NLDS Game Thread

[JohntheBaptist]

Have you seen Matt Adams splits? Kershaw on short rest with Ebola is still a better option than Baez.

 
Yeah they should have pulled him after the first hit. Leaving him to face the LHH Adams isn't indefensible, but even still, he should have been on the top step that whole inning. That's what you do when you send a guy out there on short rest.

 

[Rough Carrigan]

Mattingly has a shit bullpen and an ace who can't finish. Tough spot for a manager.

Yup.  This is true.  But he can still be criticized for not making the best use of what he's got.  Yesterday might've been a good time to go starter-Howell-Jensen.

 

[GlenMorangie]

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[fineyoungarm]

All of us have had this thought cross our minds - "Watch the Cards run the goddamn table."

 

[MakMan44]

Yup....he blew Game 1 and now Game 4 is on him as well. He has pitched poorly his entire career in the postseason when it counts.

Disagree, I think his manager left his swinging in the wind twice now. Whatever, agree to disagree. 

 

[InsideTheParker]

If Neshek gets them 1.2.3, does it break their collective will? Because that might be nice.

 

[Lowrielicious]

gotta hit Puig for Ethier no?
 
At least has a chance to even it with one swing.

 

[fineyoungarm]

You know - the Dodgers lineup ought to be able to score ONE run here.
 
(One more reason I am sitting in a room at a Marriott outside of Minneapolis, instead of managing in the majors.)

 

[brienc]

If Neshek gets them 1.2.3, does it break their collective will? Because that might be nice.

I'd be real tempted to leave Neshek out there to start the 9th. Rosenthal has looked pretty hittable so far this series.

 

[Hee Sox Choi]

Tampa had the second most sacrifice bunts in the AL, so bunting must now be good

How many?  I'm guessing it's down league wide because it's been proven to be stupid in most cases.

 

[fineyoungarm]

How many?  I'm guessing it's down league wide because it's been proven to be stupid in most cases.

Maddon has never made a stupid managing move in his career.  Get with the program. 

 

[ifmanis5]

All of us have had this thought cross our minds - "Watch the Cards run the goddamn table."

Yeah, they would be the favorites. Hopefully someone will take them down.

 

[Norm Siebern]

How it is that the Dodgers or the Tigers did not back up the prospect truck and dump its contents on the Red Sox lawn to get Andrew Miller I don't understand. They deserve their endings for not fixing their problems when they could have.

Full credit to Dan Duqeutte for getting Miller. So much like the Duke, building his pitching staff backwards, just like he used to do in Boston. Serviceable starters, and a great bullpen = success in the playoffs. Baltimore and KC know this. Detroit and LA? Not so much.

 

[fineyoungarm]

How it is that the Dodgers or the Tigers did not back up the prospect truck and dump its contents on the Red Sox lawn to get Andrew Miller I don't understand. They deserve their endings for not fixing their problems when they could have.

Full credit to Dan Duqeutte for getting Miller. So much like the Duke, building his pitching staff backwards, just like he used to do in Boston. Serviceable starters, and a great bullpen = success in the playoffs. Baltimore and KC know this. Detroit and LA? Not so much.

They don't have a GM who is French Canadian, Norm. 
 
And it's not just Miller. Why not make a play for Tazawa?

 

[boxosII]

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Jon Lestet gets more expensive with each passing Dodgers out. He may get seven years and $210mm

 

[MakMan44]

Apparently that was the first HR off Kershaw's curveball by a LHH in his career. 

 

[fineyoungarm]

Jon Lestet gets more expensive with each passing Dodgers out. He may get seven years and $210mm

Sox all out to get Masterson 

 

[fineyoungarm]

I hate this fucking ad.

 

[ifmanis5]

Every time is see Mattingly I'm reminded of how much I hate him.

 

[nvalvo]

The Cardinals are SO BORING.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

How many?  I'm guessing it's down league wide because it's been proven to be stupid in most cases.

