World Series Game 3 - Toronto at LA - The Comebackening

[Madvillainy2004]

Bichette coming back without being able to stay in games or run hard was a mistake. It's clear management knew that he was 60-70% at best. That's just not enough when the rest of the team was playing so well without him.

Well considering he's probably gonna be DH'ing the next two games (and is by far our best option to do so), I think we'll take him at this point

He hit the go ahead double lol he did just fine and considering we saw a games worth of at bats from IKF i think we can see why.

[Randle McMurphy]

The only one I didn't really like was pulling Barger. Hard to complain about the others.

He's been making that exact move for Barger with Straw all season long and nobody ever complained about it before the 18 inning game

I wonder why

Probably because it wasn't a tie game in the World Series with the lineup already down Springer and Bo.

But managing is tough. I get it. I'm just saying that's the only move I didn't like at the time.

And if Straw scores on a single in that spot in the 8th and we go on to win by one, he's considered a genius

It's still a pretty obvious pinch run decision, just not as obvious as the Bichette and Kirk ones

[mdenny]

Too bad this board wasn't real life. Because all the temper tantrum kids wouldn't be welcome to the celebration.

As is the way social media is.....these ppl get to celebrate with everyone in the city when we win and act like little brats on social media when we lose.

You don't get to do that in a pub or any other real life social setting. Only on a message board.

Says the big man who DM's people saying "I bet I have a higher education that you".

What was the context of that dm? What wss i responding to?

[dafan590]

we are getting swept in LA if springer is done for the reason.

[Randle McMurphy]

Bichette coming back without being able to stay in games or run hard was a mistake. It's clear management knew that he was 60-70% at best. That's just not enough when the rest of the team was playing so well without him.

Well considering he's probably gonna be DH'ing the next two games (and is by far our best option to do so), I think we'll take him at this point

He hit the go ahead double lol he did just fine and considering we saw a games worth of at bats from IKF i think we can see why.

IKF was an absolute disaster tonight

That double clutch throw choke thing was incredible

Can we please just play Davis at 2B??

[Boogie!]

Guys I have no idea why everyone is still debating management decisions. We had so many opportunities to capitalize with risp and we didn’t. Not to mention Guerrero has absolutely disappeared this series. No RBI’s, all singles and soft contact except for the one he crushed off Yamamoto.

[JaysRule15]

Schneider lost us this. Don't even blame Little.

Who did you want him to put in?

Going Straw for Barger. Stupidest decision made for no reason.

Pitching to Ohtani and letting him tie the game and then walking him afterwards.

All dumb decisions.

[brwnman]

Springer is most definitely done. You can’t plan for an 18 inning game. Jays were short on resources in this game with their injuries, can’t blame Schneider. It sucks the Jays had no lineup, but they were doing whatever they can do win. 10 innings by the bullpen, no runs.

If you really need someone to blame and why this game went so long, blame Varsho throwing his bat after he heard the strike call. Confused Bo, and cost the Jays two runs there and the W.

[aminiaturebuddha]

He's been making that exact move for Barger with Straw all season long and nobody ever complained about it before the 18 inning game

I wonder why

Probably because it wasn't a tie game in the World Series with the lineup already down Springer and Bo.

But managing is tough. I get it. I'm just saying that's the only move I didn't like at the time.

And if Straw scores on a single in that spot in the 8th and we go on to win by one, he's considered a genius

It's still a pretty obvious pinch run decision, just not as obvious as the Bichette and Kirk ones

I'm not sure it was that obvious. It was a tough call. The Dodgers manager also had a bunch of chances to use pinch runners and didn't. He opted to keep his big bats in the lineup and it paid off for him. Sure, it could have gone the other way, But let's not pretend this was the only likely decision Schneider could have made there.

[LoveMyRaps]

Schneider lost us this. Don't even blame Little.

Ya it’s 90% on Schneider

Heineman honestly isn’t even that much faster than Kirk. Like come on man… what are we doing here

[Randle McMurphy]

Guys I have no idea why everyone is still debating management decisions. We had so many opportunities to capitalize with risp and we didn’t. Not to mention Guerrero has absolutely disappeared this series. No RBI’s, all singles and soft contact except for the one he crushed off Yamamoto.

