2013 ALCS: Detroit Tigers vs. Boston Red Sox

good job walking ellsbury only to have him take second and ruin the dp opportunity

i'm really confused as to why the tigers use their best reliever in the middle innings

they walked him just cause hes hitying better than victorino, not playing for the dp xp

holy shit i have never seen a catcher cover third

― 乒乓, Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:39 PM (8 minutes ago)

it's one of the coolest things that can happen in baseball. jeter dislocated his shoulder in...2002? when he slid headfirst into third and got kneed by the catcher covering

jeter getting hurt wasn't cool obv

suck it jeter

i'm really confused as to why the tigers use their best reliever in the middle innings

― call all destroyer, Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:43 PM (6 minutes ago)

more teams should do this. these innings have been p important!

so many balls to shallow left center tonight

sure sure i guess i'm just saying veras is by far the best dude they have and they don't seem to see it that way

uncool beard tho

really don't understand why uehara doesnt have a beard

he could just glue one on

woooooo

he had one earlier in the year not sure what happened to it xp

yaaaaaaaaa

that dork and his bowties

srsly

Uehara is unstoppable right now.

david ross looks like he's been shoveling snow in maine for the past 20 years

if the red sox lose this series im pretty sure they will all retire to the forests of the upper peninsula of michigan and start a militia

david ross looks like he's been shoveling snow in maine for the past 20 years

― call all destroyer, Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol

whoa koji's numbers this year were pretty insane

he kinda had an all time great season

yeah one of these days teams will learn to stop paying real sums (money/players) for established closers

one of these days

and the red sox are not exempt at all! they kinda just fell into it

catchers covered third all the time in my day.

i watched the first 6 innings with a hetero Red Sox fan from Texas, who said "This game has been v homoerotic"

...and not just bcz Anibal Sanchez is so fucking handsome

uehara was supposed to be a middle reliever lol

was it when the home plate ump was perving on ross's beard xp

Keith Law said in a chat today that anytime you can trade an 'established' closer who has market value, DO IT.

anibal sanchez is a good looking dude

i love this guy

http://cjzero.com/gifs/KojiHugRossALCS5.gif

http://cjzero.com/gifs/KojiHugRossALCS5.gif

well what abt the ass slap Avila got after being crushed at home

also this series is basically Bears vs Twinks; if there are any gay sports bars where they find these hairy uglies hot, the walls are probly covered in come.

koji has so many feels

J0rdan you finally show yourself after 3 months and give us nothing but broken links?

hes a cool dude xp

anibal's story is pretty amazing... threw a no hitter at a super young age and then couldn't stay healthy at all PLUS his infant son gets bit by a mosquito of dengue fever but then he gets healthy and becomes one of the 15 or so best pitchers in baseball

i dunno man, this is the gif https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/391050941769588736

four of five are one run games, nuts series

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1742911/miggy_pena_cookie2.gif

i haven't looked up the exact number but i believe the tigers have hit into 90 double plays in this series

anibal is sixth in fangraphs WAR for pitchers since 2010 (ahead of david price, hamels, greinke, halladay, wainwright, shields, cain etc). dude is wild underrated.

seems wrong that the game didn't end with prince grounding feebly to second

Morbs is right, these Red Sox are the ugliest playoff team in recent memory (I knew yr hate was about more than MASSHOLES and the payroll).

such haters
much jealous

well my bro-in-law and his family are from MA, I get Bosox/Pats in my FB feed unless I hide em all.

http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/the-uehara-phenomenon/

posnanski on koji

A couple of interesting tidbits — at No. 11 on the list in Uehara again in 2011. No. 12 on the list? Pedro. That was 2000, his WHIP was 0.737. And when you consider he threw three times the innings of the rest of these guys, when you consider that his strikeout-to-walk that year was 284-well, it’s no wonder many believe Pedro’s 2000 season was the best season in baseball history.

def the most ive ever enjoyed baseball was watching this era of pedro, only player ive seen who seemed better at baseball was bonds during those years where you had to walk him or hed hit a hr

btw this piece has more on ueharas japanese career and its pretty interesting http://espn.go.com/general/story?storyId=9761870&city=boston&src=desktop

oops http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/9761870/