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IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

G-Fafif Oct 03 2019 07:58 PM

Fuck this matchup, too.

LWFS Oct 03 2019 08:08 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Fun game: root, root, root 'gainst the home team. That way, you get uncomfortable quiet at worst, with a greater-than-zero chance for eat-their-own-booing!

bmfc1 Oct 03 2019 08:41 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Ex-Mets on current playoff teams: https://github.com/devinbrady/mlb-former-teams/blob/master/non_playoff_teams/NYM.txt

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 03 2019 09:25 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Washington doesn't look like they can hang with these Dodgers

MFS62 Oct 04 2019 05:04 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Washington doesn't look like they can hang with these Dodgers Then how about the guillotine for both teams? Later

bmfc1 Oct 04 2019 06:31 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Washington doesn't look like they can hang with these Dodgers Hanging's too good for 'em. I don't get the Mets fans who are rooting for WSH. Go Dodgers! Let Larry King and Mary Hart rejoice. WSH needs to go away fast.

G-Fafif Oct 04 2019 06:00 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Bryce Harper has an excellent chance to be watching this game.

Fman99 Oct 04 2019 06:19 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Hate all four remaining NL teams, maybe my four most hated NL opponents, with all apologies to Cubs and Phillies fans.

Gwreck Oct 04 2019 10:40 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Washington using Scherzer to close the game with a 2 run lead in the eighth. He's supposed to start Game 3 on Sunday.

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 04 2019 11:11 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Reminiscent of the Dbaggs leaning on Schilling and Johnson. Dodgers have them loaded, down 4-2, 2 out in the 9th

bmfc1 Oct 05 2019 10:39 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

That was good managing (I wonder if Mickey would have done that--we'll never know). Scherzer hasn't been as good as usual of late and he's facing soon-to-be Cy Young Award runner-up Ryu in Game 3 so last night was a must-win game. Kershaw came out flat and WSH took advantage which means at least 3 more days of my seeing the Walgreen's symbol at Giant (supermarket) and elsewhere.

Frayed Knot Oct 05 2019 01:12 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Reminiscent of the Dbaggs leaning on Schilling and Johnson. Yeah, but even Arizona didn't rely this heavily on their duo until they could smell the WS. In this case, it's just three games into what could be as many as 20 in total and already they've called on Scherzenburg twice each in a four day span. Now I suppose one could argue that simply getting into the second round IS the equivalent of their World Series given their rough October history so it makes some sense from their POV.

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 05 2019 01:28 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Yeah I don't think they stood a chance going down 2-0 so as long as it worked you may as well applaud them for trying it. At some point they may regret it but that point might never come otherwise.

Frayed Knot Oct 05 2019 01:58 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

With their pen they don't have great other choices. So far, in the WC game plus the first two w/the Dodgers, their non-Scherzer/Strasburg pen has given up 5 runs on 7 hits plus 4 walks in 5 innings, and that includes the two scoreless they got from Daniel Hudson although it's not like he's be totally clean either (2 IP, 2 H, 2 BB). Rainey/Rodney/Strickland/Doolittle, otoh, have combined to allow 5 runs and 7 baserunners in 3 innings. Scherzer/Strasburg out of the pen = 4 IP, 0 Runs, 2 Hits, 7 K They might burn them out by next week, but they'll likely be thrilled just to see next week.

G-Fafif Oct 06 2019 08:18 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Dodgers' irritating Dodgerness coming in handy for a change.

kcmets Oct 06 2019 08:54 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

The TBS on-screen-fake 'strike zone' is the the best. You can hardly see it. Let's go Dodgers!

Frayed Knot Oct 07 2019 03:42 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Howie Kendrick is a professional hitter. But as an all-around ballplayer he's ... a professional hitter. In Game 3 he added a bone-headed base-running blunder to take them out of a potentially big inning, which goes along nicely with his big error earlier in the series. After Russell Martin hit that 2R HR to make it 10-4 you knew this one was all over. No way the Nats were coming back from a six-run deficit in the 9th.

bmfc1 Oct 07 2019 05:40 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

"No way the Nats were coming back from a six-run deficit in the 9th." True, because Sewald and Diaz were not available.

Frayed Knot Oct 07 2019 06:42 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Dave Roberts do like switching pitchers, don't he? Still a ways to go in this one [5-1 Nats in the 5th] but the HEAVILY favored Dodgers are possibly looking at having to get through a very hot Steven Strasburg in order not to get bounced in the 1st round during a season where nothing else but WINNING the World Series is considered acceptable.

Gwreck Oct 07 2019 09:44 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

And because of that, even as much as we hate the Nationals, bouncing the Dodgers early is really not a bad thing at all. With nothing but bad NL options, having the Cardinals (?) lose in the World Series (to Tampa, Houston, or Minnesota) is, I guess, the best possible outcome.

bmfc1 Oct 08 2019 05:32 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

The Dodgers look tight and Roberts is managing scared. For this Mets fan in DC, this could be a nightmare.

HahnSolo Oct 08 2019 06:41 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

If three of the final four teams left turn out to be the Yanks, Braves, and Nats, I might just shut off baseball until next year.

