2014 NLDS: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

in harold reynolds parlance -- they just drained a three-point touchdown on a stolen sign

lool doyers

holy cow!

I stopped watching for 2 innings. Now I am scared to turn back on :O

^^^^DO NOT obvs

lmao

just checking in on the game now – and this is not the score i was expecting to see!

Get ready for an exciting ending. 2014 Trevor Rosethal is incapable of closing a game without walking the leadoff man and then allowing a single or double.

p prescient

Here we go

ooh, gass

rosenthal needs like uh a slider

wow this game

well that was not expected.

Yeah, sheesh!

lol awesome

you can probably take a nap and wait for royals-angels tbh

― mookieproof, Friday, October 3, 2014 8:35 PM

what happens when you listen to a Pirate fan

so there will be a playoff fap as soon as my meds break comes up

I was out and didn't see any of the game. Kershaw's linescore is quite puzzling. 6.2 innings, 10 K, 0 BB, 8 hits, 2 HR, and 8 runs. So he was in complete command...except when they were battering him around?

Mattingly left him in long enough to take the loss, so you would know he pitched badly.

what happens when you listen to a Pirate fan

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(xpost) That's a complete non-sequitur...10/0 vs. 8/8/2 was the question.

maybe read one game summary

I know how I'd react to that in real life. I'm so much nicer here.

sorry. he was in complete command, except when they were battering him around.

godfuck

has anyone said "the mighty yasiel has struck out" yet that'd be a good one

so did everyone see that Marlon Anderson tweeted that Kershaw tips his pitches out of the stretch? CK sez nah.

http://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/595475

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“I was hot. He knows me well. At that time I wasn’t thinking,” Molina said. Gonzalez “was screaming at me. I told him, ‘If you’re going to scream at me you’ve got to be ready to fight.’ I don’t let anybody talk to me that way.”

There is that Cardinal bitchiness everyone knows and loves.

eh, whatever. i'm sure adrian gonzalez was a bowl of oranges during that fight, too. you could randomly sample verbal fights from around the world on any day, type them up in any order, call it "Bitchiness" and i'm sure it would be a fitting title

i'm 100x more annoyed by cardinals whining about called strikes that are usually within an inch of the strike zone

There was a fight?!

yeah. wainwright hit puig early on (in the 3rd, i think). gonzalez was the next hitter and on his way to the plate he said that he had slept with molina's sister on the previous evening, and that it was really hot. molina countered that he had slept with gonzalez's brother two nights before that - "I was hot. He knows me well. At that time I wasn't thinking" - and things escalated from there. both wainwright and puig were calm, and they even shared an intimate butt tap as puig made his way to 1st after the hubbub.

i read "hubbub" as "hottub" and was sure for a second you were kidding about that entire chain of events.

lol

i would like to note that the butt tap part was true though

I think I'm the only person watching this game.

tie game

maaaaaarp

was greinke really done at 102 pitches

Nah, he was still unstoppable

Let's take this to the 19th inning, WHO'S WITH ME??

yeah, these marathons will be great for growing the game with all those fakey FIFA World Cup hipsters

lol at jp howell praising the heavens

Kemp, one hand

can't really expect Jansen not to surrender the lead, it must be in the rules

why is Lasorda not sitting with Magic? Getting a new intestine?

hey, we might have one 5-game series here

Game over? No blown save + extra innings, no credibility.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/97769336/dodgers-tab-ace-clayton-kershaw-for-game-4-on-short-rest

I don't know--I always start from the assumption that this is a bad move, even though I know it sometimes works out. I'd rather have a rested Kershaw for game 5, with Greinke ready to go in Game 1 of the LCS if you win. No real sample to speak of in the regular season, but what is there isn't good: the only time he's pitched on three days rest was in 2008, when he went one inning of middle relief against the Giants, giving up two hits and a walk.

Haven't they done something similar last year?

Not during the regular season that I can see. If they tried it in the playoffs, I assume it didn't work out.

It's entertainment (will post about this shortly)...

Short series, least of all 3 of 5 like the one my Mets won vs the Reds in '73, are a crapshoot. Were the Mets anywhere as good as Cincinnati? No fucking way.

Anyway,
ALCS = scrappy heroes
NLCS - villainous bastards

The Cardinals are the person who takes the parking spot you've been waiting for, clicker on, for three minutes. They'll step out, shirtless and tan, sunglasses hanging off the backs of their ears, and wave off your complaints. In their mind, they'll think they addressed your complaints politely. In reality, they yelled something like, "U jelly?" or "U mad bro?" and walked away holding the hand of someone insanely hot.

The Giants are more insecure, and it manifests itself in a mad desire to prove something over and over and over again that can't really be proven:

Giants fan: Why did you write that the Giants aren't the best team in baseball?

Pundit: Because they aren't.

Giants fan: /recites stories of recent success

Pundit: I think they have a lot of talent, but they also have ...

Giants fan: /complains

Pundit: You literally won a game last night with a bases loaded walk, a pitcher error, and a wild pitch.

Giants fan: /talks about knowing how to win

Giants fan: /mentions 'even year'

Giants fan: /clicks on 30 articles about the Giants

Giants fan: /complains about lack of Giants coverage

Giants fan: /screenshots postseason predictions and MS Paints "lolololol" over all of them

Pundit: I cover soccer as of five seconds ago. Please stop talking to me.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/8/6946969/alcs-nlcs-giants-cardinals-royals-orioles

god, the idiots going on about how bryce harper has "no class" need to get punched in the anus

Harper reminds me of hockey. I don't know why.