Worst hitter in the NL just smoked a single in the 9th to maybe send the Dodgers to the NLCS
Worst hitter in the NL just smoked a single in the 9th to maybe send the Dodgers to the NLCS
Will roboumps call check swings?
Asking for a friend.
Mitri (10-15-2021),Ron Madden (10-15-2021)
man Scherzer was almost certainly going to finish him off but you can't end the game on that call, terrible.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Ironman92 (10-15-2021),kaldaniels (10-15-2021),Mitri (10-15-2021),MR X (10-15-2021),Red Raindog (10-15-2021),Redsfan6272 (10-15-2021),Ron Madden (10-15-2021)
Chip R (10-15-2021),Red Raindog (10-15-2021),Ron Madden (10-15-2021),Tom Servo (10-15-2021)
That wasnt even close to a go around with the bat on a check swing... i hate the Dodgers..umps helped on that pitch...
MR X (10-15-2021)
Yikes. Atrocious call to end it by Morales….I’m not betting against Scherzer with a 1-2 count but can’t call that.
MR X (10-15-2021),Red Raindog (10-15-2021),Ron Madden (10-15-2021)
I was cheering for the Dodgers, but that was brutal.
Ron Madden (10-15-2021)
There is no official definition of what swing is in the rule book, it’s 100% up the the ump’s discretion. But it’s hard to justify that call.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
Red Raindog (10-15-2021),Ron Madden (10-15-2021)
I swear to God there is somebody in charge who who is intentionally trying to screw baseball up.
And I can't say I was thrilled about the best team in baseball starting a relief pitcher and going all Tampa Bay when they've got an exciting young 20 game winner ready to pitch.
And of course it worked.
Not a question of "making it work". The shift works great. So does taking 10 minutes between pitches. But its turns off the casual fans. Baseball just shooting itself in the foot.
Plus its one thing for a team with a $10 payroll like the Rays to try and eke out an advantage, its another thing when the best team in baseball pulls this stuff in a deciding post season game.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
westofyou (10-15-2021)
Losing Kershaw hurt them, they had nineteen guys make starts this year, May went down, Bauer is gone, Gonsolin wasn't going to get the ball, David Price is an expensive relief doorstop now.
Starting Knebal takes an arrow out of the Giants quiver, they platoon like mad and they leverage it quite well. It's not classic baseball, but it has precedent from a century ago Firpo Marberry started Game Three of the 1924 WS after getting the save the day before and only threw three innings, the next game he got another save. In that day that was super weird and just an example of how during these big games your BP gets shorter and shorter as do who you trust in the middle innings.
M2 (10-15-2021)
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