WS Game 5

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Dyson had no shot there.  Not a chance.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Dyson is awful.

Well, I would submit that Bumgarner is very, very good.

 

[LuckyBen]

Well, I would submit that Bumgarner is very, very good.

I meant in combination with his misplays in center.

 

[glasspusher]

Unlike Shields, Bum doesn't give a rats if his fielders have trouble behind him

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Unlike Shields, Bum doesn't give a rats if his fielders have trouble behind him

 
Well, he won't let it get to him.  That said, they asked Ishikawa who he wouldn't want to piss off on the Giants after he shoved Peavy out of the way coming home from his LCS walk-off and he immediately mentioned Bumgarner.  I suspect that Ishikawa will be on the opposite end of the dugout from him during this half inning.

 

[Tangled Up In Red]

 
The twist was what I mentioned upthread: the fielder who caught the ball was out cold. The baerunners were "tagging up" when his teammate came over, took the ball out of his glove to throw it in. It was ruled not a catch since the release was not intentional, though the ball never hit the ground.

But the ball never hit the ground. How is that different than a play where one fielder bobbled the ball and another grabs it and secures it?

In the unconscious scenario, the second man makes the "catch". (And do the runners leave early?)

 

[soxhop411]

Royals need to work the count and get him out of the game if they want a chance to win this

 

[rembrat]

Oh, boy, here we go.

 

[soxhop411]

This is not promising. Royals.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Shields reminded me a tad of Mariano ('04) on that Panik hit.

 

[P'tucket rhymes with...]

Fox should have some sort of graphic meter that gauges how much Shields's sphincter is tightening up.

 

[Harry Hooper]

But the ball never hit the ground. How is that different than a play where one fielder bobbled the ball and another grabs it and secures it?

In the unconscious scenario, the second man makes the "catch". (And do the runners leave early?)

 
 
If the ball rattles out of my glove and you snag it with yours in mid-air, you get credit for a catch (and I don't). If the ball stays in my glove and you take it out of my glove, then it's no catch and the ball is in play.

 

[P'tucket rhymes with...]

Royals need to work the count and get him out of the game if they want a chance to win this

He has sixty-four pitches, forty-nine of them strikes.  If they try to work the count they're going to go down looking.

 

[rembrat]

Yea can we please not sign Pablo. That was horrible.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

Re: Sandoval, we've covered him several times in various threads but know what you are getting with him - he looks great in this series and has been pretty good in the playoffs.  But the guy will drive a lot of Sox fans crazy with his lack of plate discipline.  He led MLB in O-swing% this season and was second last year...to beloved former Red Sox A.J. Pierzynski

 
Case in point.

 

[Van Everyman]

Lorenzo SHANE

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

Day-um.

 

[Ed Hillel]

Holy crap.

 

[rembrat]

You blast them, we track them.

 

[InsideTheParker]

LORENZO CAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Al Zarilla]

That Panda swing is an example of what DeJesus has been talking about. 
 
Cain, Able, all that.

 

[glasspusher]

Wooo...
 
I was all set to say tonight that Shields is about as clutch as an automatic transmission, but he hasn't pitched too bad thus far. Nice catch by Cain there equalizes the sucky defense he got last inning.

 

[soxhop411]

Score some damn runs royals. Make this game

 

[soxhop411]

Cain. Not a GG according to MLB. That award is such a fraud

 

[soxhop411]

....

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Needing to beat Peavy and Hudson at home isn't that daunting a task.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Score some damn runs royals. Make this game

I think they would like to but Bumgarner is making it extremely difficult.

 

[soxhop411]

Needing to beat Peavy and Hudson at home isn't that daunting a task.

Reports are that Bumgarner could come out of the pen

 

[glasspusher]

cruising

 

[Al Zarilla]

Cain. Not a GG according to MLB. That award is such a fraud

Thinking he was kind of "punished" for splitting time between center and right, but nowadays, outfielders are voted as just "outfielders" aren't they? Cain played CF in 93 games this season, RF in 77. 

 

[mauidano]

Bumgarner is in Pedro Martinez like Beast Mode.

 

[soxhop411]

Thinking he was kind of "punished" for splitting time between center and right, but nowadays, outfielders are voted as just "outfielders" aren't they? Cain played CF in 93 games this season, RF in 77. 

It's been a fraud award for a while. After Jeter "won" it multiple times when there were many AL SS better than him in the field.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

Thinking he was kind of "punished" for splitting time between center and right, but nowadays, outfielders are voted as just "outfielders" aren't they? Cain played CF in 93 games this season, RF in 77. 

 
Other way around. They used to be voted as just outfielders, but three CFs would win the award every year so they broke it down by position to give the corner OFs a chance.

 

[Al Zarilla]

It's been a fraud award for a while. After Jeter "won" it multiple times when there were many AL SS better than him in the field.

True, but the special ones usually rise up and win it, like Andrelton Simmons, not that Cain is in that class quite.

 

[Al Zarilla]

 
Other way around. They used to be voted as just outfielders, but three CFs would win the award every year so they broke it down by position to give the corner OFs a chance.

OK, so Cain may have lost out because of split votes. 

 

[soxhop411]

The royals will NOT score any runs this inning.

 

[glasspusher]

"When you're on a roll, you make all the right moves"
 
more words of wisdom from HR

 

[soxhop411]

No PH?

 

[soxhop411]

Bad job yost

 

[Al Zarilla]

HR making a mountain out of a mole hill there. The ball hung up for a long time and you could see either CF or RF had it. 

 

[glasspusher]

Dominant

 

[Al Zarilla]

Looking like Bumgarner----> Casilla. 

 

[soxhop411]

Troubling

 

[mauidano]

The royals will NOT score any runs this inning.

Probably not the rest of the night either. Bumgarner is toying with them.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

HR making a mountain out of a mole hill there. The ball hung up for a long time and you could see either CF or RF had it. 

 
For a minute there I thought he had really forgotten you have to tag up on a fly ball.
 
He's an epic idiot.

 

[Harry Hooper]

HR making a mountain out of a mole hill there. The ball hung up for a long time and you could see either CF or RF had it. 

 
More of the same from last game, every play was outstanding.

 

[Tangled Up In Red]

She hit that note.

 

[soxhop411]

Is that a spaceship? Must have been hell to make

 

[Tangled Up In Red]

Shields pitched well, all told.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Shields pitched well, all told.

 
Escobar cost him at least one run