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Official MLB playoffs thread: 23 hour game exhausts all ball supplies (1 Viewer)

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Doctor Detroit said:
I’m guessing Counsell would not do that again in the same situation next time, lol. Jeffress was simply terrific this year but playoffs are a different monster, I’m surprised the Dodgers didn’t score a couple. 
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Yeah I completely agree.  Knebel on the other hand is dealing right now.

 
Pipes said:
Yeah I completely agree.  Knebel on the other hand is dealing right now.
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Yeah I liked that he used him first tonight. Knebel is a beast who struggled this year but he’s an elite arm who’s found his feel again. If you can get through the 6th with a lead and have those two pitch the last three, I mean they aren’t gonna lose. 

And the Packers get a walk off, good night in cheeseland. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
I’m guessing Counsell would not do that again in the same situation next time, lol. Jeffress was simply terrific this year but playoffs are a different monster, I’m surprised the Dodgers didn’t score a couple. 
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Jeffress just wanted to make it fun.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Yeah I liked that he used him first tonight. Knebel is a beast who struggled this year but he’s an elite arm who’s found his feel again. If you can get through the 6th with a lead and have those two pitch the last three, I mean they aren’t gonna lose. 

And the Packers get a walk off, good night in cheeseland. 
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It’s almost like Knebel and Jeffress changed bodies for the playoffs.  Jeffress pitching like Knebel did for a most of the year. I really like Jeffress but he’s gripping now.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Yeah I liked that he used him first tonight. Knebel is a beast who struggled this year but he’s an elite arm who’s found his feel again. If you can get through the 6th with a lead and have those two pitch the last three, I mean they aren’t gonna lose. 

And the Packers get a walk off, good night in cheeseland. 
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Thinking of using Miley on short rest like he is Mickey Lolich??

 
Da Guru said:
Thinking of using Miley on short rest like he is Mickey Lolich??
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I think Gio is gonna start tomorrow. That means Roberts starts Game without two of his three best hitters and you try getting 3 out of Gio before going to Woodruff or another long option. 

Problem with Gio is he can implode pretty quickly. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
I think Gio is gonna start tomorrow. That means Roberts starts Game without two of his three best hitters and you try getting 3 out of Gio before going to Woodruff or another long option. 

Problem with Gio is he can implode pretty quickly. 
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I think so too. Start Gio and then you have Woodruff or Peralta for another 3. Save Miley for game 5.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
I think Gio is gonna start tomorrow. That means Roberts starts Game without two of his three best hitters and you try getting 3 out of Gio before going to Woodruff or another long option. 

Problem with Gio is he can implode pretty quickly. 
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Amazing the Brewers pull 2 starting pitchers off the scrap heap that were in the FA pool in my ROTO league  and they are now starting these games.

 
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I think we can all agree that the Astros' failed 9th inning rally was better than the Dodgers failed 9th inning rally

 
Just got back from the game. Dodgers were lifeless and it started and ended with  Grandal’s ineptitude. People were literally booing and chanting “we want Austin”

 
Doctor Detroit said:
I think Gio is gonna start tomorrow. That means Roberts starts Game without two of his three best hitters and you try getting 3 out of Gio before going to Woodruff or another long option. 

Problem with Gio is he can implode pretty quickly. 
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He’ll start Gio and have Woodruff and Perslta warming up in the bullpen when the first pitch is thrown. 

 
strykerpks said:
Oof. Maybe credit really good pitching.

Curious though, what was the "paid" attendance? It sure looked like there were plenty of empty seats, especially after the 6th.
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It was pretty packed. Getting through LA traffic for a 4:30 game is not fun. People were leaving en masse in the 8th

 
sho nuff said:
Yes and not bring in a guy who is struggling to get people out. You aren’t going to use him 3 days in a row...but maybe game 3 and game 5.
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I think this is what most people especially the fox crew did not understand.  You probably aren't going to use Hader 2 days in a row, so it was either games 3 and 5 or just game 4.  He only had 4 pitches in the game but got fully warmed up.  I would say he could at max do 1 inning tonight or 2 innings for game 5 and then be available for game 6.

Smoltz is either complaining about the quick bullpen or launch angle and contact.  Get over it.

 
The more I read discussion about bullpen usage, the more fascinated I am about Morrow pitching in all seven games of the WS last year.

Admittedly I still don’t know what to think about it, but I am fascinated by it.

 
strykerpks said:
Curious though, what was the "paid" attendance? It sure looked like there were plenty of empty seats, especially after the 6th.
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There's definitely a feeling that the LA market just doesn't care very much, which probably makes sense.  They're a huge market with lots going on,  they've been here before, many times, and recently, and they're favorites playing against a non-rival, small market team.  Today I've seen a report there's apparently a glut of tickets available for what seem like absurdly low prices ($40-$60 range) for tonight's game.  I get that they are a fashionably late-arriving crowd, but for the LCS?  The contrast with Milwaukee is pretty striking.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
There's definitely a feeling that the LA market just doesn't care very much, which probably makes sense.  They're a huge market with lots going on,  they've been here before, many times, and recently, and they're favorites playing against a non-rival, small market team.  Today I've seen a report there's apparently a glut of tickets available for what seem like absurdly low prices ($40-$60 range) for tonight's game.  I get that they are a fashionably late-arriving crowd, but for the LCS?  The contrast with Milwaukee is pretty striking.
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I noticed lots of empty seats in Yankee stadium as well (vs Red Sox last week). Typically the first couple of innings.

Half of those big comfy chairs behind home plate were unoccupied. Gotta imagine those seats are a grand or so and you can't make it to the game on time?

I think I'd be there 3 hours early if I was spending that kind of $.

 
So my wife who never watches baseball comes in and sits with me the last few innings and made two comments. 

1.Why are there so many empty seats for a game like this?

2. That red beard is gross!

 
Da Guru said:
So my wife who never watches baseball comes in and sits with me the last few innings and made two comments. 

1.Why are there so many empty seats for a game like this?

2. That red beard is gross!
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Have her sit and take a gander at a Red Sox/Astros game when Gattis faces Kimbrel.  

 
It's just...a lot of the SABR stuff we grew up with in the nineties has been passed by cameras and eye tests, which don't also hold the true story with predictive judgments.  

 
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JuniorGong said:
He was a great pick up by Dombrowski, not a huge fan of his but he made some solid under the radar moves this year.
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Yeah, I'm not a huge Dombrowski fan, either, but it's better than Sandoval and Ramirez and Cherington being married to them.  

 
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some of the win probabilities in these games are very strange to me.  i get these stathead e-mails from baseball-reference.

Last night, when Braun doubled in the run in the first, it claims that Milwaukee's win probability increased from 12% to 62%.  In game 1, Milwaukee was leading 6-5 in the top of the 9th with 2 outs and a runner on 3rd and it claims that they had only a 13% win probability at that point.

Can this be right?  Could it be basing this on playoff history only, skewing the numbers?

nevermind, i think they mis-worded it in the first one and that messed up the way that I read the second one.  The 13% one was worded wrong in the e-mail, but I think it meant that that pitch add 13% to the win probability.  The double last night increased the win probability by 12%.

 
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