2016 postseason game thread

Ranma · Post #101 » by **Ranma** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:18 am

Glad to see A-Gon finally come through after our criticisms of him. Hopefully, he'll continue to come up big for the rest of the postseason. He mentioned in the postgame interview that he was looking to be more aggressive.

Old man Utley came up with the game-winner, so he was another veteran presence who made a difference today. Kershaw was pitching well on short rest but it's clear that he doesn't have the stamina to maintain that level of dominance for very long. Jansen was locked in. Even Ethier came up big with a clutch pinch in making me eat a bit of my own words in criticizing Roberts for putting him on the postseason roster. Grateful for the win, but like in Game 2, we somehow made it harder on ourselves.

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Ranma · Post #102 » by **Ranma** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:21 am

In addition to Joc's flippant approach on that double in the 5th inning--which thankfully scored a run for us--I'm quite annoyed with the umpiring in this series. I missed much of the game today, but I'm seeing quite a lot of citations of how bad the strike-zone is being called against us. That still doesn't excuse our offensive impotence overall but it's not something that should be happening in a playoff game nevermind multiple games. Getting back to Joc, there's no place for approach in the regular season, so it sure isn't going to fly in the postseason. Play like a pro instead of going bush league, Pederson.

Seager continues to struggle going 0-5 with a .167 batting average thus far. Some of his swings have been bad for someone of his skill level. He's noted for having a calm demeanor, but I'm concerned the magnitude of playoff elimination might be undermining his normal approach to the the game. His questionable fielding of the ball in the 7th led to Kershaw's departure and our coughing up the 3-run lead. Rook needs to shake himself out of this funk.

I'm also disappointed that we didn't go with Urias for Game 5. I know he's not Fernando, I like his chances better than Hill on short rest. I get why Dave made such a call. Hill's curveballs are the most dangerous weapon we have against the Nationals but will he be able to maintain their effectiveness given the shortened recovery time. We were beat because of a hanging curveball out over the plate in his last outing, so I shudder to think what would happen if he can't throw it effectively in the do-or-die situation.

Urias is fresh and has an aptitude for not being affected by the big moment. Yeah, he's inexperienced and not quite mature physically, but having Hill at the ready to give a different look to the batters coming out of the pen would have been my preferred course of action, especially since he's more effective as a starter than as a reliever. If Hill were to falter early, we'd compound the problem by going to Urias in such a scenario while also taxing our bullpen.

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Neddy · Post #103 » by **Neddy** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:58 am

lol the giants blew a 3 run lead at the top of the 9th, now down a run!!!

Ranma · Post #104 » by **Ranma** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:22 am

I made a mistake in faulting Seager's fielding for the 7th-inning meltdown that could have cost us the series. As it turns out, it was Dave Roberts' questionable use of the bullpen that almost did us in this time. Plus, the Dodgers are apparently aware of how bad the umpiring has been. I hope we lodge an official protest against this crew.

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Quake Griffin · Post #105 » by **Quake Griffin** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:29 am

YES!!!!!!11111

:rockon:

Quake Griffin · Post #106 » by **Quake Griffin** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:31 am

Neddy wrote:lol the giants blew a 3 run lead at the top of the 9th, now down a run!!!

YES!!!!!!!

:clap:

Neddy · Post #107 » by **Neddy** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:40 am

Ranma wrote:I made a mistake in faulting Seager's fielding for the 7th-inning meltdown that could have cost us the series. As it turns out, it was Dave Roberts' questionable use of the bullpen that almost did us in this time. Plus, the Dodgers are apparently aware of how bad the umpiring has been. I hope we lodge an official protest against this crew.

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you should have heard the chant of "ruling sucks" from the moment Puig was called swinging strike out on a bogus call to the beginning of the top of the 8th. when a Nats player did exactly the same quarter swing and did not get called a swinging strike like Puig, the fans in the stands booed the **** out of the ump and a few small yelling of "F you" could be heard on live telecast. it was awesome, a classic LA fan base with blue collar take no prisoners type of second and upper deck fans pulling for our team. it appeared even a few of the field level corporate asshats were getting involved with the chanting.

Quake Griffin · Post #108 » by **Quake Griffin** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:19 pm

Ranma wrote:I made a mistake in faulting Seager's fielding for the 7th-inning meltdown that could have cost us the series. As it turns out, it was Dave Roberts' questionable use of the bullpen that almost did us in this time. Plus, the Dodgers are apparently aware of how bad the umpiring has been. I hope we lodge an official protest against this crew.

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I didn't want Shaw coming out for the 7th anyway. Then he went to Baez and my mind went back to the other times Shaw wet the bed or didnt really wet it but the stat sheet says he did.

Game 1 2014 NLDS:
Kershaw Blows up in the 7th.
Who comes in right after and gives up a never ending HR to Matt Holliday.

