GDT: 2024 WS: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Yankees

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May the Yankees go another 15 years without getting to the world series.

Ooof… how about 150 instead

 

[EpochLink]

Dave Roberts finally having that full season of being the best team in the regular season, then winning it all must be a relief for him. After years of underachieving come post season time, he finally gets his due.

Good for him, I wrote him off for 2 straight years of playoff disasters.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Ooof… how about 150 instead

I honestly prefer it my way.

Give them a little inkling of hope they can get there, then have somebody like the Astros show up and kick them in the nads multiple times. Then the cycle repeats next season like some sick twisted version of groundhog day. It's torture for that fanbase.

I call this Sanjosesharksitis

 

[kingsholygrail]

I can finally be happy about Roberts decisions today. I was hiding my face in my hat when he left Treinen in but it worked. Bringing out Buehler finally was the killer instinct. He knew he had them on the ropes. Happy to eat crow if it means they got the ring.

 

[EpochLink]

I can finally be happy about Roberts decisions today. I was hiding my face in my hat when he left Treinen in but it worked. Bringing out Buehler finally was the killer instinct. He knew he had them on the ropes. Happy to eat crow if it means they got the ring.

I knew when Buehler was warming up, he was saving him for the 9th

 

[kingsholygrail]

I knew when Buehler was warming up, he was saving him for the 9th

I just can't believe they took both Cole starts. On paper you could pencil in those as wins and try to win the inbetween games, but they went above and beyond.

 

[EpochLink]

I just can't believe they took both Cole starts. On paper you could pencil in those as wins and try to win the inbetween games, but they went above and beyond.

I'm surprised Boone didn't give him a pep talk in that 5th inning, Cole was running on fumes when it was 5-3.

 

[kingsholygrail]

I'm surprised Boone didn't give him a pep talk in that 5th inning, Cole was running on fumes when it was 5-3.

All it took was that little miscommunication at 1st. It's crazy. A play they make every single other game multiple times a game. And thank god Mookie was busting his ass to 1st.

 

[EpochLink]

All it took was that little miscommunication at 1st. It's crazy. A play they make every single other game multiple times a game. And thank god Mookie was busting his ass to 1st.

Speaking of Mookie, 3 times in the World Series and all 3 times he has won.

Mookie Betts is an all time playoff performer.

 

[Terry Yake]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851849581186724109

 

[Sombastate]

Incredible how an absolutely atrocious defensive play on a routine ball from arguably the best player in the sport - turned into an all time collapse and comeback

What a sport

 

[SoupNazi]

Ooof… how about 150 instead

This is the correct answer.

Incredible how an absolutely atrocious defensive play on a routine ball from arguably the best player in the sport - turned into an all time collapse and comeback

What a sport

It’s amazing.

It’s why I love baseball so much. One mistake can change so much.

 

[stephenball]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851849581186724109

It’s funny, I said to my dad when the game ended “if I was Buehler I would say I was retiring right there on the field”. After years of uncertainty and struggle, this would be a pretty good way to go out.

 

[GKJ]

Incredible how an absolutely atrocious defensive play on a routine ball from arguably the best player in the sport - turned into an all time collapse and comeback

What a sport

It was apparently his first error of the season? That surprised me

 

[Fish on The Sand]

It was apparently his first error of the season? That surprised me

Errors are a very poor stat.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

I should also add that Judge's error was the least bad of the 3 f*** ups.

Cole's laziness is one of the worst plays I've ever seen and should probably get him booed out of town.

Volpe making a hurried throw to third in an attempt to get the lead runner in what was no sure thing to begin with was also worse than Judge.

He had an easy play at first and if he makes it there's runners on second and third, sure but you have 1 out and are still up by 5.

It was a greedy play to preserve the shutout rather than play for the win.

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

blaming cole? really? he was not going to beat mookie on that race to the bag. if anything rizzo should have charged towards the ball and headed to the bag. and even that mookie might have still been safe.

do the yanks spend for 40 million a year for soto? do they sign 3-4 guys from a pretty decent free agency pool? do they do both? do the finally get rid of rizzo? do they get rid of gleyber?

this might look nice for 2025:
first base: christian walker, ryan o'hearn, or even rowdy tellez or josh bell. anyone but rizzo
second base: jorge polanco
third base: can jazz play all 162 games here barring injury?
outfield: if bye to soto and verdugo i'd take shots with conforto, and tyler o'neill and/or bellinger.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

Yankees 5th inning looked like the 2015 Rangers prior to the Bautista bat flip

 

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Yankees 5th inning looked like the 2015 Rangers prior to the Bautista bat flip

Yup. It's a toss up as to which inning is more unbelievable and embarrassing but that fact that the Yankees did it in the World Series elimination game vs ALDS elimination game puts it over the top. Just a brutal brutal way to lose and we are all here for it.

 

[Terry Yake]

i also don't think cole was going to beat betts to the bag. that ball was hit slowly and had a weird spin to it which clearly threw rizzo off and made him hesitate instead of charging at it

 

[Sombastate]

I disagree that Judge's error was the least of them.

If he makes that catch its 2 outs with a runner on first. If the exact same at bat occurs afterwards, Will Smith is easily thrown out at 1st, the inning is over.

Judge's error was as routine as routine gets. I don't think the question is who had the worst error, necessarily, but whose error is going to be game defining, and i think that was Judge's

 

[stephenball]

Yeah, literally no defense can be made for Judge’s error

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Yeah, literally no defense can be made for Judge’s error

The reason I think it's the least egregious is because it was just a failure to execute.

The others involved extremely poor decision making and poor decision making is far worse than poor execution.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Whether Cole was going to beat Betts to the bag is moot. That is Pitching Defence 101. Pitcher is to banana peel to the bag on a grounder to the 1st baseman.

In was a culmination of miscues on that play. Rizzo waited too long for the ball to reach him instead of trying to come in a few feet and snag it on his way to the bag. Cole was just standing there in no-man's land thinking Rizzo was going to make the play, but looked like a deer in the headlights in the end. In a regular game, it's chalked up as miscommunication. In the World Series when the Yankees were frittering the inning away, it compounded to the already awful defensive errors that occurred that inning.

Heck, it looked like Betts thought he was going to be out the first strides he took before gunning for the bag when it seemed like he had a good chance of beating it out.

 

[FiveTacos]

Judge's error was as routine as routine gets. I don't think the question is who had the worst error, necessarily, but whose error is going to be game defining, and i think that was Judge's

His error was definitely the easiest of the plays to make. 99.9% of the time that's a catch. But then again, guys do drop balls ... but even if there's a good explanation (caught the light, last second gust, whatever) he can't say it publicly without sounding like an excuse making ass. He's just gotta take the hit.

I do think Betts coulda make the play at 1st close, he was flying down that line, but you can live with him beating you out when you at least try to cover 1st. What happened instead was just embarrassing for those guys.

I think Judge's could be game defining, but the last one LOOKS the most unusual, and is most unforgivable from the fact of it being two guys who brain farted or just assumed it was handled. People will tend to forgive errors that are made when you're giving an honest effort, or even when you're trying to do too much ... but doing too little less so.