2016 NLDS - San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs

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Gm 1 Fri, Oct 7 9:00 PM/ 6 Pacific Giants @ Cubs Cueto (18-5) at Lester (19-5) FS1
Gm 2 Sat, Oct 8 8:00 PM/ 5 Pacific Giants @ Cubs TBD at Hendricks (16-8) MLBN
Gm 3 Mon, Oct 10 TBD Cubs @ Giants TBD at TBD
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Gm 4* Tue, Oct 11 TBD Cubs @ Giants TBD at TBD
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Gm 5* Thu, Oct 13 TBD Giants @ Cubs TBD at TBD
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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Cubs in four	8
Giants in five	6
Giants in four	3
Cubs in five	3
Cubs in three	1
Giants in three	0

― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:48 (ten years ago)

Giants in five

― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:48 (ten years ago)

cubs in who cares cubs

― qualx, Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:52 (ten years ago)

i really, really like the Giants chances. their starting pitching can take them back to the World Series.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 October 2016 05:11 (ten years ago)

don't get me wrong, i know the Cubs are the better team but...

― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 October 2016 05:12 (ten years ago)

cubs

― qualx, Thursday, 6 October 2016 05:21 (ten years ago)

Anyone but the fucking Giants.

― Andy K, Thursday, 6 October 2016 10:51 (ten years ago)

go Cubs go, but if they choke at least NA gets to put his Bears shit on

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2016 10:59 (ten years ago)

giants somehow.

― bnw, Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:14 (ten years ago)

Rooting for the Cubs to crush the Giants into a bowl of tomato paste.

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:23 (ten years ago)

not sure why the games list TBD for the Cubs after game 2, they announced Arrieta for game 3 and Lackey for game 4
i'll go Cubs in 4

― na (NA), Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:47 (ten years ago)

cubs obv

― k3vin k., Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:48 (ten years ago)

i'm with Childs on this one, i don't believe in this even year crap. cubs in 4.

https://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyc0agZwxX1qfqm3ro1_400.jpg

― nomar, Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:31 (ten years ago)

cubs in 4

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:49 (ten years ago)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/dd/cb/95/ddcb950f87cc511d9c819fc68f96d27e.jpg

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 6 October 2016 18:30 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 7 October 2016 00:01 (ten years ago)

Cubs in four.

― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 7 October 2016 01:45 (ten years ago)

this Giant hate is cranking me up. you people!

― Bee OK, Friday, 7 October 2016 02:03 (ten years ago)

DON'T LOOK AT ME

― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 7 October 2016 02:11 (ten years ago)

Rany Jazayerli:

How unusual is Joe Maddon’s approach to defensive positioning? We had to invent a new metric to fully appreciate it — and to understand what it might mean for the Cubs’ World Series hopes.

https://theringer.com/we-had-to-invent-a-new-metric-to-properly-appreciate-the-cubs-84f371e73b90#.x4vaklefn

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:17 (ten years ago)

a version of this could be posted every year, or at least every year that a clearly dominant team is in the postseason, but it's still worth reading for anyone who might assume that the best team will probably win the world series:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-2016-cubs-are-already-a-success/

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, 7 October 2016 18:34 (ten years ago)

deadspin came up with a good description of tragically injured cub kyle schwarber: a fun strong home-run chub who mashes magnificent taters

― nomar, Friday, 7 October 2016 18:40 (ten years ago)

Game 3 time on Monday has been announced it will be at 6:30 pacific

― Bee OK, Friday, 7 October 2016 20:17 (ten years ago)

That line in the Cameron piece about how the Cubs probably don't feel lucky to have to go through Cueto and Bumgarner...I mean, too bad! I'm sure they're not griping about it.

Here's my argument in favor of "tournament baseball" - the team that plays better than the other team in a particular game usually wins that game.

― timellison, Friday, 7 October 2016 20:53 (ten years ago)

more D, from Sam Miller

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17738547/the-cubs-historically-excellent-defense

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 October 2016 21:04 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:01 (ten years ago)

the team that plays better than the other team in a particular game usually wins that game.

i'd agree with that if you mean "usually" as in like 51% of the time.

i mean, let's say both team's starting pitchers dominate. they don't allow any hits or runs. until the 9th inning. in the 8th inning, Team A gets two singles, then a home run. They're up 3-0. Team B bats in the bottom of the 9th. The first guy hits a home run. Then there are two singles, and then the ending ends. They lose 3-1. Both teams end up with 3 hits (2 singles and a home run). Did team A really play better?

versions of that happen all the time. sure there are plenty of games where one team makes a few terrible errors and the starting pitcher obviously doesn't have it. but there's a reason that even division-winning teams still lose 40% of the time, and it's not because they forget how to be good at baseball during 2/5 of their games

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:07 (ten years ago)

this means the Giants are going to win in 3, right?

