First pinch hit grand slam in WS historyOriginally Posted by Sanlmar
No team has ever scored nine runs in one inning during a World Series game. The highest number of runs scored in a single inning in a World Series game by one team is eight.
How is this anytning but a bullpen issue? Leaving Snell in was delaying the hangman.
Only sour spot for me was walking Edman which led to the the 2 run Ohtani homer.
If you're up 11-2 pump the damn strike zone....especially to Edman. Then you could have walked Ohtani and kept him hitless.
Yesavage had a rough outing but the kid got through 4 innings with only 2 runs.
Hopefully Gausman can do the same tomorrow......
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I had to remove Boz from this thread because he continued trolling here after I previously deleted his earlier trolling post, and asked for the trolling to stop in this thread.
I do know that he is legit a baseball fan, but he will remain banned from this thread until I have his word that the shitposts in this thread will stop.
By the way, sonatine doesn't even read this thread nor ever talk about baseball, so you're wasting your time bashing him here.
That is all. Carry on.
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Everyone was a Jays fan entering the game last night. Druff intimates that even the city of Los Angeles is less than rabid. Thought I’d get cute with Dodger stuff cause I’m counter culture and think myself clever.
Dodgers get murdered and I lose money. A lifetime of work and for what? Still filled with self loathing this morning.
Maybe Druff bans both me & Boz. Simp keep us all on the righteous path
San, you'll be glad to know that you'd probably be the least popular ban on this entire site.
You don't even have any haters here, which is a tough thing to do.
But yes, there's a weird lack of passion this year from Dodgers fans. I think it's complacency. Every year it's been a relatively easy (or sometimes extremely easy) walk to win the division, save for that one fluke year when the Giants played over their heads and won 107 to the Dodgers' 106.
The perpetual postseason failure angst has somewhat been calmed by the Fake Championship of 2020 and the Real Championship of 2024.
Game 3 of the NLCS met an interesting criticism from some people, including Dodgertalk superhomer David Vassegh. Now you might ask, "Wait.. how was that game criticized? The Dodgers won!"
Yes, they did. But the criticism was of the crowd. It was muted. There were empty seats. Everyone was low energy. Indeed, the prices plummeted that game, and I almost went, but I was feeling tired that day and didn't feel like fighting LA traffic, so I passed. I guess everyone there was tired, too.
The empty seats were understandable, because the Dodgers gouge people for the nosebleed seats, which are listed for far above market value. So nobody buys them. World Series has the same situation, so expect empty seats there, as well. It's embarrassing. They shouldn't do this.
But it wasn't just the empty seats that day. The crowd just wasn't excited.
Game 4 had people excited for obvious reasons.
How will World Series game 3 be? I wonder. Prices are still high. As Jayjami mentioned, they will fall big time if the Dodgers lose today. I think they'll fall even if they don't lose. Ain't nobody gonna pay $750 for nosebleeds and $2100 for good loge seats to see the Blue Jays, especially the year after the Dodgers already won a World Series.
They want Yankees prices, and they're not gonna get it.
I have not lost any passion as a Dodgers fan, and many on social media haven't, but the stadium recently definitely hasn't looked like what Toronto had going on yesterday. Then again, it's been 32 years since the Blue Jays had this.
and nobody had an opinion on tonight's contest? what has this site become. we could have at least gotten a verm fade.
I thought more likely Dodgers win but with how awful they looked yesterday, I didn't want to make a pick out of it.
MLB postseason is hard.
Anyway, I'm glad Freeman finally did something, and got driven in. Gausman gave up 4 hard hit balls that inning.
Now time to see how Yamamoto pitches.
I need to stop smoking weed. I just hallucinated that they stopped the World Series for a Jonas Brothers concert.
Tuesday in LA has Ohtani slated to pitch. Def must see in person
Finally they broke through against Gausman. But 2 runs is nothing late with this bullpen.
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After the wild, 23-pitch first inning, the chance that Yamamoto would still be pitching through 8 full innings was about zero point zero.
But here we are. I think they're gonna let him complete it.
It was during halftime. You didn't know baseball had a halftime?
