2022 WC Round Gamethread Day 1 (use separate threads for rest of weekend)

[shawnrbu]

Harper going deep here.

 

[shawnrbu]

“Your biggest home run threat even though Schwarber has 46.”

I love when A-Rod contradicts himself in the same sentence.

 

[shawnrbu]

Yadier Molina is “Tom Brady-like.”

 

[Al Zarilla]

Statcast has his extension as 84th percentile, so he's certainly up there in terms of how close to the plate his release point is.

Yeah, thanks for the stat. It didn't look all that long to me (Kay exaggerating). The guy who had a really exaggerated stride for a not so big guy was Tim Lincecum.

 

[jon abbey]

David Robertson in for the Phil's. Kay says he's got the longest stride of any MLB pitcher (at 5'11"?). Now I'll be watching pitchers' stride lengths for a week.

It's release point more than stride length, but yes, this is why his stuff has played up his whole career.

https://www.sbnation.com/2012/5/4/2999268/david-robertson-mariano-rivera-injury-yankees-closer

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

“Your biggest home run threat even though Schwarber has 46.”

I love when A-Rod contradicts himself in the same sentence.

I don't care who wins this series but whoever wins this game has to win tomorrow, if only to save us from a third game of Kay-Rod.

 

[jon abbey]

Statcast has his extension as 84th percentile, so he's certainly up there in terms of how close to the plate his release point is.

Heh, I was going to say I doubt that is still true, but it was true for a few years back when he was a Yankee and someone told Kay that on the YES broadcast.

 

[mauidano]

I don't care who wins this series but whoever wins this game has to win tomorrow, if only to save us from a third game of Kay-Rod.

The two of them make me take deep breaths and exhale hard.

 

[johnmd20]

Helsley is having a little bit of control trouble.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Harper going deep here.

Well, you made me look, at any rate. I sort of hate these predictions which sound like descriptions because I am watching the other game.

 

[LogansDad]

Helsley looking.... not good.

 

[johnmd20]

Man, you gotta get this guy out of there.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Molina, catching for the Cards since 2004. Amazing.

 

[LogansDad]

Oh wow. Beans in a run.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Hey, Siri, shut up with your ads alla time, b/c I "need" to focus on the game.

 

[Catcher Block]

Helsley jammed his right index finger a few days ago when fielding a ground ball. They thought he was okay, but it appears not.

 

[johnmd20]

They are trying to get extra time for the guy coming in.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

That was some baaaaaad managing just now.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Interesting stall for time with the trainer coming out. Get him out of there.

 

[jmcc5400]

What bullshit gamesmanship from the Cards to buy their reliever some additional warm-up pitches.

 

[bosox188]

They are trying to get extra time for the guy coming in.

Yea they probably want Flaherty, who's of course normally a starter.

Edit: Nope, looks like Pallante.

 

[johnmd20]

Awful swing at 2-1 there.

 

[johnmd20]

Oh man, true seeing eye single.

 

[Catcher Block]

Got the ground ball he wanted, but just hit too perfectly.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

That was a nice piece of hititng but could have been handled for at least 1 out.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Was the infield in there?

 

[LogansDad]

WOW

 

[LogansDad]

Was the infield in there?

Looked like mid way to me.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Was the infield in there?

Halfway. The best of no worlds.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Looked like mid way to me.

Yeah, Kay said halfway or a little closer.i think standard depth was the play.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Go big, get none. Could have gone for 2.

 

[LogansDad]

Think they said earlier, this is Segura's first career post season game after 1328 regular season games. Not a bad entry.

 

[canderson]

That was a tremendous slide.

 

[LogansDad]

Meanwhile, Manoah is locked in.

 

[jon abbey]

The Curse Of Jordan Montgomery

 

[Al Zarilla]

Arenado? Oh my god.

 

[bosox188]

I cannot believe Arenado just did that

 

[jon abbey]

5 runs in, just one out. I think the infielders are having trouble picking up ground balls somehow.

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

Kurkjian is the opposite of everything I said earlier about Glanville. He should only be a guy down on the field who you hear from once every inning or two. His constant trivia hammering is exhausting – especially delivered in the tone of a muppet.

 

[LogansDad]

And Cards fans flood the exit.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Wow, look at those "best fans in the game" streaming out of the park. Yikes.

 

[canderson]

6 run top of the 9th, my word.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Kurkjian is the opposite of everything I said earlier about Glanville. He should only be a guy down on the field who you hear from once every inning or two. His constant trivia hammering is exhausting – especially delivered in the tone of a muppet.

He is a Muppet, isn't he?

 

[LogansDad]

Man, those overlays showing release point and movement make it just astounding that hitters can hit these pitches.

 

[LogansDad]

And Castillo has settled in as well.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

A-Rod crediting Rob Thomson for the "strategy" of taking a HBP as a way to manufacture runs. He can't stop talking.

 

[ernieshore]

Wow, look at those "best fans in the game" streaming out of the park. Yikes.

Yeah- it’s a playoff game and 4.30 on a Friday….maybe stay an extra 15 minutes.

 

[bosox188]

Man, those overlays showing release point and movement make it just astounding that hitters can hit these pitches.

Yea, I'm looking over at Castillo throwing these 100mph sinkers and it's just astounding.

 

[LogansDad]

They just used a wfieswap joke in a Snicker ad. I'm rolling.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Nice play Schwarbs. Not too challenging.