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:38 (ten years ago)

Let's Go Giants!

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:59 (ten years ago)

i'm not as high stressed tonight.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:59 (ten years ago)

one and done drove me up the wall. best of five is so much better.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:59 (ten years ago)

probably would have been out?

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:18 (ten years ago)

not what is suppose to happen

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:19 (ten years ago)

i understand trying to go and all that but i felt like they could have waited. by rushing it they threw him out pretty easily.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:24 (ten years ago)

this camera angle is driving me crazy. how long have the Cubs played here?

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:33 (ten years ago)

couple of weeks now

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:33 (ten years ago)

The angle and framing are really bad and weird, I wonder why. Doesn't usually look like this.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:37 (ten years ago)

i understand that the whole world outside Giants fans are for the Cubs. but do the announcers have to be this over the top about it?

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:42 (ten years ago)

it's ridiculous

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:42 (ten years ago)

that was bad, should not happen in this type of game.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 01:55 (ten years ago)

i thought that 3 - 1 pitch was a home run

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:01 (ten years ago)

wow

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:01 (ten years ago)

(you should really who is at bat, that's Pence not Posey)

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:09 (ten years ago)

this is their chance

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:12 (ten years ago)

denied

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

yes, i'm sort of hanging on every pitch and for that i'm sorry

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

you have to bee seeing the same thing

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:16 (ten years ago)

lol, i really didn't mean bee

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:16 (ten years ago)

good game, i'm going to shut up now...

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:26 (ten years ago)

cueto is so fun to watch

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:02 (ten years ago)

Yah fav player rn

― Spottie, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:17 (ten years ago)

yessss

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:28 (ten years ago)

Christ, Vasgersian.

― Andy K, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:29 (ten years ago)

lol that was crushed

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:30 (ten years ago)

I've got the classic thing where my stream is lagging so I hear my upstairs neighbor yell YES and then see the Baez HR 30 seconds later

― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:30 (ten years ago)

Man I thought cueto had two perfect pitches before that that Baez somehow laid off. Great at bat

― Spottie, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:33 (ten years ago)

You look at the swing Baez put on that pitch and you have to believe that is a guy that might grow into a bigger power hitter in the next couple years.

― earlnash, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:35 (ten years ago)

They've been saying that for a few years though

― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:37 (ten years ago)

He's still only 23. I'm impressed he cut his K's down so much in a season.

― earlnash, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:38 (ten years ago)

Edwin Encarnacion looked like the second coming of Sheffield when he came up with the Reds, but he never was able to put it all together until he was 29.

― earlnash, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:39 (ten years ago)

He is getting better for sure.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:41 (ten years ago)

i'm neutral re: the matchup but this is a great baseball game

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:43 (ten years ago)

Dodged a big bullet there, I thought it was gone.

― earlnash, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:44 (ten years ago)

Busters shot looked gone no doubt

― Spottie, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:48 (ten years ago)

the Giants had their chances

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:49 (ten years ago)

they only need one out of two

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:49 (ten years ago)

Busters shot i thought was out too

― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:49 (ten years ago)

Ball just doesn't carry there at night like it does during the day. There was one other earlier in the game that looked good off the bat to die in the track.

― earlnash, Saturday, 8 October 2016 03:50 (ten years ago)

https://twitter.com/darenw/status/784603470372409344

― Spottie, Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:29 (ten years ago)

after last night soul crushing lost...

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:08 (ten years ago)

Let's Go Giants!

