10/12 NLDS Game 5 Cubs (Hendricks) vs DB's Nats (Gio) 7 pm TBS

[UMFan83]

Its baseball and we have the better pitcher on the mound at full rest. Advantage is ours.

 

Uhhhhhhhhh...not a big Gio Gonzalez fan?

 

You think Gio Gonzalez is better than Kyle Hendricks?

[squally1313]

Its baseball and we have the better pitcher on the mound at full rest. Advantage is ours.

 

Uhhhhhhhhh...not a big Gio Gonzalez fan?

 

Hendricks is a better pitcher than Gonzalez. But they're both on enough rest. I'll take 5 innings from Hendricks over 5 innings from Gonzalez. Scherzer on short rest vs Quintana and the rest of the game is more interesting.

[ScrubMD]

Its baseball and we have the better pitcher on the mound at full rest. Advantage is ours.

 

Uhhhhhhhhh...not a big Gio Gonzalez fan?

 

Hendricks eats Strasburgs and Kershaws for breakfast and *shits Gio Gonzalez after lunch.

 

*poops

Edited October 12, 2017 by ScrubMD

[Liam Neeson]

it is really too bad that all the extremely confident people in this thread haven't been able to watch any of the games so far.

 

the cubs can certainly win tonight, but they've been pretty handily outplayed in this series. strasburg and scherzer are nice, but they haven't pitched every inning. 8 runs in four games is terrible, plus we've made a million errors and edwards has set the game on fire twice.

 

the nats just have a much larger margin for error tonight. they're going to run out gio and scherzer and hope they can connect to doolittle in the eighth. if not, roark could throw an inning or two in there, too. lots of flexibility. something like gio for four, scherzer for three, doolittle for two is the ideal, but you could move all of these around quite a bit.

 

the cubs are desperately hoping no one besides hendricks, quintana, and davis pitch tonight. everyone loves starters out of the bullpen, but quintana just does not feel like a guy whose stuff will play up in this spot to me. he's going to get his shot, though, especially since joe will refuse to ride hendricks no matter how he looks. we've seen this show before. it wouldn't surprise me if we ended up trying to also squeeze out a matchup inning against the middle of the lineup at some point, just going with a new pitcher for each guy.

 

i am skeptical of our chances to win this game if it is low-scoring and all on the pitchers being near-perfect again. we will need to dong, and hard.

 

[David]

it is really too bad that all the extremely confident people in this thread haven't been able to watch any of the games so far.

 

the cubs can certainly win tonight, but they've been pretty handily outplayed in this series. strasburg and scherzer are nice, but they haven't pitched every inning. 8 runs in four games is terrible, plus we've made a million errors and edwards has set the game on fire twice.

 

the nats just have a much larger margin for error tonight. they're going to run out gio and scherzer and hope they can connect to doolittle in the eighth. if not, roark could throw an inning or two in there, too. lots of flexibility. something like gio for four, scherzer for three, doolittle for two is the ideal, but you could move all of these around quite a bit.

 

the cubs are desperately hoping no one besides hendricks, quintana, and davis pitch tonight. everyone loves starters out of the bullpen, but quintana just does not feel like a guy whose stuff will play up in this spot to me. he's going to get his shot, though, especially since joe will refuse to ride hendricks no matter how he looks. we've seen this show before. it wouldn't surprise me if we ended up trying to also squeeze out a matchup inning against the middle of the lineup at some point, just going with a new pitcher for each guy.

 

i am skeptical of our chances to win this game if it is low-scoring and all on the pitchers being near-perfect again. we will need to dong, and hard.

 

Regarding the offense, it's too bad you didn't watch the playoffs last year. Yes there are a couple different guys and its a different season, but the majority of the offense will be made up of guys who played on a team that got shut out 4 times in 13 LCS/WS games, including twice in a row in the NLCS, and 2 of the first 3 games of the World Series. What did the Cubs do after getting shut out 2 times in a row against the Dodgers? They scored 24 runs in the next 3 games including 5 off of Kershaw to win the series. What did they do after getting shut out in games 1 and 3 of the World series? ...Well they struggled for 2 more games and then broke out for 9 and 8 runs in the last 2 games to win the title. The Cubs are streaky but when they get out of slumps they get out of them in a hurry.

