Maybe so, but Pitch F/X showed those two pitches to Cabrera were strikes. I think the problem is that there have been a lot of low strikes called too. Hard to hit when an ump is giving both high and low to the pitcher.
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***Official NLDS Thread Washington Nationals v SF Giants*** (1 Viewer)
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Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
Awful swing by Crawford.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
I just saw Greg Minton and Dan Schatzeder warming up.
Please tell me that Atlee Hammaker is in the bullpen. Might be our only hope
Eephus
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
Pitch #1 to Frandsen was terrible. Low and outside.
Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
Soriano to pitch the 16th if the Nats don't score in the 15th. Why would he pitch before Roark?
dgreen
Footballguy
Definitely not comfortable with this.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I hope not related to Williams' ejection, and Knorr had the green light to use Roark.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
Last available position players for each team: Monte Irvin and Rusty Staub.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
I don't know very much about Yusmeiro Petit, but if the Giants pull out this game and then the series, he's the guy to remember.
whoknew
Footballguy
badmojo1006
Footballguy
Whew
He was one out away from a no hitter against SD once IIRC
Last time SF was in Washington, Lincecum was getting battered and he pitched 5 or 6 scoreless innings in relief. So 13-14 IP in a row vs Wash without a run. He is a solid pitcher
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Yeah, pretty brutal. Luckily Nats crowds are more of the professional/corporate variety, so I think they mostly didn't care. It was quite cold later in the game though, JZilla was cuddling with a chick that weighed three bills due to leaving his fancy jacket in his car. I looked for him after the game but I assume he was lost in the fat rolls.
One pretty interesting thing is no one was using their cell phones after the 12th inning or so, like me...their batteries had died.
I didn't mind Belt hit the homer, I really had had enough by about the 14th. Longest playoff game in MLB history, I was there!
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
Pitch at the ankles to Harper - strike.
Pitch six inches left to Cabrerra - strike.
Pitches to Cabrerra at the top of the theoretical zone that are never called a strike - strikes.
Zimmerman's 0-0 and 1-0 pitches in the 9th one inch right - ball, ball.
Horrible.
Pitch six inches left to Cabrerra - strike.
Pitches to Cabrerra at the top of the theoretical zone that are never called a strike - strikes.
Zimmerman's 0-0 and 1-0 pitches in the 9th one inch right - ball, ball.
Horrible.
otello
Footballguy
Comment from Boswell's Wash Post article:Michael Brown said:
Managerial malpractice. In one fell swoop of an inflexible, unintuitive move Williams managed to: insult Zimmermann, insult the fans, insult his players, insult his GM and owners, likely destroyed Storen's confidence for....ever, damaged Roark's psyche, lost the ball game and crushed any chance that this team moves on. Bravo Mr. Williams. Not everything is on a spreadsheet you idiot. The game is played by human beings with emotion and passion. Two things you don't exhibit much. Oh, except when you get yourself thrown out of the game as some self-inflicted penance? And learning from your mistakes? How about doing that somewhere else please. Jason Werth when asked about Williams during the celebration of clinching the division simply said "he had a good team to begin with". Ouch. The real money is earned in that other season call the playoffs. You failed, miserably. How you can face your team, the camera, your fans, your GM and owners and simply say "it's what we've done all year" is exactly why you've failed. You failed to recognize the difference between regular season and the playoffs. Of a once in a career chance to see greatness for what is while it is happened right before your eyes. But your eyes were too busy looking at a sheet of paper while the game passed you by. Managerial malpractice indeed.
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Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Yeah I can see not liking the Zimmerman pull, but they didn't score a run over the lat 15 innings of the game and IIRC only had two runners reach 2nd base after the 3rd.The Nationals had ten more chances to score a second goal
valhallan
Footballguy
I'm not going to kill the rookie manager. Your closer should be able to get one out.
This is just another chapter in the ongoing torture of DC sports fans. I was really hoping the Nats wouldn't be the Capitals but it's looking that way. Solid, young team that collapses like a circus tent in the playoffs every year.
This is just another chapter in the ongoing torture of DC sports fans. I was really hoping the Nats wouldn't be the Capitals but it's looking that way. Solid, young team that collapses like a circus tent in the playoffs every year.
TobiasFunke
Footballguy
Beating the Giants is tough enough for the Nats. Beating the Giants and Vic Carapazza is virtually impossible.
I expected a lot of water cooler complaining around the office today about the umpire, but to the credit of Nats fans it's been pretty muted and in many cases tempered by the observation that they may have gotten away with one on the Posey call at home. I'm impressed.
Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
Nats lost because the bats have been silent. No problems saying that.
And Posey was out. His leg was 4 feet off the ground and no where near the plate.
TobiasFunke
Footballguy
I really hadn't given it much thought until I saw that fangraphs article.
Two games both decided by one run means there's a huge list of tiny little things that could have altered the results. This is just one of them. To me the biggest one of that the Giants have been just outstanding defensively. Very well positioned, no obvious mistakes with glove or arm as far as I can remember. Hard to win close games when the other team makes you earn every base like that.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Tough playoffs for rookie managers. Ausmus has been very inflexible all season and it bit him in the rear end in the playoffs.
I'm not looking to argue the Posey call (though I think it was 50/50 even on replay), but thought it was interesting that Nats fans would admit to the possibility that he was safe. You walk into any other workplace of a city with a team in the Northeast Corridor and the discussion has a much different tone. Or I just work with a bunch of weirdos.
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