10/18 NLCS Game 3: Cubs (Jake) @ Dodgers (Rich Hill) & Stupid Old Umpire 7:00 PM CT FS1/670

[UMFan83]

Lower AVG and OBP than the 2015 NLCS. Didn't know that was possible.

 

worse than 07-08 yet?

[Outshined_One]

at this rate the dodgers wont pitch Kershaw in Game 5 because they'll be saving him for Game 1

 

Come back in a week and we'll talk.

[Gilby]

I wonder if the plan is to have Rob Z be Lackey's lefty piggy back partner tomorrow. That'd be kinda weird.

[ScrubMD]

Not even Baez is magic anymore.

[SpongeWorthy]

i hate the horsefeathering doyers

[Tim]

We've still got this.

 

But I may be drunk

[NOLA]

Stealing third up 5-0. This is when I wish we were the cards.

Wait a horsefeathering second now.

[Thusly Boned]

We've still got this.

 

But I may be drunk

 

I'll assume that you mean the series

[UMFan83]

 

It's going to be Lackey.

 

That's what he wants you to think. Pulled after 77 pitches in game 1, last chance to get 3 starts by LHP in the series, Dodgers hit 175 points of OPS less against lefties, Cubs in a situation where it's not must win but probably should win, every other manager is abusing their starters and having success etc

 

Have lackey go against kershaw in game 5, maybe he will have a chip on his shoulder and match him.

 

Starting Lester in Game 4 will make me want to scream into a pillow, a capper on a truly garbage baseball day

 

You are smart. Why is it such a bad idea when the dodgers are a completely different team against LHP? They are like the 95 Indians against righties and the....206 NLCS Cubs against lefties.

 

Ok maybe that's a liiitle bit extreme but I don't trust us to win 3 of 4 games when 3 of the games will be started by right handed pitching. It's a bit of a gamble because of the 3 days but I feel better knowing Lester is going 2 more times. He's had a really light work load lately.

 

Now you respond with 500 reasons why my thinking is all wrong and change my mind

[Thusly Boned]

Stealing third up 5-0. This is when I wish we were the cards.

Wait a [expletive] second now.

 

Yeah, we don't need anyone going full meatball

[Tim]

We've still got this.

 

But I may be drunk

 

I'll assume that you mean the series

Both!

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

That's what he wants you to think. Pulled after 77 pitches in game 1, last chance to get 3 starts by LHP in the series, Dodgers hit 175 points of OPS less against lefties, Cubs in a situation where it's not must win but probably should win, every other manager is abusing their starters and having success etc

 

Have lackey go against kershaw in game 5, maybe he will have a chip on his shoulder and match him.

 

Starting Lester in Game 4 will make me want to scream into a pillow, a capper on a truly garbage baseball day

 

You are smart. Why is it such a bad idea when the dodgers are a completely different team against LHP? They are like the 95 Indians against righties and the....206 NLCS Cubs against lefties.

 

Ok maybe that's a liiitle bit extreme but I don't trust us to win 3 of 4 games when 3 of the games will be started by right handed pitching. It's a bit of a gamble because of the 3 days but I feel better knowing Lester is going 2 more times. He's had a really light work load lately.

 

Now you respond with 500 reasons why my thinking is all wrong and change my mind

 

Because Jon Lester is not Jon Lester on 3 days rest, and Jon Lester is especially not Jon Lester when you start him back to back on 3 days rest. It's especially because of the latter that you don't do it, because you either start Lester doing his best Lackey equivalent in Game 7, or you have a need to start Lackey anyway prior to that point.

[ScrubMD]

Stealing third up 5-0. This is when I wish we were the cards.

Wait a [expletive] second now.

 

Yeah, we don't need anyone going full meatball

 

Although this is the point in the video game when I just start throwing at everybody.

[Derwood]

Roberts leaving Jansen out there with this lead is baffling but whatevs

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Please let bringing Jansen back out for the 9th up 6-0 burn the Dodgers this series.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Down 2-1 and 4-0 are two very, very different scenarios. Board up the windows, padlock the knife drawer and medicine cabinet and go to sleep. For tomorrow, we win.

[Thusly Boned]

We've still got this.

 

But I may be drunk

 

I'll assume that you mean the series

Both!

 

If we win, I may actually get my celebratory drunk on

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Make him throw 40 pitches.

[UMFan83]

How do we know he would suck on 3 days rest? Because he did it 2 times against teams that are not absolute trash against lefties and wasn't in peak dominance? Did he only throw 77 and 86 pitches the 2 starts before he went on 3 days rest? Did he have an artificial pitch count limit of 100 for the previous 2 months?

 

Sorry I'm being abnormally aggressive toward you with likely simplistic meatball thinking I'm just in a bad mood

Edited October 19, 2016 by UMFan83

[Outshined_One]

A hit!

[Boris]

That's how the magic begins.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Rizzo gonna get hot now that that bat broke.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

How do we know he would suck on 3 days rest? Because he did it 2 times against teams that are not absolute trash against lefties and wasn't in peak dominance? Did he only throw 77 and 86 pitches the 2 starts before he went on 3 days rest? Did he have an artificial pitch count limit of 100 for the previous 2 months?

 

Sorry I'm being abnormally aggressive toward you with likely meatball thinking I'm just in a bad mood

 

There's a gap of some size between 'suck' and 'not Jon Lester'. Somewhere in that gap is 'John Lackey v. the Dodgers', so you let him go(with a parade of lefties ready in relief) against the worst Dodger starter and let Lester go on normal rest where he can be the best version of himself he can be.

[TMan92]

Team is absolutely dejected.

[DurbanJer]

time for another of those wild roller coaster style fan graph win probability graphics.....

 

....as Javy tries to win the game in one swing