 

I'm not saying the Cubs are a lock to win or anything but I expect the Cubs to come through until they don't. I have full faith in Kyle, and Gio honestly does not scare me at all. Sure having Scherzer in the middle innings scares me but so did Andrew Miller in Game 7 and we scored 2 off of him.

 

it's almost as if the majority of these slumps and streaks in baseball are just a figment of our imaginations or something

 

occasionally something mechanical gets out of whack or whatever, but usually it's just baseball. the cubs are going to get shut down by great pitching sometimes. that's why it's great pitching. i mean we're talking about guys like clayton kershaw, max scherzer, and stephen strasburg right now. for horsefeathers's sake. that doesn't mean they'll never beat it, but they're obviously going to get beat by it frequently too, especially with how often you face it in the playoffs.

[Sammy Sofa]

To the gallery of yapping dingos:

 

No, I don't think the gulf between Gio and Hendricks is such that the Cubs have some obvious huge advantage in their starting starting pitcher tonight, nor does that Hendricks being on full rest have anything to do with anything when whoever the Nats have going to start will also be at least at full rest, so what did that have to do with anything in the first place??!

 

I think the starting pitcher situation is tilted slightly in the Cubs' favor. SLIGHTLY.

[David]

To the gallery of yapping dingos:

 

No, I don't think the gulf between Gio and Hendricks is such that the Cubs have some obvious huge advantage in their starting starting pitcher tonight, nor does that Hendricks being on full rest have anything to do with anything when whoever the Nats have going to start will also be at least at full rest, so what did that have to do with anything in the first place??!

 

I think the starting pitcher situation is tilted slightly in the Cubs' favor. SLIGHTLY.

 

fwiw, gio was getting shelled in september, though that obviously didn't fully manifest itself into anything on saturday.

 

i'm happy to face him after back to back scherzer, strasburg starts though. and we mash lefties.

[Sammy Sofa]

To the gallery of yapping dingos:

 

No, I don't think the gulf between Gio and Hendricks is such that the Cubs have some obvious huge advantage in their starting starting pitcher tonight, nor does that Hendricks being on full rest have anything to do with anything when whoever the Nats have going to start will also be at least at full rest, so what did that have to do with anything in the first place??!

 

I think the starting pitcher situation is tilted slightly in the Cubs' favor. SLIGHTLY.

 

fwiw, gio was getting shelled in september, though that obviously didn't fully manifest itself into anything on saturday.

 

i'm happy to face him after back to back scherzer, strasburg starts though. and we mash lefties.

 

Hey, great; he got shelled in September.

 

 

The dude's a good pitcher. It's silly for anyone to act like in a one game-playoff it's gonna be snob vs. slob out there.

[David]

he's a decent pitcher.

 

going into the last two games, i've been praying we could shut the nationals out and luck into a hit or a couple wild pitches with a runner in scoring position. going into this one i expect the offense to work multiple good at bats, hit the ball hard more than a few times and hopefully they land on the field or in the stands. he's human. those other guys aren't, usually.

[ScrubMD]

it is really too bad that all the extremely confident people in this thread haven't been able to watch any of the games so far.

 

the cubs can certainly win tonight, but they've been pretty handily outplayed in this series. strasburg and scherzer are nice, but they haven't pitched every inning. 8 runs in four games is terrible, plus we've made a million errors and edwards has set the game on fire twice.

 

the nats just have a much larger margin for error tonight. they're going to run out gio and scherzer and hope they can connect to doolittle in the eighth. if not, roark could throw an inning or two in there, too. lots of flexibility. something like gio for four, scherzer for three, doolittle for two is the ideal, but you could move all of these around quite a bit.

 

the cubs are desperately hoping no one besides hendricks, quintana, and davis pitch tonight. everyone loves starters out of the bullpen, but quintana just does not feel like a guy whose stuff will play up in this spot to me. he's going to get his shot, though, especially since joe will refuse to ride hendricks no matter how he looks. we've seen this show before. it wouldn't surprise me if we ended up trying to also squeeze out a matchup inning against the middle of the lineup at some point, just going with a new pitcher for each guy.

 

i am skeptical of our chances to win this game if it is low-scoring and all on the pitchers being near-perfect again. we will need to dong, and hard.

 

[Old Style]

Saturday

 

Lester because yesterday was his "side day?"

