here we go
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
welp
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
oof, Clayton's walk back to the dugout.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
outmathenaged
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
I'll resist the second-guess. I'm watching, and even though every conceivable indication says to pull him, I'm thinking, "He can get this guy."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
considering the bullpen and considering the lefty hitter, yeah
but still
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
That was awesome. Ps Harold Reynolds is just terrible
― bnw, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
do not like neshek on b2b days p. Where is CarMart
― bnw, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Scully: "the dreaded 7th inning"
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
matt adams is a tub of goo btw
you should celebrate him as a 'bad body' success (also he is a surprisingly capable fielder)
maybe not in the same way as anthony recker tho
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
what lost opportunities did i miss, besides Ethier getting nailed off third?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Where are all the neshek haters now!?! Time for rosenthal heart attack
― bnw, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Bottom of the order coming up. Hmmm, any good pinch-hitters available?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
I've gotten home just in time to enjoy the Rosenthal heart attack
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
That was funny. Generally pitchers take a few steps before they underhand-toss to first.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
lol Mattingly
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
smdh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
if the cards win the world series i swear i'm selling all my belongings and moving into the woods and you'll never hear from me again i swear
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Good luck with the post-game conference, Don Mattingly.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
go AL
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
just as everyone thought, we'd beat Kershaw twice :D
― bnw, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Lol pinch running with one of best hitters in game. You made matheny look like Mensa material
― bnw, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah but did you see how he made it to second from first on that single? #clutch
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
@BenLindbergh Mattingly pulled up his roster page, set PA minimum to 300, and sorted by descending wRC+ before deciding to PH with Turner instead of Puig
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9CkeLb7.jpg
― bnw, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
I think the Dodgers really missed an opportunity this year. That lineup is only going to be a year older next season.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
It's kind of the same with the Angels, that club could also get old quick.
at least they have those bullpens!
I'm happy for KM and you other nice Card fans, miserable for the rest of us.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
The reporters were stepping very lightly during Mattingly's press conference. He only seemed to bristle once, when the subject of Puig pinch-running came up. Easy call, he said.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure what else the Dodgers could have done -- who could have predicted TWO complete implosions from Kershaw? That pitch to Adams was frigging awful, the league is literally hitting something like .100 off his curveball with like one HR off it in the past two years, and he throws just about the worst hanging curveball in the middle of the plate to a LHB that you'll ever see. Neither of the Cards' comebacks were lucky.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
Four straight NLCS appearances is amazing regardless.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
LATEST NEWSCardinals mold NLCS berth out of Clayton
great job mlb.com
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
It's over and done with, but Mattingly said one thing during the press conference that might be worth a second-guess (dammit, I want my one second-guess): he was going to give Kershaw three batters in the 7th and then hand it over to someone else. Shouldn't you take it a batter at a time? You're essentially saying you've committed yourself to giving him a chance to lose the lead.
Okay, no more. Go KC. (Who Gregg Zahn has gone on record as saying have close to zero chance of winning--which will remain in place for as long as he doesn't have to explain how it was clear all along KC was going to win.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
clayton kershaw is pretty awesome so i can almost kind of see letting him face a lefty after putting the first two guys on and throwing 100 pitches on short rest
nevertheless -- and yeah, the odds of it mattering were perishingly small, but still -- using puig as a pinch runner was indefensible. it was like here, i'm gonna pinch run him so you can't second-guess me for not letting him hit
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
i'm just trying to comprehend the madness that drove mattingly to send a .191 hitter to the plate instead of one of your two best hitters and then having that hitter pinch run for the .191 hitter. i have to type it out because i can't believe it just by thinking about it.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
puig needs to face adversity
*matheny inside joke*
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
In a SweetSpot pre-game post concerning Puig, one of the Tweets: "When talking about lost potential value in not starting Puig, don't forget to include value of being able to PH him. It's not zero."
Unless you don't pinch-hit him.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
if 1 AB > 5 ABs, then 0 must be ideal
― bnw, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
so never pinch hit ever, then?!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Justin Turner. Unfuckingbelievable.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
plaschke calls benching puig 'too little too late'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 12:32 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is what takes some of the sting out for me. The cardinals slapped the shit out of our best player TWICE. Mattingly made all the right moves and it still didn't matter.
The irony is fucking Ned loves nothing more than acquiring relievers at the trade deadline whether we need them or not - and for some reason this year he didn't do it. I assume other clubs all demanded 1 of our top 3 prospects which is some bullshit and I would have said no to all those offers as well..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Mattingly made all the right moves
Oh yeah?
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
That Plaschke article is ridiculous. Baseball is weird. Any team is capable of beating another team in a 5-game series. Mattingly made a few strange moves but no one could have counted on Adams hitting the first ever lefthanded HR off of Kershaw's curve. The relief pitching wasn't great but the dodgers also only scored 3 runs over the final 2 games. Kershaw kept them in it during the last game, and Ryu did as well. Baseball is weird.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
worst of all, no more Vin
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
He could monetize the hell out of his own appeal by calling the rest of the playoffs Rifftrax-style.
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
"In his two-plus MLB seasons, Adams was batting .046 against curves from lefties." statistics shmatistics
― bnw, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
@truebluelaOne positive of the Dodgers 2014 being over: Andruw Jones is no longer on the payroll
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link