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:09 (ten years ago)

Wtf this is on mlb network how
Am I supposed to watch

― Spottie, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:30 (ten years ago)

by purchasing a cable plan with MLB network silly!

or illegal streaming

― qualx, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:34 (ten years ago)

strikeout.co

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:34 (ten years ago)

lol

― JoeStork, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:47 (ten years ago)

that run from Baez. wow.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:48 (ten years ago)

not sure going to the bullpen is the preferred solution for the Giants.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:49 (ten years ago)

Lol Samardzia is garbage and has the worst hair / facial hair combo

― Immediate Follower (NA), Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:49 (ten years ago)

lol pence

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:51 (ten years ago)

Thx morbs

― Spottie, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:52 (ten years ago)

OKk, FUCK YOU Bob Costas

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:57 (ten years ago)

now i feel better

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 00:57 (ten years ago)

taking out the pitcher already, i'm ok with that

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:00 (ten years ago)

YES

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:01 (ten years ago)

getting two back was super important

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:06 (ten years ago)

the bullpen will be fine

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:07 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/c4jt321.png?fb

― qualx, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:08 (ten years ago)

it was not the bullpen as much it was the closer

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:12 (ten years ago)

not expecting non Giants fan to know

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:13 (ten years ago)

*as much as

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:13 (ten years ago)

Nah, entire bullpen had problems all season long. Even when Giants were doing fine, it was in spite of it.

It was the 22nd worst bullpen of the season. Only Rangers had a worst bullpen and made the playoffs.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:18 (ten years ago)

not expecting non Giants fan to know

― Bee OK, Saturday, October 8, 2016 9:13 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is peak stuff

― qualx, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:19 (ten years ago)

it's was the second worst bullpen because of the closer situation.

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:24 (ten years ago)

gutted for Hendricks. hope he is fine.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:24 (ten years ago)

i probably watched 140 games, i'm ok with the bullpen

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:25 (ten years ago)

*stares blankly*

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:36 (ten years ago)

Maddon is a genius.

― Andy K, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:36 (ten years ago)

man wood hasn't hit a homer since 2014

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:37 (ten years ago)

haaaa

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:38 (ten years ago)

he is a good hitter iirc. still unforgivable from Kontos.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:38 (ten years ago)

holy crud

― qualx, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:38 (ten years ago)

something about Wrigley field that make every HR look impressive.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:39 (ten years ago)

lol Bumgarner gonna hit

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:43 (ten years ago)

hahah

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:45 (ten years ago)

@JeffPassan
If my Baseball Reference search is right, Travis Wood hit the first postseason HR for a reliever since Rosy Ryan in the 1924 World Series.

― Andy K, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:49 (ten years ago)

i would rather not even use Casilla

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 02:11 (ten years ago)

not sure about that

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 02:14 (ten years ago)

still think he was safe at second

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 02:20 (ten years ago)

now or never

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 02:47 (ten years ago)

for this game

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 02:47 (ten years ago)

now or ~~2010~~, ~~2012~~, ~~2014~~,

― qualx, Sunday, 9 October 2016 03:02 (ten years ago)

the bullpen did fine outside that one pitch. it was Samardzia that lost this game and to the opposite pitchers base hit.

― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 October 2016 03:02 (ten years ago)

fine outside that one pitch

story of my life

― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 October 2016 03:15 (ten years ago)

Nah, the Cubs just wanted it more. Or the baseball gods or something.

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 9 October 2016 11:02 (ten years ago)

anything can still happen, but i wdn't put a '98 Yankees-style megasweep past the Cubs

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 October 2016 15:10 (ten years ago)

wowjake

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

Holy Cow!

― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

*grunt*

― Andy K, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

Rip

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:16 (ten years ago)

ahhhahahaha

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:16 (ten years ago)

Looks like he threw him the exact same pitch three times in a row?

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:17 (ten years ago)

there is beauty yet in the universe

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:19 (ten years ago)

51 pitches through two innings for Bumgarner

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:24 (ten years ago)

he was safe. wtf.

(but what a play from Baez, good lord)

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:56 (ten years ago)

Wow no way

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:57 (ten years ago)

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:57 (ten years ago)

That's some bull

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:58 (ten years ago)

Unreal

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:58 (ten years ago)

he was...clearly safe

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:00 (ten years ago)

Didn't even think it was a question tbf

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:00 (ten years ago)

Fix is in

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:11 (ten years ago)

2 innings to Chapman.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:15 (ten years ago)

Belt-Posey-Pence. Probably last shot at making the world cringe with our even year magic stuff.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:37 (ten years ago)

Ya probs

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:44 (ten years ago)

Wow going to chap early intersting

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:48 (ten years ago)

also very very smart. which the giants could have eased their way into a tie without having to face Chapman.

also fuck Chapman. we might not win the world series but at least he ain't part of the organisation.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:50 (ten years ago)

Def

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:52 (ten years ago)

can't do anything with 102 mph heat

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:53 (ten years ago)

Not on that top shelf

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:54 (ten years ago)

YES

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:55 (ten years ago)

oh wow

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:55 (ten years ago)

Wooooooooooooooooooo

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:55 (ten years ago)

just checking in and listening in on radio, but why, did maddon switch out heyward in RF?

