October Baseball Thread

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:05 pm

sancarlos wrote:Jeez. Pretty clear that Rizzo pulled his foot off the bag. Clear to everybody except the umpires.

Was Bill Murray the replay guy?

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:03 am

Talk about a malfunction at the junction

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:35 am

i think steve, howard and sancarlos have all pissed their pants

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:27 am

I feel like a little kid huddled up in bed with the radio way past my bedtime

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:39 am

degenerasian wrote:i think steve, howard and sancarlos have all pissed their pants

Several times

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:47 am

Steve of phpBB wrote:I think I just massively jinxed both the Cubs and the Dodgers - I bought tickets to Games 4 and 5 of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium.

RIght before the Dodgers lost yesterday. Nate Silver tells me that I now have about a fifty percent chance of that series happening.

Wonderful. Since I bought those tickets, the Cubs-Dodgers are 0-3. Perfect.

There's no way the Giants win 12 straight elimination games, right?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:08 am

Steve of phpBB wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:I think I just massively jinxed both the Cubs and the Dodgers - I bought tickets to Games 4 and 5 of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium.

RIght before the Dodgers lost yesterday. Nate Silver tells me that I now have about a fifty percent chance of that series happening.
Wonderful. Since I bought those tickets, the Cubs-Dodgers are 0-3. Perfect.

There's no way the Giants win 12 straight elimination games, right?

Doubt it. 2012 vs. Reds never happened, right?

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:55 am

Watching the replay this morning, after the ball hit the wall Almora gave up on the play. But Crawford had tagged at 2nd. If Almora retrieves the ball does Crawford score?

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:09 am

degenerasian wrote:Watching the replay this morning, after the ball hit the wall Almora gave up on the play. But Crawford had tagged at 2nd. If Almora retrieves the ball does Crawford score?

I think so, because that was a long long way from the plate and Almora's momentum would be taking him the other way.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:57 pm

Did the Yankees already acquire Kenley Jansen?

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:34 pm

Whats wrong with the National League? 11 hit batters in a series and nobody's mad!

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:04 pm

These California propositions taking up ad time on FS1 are gross. It's like voting on what to eat for dinner. How does this state function?

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:50 pm

Baseball is so awesome.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:52 pm

5th pitcher of the inning. One out!

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:58 pm

Watch the Giants win from here

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:05 pm

What a shock that the Giants' bullpen failed them. That never happened this season. Except all the time, I mean.

Congrats, Steve.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:48 am

Brutal. Went to bed when they had a 3 run lead in the 9th and woke up to more obnoxious Cubs fans than ever. Sorry howard and the rest.
What the fuck happened?

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:11 am

Rex wrote:These California propositions taking up ad time on FS1 are gross. It's like voting on what to eat for dinner. How does this state function?

Poorly, unless things got worse after I left.

That said, it was always fun being to able to vote on what the porn industry could or could not legally do.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:04 am

Sooo ... if you accept that Moore couldn't have handled the full 9th win or lose, I don't really have an issue with Bochy's bullpen management given his roster. I hate the whole "let the starter go until he makes it tougher on the relievers" style, 100x more when you don't have anything resembling a shutdown reliever. The deadspin article on Casilla makes me feel sad but picking him over Law or even Strickland (strikeout situation) would have been deferring to experience, not the best option to end the game. Going matchup repeatedly looks cartoony but given the overall lack of talent and by batter results, what else could you do? I just don't see any place for the argument that the reliever going in wasn't a decent call or that the timing or replacing wasn't the right call. Real time or hindsight, he did the right-est he could with what he was working with.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:44 am

BSF21 wrote:What the fuck happened?

The Law of Averages woke up and re-asserted itself with a vengeance.

Seriously, you had the Giants with their streak of winning elimination games and their pattern of even year championships. The Cubs had been 0-9 in playoff games in the west. They had won two of their last sixteen postseason series. There have been three series where the Cubs only had to win one-of-three to clinch a series - they had lost 7 out of 7 games in that situation.

