NLDS Game Thread

[Harry Hooper]

Sorry, I'll try to make it more clear when I post the SP match ups tomorrow. 

 
No, I hadn't read this thread at all until now. For some reason, I thought the Angels game was starting around 11:00 to avoid overlap, Clicked on Fox regular and saw no game and figured I had it backwards.. 
 
The warning is not for you but for MLB. Good luck hooking casual fans when the schedule/networks is this complicated.

 

[johnmd20]

Runner on. Already better than the Nats 9th inning.

 

[patinorange]

Bc he seems smart, relatively speaking, or bc this shows you don't need a smart manager to make the playoffs?

Ned Yost. If he wins the World Series like our guy JF did, and finishes last next year, like our guy JF did, does he get the free pass for the following year? I don't think so.

I don't think Mattingly keeps his job if they lose this series.

 

[LogansDad]

Reynolds: "That looked like a changup down"
 
Other guy (is it Smoltz?): "No, that was a fastball, at 99 MPH"

 

[johnmd20]

Two runners on, IN scoring position.

 

[hbk72777]

The temperature must've gone up

 

[johnmd20]

Reynolds: "That looked like a changup down"
 
Other guy (is it Smoltz?): "No, that was a fastball, at 99 MPH"

 
Smoltz??!!?

 

[ifmanis5]

Heck of a game, really.

 

[Catcher Block]

Going to be fun to watch Puig here.

 

[VORP Speed]

Nail-biting time.....

 

[LogansDad]

 
Smoltz??!!?

Any time Reynolds is involved, I don't pay that much attention.... I assume it's Eck, with this response

 

[DJnVa]

Wait, did they just say Rosenthal threw the 5th most pitches in the NL this year?  As a reliever?  That is insane

 
Well, I wasn't listening, but they clearly didn't say a guy that threw 70 IP threw the 5th most pitches in the league. You can't honestly think that...

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Well, I wasn't listening, but they clearly didn't say a guy that threw 70 IP threw the 5th most pitches in the league. You can't honestly think that...

He's 87th in the NL. But with this crew they may very well have said it.

 

[Catcher Block]

Holy shit this is fun.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Take some swing out, Puig. But he won't.

 

[canderson]

I hate both these teams.

 

[DJnVa]

He's 87th in the NL. But with this crew they may very well have said it.

 
Sure, but the poster said "That's insane" like he couldn't believe that was true and not "this announcers is an idiot" because it's clearly not true.

 

[DJnVa]

Take some swing out, Puig. But he won't.

 
He shouldn't alter the way he hits.

 

[ifmanis5]

Gassed.

 

[Catcher Block]

Rosenthal has a good hook, but I can't image he'd throw it here.

 

[VORP Speed]

Uggggghhhhhhh

 

[MakMan44]

The way this postseason has been going, I'm actually shocked Rosenthal closed it out. 

 

[canderson]

... but that was a fun game. Kershaw is the anti big game pitcher.

 

[Harry Hooper]

I guess I didn't miss much.

 

[ifmanis5]

I hate that Buck is happy. But I hate LA more. Fun game to watch, though.

 

[patinorange]

Wow. 4 or 5 in a row at 100mph.

 

[LogansDad]

He's 87th in the NL. But with this crew they may very well have said it.

I just rewound it, and as Rosenthal is warming, Buck says, "He had a heavy workload.... he threw the 5th most pitches in the National League this year."
 
I swear to god.

 

[VORP Speed]

Puig blew his chance for a Gibson moment there

 

[LogansDad]

 
Sure, but the poster said "That's insane" like he couldn't believe that was true and not "this announcers is an idiot" because it's clearly not true.

Right, god forbid I have any semblence of belief in the guy who goes on TV to give me facts about the game I'm watching.... lesson learned.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

I just rewound it, and as Rosenthal is warming, Buck says, "He had a heavy workload.... he threw the 5th most pitches in the National League this year."
 
I swear to god.

They set some kind of record for stupid tonight.

 

[Al Zarilla]

 
He shouldn't alter the way he hits.

He shouldn't, or nobody should? I don't mean he should try to just tap the ball somewhere, but don't try to hit it 500 feet either. 

 

[Remagellan]

This day has been awesome for baseball

 

[InsideTheParker]

 
No, I hadn't read this thread at all until now. For some reason, I thought the Angels game was starting around 11:00 to avoid overlap, Clicked on Fox regular and saw no game and figured I had it backwards.. 
 
The warning is not for you but for MLB. Good luck hooking casual fans when the schedule/networks is this complicated.

The sad thing is that people who can't afford cable/satellite are missing it. I have a low-income friend who listens to local baseball games on WEEI all season but (foolishly, it turns out) expects to be able to watch the post-season games. The situation is worsened  b/c ESPN radio is very faint where she lives. So, she has to miss all this baseball goodness and will have to settle for seeing the WS. 

 

[runnels3]

Alright a little Nats pre-game here. Turn back the clock. Anybody seen this? Excellent​ footage from 1924 WS game 7.
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/02/rare-world-series-footage-1924_n_5923094.html
 
Never mind. I see this already has its own thread.

 

[MakMan44]

Game 2s today: 
 
Giants lead the Nats 1-0. Game starts at 5:30 EDT on Fox Sports 1. How to find Fox Sports 1 on your TV
 
Pitching match up features Jordan Zimmerman for the Nats (coming off a no hitter last time out) vs Tim Hudson for the Giants.
 