Yeah only thing I questioned all game was Dominguez vs LHBs but Shohei could have done that to anybody

We had plenty of chances and blew all of them

[LoveMyRaps]

Ump was horrific as well. Hope they revoke his license to oversee postseason games.

[JaysRule15]

He's been making that exact move for Barger with Straw all season long and nobody ever complained about it before the 18 inning game

I wonder why

Probably because it wasn't a tie game in the World Series with the lineup already down Springer and Bo.

But managing is tough. I get it. I'm just saying that's the only move I didn't like at the time.

And if Straw scores on a single in that spot in the 8th and we go on to win by one, he's considered a genius

It's still a pretty obvious pinch run decision, just not as obvious as the Bichette and Kirk ones

Looking at statcast, Barger and Straw have pretty similar speeds with Straw having a very slight edge. It was a dumb move especially with us missing some players already.

[brwnman]

Guys I have no idea why everyone is still debating management decisions. We had so many opportunities to capitalize with risp and we didn’t. Not to mention Guerrero has absolutely disappeared this series. No RBI’s, all singles and soft contact except for the one he crushed off Yamamoto.

5/15 with 3 walks and only 1 strikeout. Guerrero is just fine.

[Madvillainy2004]

He's been making that exact move for Barger with Straw all season long and nobody ever complained about it before the 18 inning game

I wonder why

Probably because it wasn't a tie game in the World Series with the lineup already down Springer and Bo.

But managing is tough. I get it. I'm just saying that's the only move I didn't like at the time.

And if Straw scores on a single in that spot in the 8th and we go on to win by one, he's considered a genius

It's still a pretty obvious pinch run decision, just not as obvious as the Bichette and Kirk ones

People complaining about the Kirk and Bo pinch runners are on something man. You cant manage for extra innings until it happens. Considering both teams didnt score for literally 3.5 hrs it was a good gamble to take with a 90th percentile speed guy in Straw vs 53rd percentile in Barger. Playing for 1 run was the right move.

[Randle McMurphy]

Schneider lost us this. Don't even blame Little.

Who did you want him to put in?

Going Straw for Barger. Stupidest decision made for no reason.

Pitching to Ohtani and letting him tie the game and then walking him afterwards.

All dumb decisions.

Nothing wrong with Straw for Barger whatsoever, he's literally made that exact move all season and you/nor anyone else said a word

[LoveMyRaps]

Schneider really fielded the Buffalo bisons against one of the greatest teams in baseball history.

This brother thought it was spring training with his constants subs.

[RalphWiggum]

Well considering he's probably gonna be DH'ing the next two games (and is by far our best option to do so), I think we'll take him at this point

He hit the go ahead double lol he did just fine and considering we saw a games worth of at bats from IKF i think we can see why.

IKF was an absolute disaster tonight

That double clutch throw choke thing was incredible

Can we please just play Davis at 2B??

That's a completely different argument and I'll never understand why it even has to be made. If IKF were a vacuum or was a legit threat to go deep I could sorta get going with him but he's an average 2nd baseman that can't even drive a ball to a power ally.

[brwnman]

Probably because it wasn't a tie game in the World Series with the lineup already down Springer and Bo.

But managing is tough. I get it. I'm just saying that's the only move I didn't like at the time.

And if Straw scores on a single in that spot in the 8th and we go on to win by one, he's considered a genius

It's still a pretty obvious pinch run decision, just not as obvious as the Bichette and Kirk ones

I'm not sure it was that obvious. It was a tough call. The Dodgers manager also had a bunch of chances to use pinch runners and didn't. He opted to keep his big bats in the lineup and it paid off for him. Sure, it could have gone the other way, But let's not pretend this was the only likely decision Schneider could have made there.

Benefit of being the home team. Schneider didn’t have that advantage this game.

[JaysRule15]

Guys I have no idea why everyone is still debating management decisions. We had so many opportunities to capitalize with risp and we didn’t. Not to mention Guerrero has absolutely disappeared this series. No RBI’s, all singles and soft contact except for the one he crushed off Yamamoto.

Vlad was getting trash pitches to hit. They were basically pitching around him.