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:55 (ten years ago)

yeah he did

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:56 (ten years ago)

Someone in Giants PR department need to find/fabricate a strong link between a goat and Gillaspie.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:59 (ten years ago)

So cool this is happening against chapman

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 04:59 (ten years ago)

Yeah, especially after he blew away Pence.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:00 (ten years ago)

Derek Law our new mascot.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:03 (ten years ago)

Where's Bee? Is he okay?

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:03 (ten years ago)

What a meltdown by Chapman. He looked great against Pence and then ... nothing.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:05 (ten years ago)

Grant Brisbee
‏@mccoveychron
Twelve left-handed batters reached against Aroldis Chapman this year in the regular season. Seven walks. Five hits.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:08 (ten years ago)

Ouch

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:09 (ten years ago)

Want this win if only to see cueto pitch one more time

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:13 (ten years ago)

Moore scheduled tomorrow.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:14 (ten years ago)

Oh damn

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:18 (ten years ago)

Great at bat laying off that 2-2 pitch

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:20 (ten years ago)

oh my oh my

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:21 (ten years ago)

Ugh

― schwantz, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:21 (ten years ago)

still can not trust the giants in the 9th

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:21 (ten years ago)

Bryant, you luscious manhunk

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:22 (ten years ago)

yeah after that 2-2 picth I knew this 9th was trouble.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:23 (ten years ago)

Inches

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:24 (ten years ago)

If that car advertisement was a few inches lower, I wonder if that's still a homerun.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:24 (ten years ago)

I am already tired of this Cubs team by the way. If you thought the Giants were insufferable, these Cubs have what it takes to be much much worse.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:29 (ten years ago)

lol gtfo

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:30 (ten years ago)

I just see them winning a lot of world series, regardless of tonight's results.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:31 (ten years ago)

I like this cubs team minus chapman

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:32 (ten years ago)

clutch catch

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:34 (ten years ago)

yeah great great catch.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:35 (ten years ago)

wow

never heard of the RF before btw

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:35 (ten years ago)

hey another 4+ hour game

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:35 (ten years ago)

Wowza

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:36 (ten years ago)

What a catch. This game!

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:36 (ten years ago)

Lmao same exact pitch and placement every time

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:43 (ten years ago)

Nice bounce back inning from Romo.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:44 (ten years ago)

Took 4 strikes but great pitching vs Bryant there

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:57 (ten years ago)

Getting late for me.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:08 (ten years ago)

I was more than ready for the game to end there.

Maddon has only one reliever left, things could start getting strange now.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:10 (ten years ago)

good thing i got some sleep btwn the 6th and 9th

all the bitching about replay, it's saving us a number of atrocious calls this month

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:14 (ten years ago)

Nice snag lucky he didn't roll the wrist

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:15 (ten years ago)

Morbs did you miss the horrible call at first that wasn't overturned earlier?

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:15 (ten years ago)

mighta been asleep!

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:22 (ten years ago)

prob 2 innings away from Weird Baseball

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:24 (ten years ago)

goddamn slow-ass Ross

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:35 (ten years ago)

So slow

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:36 (ten years ago)

Wtf it's an easy call!

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:38 (ten years ago)

slower than David Ross and more tedious than Neil Patrick Harris

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:40 (ten years ago)

ok well if the giants can't score after this double, i don't know anymore

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:42 (ten years ago)

Comeback starts now?

― schwantz, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:43 (ten years ago)

g'night yall

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:44 (ten years ago)

Panik my man.