Game 1 2015 NLDS:
Kershaw leaves the Game 6.2 IP 1 ER...bags juiced because Donnie should have pulled him before Granderson came to the plate any way as Grandy had creamed his stuff twice.

Who gives up the hit to David Wright....you guessed it...Baez.

Some people are not ready for big/ high leverage moments. I have NO FEAR of letting Baez start a clean inning but he isn't good at holding runners.

Blanton should have seen Werth. Dayton should have seen Murphy....Just lmao at Avilan because he K'd Murphy the day before.

I'm not gonna relax on Seager. Kershaw got that ground ball. Make the play...I don't care how difficult it is. You're a good SS. Make the play. If he was Hanley, I'd just get pissed that our FO has a POS at SS.
More over, he's our MVP and potentially an MVP candidate...I need some more production out of him...some hits...some walks...something...wtf at only 3 hits.

Quake Griffin · Post #109 » by **Quake Griffin** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:21 pm

Rich Hill.

Give us 5 IP.
2 ER

I think we can handle the rest from there.
I'll even settle for 4 IP and 2 ER.

The day off has our back. Julio should be ready to go and so should the rest of the pen.

P.S.
Anybody concerned about Dave's propensity to burn the entire pen? We're pretty lucky we havent went extras yet.
I think this philosophy would be better if we carried another pitcher.

Neddy · Post #110 » by **Neddy** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:48 am

Quake Griffin wrote:Rich Hill.

Give us 5 IP.
2 ER

I think we can handle the rest from there.
I'll even settle for 4 IP and 2 ER.

The day off has our back. Julio should be ready to go and so should the rest of the pen.

P.S.
Anybody concerned about Dave's propensity to burn the entire pen? We're pretty lucky we havent went extras yet.
I think this philosophy would be better if we carried another pitcher.

I dunno. this one is going to be wild. Rich Hill has never pitched on a 3 day rest in his career. this could be bad, but he also did not go very deep and his pitch count was relatively moderate in his last start. maybe he could finally channel his inner peace with being slightly fatiqued and give us the real RIch Hill of the regular season rather than jacked up 36 year old acting like a 17 year old on a mound for a high school state championship game.

as for the PS, I sure hope we do resuffle the roster from pitchers to position players for the NLCS if we win tomorrow. we probably should carry 12 pitchers as the next series may require 4 starters plus a long man. but for tomorrow, I will just quote Leo Durocher, our former manager from Brooklyn days.

"you dont save pitchers for tomorrow, tomorrow might rain"

for tomorrow, this is the golden truth.

Quake Griffin · Post #111 » by **Quake Griffin** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:08 pm

OMFG I'm nervous as ****.

GTFO Quake. It's just a damn game!!!!

Neddy · Post #112 » by **Neddy** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:45 am

man I am so glad that the first inning comebacker didn't injure Hill but it's a 3-0 count against Zimmerman with Murphy on second with one out in the second inning.

Neddy · Post #113 » by **Neddy** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:48 am

goddamn it. Puig would have thrown Murphy out at home by a mile.... smh.

Neddy · Post #114 » by **Neddy** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:53 am

okay, 2 innings and 1 earned run. we are still okay, we just need to hit the damn ball a few times

Ranma · Post #115 » by **Ranma** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:55 am

Why am I not surprised that we already gave up a run. Now runners at 3B and 1B with only 1 out? The umpire's strike zone still sucks and, by the way, Puig would have got Murphy at home with a throw from RF. Yeah, I know Scherzer is a right-hander but Puig's defense in RF is clearly better than Reddick's while it's questionable if Reddick's bat is better than Puig's.

Also, now we're in a position where we'll use Urias out of the bullpen, which is not his strong suit. Like I've said before, it would have been better for Urias to prepare himself as the starter of this game with Hill coming in to back him up. Roberts going backwards puts us in a tougher position.

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Neddy · Post #116 » by **Neddy** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:03 am

what the **** is up with the strike zone

Ranma · Post #117 » by **Ranma** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:10 am

The Nationals are running wild on Hill while Urias would have done a better job of keeping runners on base given his lethal pick-off moves.

Ranma · Post #118 » by **Ranma** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:17 am

So we don't quite get 3 innings to start from Hill, who wasn't dealing today, but it's not his fault. Between Roberts' choice of him on short rest over Urias and the horrible umpiring, he really wasn't set up to come up big for us. Blanton is in now to try to get the final out in the 3rd inning.

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Neddy · Post #119 » by **Neddy** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:20 am

smart plays by Grandal holding on to the ball and to not give in to Rendon with that pitch count by Joe.

now damn it go hit some baseballs far, blue!

Neddy · Post #120 » by **Neddy** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:23 am

Chad Moriyama is right, Reddick sucks. I don't think the end result so far would have been much different if we never made this damn trade, and Bud Norris was the third starter with Maeda getting bumped to second. Kershaw's starts are the only two games we won anyway.