IST 2016 NLCS - Dodgers vs Cubs

[Zvon]

If Rizzo's gonna keep hittin' forgettaboutit! Cubs ATW!

1-0 Chicago. 1st

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe I've lost count, but I think that was just the 17th replay review tonight.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah this game is absolutely dragging

[Zvon]

Why would they keep Baez in this game?

The umping: atrocious. There is no way before replay that umps got such obvious calls wrong as much.

[Zvon]

Cubs take advantage of LA, 8-4. Up 3 games to 2.
If I was a Cubs fan I'd be a little worried about Chapman. lil bit. I wouldn't even have wanted him in there tonight.

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[Fman99]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah this game is absolutely dragging

I do like the commercial breaks though where they stay with game cameras in a small window at the same time. That's new to me.

[Frayed Knot]

They seem be doing that for unscheduled stops in the action such as pitching changes but not during the usual between innings breaks.




Final time of this one was 4:16
Obviously the big Cubs 8th inning and all the pitching changes slowed things up but that game was slow from the beginning and was beyond the 3-hour mark when it was still a 3-1 game in the 7th.
Lester worked slowly and Maeda even slower. And then came (LA's) Pedro Baez who's on his way to becoming the poster boy for how to get fans to turn the channel.
As Smoltz said during Baez's time on the mound when Buck brought up the possibility of a pitching clock to enforce quicker play: "Oh it's coming"

[metirish]

I just can't sty up for it. 4:16?, that's just nuts, but as FK pointed out previously it's not like Mets games haven't dragged the past few seasons

[Frayed Knot]

The Mets had a bunch of long games this past season and averaged over 3 hours on the whole, but only went above 4 hours a handful of times across the full 162 (five times to be precise) and all of them were extra inning games. Only twice this year did they top 3:45 in a 9 inning game.
But the 27 (so far) playoff games have already topped 4 hours four different times (one was a 13-inning game) plus have come close to that in several others - and that's just a really bad trend if you want to keep fans of teams other than the ones playing from tuning out.

The biggest culprits are easy to find, namely the increased commercial time (2:55 between innings vs 2:05 in most regular season games) and the increased number of pitching changes.
But games like last night were just slow from the 1st inning on: slow pitchers, slow batters, lots of mound conferences, replay reviews, thinking about replay reviews, and mainly just a kind of malaise which has seeped into the game where it seems to take a minute or more to get from the end of one play to the first pitch of the next, like this is football where there's a designated 'dead time' period between each play. What they need to do is think more futbol rather than football which is how the game was originally intended to be, where the play is assumed to be live unless stated otherwise instead of the current way of thinking which treats it as the other way around.

[Centerfield]

That Cubs lineup is just sick. There are no holes in that lineup. And then they get Schwarber back next year.

Fuck man. The Mets have some serious upgrading to do.

[MFS62]

Larry King might not be able to get tickets behind home plate for the games in Chicago. But the look on his face when LA was losing was priceless.

Later

[TransMonk]

MFS62 wrote: Larry King might not be able to get tickets behind home plate for the games in Chicago. But the look on his face when LA was losing was priceless.

He was conducting a sit-down-strike last year.

[Edgy MD]

Ceetar wrote: We've been over the Turner thing before. My take is that he got fat, then got hurt because got fat, and he wrote his ticket out because he was unavailable when they needed him. The other thing about Turner: He gives Marlon Byrd a lot of credit for helping his swing and approach at the plate but given Byrd's shape and being twice whistled for PEDs, I'd be surprised if some of that help he shared with Turner wasn't chemical. I suspect the 5.1% BB rate had a lot to do with it. Someone got him to be more patient and wait for his pitch and drive it, because his BB% go up slightly but his ISO is what really drove the increase. 2014 had a lot of luck too, .400 BABIP, but significant power bump was the big thing. The Mets weren't getting through to him, but someone with the Dodgers did. happens. Ultimately maybe they should've fired Hudgens in the offseason and not May, and kept Turner, but hey.

Following Twitter feeds, I got the idea that Turner and Hudgey were BFFs, and that Leprechaun Boy swears by Uncle Dave's methods.

[Centerfield]

Oh no, Familia is pitching in the post-season.

