Boston thought they got a steal, whoops. Kluber technically a better season, but think everyone fully expected Price to at least compete today and give them a chance.
Fans asked not to sit at Nationals Park for tonight's game, lol. I'm not totally against it, but standing for 3 hours is brutal. Huge music stage outside the stadium but not sure who will be on it as it's all fenced off.
Jansen had his second 5 out save of the year, the first back in April. Once again, manager's are managing the playoffs as they should. Throw regular season tendencies out the window and play to win each game and worry about the next game tomorrow. Worked out great for Cleveland. Burned their 2 best relievers yesterday to win a one run game and handed the ball to their ace today.
Francona looks like a genius now. Cleveland up 2-0 and Miller and Allen will have 2 full days of rest.
Cueto got plenty of calls in this game. Lester wasn't being treated the same way. Plenty of pitches that were called strikes out the zone.
I was only referring to that one at bat which wasn't a swing. Wouldn't expect Cubs fan to give me objective analysis of the rest of it though.
I'm aware of which at bat it was you referring to. It doesn't change what I said though. Any objective viewer would agree with what I said.
You might be the first person in the entire history of the internet to believe in the Dodgers management of their pitching staff in the playoffs, lol. Ousted 5 years in a row with arguably the best staff and ace on the planet. Putting Kershaw and Greinke into the garbage disposal every year, and they get embarrassed with an early round beat every time, a staff and bullpen that pack up their bags and walk before the avalanche even hits, all because they are mismanaged.
He almost killed Kershaw too though. Jansen in long relief. They are an analytic team in the front office with trickle down effect apparently... to a guy who was trained to play small ball and steal. Dodgers will dodge I think, we'll see, I would like to see Kershaw succeed.
You might be the first person in the entire history of the internet to believe that 1.2 IP constitutes "long relief".
Three teams this post-season have used their closers in "long relief," and those three teams have 2-0 and 1-0 leads in the DS. I think it's working.
For now. Sure. But they have 4 more weeks of baseball to get through. November is the end goal and their relievers will burn out before the end. If you count Familia, the save rate/win rate is lower than the regular season thus far for the high leverage situations we've been debating. The long relief is still looking good, but think it will fail soon enough too.