Frayed Knot Oct 08 2019 01:05 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Roberts seems to be managing, at least on the pitching side, the same way he did last year: very quick hook with the starters and one inning (if that) at a time for the relievers regardless of how well they did or are doing. On the hitting side he's not sitting his supposedly best hitters in platoon match-ups the way he did last year, but he hasn't been doing that all year anyway. Doesn't help that the Dodgers bats couldn't even dent Scherzer enough -- after threatening to in both the 1st & 2nd innings - to get into the pen. Strasburg vs Buehler; in LA; 8:37 (5:37 local time) Wednesday night. One thought from Game 4: Ryan Zimmerman may be about 1/3 the player he once was and this is quite possibly his last year as a Nat and maybe even as a ML'er. But he's always been good at turning around high fastballs and he can apparently still do it. That 3R bomb he hit, which essentially blew open the game, was 97 mph and right about nose high. That's a tough pitch to "get on top of" (as the hitters say) but he did.

bmfc1 Oct 08 2019 03:24 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

That was the same fat pitch that he hit off Diaz in "that" game.

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2019 08:09 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Strasburg is not as off as Verlander was yesterday, but this whole 'short rest' thing isn't going well so far - although he just turned a 1-2-3 4th Could you imagine if this game had had the 10-run 1st inning like they had in Atlanta? 2/3 of the crowd would have missed it.

Fman99 Oct 09 2019 08:10 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

My TV is too big for me to have to look at slo-mo close ups of a 107 year old Tommy LaSorda.

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2019 09:37 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Well THAT (Kershaw) didn't work out too well.

bmfc1 Oct 09 2019 09:39 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

But you knew it would happen. Kershaw isn't great anymore but Roberts used him like he was still the Cy Young Winner. Roberts is Mickey without a mustache.

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2019 09:44 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 09 2019 09:47 PM

Except that with two of the first three hitters he was due to face being LHBs -- Eaton as the last out of the 7th and then Soto with Rendon in between -- it wasn't completely without logic. Not sure if he's got a better lefty in the pen. The other problem is that it's not like Kenley Jansen is automatic these days either. Now he probably would have hung with Clayton past just those guys so maybe something was inevitable the longer he pitched, but you don't expect two shots like that on back to back pitches.

bmfc1 Oct 09 2019 09:46 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Counter: Kershaw sucks and he isn't a reliever. Rendon and Soto clobber both lefties and righties so it was overthinking but hey, Kershaw won the Cy Young a few years ago.

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2019 10:04 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Middle of the order again for the Nats if this goes to the 10th, so the Dodgers might want to think about ending it now!!!!

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2019 10:07 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 09 2019 10:10 PM

Has Seager made contact in this series? oe: 3 for 20 w/8 Ks

bmfc1 Oct 09 2019 10:08 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Frayed Knot wrote: Has Seager made contact in this series? He's awful.

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2019 10:12 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

After the single, Dave Roberts should have put himself in to pinch-run so he could steal 2nd.

bmfc1 Oct 09 2019 10:21 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

It's not "off the wall" when it gets stuck on the wall.

LWFS Oct 09 2019 10:24 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Aaaaaaaaaand now I'm somehow a Cards fan.

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 09 2019 10:25 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

OMG

bmfc1 Oct 09 2019 10:26 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Good thing that Roberts saved Kenley Jansen.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 09 2019 10:28 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Hey! Look at that! The wild card team is about to eliminate the league's best team. A team that won 13 more games than the wild card team did during the season. A team that was closer to 110 wins than 100. That's umpossible.

Fman99 Oct 10 2019 04:37 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Stupid managing. Hey, here's a thought. You won 106 games using a bullpen. Let those guys pitch. Beyond dumb.

bmfc1 Oct 10 2019 05:38 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 10 2019 05:46 AM

Passan destroys Roberts: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27810837/dave-roberts-own-dodgers-disaster Even Tom Boswell was able to rise from his usual position, on his knees in front of GM Rizzo, to acknowledge Dave Roberts' mistakes contributing to his team's win: [BLOCKQUOTE]This is now the FIFTH Dodgers postseason that has ended with Kershaw's fingerprints on the weapon found next to the body. And his manager not only let it happen, he deliberately tempted fate by pointing out that staying with Kershaw “was not analytics” but going with “the man.” As soon as Roberts hooked Kershaw, and went back to analytics and his normal bullpen usage, the next five Nats struck out. It says here: No Kershaw, no Nats in NLCS. Thanks, big guy.[/BLOCKQUOTE] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/howie-kendrick-keeps-the-party-going-and-the-nats-are-dancing-into-the-nlcs/2019/10/10/a6d787ac-ea13-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html

MFS62 Oct 10 2019 05:46 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

I guess Howie made up for the three errors he made in the series. Every time LA gets eliminated for the year, a flower grows. Later

41Forever Oct 10 2019 06:16 AM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

Gee, I wonder if we should add Roberts to our list of available managers to consider. He might get the ax for this debacle.

bmfc1 Oct 10 2019 12:27 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 10 2019 03:17 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: Has Seager made contact in this series? oe: 3 for 20 w/8 Ks From the "True Blue" blog: [BLOCKQUOTE]Cody Bellinger went 4-for-19 with a double and seven strikeouts. Corey Seager was 3-for-20 with a double and eight strikeouts. And it is hard to imagine anyone with a worst playoff series than A.J. Pollock, he was 0-for-13 with 11 strikeouts.[/BLOCKQUOTE] Credit, of course, goes to the WSH pitchers but these are 3 established players, including a superstar, and they stunk up the joint. Not as badly as Kershaw, Kelly and Dave Roberts but close.

Centerfield Oct 10 2019 02:06 PM Re: IST 2019: NLDS — DC Asdrubals vs LA Turners

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=24141 time=1570681692 user_id=68] Hey! Look at that! The wild card team is about to eliminate the league's best team. A team that won 13 more games than the wild card team did during the season. A team that was closer to 110 wins than 100. That's umpossible.

I don't know if you do this on purpose to rile people up or if you really forget someone's point. My post said it's rare that an 80 something win Wild Card team wins the World Series. There was only one such team this year, and they did not win the World Series.