2020 NLCS: Braves vs. Dodgers

canderson

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It’s pretty funny that in a crapshoot playoff in a chaos-filled season the two teams with the best records end up in the World Series.
 

ngruz25

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The Red Sox traded losing pitcher Chris Martin for a partial season's worth of miserable utility infield work for a putrid team that was going nowhere (Jonathan Herrera, 2014).
 

DeadlySplitter

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The Dodgers needed every bit of their roster to edge this series out. Mookie's defense the most notable

they earned it and I wouldn't put an asterisk on the title despite the short schedule
 

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The Braves only had three hits. It bears repeating. Their last base runner was Albies who walked in the sixth. Their last hit was Riley's in the fourth.
 

Kliq

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Just felt like the Dodgers had too much depth. Better arms left in the bullpen, better hitters both towards the bottom of the order and coming off the bench. It felt like Pache came up like, 25 times this series in a big spot.
 

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They had two innings that began walk-walk-single ... and scored two runs out of it
You and Helmet shoulders are spot on. That base running gaffe was costly. People might shake their fists at clouds and yell fundamentals however baseball has always been populated by talented athletes who just aren't instinctive baserunners. Riley, shockingly given that he is so fleet of foot, is one such player.
 
I woke up around 5:30 this morning here in the UK and went to watch the game in my living room...and discovered that my satellite box had locked up and couldn't be turned on. I decided that God was probably telling me something and decided to end the agony quickly by looking up the score on my phone, and that was that. (Turns out that my DVR had an error and failed to record the game at all.) I guess that's better than staying up all night watching your team blow a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl?
 

54thMA

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Someone needs to investigate as to whether Atlanta is built on an indian burial ground.

That's the only explanation as to that cities sports history; either that or God is torked off over the whole starting a war that killed 750,000 people over slavery thing.

Mother of God; no only do they lose, but they lose in nutpunch fashion time after time after time. This time, they blew a 3-1 series lead mainly because of two brain farts on the basepaths; how do you not score with runners on 2nd and 3rd, no outs, you'd almost have to try NOT to score there.

In my lifetime, that city has won a whopping ONE championship in the four majors (sorry, I don't count soccer, WNBA, whiffleball or whatever sport that championship is they won in 2018), while my city/Boston has won 28, roughly one every other year I've been on the planet.

I have a good customer from Atlanta, he wasn't bothering with the Braves this year, I reached out to him when they were up 3-1, sadly he started to follow along, got this email from him this morning;

"Dear George,

Can't thank you enough for conning me into believing this time Lucy was going to let Atlanta kick the football; unbelievable.........and naturally, the hero of the series was some fucking guy from the Red Sox that the Dodgers got in a trade.............thanks again, I owe you one.

Regards,
Doug"

Reminds me of that poor bastard from the orginal HBO show "Curse of the Bambino" who woke his kid up to watch the last inning of game 6 of the 1986 WS; pretty sure that kid turned out to be a serial killer.


What a tire fire.............................