2023 LCS Game/Discussion Thread: Battle of Texas, Philly vs NL West WC Redux

[JOBU]

Kind of hard not to catch Phillies Phever! They are a fun group playing the game the way it should be played with an awesome fan base behind them.

Depends on what your definition of awesome is. I’ll give them passionate.

 

[LogansDad]

Yours is better

Eh, even the early bird is right once in a blue moon.

 

[derekson]

Tombstone Arizona now

 

[LogansDad]

Mantiplied the Phillies runs by two, and Dividiplied the fun of this game in half, all on less than 15 pitches.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Sewald, Ginkel, etc. are going to have a week+ off heading back to Arizona.

 

[mauidano]

Depends on what your definition of awesome is. I’ll give them passionate.

Yeah, their history aligns with “passionate“ more than awesome.

 

[mauidano]

Mantiplied the Phillies runs by two, and Dividiplied the fun of this game in half, all on less than 15 pitches.

That new math gets me every time.

 

[mauidano]

Batting practice now.

 

[LogansDad]

Well, this sucks. I'm going to rub my wife's feet. See you guys tomorrow.

 

[strek1]

ROUT

 

[derekson]

Phillies are phinding all of the gaps

 

[Deweys New Stance]

Wheels falling off for the Snakes

 

[3rd Degree]

Arizona's pets' heads are falling off right now. Yikes.

 

[derekson]

LMFAO Snakes town

 

[Al Zarilla]

Good for Bohm. Nice for somebody besides Harper, Schwarber, Realmuto, Turner...well, they're all doing it.

 

[LynnRice75]

Aona has lost its riz.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Well, this sucks. I'm going to rub my wife's feet. See you guys tomorrow.

Wait ...

 

[DeadlySplitter]

If Nelson blows up here I wonder if Arizona would position pitch.

edit: to piggyback my prior comment, letting a high-lev reliever get some work in might be better.

 

[soxhop411]

Dodger fans are furious right now.

 

[E5 Yaz]

If Nelson blows up here I wonder if Arizona would position pitch.

Or will they want someone to get an inning in to avoid being off too long?

 

[canderson]

I thought Arizona would win a game this series. I’m thinking it light be a a sweep now.

 

[Remagellan]

"And the heat goes on, and the heat goes on, and heat goes on, and the heat goes on..."

 

[mauidano]

Position player pitching soon.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Dodger fans are furious right now.

They absolutely should be... even with that blah rotation they should have won the NLDS.

 

[simplicio]

I'd say he forgot how many outs there were on that catch, but he possibly didn't give a shit.

 

[3rd Degree]

Dodger fans are furious right now.

I'm more enthralled with Philly than anything. What a cool thing they have going on right now.

But also what the hell.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Or Lovullo will just use the last guy on the roster.... boring.

 

[simplicio]

All I really wanted out of the NLCS was entertaining baseball and for the winning team to make me feel like they were fully capable of dispatching a Texas team.

So go Phils.

 

[Remagellan]

They absolutely should be... even with that blah rotation they should have won the NLDS.

They lost two of those games 4-2. That's not really on their rotation, crappy as it was.

 

[mauidano]

Someone on the D-Backs is going to have to do a Kyle Barraclough here.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

View: https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1714460421862662160

 

[NJ_Sox_Fan]

It’s a bloodbath

 

[Remagellan]

Throw strikes

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Lovullo please...

 

[jon abbey]

PHI is 16-3 now in the NL postseason the past two seasons, no one has even taken two games from them in a series yet (2-0, 3-1, 4-1, 2-0, 3-1, 2-0).

 

[jon abbey]

Cristian Javier has three career postseason starts, opponents are an almost impossible 2 for 51 in those games.

16.1 2 0 0 10 23, OPS allowed .293.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Who did that screaming intro to the pre-game? It was embarrassingly bad.

 

[Ale Xander]

Is there really an hour pregame show for the LCS? (And not involving any northeast teams)

 

[InsideTheParker]

Is there really an hour pregame show for the LCS? (And not involving any northeast teams)

Yes, and I have to say I don't like David Ortiz on these shows. He seems to enjoy playing the fool.

 

[Remagellan]

Yes, and I have to say I don't like David Ortiz on these shows. He seems to enjoy playing the fool.

He's just creating material for Kenan.

 

[staz]

Yeah, Jeter is still very hateable.

 

[JOBU]

Yeah, Jeter is still very hateable.

Still? Was there a time when he wasn’t?

 

[staz]

The view from those dugout seats behind HP has to be mesmerizing.

 

[loshjott]

Max against the Astros. The mind returns to 2019.

 

[loshjott]

No pitch clock on the FS1 score bug. Cmon.

 

[staz]

Alvarez is the oldest looking young guy in MLB

 

[patinorange]

Don't take that shoe off until the series is over.

 

[Ale Xander]

.091
Yikes

Bettsian

 

[canderson]

Scherzer doesn’t seem to have anything. Not a big surprise.

 

[Ale Xander]

And yet he’s probably going to get through 2 innings unscathed run-wise