2013 NLCS: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals

woo our bench suuuucks

somehow subtracting Ty wigginton made it worse

nice

it could have been really interesting

this game sucks i hope they both lose

to inning 12

Lance Lynn is coming in so there's that

it has been a great game

xxpost

this is the trade off we must make for him not to start game 4

Just got home, who won?

nice night for young - 2 ABs, 4 outs

not fair that they don't walk enough ppl

times like this is when i love living on the West Coast

it's only 10:07

god i'm so tired

it is 4 am here

actually told dvr to record 6 hours just in case...

3 more outs and i'm calling it a night

There's still the curfew rule in MLB right?

intersting

carlos b

smiles

fucking beltran man, wow

dude is something else

has to be one of the best postseason games ever

Cards are like serial killers toying with their victims instead of making it quick. Disgusting.

Lynn gets the win? Haw

times like this is when i love living on the West Coast

eff you

has to be one of the best postseason games ever

AND you

OHHH, MOTHERFUCK THAT NON-TAG BY MOLINA

entering this as Dodger win in the ledger

Bee OK and k3vin k, send me your shipping addresses so I can send you a rulebook

actually told dvr to record 6 hours just in case...

― brand nubian wafers (bnw), Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:08 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

gonna really enjoy video bringing some TRUTH to umpiring next year and upending unwritten [sic] rules. Baseball will be more Catholic.

David Schoenfield ‏@dschoenfield
So if this game goes on and on and the Dodgers use all pitchers except Jansen, does Mattingly use a position player?

Skip Schumaker is the designated position player pitcher and he struck out on a pitch above his eyeballs in the 8th or 9th so he wasn't available. He has a 0 era this year. Hee hee

morbs i meant beltran's individual performance, not the game itself

and ellis was out at the plate

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWWT7arCUAEZ9OI.jpg

and even if there wasn't a "tag", ellis basically pushed molina's glove hand out of the way. i can't find anything in rule 7 about that kind of thing, but obviously the way the rule has been interpreted forever is that if you barrel into a catcher (provided the catcher's back isn't turned to you or something), who maintains control of the ball, yer out

following up http://deadspin.com/why-your-cardinals-suck-1443513646

beltran's WPA was 0.366, the second highest of his postseason career (the highest being a week ago, incidentally). throw in him gunning out ellis at the plate in a tie game in extra innings, and yeah that's a historic game

Yeah, I also don't understand why people are getting upset about the supposed phantom tag, it's not like he tried for a swipe tag and missed, or didn't have possession of the ball. When the ball beats the runner by ten feet and he barrels into the catcher (making contact with his glove arm), he's out, and I'm fairly sure it's always been called that way.

didn't this game just end?

beltran got a timely hit and threw a guy out in a close game ergo historic? highly suspicious

he also drove in the other 2 runs!

i mean if it was an elimination game rather than game 1 it'd be a much bigger deal obv

that was the timely hit, no

he had 2 timely hits!

oh right, but still

i see we have reached the but still portion of this debate, i win

lol no i mean wpa is a fun stat but it doesnt really judge whether someone had a good or really good game or not

beltran went two for six and there happened to be some guys on base when he got his hits, and the game happened to be close. really not at all any sort of alltime great game

also not even close to alltime great even judged by wpa

oh yeah i hate WPA too ftr, but in a one-game vs one-game comparison it can have some value if you agree on the meaning of "good game" beforehand

i mean it has very little predictive value but it can do a decent job of describing what happened, and if you're only talking about one game then sample sizes are so small that you might as well talk about the sikkk plays a dude made rather than if it was due to luck or whatever