New game thread. All of you who had Tyler Mahle pitching for the Braves against the Dodgers in Game 4 of NLDS go to the head of the queue.
Do or Die Worked Last Time….
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I subscribe to the 10 run theory from the previous thread. Let’s hit early and often.
What’s the record for a player scoring on a wild pitch in an NLDS?
Not looking good – at this rate we’ll only score 9 (or maybe 8).
Sean, you’re in for one reason: defense
Good grief.
walks are gonna be the death of us
It’s the little things. Harris needs to take the extra base. Acuna can’t watch that FB for a strike. Murphy needs to put that ball in his pocket. And Yaz needed to call off Dubon. 1-1. Start over.
Oh good lord. A walk and 2 errors.
I think one of the reasons I usually get so angry during the postseason is that things always seem to happen that don’t in the regular season. Normally very good defensively? Let’s make 2 errors in the same inning, including a dropped pop-up, which quite literally almost never happens, to any team.
It happens to the playoff Braves. Also, Chris Sale had given up 3 earned runs or more 6 times in 27 starts in the regular season, but he gave up 3 runs in 2 of 2 playoff starts. Sale had given up 10 home runs all season and only gave up 2 or more home runs in a start once (in April), but he gave up 2 to the Dodgers. Sale never had an ERA of 3 or greater in any month of the season, but he had an ERA of 4+ in the playoffs.
neither Riley nor Acuna can put a ball in play.
It really was a miracle that Riley hit that homer off Duran. Swung hard with an uppercut and connected
Mahle looks like he’s slipping a little despite the low pitch count. See if he can get through six, then Suarez-Fuentes-Iglesias?
Got to start taking advantage of walks.
Brutal. Olson smoked that.
EDIT: Can’t do much better than Mahle. If this is the end of his season, I hope we offer him a contract tomorrow.
You just cannot do more than Tyler Mahle. Beast!
Now let’s score some dang runs.
Stop watching the ball! Run like hell!
I really thought that was gone. Unfortunately so did Ozzie. We have GOT to get him in.
Ugh. Just…so bad. So very very bad.
Launch Sean Murphy into the sun. And do the same with whoever is telling these guys to swing at first pitches.
I know you guys don’t want to hear this but two of the Dodger runs were the result of walks.
18 walks by braves this series and none of them scored
amazing
maybe they shoulda put Harris and Albies back-to-back
Harris double, Acuña hits a chopper to short on the next pitch. Loud boos at Truist.
Trade him.
I’m reminded that October is pumpkin season.
If there isn’t a work stoppage, AA’s top offseason task is to improve this offense. Sure, we could use a starting pitcher or 2, but the last 3 seasons the offense is simply not good enough to win the pennant.
We can hope that a year removed from core surgery can help Riley get closer to career norms and that Acuña can stay healthy for once, but I don’t think we can count on that.
I seem to recall someone saying it wasn’t over till it’s over. I’m still hoping against hope till then.
How long have I been saying that pitching is not the problem (two walks by Fuentes notwithstanding)?
Max Muncy just spitting on us now…
Coffin meet nail.
Disappointing but can’t be surprised. Offense sucked most of the year. This was a winnable series but hard to win with only 2 hitters.
If Murphy had gotten one more futile AB, that wouldve been everyone hitting under .200 except Harris and albies.
Great season by a great team. We got beat by a better one. That’s baseball.
It was a great season. I hate the playoffs (well, I hate losing in the playoffs) because after 6 (mostly) good months of baseball and a division title, 4 games leave me pissed off about the whole thing. I’ll get over it.
So I guess it isn’t “do.” Thanks for the season everybody.
Thank you, JonathanF, and all of the recappers.
Thanks to all the recappers and posters for their commentary. Thanks to JonathanF for managing the site. I was an English major, so I don’t do numbers and graphs, but I appreciate your hard work. Most of all, I appreciate your sense of humor, which we all will need to get us through a long winter.
We were just not the better team this year, I’m satisfied with eliminating the Phillies.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the site; I didn’t post much this year but I check in daily to read posts and comments.
Best wishes to everyone, and go Rays, I guess
Recapped.