10/16 NLCS Game 2: Dodgers (Kershaw) @ Cubs (Hendricks) 7:08 PM CT FS1/670

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The best umpires MLB has to offer.

 

horsefeathers out of here with that trash.

[Schwarber Fan]

Home plate ump should be held accountable for that disaster but of course he won't.

[raw]

Well......I feel good when anyone but the best non-Cub SP and RP in baseball pitches this series against the Cubs.

[Sammy Sofa]

Well, that was boring. Going to be a long couple of days.

[imb]

i would bet a lot of money that we dont come back from LA

[Thusly Boned]

I felt that if we were going to lose one game this series, it was going to be this one. Enjoy it, Dodgers, you won't get another.

[TruffleShuffle]

Man, that fastball is magic

 

yeah it magically looks like a strike despite being a foot off the plate.

[BigSlick]

bummer

 

oh well, whatever, we lose the Kershaw game. We'll win the next 3

[raw]

That was a garbage garbage strike one and Jesus why are you taking that

 

I think Bryant saw the catcher set up so wide and assumed it would be out of the zone. But Jansen badly missed right down the middle.

[squally1313]

Best of five where we only see Clayton once still strongly favors us. Big pitching advantages the next two games...put them on the ropes.

[mikeyt34]

Not much you can do but tip your cap to Kershaw and move on to Game 3.

[philosophizer75]

Must be horsefeathering nice to have an extra 3-6 inches tacked on the strikezone. Call me a meatball, but my eye-test showed the dodgers pitchers getting at least 10 calls that the cubs pitchers didn't.

[raw]

LOL. The only Cubs not to strike out today? Rizzo, Heyward, and Russell.

[BigSlick]

we win that game if a ball Baez hits goes for a homer more than 60% of the time is a homer and we didn't even play well in the game

 

ah well

[imb]

Big pitching advantages the next two games...put them on the ropes.

 

come again?

[Sammys Boombox]

Don't like Gonzalez taking a pitch in the zone for K 1 it gets called a ball and then he hits a 1st row HR. Then our best guy gets the bat taken out of his hands twice by the HP umpire. I'm beyond angry right now. One of the worst one sided HP umps I've seen in a long time. In a 1-0 game it was huge

[soccer10k]

Kershaw's definitely coming back in Game 5, right? Only threw 84 pitches tonight.

[Ski]

That was a pretty pitiful performance by our offense. Didn't work counts deep. Didn't make hard contact. Didn't make adjustments against Jansen. Seriously, he throws HARD. You have to shorten up your swing and try to string hits together.

 

Come on, guys.

[NotSoSober]

Must be [expletive] nice to have an extra 3-6 inches tacked on the strikezone. Call me a meatball, but my eye-test showed the dodgers pitchers getting at least 10 calls that the cubs pitchers didn't.

they did

[raw]

Best of five where we only see Clayton once still strongly favors us. Big pitching advantages the next two games...put them on the ropes.

 

But this is a best of 7 and we will see Kershaw twice if we don't sweep LA.....and maybe even still then.

[Brian]

Really curious to see how the Dodgers plan to go SP wise. For game 4 and 5. I'd put money on Kershaw going game 5 on 3 days rest (unless the Dodgers are up 3-1).

[Butterscup]

i would feel a lot better about going into LA up 2-0, but having arrieta-teeth-lester is good too.

[Thusly Boned]

Two days of nonsense about how the Cubs should totally definitely be worried is going to be annoying.

 

Or you could just avoid sports talk.

[raw]

That was a pretty pitiful performance by our offense. Didn't work counts deep. Didn't make hard contact. Didn't make adjustments against Jansen. Seriously, he throws HARD. You have to shorten up your swing and try to string hits together.

 

Come on, guys.

 

Agreed. They should have worked counts against a guy that only had 1 3-ball count all game. Should have also been able to make hard contact and string multiple hits together against a pitcher that nobody makes hard contact and string multiple hits together against.....nevermind the fact that the Cubs did actually make a decent amount of hard contact.

[bukie]

That was a pretty pitiful performance by our offense. Didn't work counts deep. Didn't make hard contact. Didn't make adjustments against Jansen. Seriously, he throws HARD. You have to shorten up your swing and try to string hits together.

 

Come on, guys.

This is garbage analysis. You can't work deep counts if the opposing pitcher doesn't throw pitches out of the zone. You can't shorten your swing and make hard contact at the same time, and you continue to have no clue as to how offensive players actually do things.