Cardinals beats the Dodgers last night to take a 1-0 lead. Their game starts at 9:30 on MLB Network. 
 
Zack Greinke gets the start for the Dodgers and he faces Lance Lynn of the Cardinals. 

 

[DJnVa]

Right, god forbid I have any semblence of belief in the guy who goes on TV to give me facts about the game I'm watching.... lesson learned.

Well, snark aside one network puts Harold Reynolds on the air. Clearly you shouldn't trust what he says.

 

[Al Zarilla]

The sad thing is that people who can't afford cable/satellite are missing it. I have a low-income friend who listens to local baseball games on WEEI all season but (foolishly, it turns out) expects to be able to watch the post-season games. The situation is worsened  b/c ESPN radio is very faint where she lives. So, she has to miss all this baseball goodness and will have to settle for seeing the WS. 

I feel for your friend. Last time back there in the summer, and driving a lot, I got Yankee games as often as Red Sox, both fading in and out depending on where we were. 
 
I have a rant about today's games, actually the start times. Baseball is setting record attendance marks but they still cower to football and TV. I know, TV is huge money.Today's start time in Washington, 5:30, will bring those sunset effects, like yellow glow in the bleachers in the hitters sight and also half sun and half shade between the pitcher and the hitters. Goody with Zimmerman going. Hudson doesn't throw hard. The late game will have a little of the same and is at 9:30 eastern, so it will end tomorrow for easterners. Why not 1 or 2 pm eastern for the Nats - Giants and 2 or 3 western for the Dodgers - Cards? Football is in the equation too, I'm sure, although college ball has moves its best games to prime time in recent years so what the hell. 
 
Rant off. Playoff baseball has been fantastic so far. 

 

[jon abbey]

Postseason baseball TV coverage is always terrible (at least in the wild card era, if not longer), start times always suck and every national announcing team is worse than the worst local team (OK, maybe not Hawk Harrelson). 

 

[Al Zarilla]

Postseason baseball TV coverage is always terrible (at least in the wild card era, if not longer), start times always suck and every national announcing team is worse than the worst local team (OK, maybe not Hawk Harrelson). 

You're probably not old enough to remember, but I think the local announcers did the world series years ago. Or, maybe it seemed that way because Mel Allen did like all of them when I was a kid. Yankees won practically every year and he was the Yankees announcer. Could also have been because he was really good and got all the gigs. Red Barber and of course Vin Scully were around then too. Russ Hodges. Have to do some Googling about that. It would be so great if Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow were doing the Giants games instead of Vasgersian. I'm sure fans of every team playing feel the same about their own announcers.

 

[Remagellan]

You're probably not old enough to remember, but I think the local announcers did the world series years ago. Or, maybe it seemed that way because Mel Allen did like all of them when I was a kid. Yankees won practically every year and he was the Yankees announcer. Could also have been because he was really good and got all the gigs. Red Barber and of course Vin Scully were around then too. Russ Hodges. Have to do some Googling about that. It would be so great if Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow were doing the Giants games instead of Vasgersian. I'm sure fans of every team playing feel the same about their own announcers.

 
 
I think that was standard practice back then.  NBC had the rights and they would use their regular guy (Curt Gowdy and/or Joe Garagiola) supplemented by the local announcer of the city they were in.  So for the 1975 Series, they worked with Dick Stockton and Ned Martin in the games in Fenway, and Marty Brennaman in the games in Riverfront Stadium.  That ended in 1977 when ABC started sharing the rights with NBC and both networks just used their regular broadcast teams.  

 

[jon abbey]

They tried it with the NCAA hoops Final Four games this year, and it worked out great. Even the worst local announcers know way more about the minutiae of their teams than the terrible national guys, I really hope this happens again someday. 

 

[Harry Hooper]

The sad thing is that people who can't afford cable/satellite are missing it. I have a low-income friend who listens to local baseball games on WEEI all season but (foolishly, it turns out) expects to be able to watch the post-season games. The situation is worsened  b/c ESPN radio is very faint where she lives. So, she has to miss all this baseball goodness and will have to settle for seeing the WS. 

 
 
Yes, Fox regular is barely doing any games until the WS. I know there are tv series the networks don't want to disrupt, but I really can't believe they didn't feature that Dodgers game on a Friday night. 
 
On a related point, trying to listen to 850 ESPN Boston in the car the other day with the game on was just about unlistenable. I guess the cost-cutting has reduced the wattage of their signal quite a bit. 

 

[aslot123]

It's not about disrupting tv series. It's about increasing viewership to raise subscription rates.

 

[Sprowl]

Dispenced.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Are you rooting, Sprowl? I should root for the Nats, since the Giants have won twice recently, but I find I like the Giants, for some reason.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Smoltz's little theory, if it was him that started it, that Hudson pitches a lot like Peavy, and that gives the Nats an advantage is not working out so far. The other side of the coin is if they couldn't hit Peavy, and Hudson pitches the same, they won't hit him either. 

 

[Harry Hooper]

It's not about disrupting tv series. It's about increasing viewership to raise subscription rates.

 
If you mean force-feeding FS1 into some sort of relevance, then yes. Bud & Co. cashed the checks and let their product be used & abused by the networks.

 

[Al Zarilla]

HP ump has a generous zone today.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

I don't just despise the NL rules, but I also simply cannot understand the sensibility that likes them. It objectively sucks. It is so obviously and dramatically inferior that I cannot understand any reasonable argument in its favor.

 

[MakMan44]

Sweet. Let's go Nats.