[IST] ALDS: TOR vs TEX

[Zvon]

Wowzers! A bloop and a blast.




Ugh, I know they get to do their little bat tossing displays, but I would have to drill him next time up, big time. You see that stare!???Not to mention the bat toss.

Crowds throwing shit on the field!!!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

To review: three straight Ranger infield errors load the bases with none out, followed by a Ben Revere grounder to first which Mitch Moreland fires home, ostensibly in hopes of the 3-2-3 DP... only Dalton Pompey ankle-whips the catcher Gimenez (a play reviewed and upheld as legal).

Then, after Hamels is given the hook (after not allowing a ball out of the infield this inning), Josh Donaldson's pop-force-out at second off reliever Sam Dyson scores the tying run on what might have been the third out... and a Jose Bautista moonshot-- the first hit of the inning for the Jays-- gives the home team a 6-3 lead.

Did I get it all so far? Also, is this the weirdest inning, top to bottom, in ALDS history? In postseason history?

Edited October 14, 2015 by Guest

[Zvon]

That fans are hitting the shit!!!

[Elster88]

Zvon wrote: Wowzers! A bloop and a blast. Ugh, I know they get to do their little bat tossing displays, but I would have to drill him next time up, big time. You see that stare!???Not to mention the bat toss. Crowds throwing shit on the field!!!

Hit the next guy so he'll tell his teammate not to do that shit anymore.

[Elster88]

Zvon wrote: That fans are hitting the shit!!!

Bunch of quiet polite Canadians

[Elster88]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Did I get it all so far? Also, is this the weirdest inning, top to bottom, in ALDS history? In postseason history?

In baseball history?

[Zvon]

To review: three straight Ranger infield errors load the bases with none out, followed by a Ben Revere grounder to first which Mitch Moreland fires home, ostensibly in hopes of the 3-2-3 DP... only Dalton Pompey ankle-whips the catcher Gimenez (a play reviewed and upheld as legal). Then, after Hamels is given the hook (after not allowing a ball out of the infield this inning), Josh Donaldson's pop-force-out at second off reliever Sam Dyson scores the tying run on what might have been the third out... and a Jose Bautista moonshot-- the first hit of the inning for the Jays-- gives the home team a 6-3 lead. Did I get it all so far? Also, is this the weirdest inning, top to bottom, in ALDS history? In postseason history?

All 3 errors were on Andrus?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Maybe it's just an Ontarian tradition, this trash throwing, used to express extreme displeasure OR jubilant celebration, or anything else in between. Like the Canadian "aloha" or something.

[Zvon]

Wow. What a frame.


FOOD FIGHT!!!

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Bautista and Tulo are twats.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: All 3 errors were on Andrus?

One of them had to be on the 1B Moreland for that throw to Andrus.
And I think on the force attempt at 3B it was on Beltre for the (non) catch rather than Andrus for the throw.

[Frayed Knot]

If I cap an half-inning like that with a 2-out/3R tie-breaking HR, I'm flipping my bat halfway to Vancouver.

Tulo's problems are his bad haircut and his man-crush on Jeter.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Frayed Knot wrote: If I cap an half-inning like that with a 2-out/3R tie-breaking HR, I'm flipping my bat halfway to Vancouver.

You could have just said Calgary.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: All 3 errors were on Andrus? One of them had to be on the 1B Moreland for that throw to Andrus. And I think on the force attempt at 3B it was on Beltre for the (non) catch rather than Andrus for the throw.

Yea thanks, I saw that on review. I wasn't paying attention at the innings start. It was Andrus taking the throw at 3rd from Beltran, tho, I think. Andrus dropped that.

This is postseason as I've been used to it the last bunch of years. It's exciting but I don't really care. If this was happening with or to the Mets, it be a whole nuther ballgame.
I mean, could you imagine?

[Zvon]

Talking 86 Mets and Shea. I like

[Zvon]

If our game 5 goes anything like this one I will need some kind of medication.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: All 3 errors were on Andrus? One of them had to be on the 1B Moreland for that throw to Andrus. And I think on the force attempt at 3B it was on Beltre for the (non) catch rather than Andrus for the throw. Yea thanks, I saw that on review. I wasn't paying attention at the innings start. It was Andrus taking the throw at 3rd from Beltran, tho, I think. Andrus dropped that.

Right, the bunt was Beltre to Andrus covering not the other way around. So 2 errors on Andrus plus the one on Moreland (that Andrus couldn't save).

[Frayed Knot]

El Segundo Escupidor wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: If I cap an half-inning like that with a 2-out/3R tie-breaking HR, I'm flipping my bat halfway to Vancouver. You could have just said Calgary.

Gonna flip it to Alberta / the weather's good there in the fall

[Zvon]

There's only one thing I like about an enclosed stadium. That the crowd sounds like a roaring animal in the background.

[Zvon]

Jays stamp out Texas!

[Guest themetfairy]

In the words of my son, "The Blue Jays are flying!"

[Zvon]

Even Bautista is like, no, Carters home run was way different you lunkhead.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

BRING ON THE CHAMPAGNE AND MORE THROWN BEER BOTTLES!!!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Man, the Rangers are building a rough post-season history.

Three times a AL West winner over a four year span in the '90s, they got wiped out by the Yanx each time winning just one game (1-9)
Then they lost back to back World Series in 2010 & '11 including that Game 6 crusher to StL where they were one strike from winning several times.
And since then they've tacked on a WC game loss, and now this.

That's a lot of soul-crushing defeats in less than a 20 year span.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

They traded for Cole Hamels. Had it coming.

[Edgy MD]

Here's hoping for a similar fate for the team that traded for Chase Utley.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: If I cap an half-inning like that with a 2-out/3R tie-breaking HR, I'm flipping my bat halfway to Vancouver. You could have just said Calgary. Gonna flip it to Alberta / the weather's good there in the fall

17 pages? That's half the freaking rag.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: BRING ON THE CHAMPAGNE AND MORE THROWN BEER BOTTLES!!!!!!

Buncha frustrated hockey fans.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

The truth is this bat flip deserves its own thread.

[Gwreck]

The umpires were faced with a difficult play? They gathered to discuss it, and then checked the rule to make absolutely sure they had it right?

Wow. What a fucking concept.

[Lefty Specialist]

That bat flip was epic. Lucky he didn't come up again in the game, though.