Bad read by Harper but I would haven't have thought he would catch it either. Exciting ending.
Jackie Bradley type play!
Jackie Bradley type play!
2023 LDS Game/Discussion Thread
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Under no circumstances should Harper have gotten doubled off there. You wait just on the other side of 2nd. If gone, it doesn't matter. If caught, you can still make it back to 1st. If it lands in play, you have enough time to make it home.
I thought the analyst made a good point. Harper might well have been reading how Harris was going after the ball and thought it would be out of his reach. It's a base running mistake, no doubt; but great plays by Harris and Riley
Are all the Dodgers tipping their pitches?
The DBacks are seeing beachballs in the batters box.
The DBacks are seeing beachballs in the batters box.
Watching live it looked like Olson was pumping his fist before he even squeezed the ball. And it was awesome.
The Dodgers rotation was already on life support after Buehler went down. The Urias arrest killed it.
They loaded the bases to start the game with no outs. Outman made a great play on a very deep drive or it likely would be even uglier.
By the time the seats get filled up the game might be over. I know traffic is tough, but that place is empty.
The play Correa made last week to cut Bichette down at the plate was a little bit better than Riley on this one.
But both were better than Jeter's flip. And miles better than (but not nearly as fun as) Jeter running face first into the Fenway seats for no reason.
That was a loss that feels like two. Because if you win there, the series is probably over, and now you're going home, but they're the ones with the momentum.
Meh, they have a day off, are going on the road and haven't decided on a Game 3 starter vs Nola.
Back to the Phillies loss, it might be as bad a blown game as World Series game 6, 1986. Of course, it's "only an LDS game" vs. a World Series game.
Not to mention the whole, "That's why we have the playoffs" thing. If we wanted the team with the best record to be champions, we would just give it to them after the regular season.
It was, but making it into some sort of indictment of the playoff system was ridiculous
Run expectancy matrix on first base, two outs says 12.7 percent chance of scoring at least one run and .224 total runs expected. So, it’s not like the Phillies have a good chance if Harper plays it halfway and gets back to first. Obviously, a small chance of tying the game is better than a zero chance of winning, but from a risk reward standpoint, Harper’s decision wasn’t completely awful.
If the whole plaoff syatem is to.blame, is that not an indictmemt of our national pastime?
You can do what you want with us, but I’m not going to stand here and let you bad mouth the United States of America.