IST NLDS - Nationals & Cardinals

[G-Fafif]

Ceetar wrote: Aaron Small and Shawn Chacon winning like 18 of 20 games they pitched in..2007?

2005 -- also when they pulled washed-up Marlin Al Leiter off the scrap heap and drained useful innings out of him.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Ceetar wrote: Aaron Small and Shawn Chacon winning like 18 of 20 games they pitched in..2007? 2005 -- also when they pulled washed-up Marlin Al Leiter off the scrap heap and drained useful innings out of him.

I'd forgotten he pitched for them that year. actually, looks like not well.

[ashie62]

Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg......Dumbasses...

[Frayed Knot]

Graeme Lloyd in 1996

The Yanx got him in a trade late in the year from Milwaukee and he pitched so poorly [11 runs on 12 hits + 5 walks over 5.2 IPs] that Steinbrenner complained to the Commissioner's office that he had been tricked, that Lloyd was damaged goods and he wanted the trade un-done. That attempt naturally failed and the Yanx were forced to use Lloyd in the post-season.
Once there Lloyd pitched 5-1/3 innings over the three rounds giving up just 1 single

They actually had a few back of the pen guys with similar stories (lousy going into the playoffs, then unhittable) that year, Lloyd was only the most extreme example.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ashie62 wrote: Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg......Dumbasses...

I don't understand why everyone's making such a big deal about shutting Strasburg down for the playoffs. I mean, he's only missing four games.

[Edgy MD]

You want a civilian informant to snitch on the Yankee operation, Matt Lawton is your man.

[G-Fafif]

Nats fans (all of whom, based on every feature story I've read, are related to Walter Johnson), taking it in stride.

If you didn�t know any better, you�d assume this was New York. Or Philadelphia. Maybe Detroit. The kind of city where baseball fans are accustomed to postseason games, and sometimes seeing the home team get raked in said games, and subsequently heading home in an early, desultory huff, the better to vent and wail on sports talk radio. Thing is, nobody here seemed particularly perturbed. Not in the overstuffed silver subway cars. Not in the upper-deck seats above left field, where Nationals fans Hank Thomas and Mike Grieb sat directly behind the Plexiglas safety shield, watching the on-field shellacking and off-site exodus with a mix of mild denial and rapid acceptance, long-jumping from stage one to stage five on the Kubler-Ross scale of grief. �Tomorrow is another day,� Thomas said with a shrug.

Get perturbed, people. You're on the brink.

[Edgy MD]

Hank Thomas is the man.

He's also a Washingtonian, and so works hard at staying off ledges.

[Gwreck]

Jason Werth walk-off homer wins game 4 for the Nationals. I want them to win the series...but not this way. I feel dirty now.

[Frayed Knot]

MLB gets at least three game-fives in the first round.
Let's hope they get a fourth.

[HahnSolo]

Gwreck wrote: Jason Werth walk-off homer wins game 4 for the Nationals. I want them to win the series...but not this way. I feel dirty now.

Really, though, you knew Werth was going to do something there leading off, didn't you. Maybe not a walk-off, but I had every belief he'd get on base and start something.

[Frayed Knot]

After all our complaining today about how the Yanx always get the 8:00 game, Game 5 in this series will actually be in prime time on Friday while the MFY/Balt game (if there is one) gets shifted to the late afternoon slot -- most likely because,as of now, the NL tilt is the only one they KNOW will be need to be played.

[HahnSolo]

Frayed Knot wrote: After all our complaining today about how the Yanx always get the 8:00 game, Game 5 in this series will actually be in prime time on Friday while the MFY/Balt game (if there is one) gets shifted to the late afternoon slot -- most likely because,as of now, the NL tilt is the only one they KNOW will be need to be played.

I think the reason the AL game is in the afternoon is because ALCS game 1 is starting Saturday giving whoever has to travel at least a couple extra hours.

[Ceetar]

HahnSolo wrote: After all our complaining today about how the Yanx always get the 8:00 game, Game 5 in this series will actually be in prime time on Friday while the MFY/Balt game (if there is one) gets shifted to the late afternoon slot -- most likely because,as of now, the NL tilt is the only one they KNOW will be need to be played. I think the reason the AL game is in the afternoon is because ALCS game 1 is starting Saturday giving whoever has to travel at least a couple extra hours.

but it's Orioles Yankees so it'll go 4 hours anyway.

good happy hour time though...drawback is that the guy I go to Happy Hours with is a Yankees fan.

[ashie62]

Wright could not have liked Zimmerman crushing in the post season.

[Frayed Knot]

[u:10y6b5o3]Game 5[/u:10y6b5o3]

Gio, handed a big lead early off a bevy of Nats XBHs, is getting walk-happy again and is in danger of giving it all back with the game not yet half over.
No way can we give this bozo the CY award.


oe: gets out of potentially worse trouble. 6-3 Nats, mid-5th

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Beltran is just a post-season monster!

[Frayed Knot]

Thole Shit!!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Stinking Nationals....

[Guest themetfairy]

Despite the Nats' insurance run in the bottom of the 8th, the Cardinals have tied the game 7-7 in the 9th.

[Guest themetfairy]

Make that 9-7 Cards in the 9th.

[Frayed Knot]

Time to start rooting for that Giants-Tigers WS

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Incredible! How do the Cards pull this stuff time and time again?

[Ceetar]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Incredible! How do the Cards pull this stuff time and time again?

#blamebeltran.

[Frayed Knot]

Who do the Nats think they are, the 2007 Mets? Get a big lead early then try and sit on it for the final six innings.
Shit, after all the runners the Cards left on the bases over the middle innings, the Nats are lucky not to be down by more at this point.

[Frayed Knot]

Top of the order for the Nats, just like it was for the Cards in the top of the inning.

[Guest themetfairy]

And the Nats collapse is complete.

[Frayed Knot]

Wow!
What a kick in the gut for the Nationals.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

wow.

[Frayed Knot]

The on-field mikes just caught some fan yelling; "Gotta get rid of Drew [storen]"

I wonder if Kozma gets called "Kramer" by any of his teammates? Nah, they're probably all too young.