NLCS Phils-Dodgers In-Series Thread

[ashie62]

Seems NL games take forever...I can do without such "intense" strategy for the DH.[/quote:37knqhkv]

Spoken like a man who has never seen an American League game.[/quote:37knqhkv]

What I meant was the double switches, matchups, dead 6-9 batting orders wear on me at times.

And yes, I know the MFY's don't do anything in 4 hours or less

Can I have a Ronan Tynan mulligan?

[Frayed Knot]

X Dodger v. X Phillie is what I think of. Other Xs in this series Park Bowa Wolf Thome Werth

Also Philly coach Davey Lopes who refused to complete the 1970s foursome of LA infielders in yesterday's first ball throwing ceremony.
Garvey, Cey & Russell were trotted out to do the honors but Lopes, who was obviously in attendance, didn't want to be cavorting with the enemy at this time.

[soupcan]

Also Philly coach Davey Lopes who refused to complete the 1970s foursome of LA infielders in yesterday's first ball throwing ceremony.
Garvey, Cey & Russell were trotted out to do the honors but Lopes, who was obviously in attendance, didn't want to be cavorting with the enemy at this time.[/quote:1h6p4dq0]

If that's true Lopes is a douchebag.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I imagine the most vociferous of Mets fans would feel udderwise if he was a Mets coach and the Mets were the ones playing the Dodgers.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

1-0, World's Most Gracious Champions, into the eighth, on a Ryan Howard 4th-inning tater.

Ugh.

[soupcan]

I imagine the most vociferous of Mets fans would feel udderwise if he was a Mets coach and the Mets were the ones playing the Dodgers.[/quote:948m9add]

If that most vociferous of Mets fans were me, you'd be wrong.

I spent a lot of time in L.A. During those Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey years and that infield was beloved by the fans. What would've been the problem in joining them to throw out the first pitch? Where's the downside?

It's a slap in the face to those fans who remember and supported those teams.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, I'm with you-um. But I've known plenty o' Mets fans to be pretty senstive about anything that smacks of (a) consorting with the enemy, or ( coaches not seeming as hell-bent for victory as the fans think themselves to be.

[Frayed Knot]

P.S. Dodgers win mostly due to a Chase Utley error and a few walks along the way.

[Fman99]

I imagine the most vociferous of Mets fans would feel udderwise if he was a Mets coach and the Mets were the ones playing the Dodgers.[/quote:328zq07v]

If that most vociferous of Mets fans were me, you'd be wrong.

I spent a lot of time in L.A. During those Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey years and that infield was beloved by the fans. What would've been the problem in joining them to throw out the first pitch? Where's the downside?

It's a slap in the face to those fans who remember and supported those teams.[/quote:328zq07v]

Yep.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I just checked in and saw the score. Yay! I certainly didn't want to see the Phillies take the first two in LA.

[Guest Kong76]

Saw just the first couple of innings ... I second the yay!

[G-Fafif]

I imagine the most vociferous of Mets fans would feel udderwise if he was a Mets coach and the Mets were the ones playing the Dodgers.[/quote:xcspo9zr]

If that most vociferous of Mets fans were me, you'd be wrong.

I spent a lot of time in L.A. During those Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey years and that infield was beloved by the fans. What would've been the problem in joining them to throw out the first pitch? Where's the downside?

It's a slap in the face to those fans who remember and supported those teams.[/quote:xcspo9zr]

Yep.[/quote:xcspo9zr]

If the Mets were playing the World Series in Anaheim and the Angels wanted to reconvene their 1973 infield, I don't think I'd feel betrayed if Sandy Alomar stood for 15 seconds with Rudy Meoli, Mike Epstein and Dirty Al Gallagher.

[Frayed Knot]

LWFS (from the ALCS thread): "In Cholly's postseason world, EVERYBODY's potentially an OOGY. (I can understand this with, say, Ethier and his massive L-R splits.)"



Interesting (8th) inning to look at as each of Manual's moves is defendable by itself - although almost all them wound up blowing up on him even as almost no one hit a ball hard.

CH Park pitching:
- Blake singled off the glove of Feliz at 3rd (could have been fielded although not an error)
- Belliard, trying to sac bunt, got on via a single (1st & 2nd)
- Martin hits a sure DP-ball which Utley throws away (tie game). A much worse error than the similar Game 1 play which was only partially his fault

Eyre replaces Park to pitch to the LH Thome
- Thome singles hard to RF (1st & 3rd)

Out goes Eyre, in comes Madson
- Furcal walks (bases loaded)
- Kemp strikes-out

He then goes to Happ against the split-challenged LH Andre Ethier
- Ethier walks on a full-count to force in the go-ahead run

Manual brings in Durbin against Manny
- Ramirez pops out on the first pitch


5 pitchers, 8 batters. 3 hits, 2 walks. 2 runs, 1 earned.
I don't know how long that half-inning took but it had to be 30 minutes or more all by itself.

[metirish]

Kuroda getting hammered in the first, one out and four on the board so far.

[Fman99]

Kuroda getting hammered in the first, one out and four on the board so far.[/quote:3r34ur94]

Boo.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hope the Dodger hotel bar's open late. They'll need it.

[metirish]

What's with all the too smart by half commercials on TBS?, it's a very annoying station.

[metirish]

Jeez but Buck Martinez is annoying , thanks for explaining to me why Blinningsley was hitting there and not a pinch hitter.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Phils are the only team left in the postseason with any offense to speak of.

[ashie62]

If the 1973 Angels infield were honored I would like a willing time traveler to put Jim Fregosi out there

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, the other teams have good offenses. They just aren't displaying them currently.

[metirish]

I watch the Dodgers and I wonder how they got this far ,or how they even got into the post-season.They look terrible , Torre going with Kuroda and not Wolf seems a mis-judgment , especially after hearing the reasosn given....he looked great in Arizona...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Not that these aren't minutely-sized samples, here, but:

Kuroda's numbers against Philly: 0.95 ERA, 0.57 WHIP over 19 innings in three starts.

Billingsley's: 3.24 ERA, 1.44 WHIP over 25 innings in four starts.

Wolf's: 4.42 ERA, 1.31 WHIP over 19.1 innings in three starts.

Weaver's: Um. Let's just say that his history suggests Weaver wasn't an option.

[metirish]

The other number is that he had not pitched since September 28th , anyway I don't think it would matter who they went with.

[MFS62]

If the 1973 Angels infield were honored I would like a willing time traveler to put Jim Fregosi out there[/quote:2plp7wk5]
Let's just stop the presses and give this the BOC top prize for the whole friggin' year.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

We're in a 2-2 tie here, folks.

Now if Rafael Furcal could get his average above .071, it might help things. Hey, Raffy, I'll accept that crap from Casey Blake, not you.

[Guest Edgy DC]

James Loney gets with the program.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Torre gets nutty in the sixth, using three pitchers to get three outs. Wolf gives up a run and gets replaces by Ronald Belisario. Belisario gets sent off to produce more Magnum, P.I. episodes while Kid Pro Kuo gets the last out.

[Guest themetfairy]

Ethier caught that with two hands. How odd....

[Guest Edgy DC]

Playoff baseball --- why use two pitchers when you can use 21?