43, up from 24 in 2013

 

[soxhop411]

Apparently that was the first HR off Kershaw's curveball by a LHH in his career. 

Close.

“@ESPNChiCubs: Accoding to TruMedia Kershaw hasn't given up a HR to a lefty on a curveball since 2010.”

 

[fineyoungarm]

"I thank God for having made me an asshole" Joe Dimaggio

 

[Al Zarilla]

The Cardinals are SO BORING.

Why is that? 

 

[MakMan44]

Close.

“@ESPNChiCubs: Accoding to TruMedia Kershaw hasn't given up a HR to a lefty on a curveball since 2010.”

I'm blaming Jeff Sullivan 

 

[JimD]

Jansen, then? That was a Foulke in 2004 situation.

This. Mattingly managed that like it was the second game of a three game series in April, not an elimination game.

 

[Hee Sox Choi]

Yup.  This is true.  But he can still be criticized for not making the best use of what he's got.  Yesterday might've been a good time to go starter-Howell-Jensen.

I thought the same but a Dodger friend pointed out how bad JP Howell was in September.  Very bad.
 
Regardless, Donnie Baseball is dumb and as Hudler would say, "He's got to go!"

 

[VORP Speed]

So Puig comes up third this inning with Mattingly's job on the line?

 

[William Robertson]

I don't know about boring, but the Cards are irritating for making me think maybe the Sox are a longer distance from success than I thought. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Sox all out to get Masterson 

 
That was likely the plan all along.

 

[Lowrielicious]

Full credit to Dan Duqeutte for getting Miller. So much like the Duke, building his pitching staff backwards, just like he used to do in Boston. Serviceable starters, and a great bullpen = success in the playoffs. Baltimore and KC know this. Detroit and LA? Not so much.

 
So we should get Shields and Masterson (or someone else non-Lester/Scherzer) as well as Miller and Robertson (assuming he doesnt get and accept a QO) ?
 
Has potential.

 

[fineyoungarm]

 
That was likely the plan all along.

I know. The excitement builds. (However, I do like the guy.) 

 

[Al Zarilla]

Close.

“@ESPNChiCubs: Accoding to TruMedia Kershaw hasn't given up a HR to a lefty on a curveball since 2010.”

Not sure I believe that until Elias Sports Bureau checks in.

 

[Hee Sox Choi]

All of us have had this thought cross our minds - "Watch the Cards run the goddamn table."

It's all set up.  No Tigers, no Angels.  Nats almost gone.  Is there really a great team still left?  Nats maybe.  Dodgers were the team I wouldn't have wanted to face with Kershaw-Greinke-Ryu and a good AL-style lineup.

 

[johnmd20]

This Dodger team is the anti-Cards. They fold like a tent at tough times.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Buck on a first name basis with Cardinals. Give us a non-biased announcer, and of course get rid of Harold also. 

 

[fineyoungarm]

This Dodger team is the anti-Cards. They fold like a tent at tough times.

Imagine what Maddon would do with them. 

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

Ellis is batting? WTF
 
Elimination inning

 

[FelixMantilla]

Nice of the ump to choke on 2-0.

 

[soxhop411]

No puig?

 

[Harry Hooper]

Is Harold down in the locker room to spare us?

 

[fineyoungarm]

Buck on a first name basis with Cardinals. Give us a non-biased announcer, and of course get rid of Harold also. 

 
There's a picture of his father on the outfield wall for pete's sake. 

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Smokeface has a tendency to get wild...

 

[Lowrielicious]

Imagine what Maddon would do with them. 

Bunt and shift I imagine.

 

[Dan to Theo to Ben]

HOPE/
 
Good move leaving Ellis in lol

 

[Dollar]

Haha, what the hell?

 

[Al Zarilla]

 
There's a picture of his father on the outfield wall for pete's sake. 

I liked his father.

 

[fineyoungarm]

Bunt and shift I imagine.

But brilliantly 

 

[nvalvo]

Why is that? 

 
They're in the postseason constantly. It's like the tedium of the late-90s Yankees.