a lot of our warts showed up to end the year, which makes it hard to find this season fully satisfying.
-starting Pork was probably a mistake, he had nothing and was very lucky to only give up 2 - if Sale manages 5 innings 1 ER to start the game, it's a very different feeling game. Hopefully the real Pork is closer to 2016 than 2017.
-the ump robbed us of some calls in the 2nd but we still went K, K, meek flyout with bases loaded. we were awful with the bases loaded all year - not a single grand slam to our name.
-a dumb send with two outs in 3rd which felt a bit too desperate.
-Again offense disappearing for much of the middle innings, not only unable to tack on but not even getting baserunners
a lot - too much - went wrong, but we were pretty close to forcing a game 5. if Kimbrel didn't submit a bottom-tier performance, we might have walked it off. It would have been really fucking nice if Sale had his slider in game 1, too.