Same Old Same Old Same Old: Threading the 2013 World Series

[Frayed Knot]

No Timmy, he went back to 2nd because the throw was low enough to be cut off by Freese at 3rd, not because he was afraid of Molina coming up with it. Had Gomes gone further off the base as you suggest Freese would have (or at least could have) made the cut and had Gomes hung up. If I'm the Cards I'll trade a run for two outs on that play.

[Frayed Knot]

What's that, five mound visits by Molina this inning alone?
Only 12 more and he'll tie Jorge Posada's mark.

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: Sorry but McCarver sounds like a babbling fool tonight, he really sounded incoherent in trying to explain the reason the obstruction rule should be looked at by the rules committee ...I felt bad for him actually.

Funny you guys noticed this. Earlier in the broadcast, much early on, he was saying something, something to do with a catcher and catching, and I thought just that: that he was babbling like a fool. I like Tim overall.
He'll be missed.

[Zvon]

I'd say Gnomes is a lil pumped. Lil bit.

[Frayed Knot]

I like to think that that HR was payback karma for the Cards using far too many mound visits.
I know, of course, that it wasn't, but I'm going to believe it was anyway because it makes me feel better.

[Frayed Knot]

Drew is a much better defensive SS than I realized.
I guess I hadn't seen enough of his career to date to really form much of an opinion on his glove/arm/feet, etc. prior to this post-season, but he really is much closer to the elite class of defenders than I ever suspected.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Drew is a much better defensive SS than I realized. I guess I hadn't seen enough of his career to date to really form much of an opinion on his glove/arm/feet, etc. prior to this post-season, but he really is much closer to the elite class of defenders than I ever suspected.

Agreed FK.

[Zvon]

He's not going anywhere near Beltraan.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Holy hell, there are a LOT of Dutch shortstops in the majors all of a sudden, aren't there?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With an induced grounder, John Lackey says, "Honey, I'm leaving you... stranded on third."

[Frayed Knot]

For once the Cards DON'T take advantage of Boston miscues - multiple ones in this case.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Nice move putting Lackey in for the inning even if Bogaerts and Ross nearly sabotaged it.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Holy hell, there are a LOT of Dutch shortstops in the majors all of a sudden, aren't there?

You can tell by their wooden cleats.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Red Sox down in order, and we're on to the bottom of the ninth.

This one could get tricky quickly if the Cards get men on base, as the Sox have, like, nine guys out there over whom a baserunner could trip.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: This one could get tricky quickly if the Cards get men on base, as the Sox have, like, nine guys out there over whom a baserunner could trip.

You're en fuego tonight.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Really, it's, like, 70 percent pubic playoff beard.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Kolten Wong now available.

[Zvon]

WOW! Another novel way to end a game! Good series!

[Frayed Knot]

You have GOT to be kidding me!!!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

SWING THE BAT, BELTRAN

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Even.

[Frayed Knot]

Looking at that on the replay, it was really a bit of luck for Uehara; he started his pickoff move exactly as Wong took an extra step to lengthen his lead and, as a result, got caught leaning the wrong way on a play where he almost certainly wasn't planning on going anywhere.
Good luck for the closer, bad luck for the rookie.


But whatever the case, we've got ourselves a series here. Tied 2-2, we're guaranteed at least six games and a trip back to Boston.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Show's on, Best Fans in Baseball!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Show's on, Best Fans in Baseball!

Whoa!

[Frayed Knot]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Show's on, Best Fans in Baseball! Whoa!

I've long found Cardinal fans to be MUCH MORE negative than their constantly-sunny image suggests.

[Zvon]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Show's on, Best Fans in Baseball!

Yikes!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

#HowGame5WillEnd trending on Twitter. Worth checking out.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Just a followup, the MLB International broadcast was not showing a Cardinals fan when Wong was picked off.

[Frayed Knot]

So I wonder if any ESPN talking heads have credited Uehara with "a walk-off pick-off" yet.
Maybe 'How many' is a better question.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Carpenter Good News: Six strikeouts and just two hits through three!

Carpenter Bad News: Those two hits were both doubles, and came back-to-back in the first.