Horrible.
Horrible.
Blake Snell is either unhittable or mediocre, for long stretches of time.
Dodgers are fortunate to get the unhittable version fir the late season and postseason.
Roki in the 9th, or should Snell complete it?
1-0 after 8. Shoulda bet the under, I knew this would be a low scoring affair.
What a performance by Snell. 8 IP, 0 BB, 1 H, 10 K, faced minimum 24.
When he's on, he's really really tough to hit.
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww
That bullpen always makes it an adventure.
And Sasaki's control issues are back.
Treinen wasn't as good as TBS kept saying he was. In fact, Turang was almost hit with the bases loaded, but his reflexes made him jump out of the way. If he was quick enough to take the hit, this is a different game and the Dodgers probably lose (and at minimum go to the 10th).
I will give Treinen credit for making a great pitch when it was 1-1 to Turang, bringing the 2nd strike.
Snell almost watched that performance go up in smoke.
But let’s take him out and put a rookie in there. Even my father, who has limited baseball acumen, was like, WTF? Uh, because analytics dad.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
I hear ya
I went from confused as to the out called at home plate, to trying to figure out how in Gods name that the ball made it back that fast. Jesus.
I was replaying it several times.
Ohtani feasts off Peralta. The Brewers have computers too
Brewers were committed to walking Ohtani yesterday regardless of circumstance even if it meant loading the bases. He had 3 walks.
It was striking to me cause he’s a hot mess at the plate. I woulda pitched to him but like Barry Bonds it just takes one swing to begin a two day news cycle and start the front office generating the manager’s separation paper work. It almost worked
Batter 2+ walks +317
I assume he’ll be in the lineup tonight
This take aged well, huh big guy?
The game could not have been closer. More please
I would say that 1 baserunner in 8 innings in their home park, and ultimately losing the game, qualifies as "Built for Fail"
Clase about to get a lifetime ban for gambling.
Not officially announced yet, but reliable sources on X are saying so.
Also there's Newsweek, which sucks these days, but they have this: https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/...eport-10877719
Not since Tampa Bay invented the bullpen game have we seen anything like these starters. Who needs a bullpen?
I’ll cry myself to sleep
Yesterday was a waste of time
They were doing this at the end of the regular season. The bullpen's awfulness somewhat drowned that out.
This was the great hope of Dodgers fans... that the late September starting pitching would carry over, and make up for the relief issue.
It's also made up for the offensive absence of Shohei Ohtani. Having clutch postseason guys like Edman and Kike also helps a ton.
The Asian hierarchy is now led by Yoshi. A cute little Asian Tim Lincecum
We need to see if the Roki phenomenon was variance out of the pen. Can he pitch without solid 6 days of R&R?
Then Shohei. Brewers didn’t fear him at all today. Ate my prop
Can the starting pitching continue to be otherworldly? What do you think?They were doing this at the end of the regular season. The bullpen's awfulness somewhat drowned that out.
This is correct. Big drama
This was the great hope of Dodgers fans... that the late September starting pitching would carry over, and make up for the relief issue.
This is incorrect. Dodger fans were counting on the big offense to provide a sufficient cushion for relief.
It's also made up for the offensive absence of Shohei Ohtani. Having clutch postseason guys like Edman and Kike also helps a ton.
Kike & Edman. Can’t explain but undeniable results.
The Dodgers need the starting pitching to hold up for 6 more games.
They also aren't facing any superteams. Every squad this year had its flaws, the Dodgers included. That's why nobody won 100.
It will be interesting in the offseason to see how Friedman addresses the bullpen mess. He almost can't throw money at it, because he did that last year and it was a disaster. Well, I said "almost" because he probably will anyway.
Roki didn't come here to close full time.
Here's something you can laugh at. Remember how Frank McCourt owns the parking lots? Well, parking continues to be an issue. This year some clever scalpers figured out that they can buy 4 parking passes per email address, and of course anyone can make thousands of email addresses. The result? Scalpers suck up all of the preferred parking, then sell it for double. It really sucks. The Dodgers could put a stop to this, but they don't care. They're McCourt's lots, and they're just facilitating the transaction. Preferred parking isn't just for snobs. Starting this year, the Dodgers are closing off exits to lots when it gets too crowded, so you can be stuck there for up to an hour. Happened to me twice, including during the Reds wildcard series. Preferred parking avoids that.
Dodgers World Series tickets went on sale today.
$881 for the worst seats in da house.
Brutal.
100% you will be able to get tickets for WAY cheaper than this when the time comes.
This is a pet peeve of mine, even though it doesn't affect me personally.
The Dodgers and other teams noticed within the past decade or so that scalpers (and even individuals) were snapping up the face-value tickets for purpose of resale at a higher amount. Understandably, they didn't want to make cheap tickets available to fans just to have them land in the clutches of scalpers. I get that.
But rather than employing countermeasures against this, or at the very least pricing it approximately what the tickets would go for on the secondary market anyway, they made these tickets OVERPRICED, plus they're only selling the shit seats to the public, whereas the good/decent ones are all season seats.
This leaves the bizarre situation nearly every game where the secondary market price ends up lower than team website face value. Scalpers know this and stay away. This leaves tickets for all the dumb schmoes who don't know better that they should never buy from the team website, and instead should use Seatgeek, Stubhub, Gametime, etc.
This is also what caused those nosebleed sections to sit largely empty at NLDS Game 4, which I attended. It wasn't lack of LA enthusiasm. It's that those seats were mostly not bought, because their pricing was out of line with the market.
Basically the team website pricing scheme is an overcorrection to the way it used to be. It's a big middle finger to the average fan.
I wish I could quote Sanlmar's post which he deleted (and which he knew only I could see).
But I'll say this.
After NLCS Game 1, Brewers Twitter was mainly comments like, "You guys always choke in the postseason", "Turang is a scared little girl who is afraid of the ball", "1 hit in 8 innings is pathetic", "Yelich is a playoff choker", etc. Standard stuff.
After tonight's game, most of it was about the Dodgers being "cheaters", and not in the Astros sense. It was about the Dodgers "spending a billion dollars to buy a title" and "rigging the system". Ugly stuff.
If the Dodgers do blow through the Brewers and than slam whichever of the two AL teams make it through, it might be a bad look. Kind of an why-do-we-even-bother sort of thing, if the Dodgers are just going to crush everyone in the playoffs with the immense talent they buy.
The 2010s playoffs teams were not built with expensive free agents. Cody Bellinger was homegrown. Max Muncy and Chris Taylor were failplayers who were picked up off the scrap heap. Kershaw was a longtime homegrown player. Kenley Jansen, again, was homegrown. The team had a high payroll, but it wasn't the highest, and much of it was paying existing stars they developed.
Look at this team. Ohtani, Snell, Yamamoto, Betts, Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez, Glasnow... all players with existing star power whom the Dodgers grabbed mostly due to their ability to pay. Yes, Teoscar came over on a then-1-year deal because he just wanted to win something. But the rest came because the Dodgers could both pay and compete. This doesn't sit well with people, especially when the scrappy Brewers sit with a low payroll and low budget, and have to make do with what they have.
To me, it feels a little cheapened doing it like this, but I feel it's payback for the frugal years when the Dodgers were collecting so much money, yet not spending it to push themselves over the top. For years, Friedman seemed to be handcuffed by ownership, and told to treat it like he was still in Tampa. Now the blank checkbook is out, and it will be nice seeing the titles which should have been last decade.
Is there any streakier player in baseball history than Kike? The guy can go 20 for 50 and then 5 for 50.
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