WS Game 6

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MakMan44 said:
Gaelgirl is sitting on pins and needles. 
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And I'm on the fence. I like the Giants as a second, or NL team, and there is a lot to like about them from their ownership, GM, manager, coaches, players, announcers, fans, park, everything. But, I like the Red Sox having the most titles in this [SIZE=13.63636302948px]century/[/SIZE]millennium. That's it. I couldn't care less about the Kansas City Royals and their 29 years going without, any more than I'd root for the Cleveland Browns or the Detroit Lions if they got deep into the playoffs. You get out what you put into something, and maybe they haven't been. Put all that aside; with Peavy on the mound, has to be go Giants.
 
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Peavy starts Game 6 of the World Series in Kansas City on Tuesday, with the Giants one victory from the championship. If a duck boat is the quintessential Boston souvenir, then a cable car would be the San Francisco treat.

Not that Peavy wanted to say so, not just yet. The Giants players and their families arrived in Kansas City late Monday afternoon, and Peavy invited two of his sons to join him at a news conference. The boys wore plaid dress shirts. Dad wore a blazer, and he artfully ducked the issue of the San Francisco equivalent of the duck boat.

"We kicked around some options on some memorabilia possibly to take home to commemorate this," Peavy said, "if we are fortunate enough to make it happen."

That would have sufficed if his son, seated next to him on the podium, had kept his mouth shut.

"We picked out a trolley car," Wyatt said, quietly.

"I'll get into that if and when this thing happens," Jake said, laughing.

"I think we already picked out our trolley car," Wyatt said, loudly.
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Good article speculating about how Bochy will handle Peavy tonight.
 
I think Peavy gets one time through the order barring a disaster, then gets yanked the next time he's got two men on base (so probably 3-4 innings).  Bochy will bring in Lopez/Machi to clean up Peavy's mess, go to Petit to start the next inning, then ride him for 2-3 innings until he can get to Affeldt/Romo/Casilla.
 
I don't expect to see Lincecum or Strickland beyond mop-up duty if things get out of hand.
 
 
Edit:  Hmmm...even shorter leash, maybe.
 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It would have been a cruel ending to his renaissance when San Francisco Giants starter Jake Peavy feared his season could be over three days.
A foul ball caromed into the Giants dugout Friday night in Game 3 of the World Series, and Peavy foolishly stuck out his right hand to catch it.
The ball skipped off his right thumb, bending it all the way back and tearing off skin. Peavy has been undergoing treatment, wrapping his thumb in ice each day to calm the swelling.
"Fortunately, it's a non-issue now," Peavy tells USA TODAY Sports. "If it had kept me from making this start, and not being part of winning the World Series, that would have been just devastating."
 
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Unless Peavy is a diaster, I don't see him leaving after 3. You need some semblance of a BP for a possible game 7.  Petit should be preferred to Lincecum, though to start an inning if it's before 7.
 
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Fun, meaningless stats:
 
Peavy 1-6 in 8 starts at Kauffman Stadium, 6.50 ERA (33 ER, 45 2/3 innings) is highest among active pitchers (minimum 40 innings). #sfgiants
 
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Peavy 1-4, 7.05 ERA (29 ER, 37.IP) in eight postseason starts, 0-1, 6.00 in two World Series starts (6 ER, 9 IP). #sfgiants
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I would still like to see the Royals win. I'm OK if SF is the better team. I'm glad that the series hasn't been a blowout either way (the last two games nonwithstanding), unlike 2007 when midnight came hard for Cinderella...but I was OK with that ;)
 
Edit: regardless of the outcome of this game or series, I'd be happy to buy Jake Peavy a beer any time I meet him.
 
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Paging Eric Van....(apologies if this was covered in a prior thread)
 
 
Instead of hopping on a plane right after a playoff game, as ball clubs have traditionally done -- and as the Royals have done in this Series -- the Giants now send players to bed for the night and head out late the next morning. It's a subtle change the Giants made a few years ago after consulting with Dr. Chris Winter, the medical director of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Sleep Medicine Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But Posey did not discount the pillow talk.
"I really like it,'' the catcher said in the clubhouse after a Game 5 victory on Sunday. "I don't know what time it is right now, but I figure if we left tonight we'd get in at 3 or 4 a.m. -- maybe.
"I know flying later kind of eats up the whole next day, but it's nice to get a full night's sleep."
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Giants head athletic trainer Dave Groeschner was among the first to embrace the change in travel plans. In consultation with Winter, along with general manger Brian Sabean, assistant G.M. Bobby Evans, manager Bruce Bochy and director of team travel Bret Alexander, the team decided to abandon all those all night flights in favor of a more natural rest.
They found it incredibly helpful in 2010, when they opened against two East Coast opponents -- Atlanta in the first round and Philadelphia in the National League Championship Series.
 
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Bochy is going to play this like he plays every postseason series potential winning game: Like it's an elimination game for the Giants. It will be all hands on deck tonight. 
 
Pins and needles isn't even close to describing my nerves right now. In a few minutes I'm heading out to a bar to grab a table for my friends and I to watch tonight. I know we've won twice already in the last five years, but you never know what the future holds. I've watched the Giants collapse and lose a LOT of playoffs in my life. I know how quickly this all can end. The most talented Giants team never even made the playoffs (in a 102-win season!). This is an elusive, mysterious and extremely difficult trophy to win. We have to take every chance we've got.
 
Go Giants, go Peavy, go Pence and bring it home, boys. Please. 
 
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I think the Giants get it done tonight. Lopez the win, Davis the loss. No surprises now - both teams have seen everything the other has to offer. It's all down to execution and managing...
 
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So if the Giants catch up to the Red Sox in rings this century, they're a dynasty?
 
I dunno about that.
 
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Scenario for Bumgarner to pitch tonight: if Bochy uses up Lopez early in a critical situation against a LHH, and if Affeldt also comes in in an early inning, then, Bum becomes the only lefty left in the pen. If the game is on the line with Hosmer, Gordon or Moustakas up, or coming up, he could come in. That would make for great theater. I heard his in between side session could be either tonight or tomorrow night, so he'd be throwing full on, 40 pitches or so. Could be in tonight's game instead because there's nada after tomorrow. 
 
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Rasputin said:
So if the Giants catch up to the Red Sox in rings this century, they're a dynasty?
 
I dunno about that.
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3 rings in 5 years would be pretty impressive
 
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Not a corporate sounding crowd like AT&T was for game 4, huh?
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Yeah. I'm not sure the last time I saw a crowd in any sport this into a game. The entire crowd was on its feet chanting from the first pitch. Incredible the energy in that park.
 
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I wonder if Peavy (and Workman/Doubront/Lester/Buchholz) would have had a chance on Halloween last year if it had come to it.  I'm really really glad we'll never know.
 
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E5 Yaz said:
 
3 rings in 5 years would be pretty impressive
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No question, more impressive than three rings in ten years even. I'm just not sure it fits the dynasty label. Of course, I'm also not sure that it doesn't fit the dynasty label.
 
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