2019 WC Gamethread

jon abbey

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I kind of love the current game (zero sarcasm), Anderson strikes out four guys in a row, two outs away from the win, and he's pulled.
 

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Charlie Morton is the first pitcher in history with three wins in winner-take-all games (how does Bumgarner not have at least three?).
 

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Charlie Morton is the first pitcher in history with three wins in winner-take-all games (how does Bumgarner not have at least three?).
Answering my own question, Bumgarner had two complete game shutouts in wild card games and 5 scoreless to close WS game 7 against KC but he only got a save for that.
 

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Charlie Morton is the first pitcher in history with three wins in winner-take-all games (how does Bumgarner not have at least three?).
Looking at the now 12 pitchers with 2, kind of a fascinating list. Some gods, like Randy Johnson, Pedro, Bob Gibson, sure. But you also have Mike Stanton (both against Oakland), David Robertson (both in 2017), and Clay Carroll (72 NLCS, 75 WS).
 

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He must’ve mistimed his injections and left himself a bit sore.
This is gold...………..two missiles to right field; opposite field power goes through the roof=he's on the sauce.

So those plunky Rays with their 47.00 payroll advance, isn't that swell. I wonder if more than 14,000 diehards will show up for ALDS game 3, we'll see......……………….
 

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This is gold...………..two missiles to right field; opposite field power goes through the roof=he's on the sauce.

So those plunky Rays with their 47.00 payroll advance, isn't that swell. I wonder if more than 14,000 diehards will show up for ALDS game 3, we'll see......……………….
I'd bet it's over 25K
 
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Rant about last night:

I went to the WC game with my son and it was awful. The A's have drawn just a few thousand people to games this year but had 54,000 last night and weren't ready for it. It took over 20 minutes to get through the metal detectors and the concessions lines barely moved. I had to wait until the 7th inning before the lines became manageable enough to get food and my first beer. And after the game it took over an hour to get to and across the foot bridge to BART.

I consider having people go through metal detectors at sporting events to be unnecessary. In the 100 years or so before they started using them, I've never heard of a shooting at a sports event. In fact, we were in a tightly packed group of about 500 people trying to get through the detectors which would have been a great opportunity for some terrorists to show up mow us pricks down. At a soccer game in San Jose this year, after multiple failed attempts to get through a detector, it turned that the chip in my credit that was setting it off.

Worst of all, the A's went down without a whimper.
 

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That would require them to remove the tarp from all the seats they currently cover, cow bells for everyone!!

That stadium puts the shit in shithole.
Well, they appear to have had three games clock in at exactly 25,025 (vs Houston once and the Yankees twice), so I'd guess that's their current capacity.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBR/2019-schedule-scores.shtml
Last year, they had attendances of 31,042, 29,831, 27,372, 27,252 and 25,695

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBR/2018-schedule-scores.shtml
 

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this is kinda shameful from ESPN. don't cut away from the celebration for promoting a Zion reel.
They have to make sure they stay on-brand by promoting the shit out of all things NBA and NFL whenever there is time. Zion is going to be getting the full-on LBJ/Kobe verbal fellatio for the next few years unless he flames out.
 

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Well, they appear to have had three games clock in at exactly 25,025 (vs Houston once and the Yankees twice), so I'd guess that's their current capacity.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBR/2019-schedule-scores.shtml
Last year, they had attendances of 31,042, 29,831, 27,372, 27,252 and 25,695

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBR/2018-schedule-scores.shtml
I'm pretty sure as you pointed out their max capacity is 25,000 and change, but again that's only if they leave the tarp on the seats they've covered.

They might get a big crowd for a playoff game as long as it's over by 4:00pm as that's when the early bird special at Sizzlers kicks in, if the game goes past 7:00pm, forget it, all of those meds start to make the fans woozy and it's nap time.

So awesome to have a small market/little train that could/thrift store payroll team in the MLB playoffs, I'm so excited I can barely contain myself.
 

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i dont think he will ever live down that pickoff. one of my fav moments ever. beltran's face at the plate was priceless
 

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What a confusing play as a human being. I was ballistic about the result but I felt so, so bad for him.
 

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The Sox being out of it sucks but I really like being able to watch playoff games without having a heart attack. I can just enjoy it.