NLCS Game 5 Open Thread
by Ian Casselberry on Oct 21, 2009 7:45 PM EDT
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PrintNot to put any pressure on either the Dodgers or Angels, but if the West Coast contingent of baseball's final four doesn't get it in gear, we could go nearly a week without postseason baseball. The World Series is scheduled to start next Wednesday.
Of course, the Phillies surely want to end this series tonight and prevent taking another trip out to L.A. And you have to wonder how the Dodgers feel after blowing that lead on Monday night, and having two days to dwell on it.
The Game 5 starting pitchers are Vicente Padilla for L.A and Cole Hamels for Philly.
True Blue L.A. and The Good Phight are your SB Nation sites to follow this evening.
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whaddya reckon, do the Dodgers live to fight another day?
Philly apparently greased their poles in anticipation of victory.
Get your minds out of the gutter and see what I mean. :)
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I sure hope so.
Five-game series are boring. I like them six or seven games – more exciting that way.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Did you also go dog-walking earlier in the day?
Sorry, I just saw it on digg.
by StringTheory on Oct 21, 2009 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Cue Phillies fellatio by the announcers
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all to right field
And we all thought that Yankee Stadium had a jet stream!
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
What do you expect?
Citizen’s Bank Park is a bandbox.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
That double looked eeerily familiar
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If the pattern holds
Then now is time for another three-run homer. :(
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Walks and hit batters
Have KILLED the Dodgers. The pitchers have all been pitching so tentatively, and it’s not possible to pitch around everyone in the lineup.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I don't get it
I didn’t watch a ton of Dodgers games during the regular season, but I saw enough to know that the Dodgers’ bullpen is very good and the Phillies’ bullpen struggled during the regular season, and yet it’s like they’ve switched places. I wonder what happened.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
me,either
They are quite young and inexperienced, though. Maybe some stage fright (reminds me of the Tigers in 2006). :(
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I don't remember our boys walking that many Cardinals, though
I could be wrong. It was a long time ago and I was not nearly as well-versed in the ins and outs of baseball as I am now (well, that’s all relative, but you know what I mean). It’s just that everyone talks about the pitcher errors. I remember the one of Joel Zumaya throwing the ball over Brandon Inge’s head, but I can’t remember why he was throwing to third in the first place.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
It was more errors than walks
But seemed to me to be the same kind of nervousness, as though with the long layoff they had too much time to think about the magnitude of what they were playing for and got too tight to play as well as they had all year.
It’s like the Dodgers are so afraid of getting hit that they try to pitch around everyone and are too careful.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
and then end up hitting the philly batter, anyway
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What's wrong with your guy, Baroque? :-(
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 10:45 PM EDT reply actions
Poor kid has stage fright. :(
He’ll be awesome later – but not right now, I guess.
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tell me about it
after our season ended, I hung out at twinkietown, and then at true blue la for this series…
might have go to the yanks site for the WS (if that’s what ends up happening), and see if I can jinx them
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I may have to join you
Carry the Tiger Squander Bug far and wide. Like Typhoid Mary.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I went over to Pinstripe Alley at one point during Game 2
I didn’t join or make my presence known. They were a hard group to figure out, but they kept referring to Robinson Cano as “The Ninja.”
I do NOT want the Phillies to win the World Series again.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm rooting for the Yankees because I don't think the Angels can beat the Phillies.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, it's late and I have to crash.
Got to be at work early tomorrow. Have a good night, everyone.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Huh.
A team from Pennsylvania goes to the finals twice in a row. This has happened before. I hope the Philleis maintain the 50% success rate of their state predecessors.
The good news is...
We do NOT have to face the Phillies in Interleague play next year, and everyone else in the AL Central does (I think).
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 11:05 PM EDT reply actions
ILP seemed like such a drag this year,
but if we had maintained our winner percentage during ILP for the whole season (.556), we would have won the division.
by StringTheory on Oct 21, 2009 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Hopefully we get back to dominating the National League next year like we did 06-08
The opportunity for that happening is certainly there (After all, we play the Pirates, Nats, and D’backs…though that might not be easy if Dan Haren pitches in that series).
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Haren vs. the Tigers
2-4, 4.93 ERA in seven starts. And 55 hits in 45.2 innings.
by Ian Casselberry on Oct 21, 2009 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Sigh
The Phillies are everything the Tigers could have been (had Sheffield and Guillen held up the past two years and if our starting pitching hadn’t imploded in ’08). Now Granderson, Cabrera, and Verlander get older by the day…
by ryan_matthews28 on Oct 21, 2009 11:09 PM EDT reply actions
I still like our bullpen better than the Phillies' bullpen
(Hopefully we at least bring back Lyon).
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions
and J.A. Happ is like there Rick Porcello
and Lee/Hamles our Verlander/Jackson
by ryan_matthews28 on Oct 21, 2009 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Okay, apparently the people on TBLA don't know either
Who decides the LCS/WS MVPs?
And (yuck) who SHOULD get it: Ryan Howard or Carlos Ruiz?
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 21, 2009 11:57 PM EDT reply actions
Oh, and when was the last time the team who finished the regular season with the best record in baseball actually won the WS?
The Yankees have a shot this year, but it seems like it hasn’t happened in a long time.
by SabreRoseTiger on Oct 22, 2009 12:02 AM EDT reply actions
heh
I don’t have anything major against Joe Torre, but don’t like Manny much. And now he’s just a 37-year-old outfielder who used to be a huge slugger and is still poor defensively. At least he isn’t signed for another ten years or something like that.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
disappointed to see the result
Poor Dodgers fans.
I really hope the Angels can pull it out, but it doesn’t look good. And I wish someone else would get hot for the Yankees, because I hate A-Rod – such a phony. Maybe Teixeira will start hitting a ton and carry them – I like him a lot.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
good thing we let go of the Durbinator...
2 Wins and a hold against L.A.
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