Night Morbs. Night all.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:45 (ten years ago)

Woke the bats up a bit. Could bode well for the rest of the series

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:46 (ten years ago)

Great game obv

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:46 (ten years ago)

what a game

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:14 (ten years ago)

i could not be happier

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:14 (ten years ago)

this should now go five

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:22 (ten years ago)

I crashed out around 12:40 and looks like I didn't miss much. Yikes this game got pretty crazy.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:52 (ten years ago)

i'm having a hard time reconciling your last sentence with your first.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:26 (ten years ago)

haha

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 16:37 (ten years ago)

Looking forward to another episode of John Lackey's God-Fucking-Damn-It Playoffs Show.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 20:56 (ten years ago)

rope single on kershaw's first pitch

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 21:07 (ten years ago)

howd they score

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:01 (ten years ago)

Buster sacrifice. Span doubled lead off belt moved him to 3rd

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:08 (ten years ago)

Span gotta be safe here

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:34 (ten years ago)

Safe, but still wow.

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:34 (ten years ago)

i wonder if Baez practices that.

if there has to be a game 5, how busy will the medical team at Wrigley be?

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:35 (ten years ago)

(for the faithful, i mean)

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:35 (ten years ago)

I wish Ross was my grandpa.

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:39 (ten years ago)

Wow that tag amazing Baez

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:39 (ten years ago)

Vasgersian wondering why various Cubs rate stats over the course of these 3.5 games have not been in line with those of the regular season.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 01:58 (ten years ago)

cmon VasDeferensSurgeon

― imho tep (sanskrit), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:02 (ten years ago)

Leave it to the pitchers to hit

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:07 (ten years ago)

man, gotta throw Moore a waster on 0-2. maybe skittish about a wild pitch

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:12 (ten years ago)

i can't watch this game because i will spend every minute the cubs aren't winning screaming

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:13 (ten years ago)

Hella hustle

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

already rooting AL in the series (blasphemy!), don't even care

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:15 (ten years ago)

egad, no Shutdown Inning

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:17 (ten years ago)

David Ross adding to the Ex-Red factor this post season tonight.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:18 (ten years ago)

if it isn't the cubs or the dodgers in the WS i'm lost

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:18 (ten years ago)

that's in. HR.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:28 (ten years ago)

Ugh can't believe no one scored

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:30 (ten years ago)

Looks like it hit the top part of the wall to me, but I don't know what the rule is there with that rail.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:30 (ten years ago)

Yeah first replay I thought it landed on the other side of the rail, but it didn't. My bad.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:31 (ten years ago)

I'd figure hitting the black rail and going back is an HR and hitting the white top of the wall is in play, but stadiums have weird rules sometimes.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:31 (ten years ago)

Some stupid ass running by pence nice there

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:33 (ten years ago)

Connor 'Mel Ott' Gillaspie

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:34 (ten years ago)

wtf is Smoltz talking about

God the shit you hear from those booths

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:38 (ten years ago)

Also someone should come up with pitcher's statlines from the nlds vs dh statlines from the alds.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:39 (ten years ago)

Not as bad as Reynolds at least

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:40 (ten years ago)

who is?

Bochy may be morphing physically into infamous Babe Ruth portrayer William Bendix

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:40 (ten years ago)

smoltz > reynolds is what I'm saying

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:48 (ten years ago)

Smoltz: "If you drop a golf ball in Hunter Pence's hair, you are not getting it out"

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:56 (ten years ago)

Otm tho

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 02:57 (ten years ago)

what a game from Matt Moore.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:06 (ten years ago)

^^^^^

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:22 (ten years ago)

Brillant brillant stuff by Moore. Now to the 9th.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:23 (ten years ago)

Also love how mlb.tv let have you KNBR while watching the TBS feed.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:23 (ten years ago)

Moore pretty much doing this seasons Vogelsong.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:27 (ten years ago)

Giants are pretty much death by a thousand cuts and this stadium with the pitching kinda neutralizes big power teams in a short series.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:29 (ten years ago)

They are built for this big place in the same way Herzog's Cardinals teams were built to play on Astroturf.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:30 (ten years ago)

La neuvième manche, putain.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:40 (ten years ago)

GULP

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:40 (ten years ago)

Oh boy

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:41 (ten years ago)

geesh Giants

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:44 (ten years ago)

*throwing objects across the room*

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:45 (ten years ago)

this is SO giants

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:49 (ten years ago)

lol

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:49 (ten years ago)

Gotta turn a double here dammit

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:50 (ten years ago)

https://s10.postimg.org/4s78jissp/bochy.png

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:51 (ten years ago)

Grant Brisbee ‏@mccoveychron
"Bochy is walking out to the mound. Still walking. He just walked past it? Now he's climbing the arcade. He's... yes, he's in the Bay now."