Something had to give.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:47 am

mister d wrote:Sooo ... if you accept that Moore couldn't have handled the full 9th win or lose, I don't really have an issue with Bochy's bullpen management given his roster. I hate the whole "let the starter go until he makes it tougher on the relievers" style, 100x more when you don't have anything resembling a shutdown reliever. The deadspin article on Casilla makes me feel sad but picking him over Law or even Strickland (strikeout situation) would have been deferring to experience, not the best option to end the game. Going matchup repeatedly looks cartoony but given the overall lack of talent and by batter results, what else could you do? I just don't see any place for the argument that the reliever going in wasn't a decent call or that the timing or replacing wasn't the right call. Real time or hindsight, he did the right-est he could with what he was working with.

I agree. Any random pitcher could be expected to get through the ninth without giving up three runs. And Moore was at 120 pitches - if Bochy had left him in, you'd be reading a bunch of stuff about how you should never let a tiring pitcher stay in a postseason game.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:52 am

Steve of phpBB wrote:
mister d wrote:Sooo ... if you accept that Moore couldn't have handled the full 9th win or lose, I don't really have an issue with Bochy's bullpen management given his roster. I hate the whole "let the starter go until he makes it tougher on the relievers" style, 100x more when you don't have anything resembling a shutdown reliever. The deadspin article on Casilla makes me feel sad but picking him over Law or even Strickland (strikeout situation) would have been deferring to experience, not the best option to end the game. Going matchup repeatedly looks cartoony but given the overall lack of talent and by batter results, what else could you do? I just don't see any place for the argument that the reliever going in wasn't a decent call or that the timing or replacing wasn't the right call. Real time or hindsight, he did the right-est he could with what he was working with.
I agree. Any random pitcher could be expected to get through the ninth without giving up three runs. And Moore was at 120 pitches - if Bochy had left him in, you'd be reading a bunch of stuff about how you should never let a tiring pitcher stay in a postseason game.

Maybe once it got to Romo have to live and die with him? 5 pitchers in an inning is crazy.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:04 am

Crazier to draw an arbitrary line versus playing the matchups?

(Because it worked out, I guess you give Maddon credit for hitting for Russell in that spot and forcing Bochy's hand, but that one surprised me.)

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:26 am

mister d wrote:(Because it worked out, I guess you give Maddon credit for hitting for Russell in that spot and forcing Bochy's hand, but that one surprised me.)

The way I had it worked out in my head when Zobrist came up, Zobrist was going to double and then Russell was going to drive in the tying runs. (And when Zobrist actually doubled, I almost shat myself.) But I was fine seeing them take Russell out for Coghlan - lately Coghlan has been doing pretty well against lefties.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:25 pm

Hard to believe that for the 2nd year in a row the Jays will be the team to have most recently won a World series out of the 4 teams remaining, despite it being 23 years since they won their last.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:17 pm

So, I am pretty sure Urias just balked at least two times in three throws to first, the third resulting in a pickoff of harper. I think Harold Reynolds got that one right.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:44 pm

Im not ositive who the third guy in the booth is but he also nailed it on the worth trying to score shit. Th third base coach e was totally on he wrong side of the bag to make hat call. He needed to be on the home plate side to see he ball got cut off sooner than expected and thrown the hold sign up.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:53 pm

Why do they waste a guy bunting 3 times. Why not let Kershaw bunt

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:55 pm

degenerasian wrote:Why do they waste a guy bunting 3 times. Why not let Kershaw bunt

I agree with this.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:57 pm

Fuck turners hair, pedersons is out of control.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:07 pm

Weird. It's like the nationals don't have a real center fielder.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:07 pm

6 pitchers in an inning!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:12 pm

Oliver per z was huge for me in my fantasy league. In 2006.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:22 pm

Baseball is fun.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:56 pm

Why bring in a pitcher to intentional walk?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:05 pm

degenerasian wrote:Why bring in a pitcher to intentional walk?

They totally should have went with jershaw there.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:12 pm

Reynolds would be annoying as fuck at a bar, let alone a national broadcast. Just nonstop wrongness and bad logic.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:15 pm

Reynolds would be good if he talked half as much.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:20 pm

Holy shit. Kershaw is closing this shit.

(Not saying he's getting He save mjnd you)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:22 pm

Never god damn mind.