They really have no choice.
The Dodgers get home field advantage back.
Boy, my whole "Yoshi is fools gold before the real prize in Sasaki" take has not aged well.
But, also doesn't fucking matter as Tokyo east got them both anyway.
I've lost count of how many times I've had to watch the Dodgers Japanese translator in postgame interviews.
I was a little skeptical of the Yamamoto signing, but held some cautious optimism. I heard the "He's too small to be a durable starter" talk before, and it didn't end well. It was when the Dodgers shipped off an undersized pitcher named Pedro Martinez for leadoff hitter Delino DeShields. You saw how that turned out. I love Tommy Lasorda, but that one's on him. He pressured the front office to ship out Pedro.
Yamamoto is about the same size as Pedro. I kept thinking of that when people criticized Yamamoto's size. I realize we are only 2 years into an extremely long deal, and no doubt this is going to look much worse in the second half of it, but for now he's been everything they could've hoped for. Last year was a little bit choppy as he was inconsistent and battled injury, but they don't win the '24 World Series without him, and this year he was the most consistent and durable hurler on the staff, by a wide margin. 30 starts in 2025, and he pitches back-to-back CGs in the LCS and World Series. He will get Cy Young votes for his regular season performance, though he won't win.
Today's was especially impressive because he didn't have it at the beginning of the game, and then he figured out what was wrong and self-corrected, instead of melting down. 20 straight retired batters to finish the game. Kershaw, as great as he was, could never do this.
The upside to signing Yamamoto was that he already had a long enough history crushing NPB to where you knew something had to be there. I realize NPB isn't MLB, but Yamamoto was dominating enough to where you figured it had to translate.
I've lost count of how many times I've had to watch the Dodgers Japanese translator in postgame interviews.
I was a little skeptical of the Yamamoto signing, but held some cautious optimism. I heard the "He's too small to be a durable starter" talk before, and it didn't end well. It was when the Dodgers shipped off an undersized pitcher named Pedro Martinez for leadoff hitter Delino DeShields. You saw how that turned out. I love Tommy Lasorda, but that one's on him. He pressured the front office to ship out Pedro.
Yamamoto is about the same size as Pedro. I kept thinking of that when people criticized Yamamoto's size. I realize we are only 2 years into an extremely long deal, and no doubt this is going to look much worse in the second half of it, but for now he's been everything they could've hoped for. Last year was a little bit choppy as he was inconsistent and battled injury, but they don't win the '24 World Series without him, and this year he was the most consistent and durable hurler on the staff, by a wide margin. 30 starts in 2025, and he pitches back-to-back CGs in the LCS and World Series. He will get Cy Young votes for his regular season performance, though he won't win.
Today's was especially impressive because he didn't have it at the beginning of the game, and then he figured out what was wrong and self-corrected, instead of melting down. 20 straight retired batters to finish the game. Kershaw, as great as he was, could never do this.
The upside to signing Yamamoto was that he already had a long enough history crushing NPB to where you knew something had to be there. I realize NPB isn't MLB, but Yamamoto was dominating enough to where you figured it had to translate.
He’s mentally tough. Lead off homer to Cubs. First and third no outs. Like most good pitchers, you better get them early, but he’s righted the ship really quickly and looks unshakeable once he works his way out of first. Nit a trait I normally attribute to Dodgers pitchers, mental toughness, but the kid seems to have a 50 resting heart beat in a jam.
I’m absolutely amazed he’s even in the league let alone starting in the World Series. Felt like he went the last six months in Cleveland unable to hit a ball deep enough to bring a runner home from third with an out.
Clement shocks me also. I recall running into Clement and Owen Miller in a bar a few hours after a Tribe game. Clement my height and looked 160lbs. Miller pretty much the same. Neither looked like a professional athlete. Looked like kids. I bought them drinks and they were super polite to the old guys.
At the time Owen was considered a serious prospect with a track record in minor leagues and Clement looked like a utility infielder at best. Now Miller buried somewhere in Colorado system and Clement playing in World Series. He did have a great glove though, so I thought he may continue to find a roster spot, but he’s been much better than that.
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