2019 WS - Nationals vs. Astros - Gamethread
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I was the fat kid on the high school tennis team who was gassed after a set so I can't really relate.
Ha.
But folks thinking that just because he threw 105 pitches that he can throw 115...in a the most pressure-filled situation he's ever been in...
Wearing a brown belt with black shoes, or black belt with brown shoes, doesn't make you look original. It makes you look like an idiot.
fair enough this pen just scares me ad stras had such a great game. wash oping he would be able to get the CG
Where do you come down on cargo shorts? Also asking for a friend (and I don't wear brown and black together but that is simply because my I dress myself like I own adult Garanimals)
The only think I can potentially think of is relievers tend to like work. Doolittle did throw and inning on Sunday, but that is the only inning he had thrown in the series, and he might have been feeling a bit rusty, I don't think the pitches tonight hurt him for tomorrow
I largely stayed out of this discussion, but wanted to add that this is persuasive to me.
Glad it didn’t matter.
I feel bad about how happy I feel that JV has lost so many games in the World Series without a win.
At around 100 pitches and up 5 runs, if he was able to start the inning and no sign of trouble yet. I’d have left him in. You don’t send a pitcher out to start an inning to get a reliever extra warmup pitches.
This. I love baseball. I like both Greinke and Scherzer so it’s going to be tough to see one of them lose.
That stat was so weird. 1400+ postseason series in MLB, NHL and NBA, and this is the VERY FIRST ONE where the away team has won the first 6 games. The odds of a series going at least 6 games is about 63% just off a binomial distribution, so you'd expect that ~880 series would have gone at least 6.
If every game is 50% to be won by the away team, you'd expect (.5)^6 = 1.6% chance of a 6-game streak of road wins, and expect ~13.8 such series to have occurred.
If every game is 45% to be won by the away team, you'd expect (.45)^6 = 0.83% chance of a 6-game streak of road wins, and expect ~7.3 such series to have occurred.
If every game is 40% to be won by the away team, you'd expect (.4)^6 = 0.4% chance of a 6-game streak of road wins, and expect ~3.6 such series to have occurred.
I guess it's kinda like the stats on the fate of teams who went down 0-3 in a series. What outcomes you'd expect just from binomial distribution, and what outcomes you actually observe in the real world, really suggest the impact of emotion and morale and how, with apologies to Randall Munroe, these aren't just weighted random number generators.
So you're simply disagreeing with the decision then? But you do understand that, quite obviously, the Nats had a reason to send him out there for only a few pitches, whether I named the right one or not?
I don’t think Greinke is up for it. Managers are as important as the players in Game 7. Slow hook loses the series.
Someone should put him and Trout in the same interview together some day.
I'm not entirely sure why we're rooting against him so hard. I mean, we had to gin up a bunch of antipathy when he was on the 2013 Tigers (gave up 1 run in 8 innings), and perhaps last year (slapped him around a bit in 2 starts), but he's not a bad guy, and a likely HOFer.
I'm not rooting for his team, but I don't bear him any ill will personally.