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LOL Geddy Lee Behind home plate during Springers home run
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So it all starts tonight - the Not-Brooklyn Bums versus the Toronto Red, White and Blue Jays!
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Great start to the Series last night!!! Now it's the Dodgers turn to feel the pain! Go Jays!
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Now THAT was a power explosion! Maybe my rooting for the Jays won't doom
them after all:) Trent King PS- cool screen capture of Geddy, I looked for him but failed. |
It was almost as if they knew what pitches the Dodgers were going to throw before they threw them.
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How come the Dodgers didn't do their stupid dance last night ?? :D
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Did the Dodgers merely trot a series of fireballers out to the mound? Do the Dodgers actually have any pitchers who can throw a knuckleball or even a screwball to upset the timing of opposing batters? Quote:
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Like every other team in the playoffs, the Dodgers are underestimating the Jays. The Jays are good 1-9 in the lineup with a bunch of moving parts. Dodgers relievers are awful too. Jays in 4.
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How demoralizing must it have been for the Jays to know that Yama got better the more times he faced their lineup. It's almost like he's picking up more intel on the batters than the other way around. Take that, Billy Beane!
Also, I think that for the Cy Young and perhaps also for the MVP, they should take the post season into account. Yamamoto is a big game hunter, while Skenes has never pitched a meaningful game. It should matter. |
Watched the new Netflix documentary last night about the collapse of the Expos. Great franchise and amazing fan base. Collapsed in large part because there wasn't sufficient money available from the owners to be competitive. The idea that people are complaining about Dodgers management is absurd. Don't have the money to field a competitive team? Sell the team to someone who does. Professional sports franchises in the US right now are among the most valuable assets in the world. If you can't play in that end of the pool . . . go home. No one has to buy a baseball team. The anger should be directed at 9-8 owners who don't even hide the fact that they aren't trying.
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Huh?! It's not up to the owners to try to do anything but make money. It's up to the coaching staff and players to try to win.
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Shohei. The f**king Dodgers get Shohei, and we pay more to get Juan Soto. It's not fair.
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Without Shohei Ohtani the Dodgers wouldn't be in the World Series right now. Without Juan Soto, the Mets might be?
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What really astounds me watching these games though is just how many times pitchers throw the ball into the dirt or even bounce it before the plate. What's even more astonishing is how often batters swing at those pitches. And these are the best players in the world theoretically....
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Wow, back-to-back inning-ending TOOTBLANs. Suzyn, you can't predict baseball!
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For all the ceaseless Ohtani talk, the series is tied and the Blue Jays have home field advantage.
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What a way to bounce back from last night.
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Great Series, nothing better than playoff baseball.
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Couldn't agree more, Phil! Well done by the Jays in Game 4. Trent King
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Nice to see a moment where Shohei Ohtani shows he’s human. But they don’t come very often.
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But the Blue Jays found a way to silence his bat yesterday. More off speed pitches perhaps? :confused: |
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When was the last time someone was walked intentionally 4 times in a row in a World Series game? If I'm Mookie Betts, I'm super offended. |
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Very high risk strategy to put a man on base to pitch to a future HOF player in a tie game, but then again Ohtani was in such a zone that you can see the reasoning.
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Your prediction is bang on so far. 👍 |
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Talk about bouncing back from a heartbreaking 18 inning loss!
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I really wanted to see Yamamoto in the 19rh inning of that game...
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Good for the Jays! It's all in front of them now, up to them to grab the title.
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I kind of wonder why Shohei Ohtani ended up swinging himself out of his batting helmet in the fifth. He must have been trying to kill the ball by swinging through his power alley. Perhaps a reminder from an old school coach (John McGraw?) might be in order "Hey, superstar, don't just swing for the fences. Hit the ball where it's pitched!"
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I feel sorry for a large % of board members who seemingly can't enjoy how great modern baseball is.
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Some of us though prefer more of the kind of on-base action that enabled the game to explode in popularity in the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Series MVP prediction
The battle of the 8 letter "Y" pitchers
I'll concede game 6 to Yamamoto. In game 7 Yesavage pitches the last 11 innings of the game no matter how long it is and the Jays win MVP Yesavage Unlikely perhaps, but so was Game 3 |
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Man not sure I would start Scherzer for this game.
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ohtani over glassnow...not shocking, but interesting.
glassnow only threw 3 pitches (for 3 outs) last night, so TOR has to deal with ohtani and glassnow. ooof. spending a brazillion dollars on your team has perks. |
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It would help if more guys than Ohtani used the "Ohtani rule"...or Ohtani managed to pitch enough the past few seasons to remember it. |
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The best teams win championships. ETA - Yamamoto can win WS MVP |
Rooting for the dodgers to win big!!!
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I'm surprised the Blue Jays didn't complain about Ohtani being given extra time to warm up in the first inning. The same rules should apply to everyone.
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The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Dodger nine that day
The score stood 4 to 2 with two innings left to play |
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Epic pitching performance.
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Baseball can heal now since this solidifies the need for changes to the structure of the MLB. Salary cap and true revenue sharing incoming.
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Tough loss but the better team won. Jays stunk for the last two games, too many mistakes and missed opportunities. Jays relievers were shaky at best...
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All the Blue Jays had to do was cash in the leadoff double in the bottom of the eleventh by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the game would have gone to twelve innings which would have tied the record for the longest game seven in World Series history. But they couldn't get it done....
:( Not nearly as painful though as when my beloved dearly departed Cleveland Indians lost extra inning game sevens 3-2 to the Florida Marlins in 1997 and 8-7 to the Chicago Cubs in 2016. And I'll never forget, never forgive, those who took the Indians from me. Worse yet though was when my lifelong favourites the Edmonton Eskimos were taken from me in 2020. My resentment and anger hasn't faded even a bit. :mad: |
Plenty of chances for Toronto, but I was mostly disappointed in George Springer. 6th inning man on second no outs, one run in during what will no doubt be a close game. He absolutely needs to move the runner over. An 0-1 pitch straight on the outside corner and he just needs to poke it to the right side. Instead he takes strike two and then whiffs. Next guy drives the ball to deep center, where a man on 3rd would have scored easily.
In 8th, man on second one out and Springer whiffs again. I know he had hits early, but for a team lauded for knowing the game and scoring in a variety of ways, its veteran "leader" Springer went up there looking for the HR ball when it wasn't needed. Twice. A dang shame. |
And so ends the career of a generational pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, who actually had a pretty good year but could not be trusted to appear in more than one inning. It must be a bittersweet ending for him. If this was Max Scherzer's last game, he at least will have gone out on a good note, he pitched very well.
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Seems like he is more than OK with how things played out. Roberts still drives me crazy but in the last couple games he did a number of things I was mentally begging him to do. What I liked about the team was, even though the vaunted offense more or less disappeared they just adjusted and played scrappy ball instead to eke out the last two wins. You'd have thought they were the plucky underdogs and not the anointed team of billionaires |
Thankfully he did not end his career getting lit up in a Game 7. One of the truly puzzling careers ever, so dominant in the regular season, so many post-season disasters. A great guy, I hope his lasting legacy is mostly positive.
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(it's a really good time to be a billionaire in this country, if you haven't heard.) |
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I'm fully ok missing some baseball in 2027 if it means getting the structure within baseball resolved so that all 30 markets have a more equal opportunity shot at a World Series. I'm not on either side, owner nor player. I simply want smaller markets to be able to retain their homegrown superstars. |
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