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[Reaper45]

Think Roberts brought him in too late...

 

[kingsfan28]

Tough strike zone tonight. Nobodys getting the close pitches.

 

[kingsfan28]

Thats two!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Started the series with Kershaw, going to end it with him.

 

[kingsfan28]

2 pitch out for Kershaw.

 

[Reaper45]

Damn, it's nerve wracking.

 

[Omni Owl]

There it is.

 

[kingsfan28]

7 pitch 9th for Kershaw. Doyers win!!!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Bring on the Cubbies.

 

[kingsfan28]

Dodgers vs Cubs!

 

[The Night King]

Happy for Kersh!

 

[Omni Owl]

So Kershaw is a star pitcher in the league or what?

 

[kingsfan28]

I wish we could've heard Vin call that last inning.

 

[kingsholygrail]

 

[Bandit]

Nice way to gut it out. Have a hard time believing they're going to get past the cubs after this much difficulty in a 5 game set, but I guess we'll see.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[ADifferentTim]

Wow, I got my NLCS picks correctly.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Poor Dusty.

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

Bring in the closer in the 7th? ****ed.

That was actually incredibly smart of Roberts. Bring your best reliever in before the game gets away and you don't even have a lead to have him "close" in the 9th later.

How quickly we forget Buck Showalter, Zach Britton, and the Orioles of last week...

 

[kingsholygrail]

Kershaw talked Roberts into letting him pitch.

 

[Dawdler]

That was actually incredibly smart of Roberts. Bring your best reliever in before the game gets away and you don't even have a lead to have him "close" in the 9th later.

How quickly we forget Buck Showalter, Zach Britton, and the Orioles of last week...

those were my exact thoughts when I saw Kenley come in, you play all out to win today and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

those were my exact thoughts when I saw Kenley come in, you play all out to win today and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow

Roberts didn't make great decisions every time today (I'm looking at you, Culberson-pinch-hit-bunting-with-no-outs), but bringing Blanton in to put the fire out in the third was brilliant. Kenley in the 7th was brilliant. Then you bring the best pitcher of all of baseball (even if he was coming off of 1 day rest after throwing 110 pitches on 3 days' rest) in to finish it off. That was a tough hill for the Nationals to climb.

 

[Quattro]

that game was awesome. I'm exhausted

 

[KingLB]

Honestly, I wonder if you ever get to the point were baseball starts to shift away from using your best bullpen pitcher just for the "close". If you have 2 on in the 6th with no outs in a tie game. That seems like the place to use a "closer", get out of the real dangerous position and use your best to do it. I had a friend that was really into baseball analytics and said there were a few guys that proposed it, but it hasn't taken off. Who knows, the wild formations took time, but now everyone seems to do it.

 

[kingsfan28]

Baseball [and I think basketball] champagne celebrations after winning each series are so strange.