NLCS Phils-Dodgers In-Series Thread

[Frayed Knot]

Thurs, 10/15 - 8:07 in LA
Fri, 10/16 - 4:07 in LA
Sat - OFF
Sun, 10/18 - 8:07 in Phil
Mon, 10/19 - 8:07 in Phil
Tues - OFF
Wed, 10/21 - 8:07 in Phil
Thurs - OFF
Fri, 10/23 - 8:07 in LA
Sat, 10/24 - 8:07 in LA

I hate these extra off-days, especially when you consider that their only purpose is to stagger the games so as to have as few week-end games as possible (running scared from football) and so that the WS starts in mid-week. The number of days where there are AL & NL games together doesn't change from the old format, it just takes longer to complete.


Game 1 tonight -- Hamels vs Kershaw

[Fman99]

Thurs, 10/15 - 8:07 in LA
Fri, 10/16 - 4:07 in LA
Sat - OFF
Sun, 10/18 - 8:07 in Phil
Mon, 10/19 - 8:07 in Phil
Tues - OFF
Wed, 10/21 - 8:07 in Phil
Thurs - OFF
Fri, 10/23 - 8:07 in LA
Sat, 10/24 - 8:07 in LA

I hate these extra off-days, especially when you consider that their only purpose is to stagger the games so as to have as few week-end games as possible (running scared from football) and so that the WS starts in mid-week. The number of days where there are AL & NL games together doesn't change from the old format, it just takes longer to complete.


Game 1 tonight -- Hamels vs Kershaw

[Fman99]

Dodgers up 1-0 on a Loney solo HR.

Victorino pulls the same bush league move he did against the Mets this summer -- caught in a rundown, and goes WAY out of the basepath in an attempt to "collide" with an infielder nowhere near his way. Which, IIRC, some CPFers defended, to my dismay.

He's a **** is what I'm saying.

[Frayed Knot]

That was me arguing with you back then.
My point was not that Victorino was right, only that it should be on the ump for falling for the ruse not on him for trying to get the call.

I didn't see this one as I tuned in late.

[Fman99]

That was me arguing with you back then.
My point was not that Victorino was right, only that it should be on the ump for falling for the ruse not on him for trying to get the call.

I didn't see this one as I tuned in late.[/quote:2e9d2sov]

He ran all the way off the dirt and onto the grass inside the infield in the attempt to make the collision. And again, the umps didn't call him out for that (he was tagged before he made it back to first).

To me it's a bush league play, like A-Rod slapping the ball out of the guy's hand back a few years ago.

Meanwhile stupid Carlos Ruiz puts the Phils up 3-1 with a home run.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ruiz? Carlos F-ing Ruiz?

Kershaw shoulda shaved. Look stupid, pitch stupid.

And now he puts Hamels on. Still nobody out in the 5th.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

For those scoring at home*, Talliver Perez over here now has three walks and three wild pitches.

Howard's double makes it two XBH in the same inning... one more will complete the symmetry.

*And if you are, your loneliness saddens me.

[Fman99]

For those scoring at home*, Talliver Perez over here now has three walks and three wild pitches.

Howard's double makes it two XBH in the same inning... one more will complete the symmetry.

*And if you are, your loneliness saddens me.

[Frayed Knot]

Well this game just got fun again.

[Fman99]

An Utley throwing error on a DP ball opens the door for Manny who delivers the two run smash! 5-4 Phils, go LA!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

After Hamels got all Peyton-Manning-blaming-the-receivers-after-an-interception following the blown DP, I'm glad his ass got tagged.

Manny made a correction there between at-bats AND hit a good pitch out. Just... wow.

[metirish]

Manny is some hitter , that wasn't a terrible pitch.

[metirish]

How about Belliard , from DC to this had got to feel good.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'll say this for Manuel-- he gets his money's worth out of the rubber-armers.

[Frayed Knot]

It's spot like this why they traded for Thome

[metirish]

Every time I see Manuel walk I think of the Phillie Phanatic.

[Frayed Knot]

Darling's right, the umps shouldn't allow this change.
Just another in a long line of reasons why these games take 4 hours.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Who do we have to kill to get Kuo in our pen? I LOVE this guy.



"AND he spot-starts, too!"

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gotta love Kid Pro Kuo.

And how about this Chan Ho Park guy?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Gotta love Kid Pro Kuo.

And how about this Chan Ho Park guy?[/quote:312gp90z]

Nice balls. Worse beard than Tom Cruise.

Is it me, or is this Dodger pen-- Troncoso, Kuo, Sherrill, Broxton-- the biggest-assed pen in the majors?

[ashie62]

Darling's right, the umps shouldn't allow this change.
Just another in a long line of reasons why these games take 4 hours.[/quote:1twcc8np]

But it does lengthen your Citified "World Class experience"

Seems NL games take forever...I can do without such "intense" strategy for the DH.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Walk the leadoff guy, pitch around the second guy, hang breaking ball in the middle of the plate to power hitter. Sherrill bascially played Bullpen Goofus there.

Wait... WHY did they pull Kuo, again? Is this a Torre "eighth-inning guy" thing?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Seems NL games take forever...I can do without such "intense" strategy for the DH.[/quote:166vmak6]

Spoken like a man who has never seen an American League game.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well here we go.

Good news: Tying run at the plate.

Bad news: It's Juan Pierre.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Manny kinda looked creaky-- slow on the trigger, head flying out on the swing-- on that AB, no?

Sigh.

Prediction: Lidge puts two on, then pops up a couple and ends it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Manny kinda looked creaky-- slow on the trigger, head flying out on the swing-- on that AB, no?

Sigh.

Prediction: Lidge puts two on, then pops up a couple and ends it.[/quote:1ywixto0]

Close. Gotta burn the Dodger fans. And how do the Phils get away with their 8th inning guy giving up 4 hits an inning. christ.

[Frayed Knot]

Walk the leadoff guy, pitch around the second guy, hang breaking ball in the middle of the plate to power hitter. Sherrill bascially played Bullpen Goofus there.

Wait... WHY did they pull Kuo, again? Is this a Torre "eighth-inning guy" thing?

[Frayed Knot]

Seems NL games take forever...I can do without such "intense" strategy for the DH.

The flaw in your strategy (aside from the fact that the DH suxx of course) is that AL games average considerably longer than NL.

[Frayed Knot]

Game 2: Pedro vs Padilla - two guys who not only weren't with those teams at mid-season but one of which wasn't even employed in MLB

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

X Dodger v. X Phillie is what I think of.

Other Xs in this series

Park
Bowa
Wolf
Thome
Werth