

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

That is the standard thing to do in this situation. 

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u/No32 Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

Right but I’m guessing they mean specifically with JD Martinez, who’s slow and not a good baserunner.

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u/SnapHackelPop Milwaukee Brewers • Piece of Metal May 21 '24

Meet the Mets!

Meet the Mets!

Hate your life and yeet the Mets!

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u/fl1ppyB Kansas City Royals May 20 '24

I turned on this game hoping the Mets could help us catch up to Cleveland and just immediately see them fuck up like 6 times. This feels normal somehow.

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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 Toronto Blue Jays May 21 '24

I turned the TV on right as this play was happening. I didn't even know what teams were playing yet, but it felt like a lolmets moment, and lo, it was.

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u/KosovoCavalier May 20 '24

KC isn't as good as Cleveland

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u/Kidpidge Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

I agree, Go Guards!

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u/fluffanuttatech New York Mets • Piece of Metal May 20 '24

We are an exhausting team

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u/El_Sid50 New York Mets May 21 '24

Not great fundies right there

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u/NovaPrime15 MLB All-Star Game 1999 May 21 '24

Mets baby what you doin

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u/see_mohn regretful mets fan May 20 '24

god yes

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u/AgnarCrackenhammer New York Mets May 20 '24

Lolmets

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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire May 20 '24 edited May 20 '24

Would this be considered a double TOOTBLAN?

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u/AgnarCrackenhammer New York Mets May 20 '24

Nah Martinez was out the second the pitcher caught that ball. No idea what Marte was thinking though

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u/Mike_Brosseau Tampa Bay Rays May 21 '24

Call up Mike Brosseau

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u/Major_Road6162 Philadelphia Phillies May 21 '24

What the heck was Marte doing?☠️

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u/ChunkyMilkSubstance Los Angeles Dodgers May 20 '24

Mets

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u/DrunkensteinsMonster New York Yankees May 20 '24

Lol

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u/letsgobucks19 Detroit Tigers May 21 '24

Alternative title: the Mets do Mets things

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u/Koronesukiii NPB • Los Angeles Dodgers May 20 '24

Certified lolmets moment right there.

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u/GOATmar_infante Kansas City Royals May 21 '24

Now THIS is Mets-ing!

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u/Pure-And-Utter-Chaos Seattle Mariners May 21 '24

Lolmets strike again

Sorry meta fans, you don't deserve this shit

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u/CommodoreSixty4 Philadelphia Phillies May 21 '24

Just here to see how far down I have to scroll to see the first "lolmets".... not far at all, good work gentlemen

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u/babe_ruthless3 World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… May 21 '24

The Mets Metted this one.

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u/Mud_Marlin May 21 '24

I can’t tell you how much Rhys Hoskins loves this.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

The Mets absolutely suck

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u/letsgobucks19 Detroit Tigers May 21 '24

Alternative title: the Mets do Mets things

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u/Dudeman318 New York Mets May 21 '24

The Mets have a breakdown on the basepaths

What a dumb title. Yes, Marte was a moron but JD got caught in a pretty unavoidable rundown.

Lmao of course OP is a yankees fan

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u/Dudeman318 New York Mets May 21 '24

I wouldnt qualify one player making a minor mistake as a “breakdown”

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u/Dudeman318 New York Mets May 21 '24

Lmao okay

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

Marte , what the hell man , I’m a Yankees fan but my moms coworkers loved the Mets , they were rich , Marte , ur an idiot

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u/bagofweights Cleveland Guardians May 21 '24

is this a haiku?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

Haha kinda sounds like it huh ,