WS Game 7: A Curse Dies and a Curse Continues
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I know. But I always loved the anecdote about JWH saying "can we just fire him right now?" after 2003 game 7 8th inning.
I don't know, the ending of Super Bowl 49 was pretty weird
Yeah, sort of like how the silver lining of Super Bowl 50 is that Manning was so bad that people couldn't talk him up.
It became known two years ago when he pitched in the playoffs for Oakland against KC
Only guy that wasn't overworked was Hendricks, and his idiot manager pulled him because the ump screwed him on a bad call.
I'm very, very curious to see what Chapman does. If I were Maddon, and Lester is cruising, I don't bring in Chapman until he gets into some trouble. Make it a real save situation. Of course, Maddon will probably bring him out to start the 7th, and ask him for 9 outs, and then never warm anyone up until it's over.
Ah, gotcha, ok. So it popped up and then he acknowledged he's always had an issue with it? Or it developed then?
At one point Lester had what was considered a good move to 1B with us, no?
I definitely thought so. I'm at least positive it was never anything that became an issue when he was here.
I can see a 'Pesky held the ball' type stigma attached to him for the rest of his life.
Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman both started this season with the Yankees, right? And they had Betances too? They should have won every single game in which they had a lead after 5 innings. Man, they had some issues with starting pitching and their lineup.
Really? I mean, lets say he held it too long. Kluber was clearly struggling and that throw isn't the difference in the game. I would say that Tito is even vindicated because his pitching looks gassed overall.
I think it became a thing at some point during 2014. Lester didn't attempt a pickoff during the entire 2014 season.
He did. Then he just stopped doing it: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/jon-lester-pickoff-throws-but/
I feel like in game threads someone mentioned it even before then and it was like "wow, he really does never throw to first" and like for a couple of years we occasionally wondered why no commentator ever mentioned it, except Remy like once a year. I think there was sort of a conspiracy to keep it quiet.
I think we might be playing up the concussion angle a bit. He has concerns perhaps more than most, but he wasn't hit by a bat, foul ball or errant 100 mph fastball. It was a bounced pitch that caught him. Not saying that couldn't affect a guy with Grandpa Rossi's history, but not the most vicious of blows.
I definitely remember it being a problem throwing accurately to first and a reluctance to keep runners on, but it was never as bad as it seems to be now.