 

Or Lackey...not sure what else you do unless Hendricks just mows them down and never gives Joe a chance to use Q.

 

Did someone leave Montgomery in Chicago? WTF.

I know he started a couple games but I'd be a bit surprised to see Joe start him in Game 1 of the NLCS with Lackey around (assuming he's still on the roster for the next round and the Cubs win tonight).

[Ding Dong Johnson]

But seriously; this LeonDurham guy posts like a real butt trumpet.

[David]

somehow this huge system that hit chicago isn't headed right for washington dc to make this game miserable too

[Transmogrified Tiger]

If Joe uses Q out of the bullpen tonight and we win, who starts Game 1 of the NLCS? Lackey?

 

Don't use Q. Hendricks and Montgomery(and I guess Lackey) can get you 6 innings.

[David]

If Joe uses Q out of the bullpen tonight and we win, who starts Game 1 of the NLCS? Lackey?

 

Don't use Q. Hendricks and Montgomery(and I guess Lackey) can get you 6 innings.

i'm operating off second hand accounts here but people have mentioned that joe already alluded to piggy backing kyle and q if necessary

[Sammy Sofa]

If Joe uses Q out of the bullpen tonight and we win, who starts Game 1 of the NLCS? Lackey?

 

Don't use Q. Hendricks and Montgomery(and I guess Lackey) can get you 6 innings.

 

I'd be stunned, STUNNED, if Hendricks runs into some early trouble and Joe doesn't panic and go to Quintana if the game is still relatively close.

[Banedon]

The dude's a good pitcher. It's silly for anyone to act like in a one game-playoff it's gonna be snob vs. slob out there.

 

I don't think anyone was implying that Gio was garbage or anything. But he's also not Strasburg or Scherzer, so I think it's pretty reasonable to be optimistic in comparison.

[Sammy Sofa]

I think I'm being the pessimist to psych myself out of going to the game tonight. The more I think about it, the more it feels like an anxiety attack waiting to happen.

[jersey cubs fan]

I think I'm being the pessimist to psych myself out of going to the game tonight. The more I think about it, the more it feels like an anxiety attack waiting to happen.

leaving that place will be a logistical nightmare, unless you bring a canoe to float toward the river of tears from all the nationals fans that will be rushing to catch the last train

[David]

I think I'm being the pessimist to psych myself out of going to the game tonight. The more I think about it, the more it feels like an anxiety attack waiting to happen.

 

self medicate with alcohol to take the edge off

 

jk you are not allowed anywhere near that park tonight

[TMan92]

If Joe uses Q out of the bullpen tonight and we win, who starts Game 1 of the NLCS? Lackey?

 

Don't use Q. Hendricks and Montgomery(and I guess Lackey) can get you 6 innings.

i'm operating off second hand accounts here but people have mentioned that joe already alluded to piggy backing kyle and q if necessary

 

Joe has an uncanny trend of playing to his plan no matter what.

[soccer10k]

Dusty's teams suck in close out games (3-12 all time, lost their last 9 including two let year).

The Nats lost Game 5 at home last year with Scherzer on the mound. Most of the Nats were on that team.

The Nats lost Game 5 at home in 2012 with Gio on the mound, blowing a 6-0 lead in that one. Werth, Harper and Zimmerman were on that team.

 

Their fans remember this. Score a couple early runs and that stadium will go silent with fear.

[Sammy Sofa]

The dude's a good pitcher. It's silly for anyone to act like in a one game-playoff it's gonna be snob vs. slob out there.

 

I don't think anyone was implying that Gio was garbage or anything. But he's also not Strasburg or Scherzer, so I think it's pretty reasonable to be optimistic in comparison.

 

Hey, I'm actually optimistic about Hendricks, too; I was just a bit surprised at how it sounded like the Cubs have this big starting pitching advantage (and like he's fully rested but Gio isn't).

[David]

For anyone wondering, the forecast out there looks to be in the low 60's and dry tonight.

[Sammy Sofa]

I think I'm being the pessimist to psych myself out of going to the game tonight. The more I think about it, the more it feels like an anxiety attack waiting to happen.

 

self medicate with alcohol to take the edge off

 

jk you are not allowed anywhere near that park tonight

 

Oh, I'm not going. I couldn't handle it without being able to drink and heat like a food monster.