4:30 p.m. on TBS
Tanner Roark
vs
Jake Arrieta
I don't have high hopes for the Nationals winning this series. I picked the Cubs though, so that's good.
4:30 p.m. on TBS
Tanner Roark
vs
Jake Arrieta
I don't have high hopes for the Nationals winning this series. I picked the Cubs though, so that's good.
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Tanner Roark is totally the pitcher I'd want out on the mound to save the season.
Wait, it's 2017, not 2016? Oh, uh. Nevermind.
Rainout. Doubt Roark still starts game 4 now.
Baker says he still will, as Strasburg is sick and threw his bullpen today
The weather giveth, the flu taketh away.
Resurrecting this post to cover this game plus Game 5 of the ALDS.
Arrieta v Strasburg now and Sabathia v Kluber tonight. This should be fun.
Two swinging strikeouts for Strasburg in the first. Must be a-okay.
He was.
A friend of mine and I were discussing the merits of CC's career RE: Hall of Fame chances.
I think at this point, CC's a borderline for me, probably falling on the "no, but I could be convinced" side.
JAWS puts him at 68th, between Saberhagen and Stieb. His black ink is lacking, but his gray ink is good enough.
I sort of feel the same way about Saberhagen and Stieb.
The lack of black ink is really where I'm at with the whole thing.
I assume he'll be voted in, and that won't bother me a bit. I just can't drum up a whole lot of support for it, myself.
Fangraphs puts him at 37th, which, admittedly, makes a 'no' vote seem kind of ridiculous.
It seems like it is a lot harder these days to get into the Hall as a starting pitcher. Probably because writers have a hard time considering historical context and a lot of them grew up in an era when there were a bunch of pitchers winning 300 games. B-Ref's Hall Monitor has CC at 112. A likely HoF is at 100, so that's probably his best support right there. If he sticks around and gets to 250 wins, that will probably help a lot.
The 300 win thing really has to go away, obviously. Looking over the list, who even has the slightest chance at it? Kershaw wins his starts at an insane rate, and he's not even halfway there after 10 years. If Verlander keeps his career rate of 14.4 wins going, and he pitches until he's 41, I guess he'd have a shot.
2846 strikeouts in his career. He might reach 3000 next year. Only one pitcher with at least 3000 isn't in the Hall, and he should be.
And he's almost as unlikable as Captain Cheeseburger!
With Arrietta's pitch count so high already it will be interesting to see what Maddon does. Too much bullpen today would be bad for a game 5 too.
I see that Strasburg started the game and is still pitching in the seventh inning. I wasn't aware that playoff rules allowed this.
LESTER PICKED OFF A RUNNER! HOLY COWS
GRAND SLAM!!!!
SALAMI!
Not that I mind, but that fence guard may have created that HR.
Is it more accurate to say since drunk guy who fell over the wall created that hr?
Not listening but I bet that really silenced Wrigley.
Yes!! MICHAEL A. TAYLOR!!
I wasn't even aware that Ryan Madson was still pitching, but it looks like he actually had a pretty good season.
Clearly Maddon brought in Duensing too late
Listening to the Clevelanders broadcast is kind of a delight. As described, "the big guys are going to have to be stars, they are stars, but they'll have to shine tonight". Man, the midwest is the bestwest.
I take it all back as they just verbally went down on Arron Judge. Ugh.
Ellsbury with a free base by
cheatinginterfering with the catcher.Since I don't have the cables, what actually happened there?
His bat nicked Pérez's glove when fouling off a pitch.
When HPR was catching this summer, I told him about that, and he didn't believe me at first.
"It's you're responsibility as catcher to not be close enough to the batter for that to happen." or something.
I think it was the first time I understood it, when he'd basically have his glove in the strike zone over the plate.
Bottom of the second and bunting on CC has been brought up. It happened after Encarnación struck out. While maybe he should have choked up a bit at 0-2, bunting might not be the best strategy for most of the players here.
Especially bunting it in the air.
Lot easier to get strikeouts when balls a few inches above and out of the zone get called strikes.
NOOOOO
BUTTS
I hate the yankees.
It's not good to be the home team tonight.
Remember, the Yankees led in the 8th inning of Game 2. They really have been the better team in this series thus far, which I truly hate.
It's going to destroy a lot of brackets here.
Hrbek sized divot
What's amazing about this series is the Yankees doing so well offensively with Judge being completely lost at the plate.
A baserunner! A good idea to do to score.
So much for that.
The "strike zone" tonight is fluid, yeah?
It's definitely a bit big. But it's been called large for both.
Thanks. Wasn't sure if I was seeing it right.
What is happening here!?!
Two baserunners! In one inning and at the same time!
Spoken like a true Twins fan.
on the board!
I don't feel great about rooting for the 'landers, but go get em boys.
This. I still want them to lose, I just want the Yankees to lose first.
Okay guys, sourdough pizza crust is great idea. Pouring rain when you normally grill is not a great idea. Making personal sized pizzas in scalding hot cast iron pans is great idea. Making your oven really, really, really hot when it's still really, really, really hot outside is not a great idea. (the pizza is great, the hot house ... well, at least I have pizza).
Should have put a roof over [the grill].
2017 Postseason Lindor < 2017 Regular season Lindor
Calling it now: Chapman blows it, Yanks lose, he goes on a bender, gets caught on tape assaulting Harvey Weinstein, and retaliates by releasing dirty photos of Jacque Jones.
At what point does he shoot up Ben Affleck's garage?
I was running out of time to post my call, so I rushed past the part where he appears on the resurrected TRL's "Very Special Grope Ben Affleck Episode".
Judge is 1 for 19 with 16 strikeouts this series. I don't think I'd give Gardner much to hit.
It's not going to matter much; Chapman is going to drunk drive an old bullpen car out to the mound before hitting LeBron James in the stands on 7 consecutive pitches.
Cleveland goes on to win, takes a strong position against protective netting when it is discussed at the winter meetings.
AS I WAS SAYING
What in the world was that throw?
Desperation
Effin' Yankmes.
Guess my predictions were a little off.
No, just delayed by one series.
I don't really know why LeBron is going to be attending an Astros game, though.
Actually, he might. As I recall, he's a Yankees fan.
Of course he is.
*eyeroll, selig shrug*