ILDST 2021: When Eight Become Four

[kcmets]

Did you guys see Chipper totally muff the foul ball in the stands?



Fuck the Braves -- I'm generally an American League guy in the post-season anyways,

unless it's the youse-knowse-whoose

[Frayed Knot]

So maybe (TBR) yanking Colin McQ after 18 pitches wasn't such a good idea.

[Willets Point]

Not that it seems to be helping them in the final score, but the Rays have taken away around 10 hits from the Red Sox with great defensive plays in this series.

[Frayed Knot]

So a new pitcher for TBR, Fleming, starts the bottom of the 7th, throws 13 pitches getting an out then giving up a single.

Out comes the pitching coach for a chat, a chat with the same pitcher who was just brought into the game two hitters ago.

So the freshly instructed pitcher promptly gives up a hit on the very next pitch.

Out comes the manager this time in order to make a pitching change.



So that's approx a six minute time frame -- mound conference, pitch, pitching change-- where ONE pitch was thrown.

Nobody can think that's a sustainable model.

[Frayed Knot]

These managers keep looking for the reliever who Doesn't have it that night ... and they usually manage to find him.

[Frayed Knot]

On the left coast they're scoreless after one, Alex Wood vs Max Scherzer

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: Not that it seems to be helping them in the final score, but the Rays have taken away around 10 hits from the Red Sox with great defensive plays in this series.

Until right now.

That error could be a Yuge one.

[Frayed Knot]

Or maybe not

[Willets Point]

And a bad hop on a relay to first base ends up dooming the Rays. The Red Sox are the first team to advance to the final four.

[bmfc1]

Ugh, I hope that we're not going to have Boston v Houston and Atlanta v LA.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Congratz to the Sox. They earned it

[kcmets]

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Ugh, I hope that we're not going to have Boston v Houston and Atlanta v LA.

[G-Fafif]

Giants-Red Sox would be the most picturesque ballpark matchup in modern times, maybe anytime.

[bmfc1]

=kcmets post_id=79623 time=1634007546 user_id=53]
=bmfc1 post_id=79621 time=1634006274 user_id=73]
Ugh, I hope that we're not going to have Boston v Houston and Atlanta v LA.

[Willets Point]

=G-Fafif post_id=79624 time=1634009637 user_id=55]
Giants-Red Sox would be the most picturesque ballpark matchup in modern times, maybe anytime.

[Willets Point]

Giants on the precipice of the NLCS. MLB execs hoping to salvage at least half of their dream Dodgers-Yankees matchup are sweating.

[Gwreck]

=G-Fafif post_id=79624 time=1634009637 user_id=55]
Giants-Red Sox would be the most picturesque ballpark matchup in modern times, maybe anytime.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: =G-Fafif post_id=79624 time=1634009637 user_id=55] Giants-Red Sox would be the most picturesque ballpark matchup in modern times, maybe anytime.

The Giants could avenge their 1912 loss at Fenway Park when they were 2 outs from winning the World Series only to fall victim to the Snodgrass Muff.

[Fman99]

=kcmets post_id=79611 time=1633997542 user_id=53]
Did you guys see Chipper totally muff the foul ball in the stands?



Fuck the Braves -- I'm generally an American League guy in the post-season anyways,

unless it's the youse-knowse-whoose

[G-Fafif]

Brandon Crawford did a nice Bud Harrelson with the leap and grab last night.

[Frayed Knot]

Between the little I saw last night plus highlights this morning, the Giants threw a whole lotta leather at LAD

[Frayed Knot]

If today's CHW/HOU started on time then there's something seriously wrong with this sport because they're more than two hours in and yet it's still just the bottom of the 4th.



5-1 'stros





Next update will be after the 6th inning, or at 9PM EDT ... whichever comes first.

[Willets Point]

Listening to the HOU/CWS game on the Chicago radio broadcast. All the ad breaks seem to be for sports betting followed by PSAs for gambling disorders. Depressing.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't know if it's required by law or merely good practices just in case something goes sideways on account of the gambling concerns that all these leagues are now in bed with, but all ads connected with gambling and even the crawls across the bottom of the screen on sports networks giving the latest odds, point spreads, or other fanta-crap stats, are routinely followed by gambling help info.









btw, they have in fact reached the 7tb inning in the south side of Chicago, a mere 3:20 after first pitch of a below average scoring game.

[Lefty Specialist]

Looks like a Red Sox-Astros ALCS. Bleh. Both sides will bang garbage cans.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, that game in Chicago still hasn't ended yet (about 4:20 as we type) but presumably it will end at some point and seeing as how it's 10-1 Houston the Astros get revenge on the 2005 WS sweep

even though it's now impossible for them to get the revenge in the actual World Series

[Frayed Knot]

The [CROSSOUT]Atlanta[/CROSSOUT] Cobb County organist just played a rendition of Styx I'M SAILING AWAY when Avasail Garcia came to bat.



Earlier, following a leaping catch by SS Swanson, came a few bars of STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: The [CROSSOUT]Atlanta[/CROSSOUT] Cobb County organist just played a rendition of Styx I'M SAILING AWAY when Avasail Garcia came to bat. Earlier, following a leaping catch by SS Swanson, came a few bars of STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Either that organist is very creative, or did a lot of drugs in the 70's and is still (mentally) trapped there.





Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Freddie 1, Hader 0

[bmfc1]

Every Brewer should do to Devin Williams what he did to the wall. Williams would have been pitching in the 8th, not Hader, when FF hit the HR and that was Williams' job.