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:53 (ten years ago)

total meltdown

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:55 (ten years ago)

Omg what are they doing

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:56 (ten years ago)

now let's turn this into a no aroldis needed situation

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:56 (ten years ago)

guess who is in the market for a closer!

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:57 (ten years ago)

does romo always giggle when he fucks up? i guess when you have 3 rings it doesn't matter much

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:58 (ten years ago)

His coping mechanism

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:58 (ten years ago)

he had that "ooooooh the teacher caught yooou!!" look on his face except the teacher was bruce bochy and there was no one else there

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:59 (ten years ago)

Wow!

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:07 (ten years ago)

Un real

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:07 (ten years ago)

Was not really rooting for either team, but I did want to see a game 5. Can't believe how predictably bad the Giants were in the 9th though, after 8 incredible innings by Moore.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:09 (ten years ago)

They are who we thought they were

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:10 (ten years ago)

Ouch.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:10 (ten years ago)

Managing the pitching/bullpen has been one of the Bochy/Righetti's forte, so much that they were confident about trading for Moore and paying good money to Samardzija. I don't know what they could have done to prevent his implosion, it does seem like since the end of August they have tried everything, I'm sure they'll have the ressources to fix this. They still have a lot of very good elements, and they gave us great moments this season.

Rooting for the Nats now, because you know.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:16 (ten years ago)

Also the Cubs are really really good, jesus.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:16 (ten years ago)

i know anything can happen in 7 games blah blah but it's really hard to imagine the nats beating this team

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:22 (ten years ago)

dodgers maybe

― qualx, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 04:22 (ten years ago)

Giants are pretty much death by a thousand cuts and this stadium with the pitching kinda neutralizes big power teams in a short series.

lol

slept from the 6th inning on here, of course

Even Year: Bullshit!

go Cubs go, at least through the LCS

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 06:44 (ten years ago)

i'm sorry, Bee OK

at least you don't hafta watch that CF camera angle from Wrigley again.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 06:45 (ten years ago)

@SamMillerBB Oct 10

Another manager wishing he'd brought in Zach Britton

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 07:29 (ten years ago)

I went to bed early with a headache last night so this was a pleasant surprise when I woke up. Watching the ninth inning now, I'd blame the SF defense before their relievers. There were a lot of ground balls past diving infielders, plus the botched double play.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 10:43 (ten years ago)

Baez was obviously the MVP for this series

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 10:44 (ten years ago)

Grant Brisbee
‏@mccoveychron
"Bochy is walking out to the mound. Still walking. He just walked past it? Now he's climbing the arcade. He's... yes, he's in the Bay now."

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 13:58 (ten years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CukxI2QW8AAicVy.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 14:36 (ten years ago)

can't imagine watching that as a Giants fan. brutal. in obvious hindsight, felt like you needed to leave one of those relievers in there. Like they would each throw 3 balls right away... needed to settle in a bit. props to the cubbies who I will hate all postseason & until i perish from the earth.

― bnw, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:13 (ten years ago)

i would have left law in but whatever

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:16 (ten years ago)

Should have put Cueto in for an inning, ha.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:17 (ten years ago)

I was kind of looking forward to a game 5 and the Cueto/Bumgarner two-headed monster taking on the Cubs (obv. MadBum was coming in to save that if they had a lead).

Really only Zobrist's ball was hit hard in that inning, so yeah, maybe Bochy should have left one of his guys in to get settled.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:46 (ten years ago)

This bit from Schoenfield's column really blew my mind:

We've never seen this happen before -- at least not in the postseason. Only three times in playoff history had a team rallied from a three-run deficit in the ninth inning, and all three of those games, amazingly, were in 1986. Those teams (the Angels in Game 4 of the ALCS, the Red Sox in Game 5 of the ALCS and the Mets over the Astros in Game 6 of the NLCS) all needed extra innings to pull off a win.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:48 (ten years ago)

this would hurt so much worse for me if i hadn't just gone through the NBA finals

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:10 (ten years ago)

:(
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/11/casilla-weeps-after-being-passed-over-in-fateful-collapse-in-ninth/

― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:29 (ten years ago)

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