This is not going to end well.

[Zvon]

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[Centerfield]

I love it. Lol

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[MFS62]

I'm sorry.
I haven't had anything bad to say about Derek Jeter for a while, and that has disappointed you.
So I'll let the best shortstop the Yankees have ever had (but Jeter never let him show it) do it for me.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/alex-rodriguez-nearly-laughed-when-pete-rose-complimented-derek-jeter-214955032.html

And I promise to be more diligent in the future.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

LA Dodgers at Chi. Cubs
When: 8:00 PM ET, Saturday, October 22, 2016
Where: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois
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The Los Angeles Dodgers made the decision to save ace Clayton Kershaw for Game 6 instead of asking him to throw again on short rest in Game 5, and now they need him to save their season. Kershaw will take the mound on Saturday at Wrigley Field and try to prevent the host Chicago Cubs from clinching their first trip to the World Series since 1945.

The Cubs were shut out in Games 2 and 3 to fall behind 2-1 in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series but exploded for 18 runs in the next two contests behind a two-run homer in each game from Addison Russell and four RBIs apiece from Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez to take the series lead. "I think anybody in our lineup can turn the game our way," Baez told reporters. "When (Rizzo) and (Russell) didn't start hot, everybody was asking about them. And there you have it. They're both hot now. And we scored a lot of runs for our pitchers." Los Angeles now faces the task of winning two straight games on the road but is set up with its best two pitchers in Kershaw and Rich Hill in a potential Game 7. "We're down a game, but we've won on the road before," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters. "We've won two games before. And I think that for us it's an isolated focus on Game 6. We get a rested (Kershaw). So with that, we feel good. After we get through Game 6, we'll focus on Game 7. But I think our confidence hasn't wavered."

TV: 8 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1

PITCHING MATCHUP: Dodgers LH Clayton Kershaw (2-0, 3.72 ERA) vs. Cubs RH Kyle Hendricks (0-1, 3.00)

Kershaw allowed two hits in seven scoreless innings to earn the win in Game 2 at Wrigley Field after earning the save in the finale of the NLDS at Washington three days earlier. The former MVP is just 4-6 with a 4.39 ERA in his postseason career and has never won two games in the same series. "There's so much information," Kershaw told reporters. "They know every pitch that I throw and every count and every situation. So it's just a matter of not really focusing on that and just trying to compete every single pitch and execute every single pitch."

Hendricks allowed one run on three hits and four walks in 5 1/3 innings while going up against Kershaw in Game 2 and ended up with the loss in a 1-0 final. The regular-season ERA champion at 2.13, Hendricks took a liner off the forearm in his NLDS start but was not bothered by any lingering pain in Game 2. "After I had that last start against the Dodgers, now I know everything's healthy, I was able to go through my throwing program uninhibited basically," Hendricks told reporters. "Not having to go in the training room and check in on it all the time. So it's a hundred percent, and it's not in the back of your mind anymore at least."

WALK-OFFS:
1. Dodgers 3B Justin Turner has reached base safely in 15 straight postseason games.
2. Chicago RF Jason Heyward is batting .071 in the postseason, including 1-for-16 in the NLCS.
3. Los Angeles committed five errors, leading to five unearned runs, in the last two games.

[Frayed Knot]

So will they still have to play the blues in Chicago when baseball season rolls around?



I mean, they can't blow this one, can they?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

geez, taking him out. I hope this blows up their faces.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, one out in the 8th but after just 2 hits and with less than 6 average innings worth of pitches.
And it's not like Chapman has been lights-out recently.


oe: although 2-pitch GiDPs shirley help

[Fman99]

Yep, was thinking that too. Worked out this time.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm just rooting against Buttley.

[Frayed Knot]

Utley, who's getting PH'd for as I type, is 3-for-28 in the post-season this year ... one year too late.

[Fman99]

Cool. 71 years is a long time to wait for a pennant.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Let's go Tribe!

[Guest themetfairy]

Fuck You Buttley!

[Frayed Knot]

Wait, Mattingly wants to challenge that last play at 1st

[Frayed Knot]

I didn't know that they were even allowed to play post-season games in 2:36 these days!!

Just leaves more drinking time if you're a Cubs fan.