NLCS Game 1 IGT 10/13/2024: NYM@LAD — Staring Down at the Lights of L.A.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Little nervous but that may have to do with a blind-date watch party I'm leaving for What's a blind date watch party? Neighborhood reddit meetup. But we had a change of plans and are watching at a different pub

What's a Reddit meetup?

[Centerfield]

Mets won Game 1 in 1988.

[metirish]

Paxlovid woman is John Candy's daughter

[Cowtipper]

It didn't take me long to turn this game off and find more productive things to do.

[Centerfield]

See you guys tomorrow.

[Frayed Knot]

The one thing you wanted to do tonight was get into the Dodger pen early on as tomorrow is probably a bullpen game for them anyway.

Instead, it's looking like we might not get into it at all.

[Frayed Knot]

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Really, you mean I can also pretend my last name is Strauss?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Marte has that warning track shot to right figured out

[Frayed Knot]

Not even making this one remotely interesting.

[Edgy MD]

You don't want to sleep through Danny Young!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Sorry I joined this thread so late in the game. I wasn't sure when the game started.

[Frayed Knot]

The comeback starts NOW!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Starting already!

[Edgy MD]

Hey! Heff McNeil!!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Damage coming

[Edgy MD]

Home plate umpie (Humpie) just had the first blown call I've noticed.

[Frayed Knot]

Vientos gets screwed on Strike Two ... but that's not an excuse for chasing after Strike Three

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Vientos getting dicked. He's also getting upset. Shame because his unflappability has been his best friend

[Edgy MD]

Pete needs to get his head into something close to the game.

[Edgy MD]

Burning Butto here kinda makes the Stanek-Maton nexus a big key for tomorry.

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Write this one off. Get ‘em tomorrow!

[Frayed Knot]

LET'S

GO

...







to bed and hope they get 'em tomorrow

[Lefty Specialist]

Just flush it and come out firing tomorrow.

[whippoorwill]

Yeah the dodgers are using up all their runs tonight!

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Pete needs to get his head into something close to the game.

That throw to 2nd with a runner potentially impeding the throw is Pete's biggest weakness as a fielder.

[Edgy MD]

Well, that was worth staying up for.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Pete needs to get his head into something close to the game. That throw to 2nd with a runner potentially impeding the throw is Pete's biggest weakness as a fielder.

Yeah, it's gotten into his head-like thing.

[Gwreck]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Just flush it and come out firing tomorrow.

Exactly. These things happen. Get it tomorrow and things are back on track.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Pete needs to get his head into something close to the game. That throw to 2nd with a runner potentially impeding the throw is Pete's biggest weakness as a fielder. Yeah, it's gotten into his head-like thing.

Keith used to take a step towards the pitcher's mound just before making that throw to get a better, that is, a clear and unobstructed angle on that throw and pretty much eliminate the problem of having the runner interfere with the throw. Keith of course, had the advantage of throwing left-handed, which made that tactic possible for him. I think Keith invented that play. And if he didn't invent it, he sure as hell brought it into prominence and made the tactic very noticeable. From what I saw tonight, I don't know what Pete could have done from the angle he was throwing. Pete had an awful angle. It looked to me, that it was impossible for Pete's throw to not hit the runner unless he put so much loft on the throw that it would have been impossible to retire the runner by the time the throw reached second base.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: That throw to 2nd with a runner potentially impeding the throw is Pete's biggest weakness as a fielder. Yeah, it's gotten into his head-like thing. Keith used to take a step towards the pitcher's mound just before making that throw to get a better, that is, a clear and unobstructed angle on that throw and pretty much eliminate the problem of having the runner interfere with the throw. Keith of course, had the advantage of throwing left-handed, which made that tactic possible for him. I think Keith invented that play. And if he didn't invent it, he sure as hell brought it into prominence and made the tactic very noticeable. From what I saw tonight, I don't know what Pete could have done from the angle he was throwing. Pete had an awful angle. It looked to me, that it was impossible for Pete's throw to not hit the runner unless he put so much loft on the throw that it would have been impossible to retire the runner by the time the throw reached second base.

And the other thing about Keith is that if he was calling tonight's game, he would've mentioned pretty much everything I put into my post just above because first base defense is smack in the middle of Keith's wheelhouse. But instead, we got shit like announcers fighting each other to see who could be the first person to salivate and slobber all over Ohtani getting a lucky fucking ground ball single that was an accident and that Ohtani surely regretted hitting that grounder and going "Oh Fuck!" inside of his head in Japanese the instant, the millisecond after he made contact with that stupid, lucky fucking three-hopper of a grounder.