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It's more that the Dodgers are terrified to let him pitch because they've been treating him as bubble boy the pitcher. He threw 6 strong innings against the Cubs on August 27th, and he's thrown 16 innings since. presumably for an occasion just like this?

Why wouldn't they just use Stripling in relief of Hill and then start Urias in Game 4 and only expect a couple innings out of him? That way you have the hope of getting more SP innings in Game 4, and Stripling gets the benefit of a lineup oriented for a LHP. In the Cubs' case the latter doesn't make much difference(especially with Montero starting), but still. They're doomed either way as the dong fest commences appx 24 hours from now and extends another 48 hours after that. how many pitchers do we plan on letting hit

Assuming he's hitting and healthy, sure, but he's not hitting, and he's terrible defensively, and we're playing in a park with a very large OF. You are basing him not hitting on 6 playoff ABs - one start and 3 PH appearances? and his awful september

well so does the fact that we might as well have the same at the plate when heyward is up. what is this team missing more right now hitting or defense theres a fair chance, better the 75%, you'd have that broom in LF and AB if you start Soler. heres a question, if you really want to get Soler in there, why not sit Addi. Put Javy at ss, Zo and 2b and your infield D doesnt lose alot and you still a) keep RF and CF locked down and b) get (hopefully) a LH pitcher mashing god at the plate? give me two hours to decipher this and ill get back to you

same

Soler was objectively the 5th best hitter on the team this season, despite the overreacting to a 6 PA sample in this year's playoffs. In between 2 month stints on the DL, sure, maybe. But the fact that we may as well play with 2 OF and a broom with a glove on it propped up in LF when he's out there sort of matters. well so does the fact that we might as well have the same at the plate when heyward is up. what is this team missing more right now hitting or defense

lol that 5 game sample is timed nicely to avoid mentioning the 7 no-hit innings he threw in the start before

That's a good point. I feel much better about our lineup being able to pitchcount Hill out by 5 (if we can't hit him) than I did about doing that to Kershaw.

The Cubs do not have the pitching advantage in game 3 Based on what? how the two pitchers performed this year?

Look at the pitching match-ups for games 3 & 4 and that should calm any panic. The Cubs do not have the pitching advantage in game 3 give me a blister or give me death

Look at the pitching match-ups for games 3 & 4 and that should calm any panic. where is this horsefeathers coming from? You realize rich hill was better than Jake this year, right? (3.8 WAR, same as arrieta, in 90 FEWER INNINGS.)

Regardless, he's making one more start. And the point is: If he is making that start, I'd rather he be doing it on short rest. And even still, the Dodgers with someone else on the mound don't scare me. What is your deal tonight? TBH it just felt good to vent after a game that played out worst-case imo. here's my deal and then i'll move because i want to send normal-jake some vibes and hope he turns back into god-mode jake. to maintain HFA we needed to beat the best pitcher on the planet. We needed to either A.) score runs B.) hold their offense down C.) some combo of both. We actually got the pitching we needed but we wasted it. And we wasted Kershaw's short-rest start because we only managed to get him to 84 pitches. I'd feel better if we had gotten the pitch count up and gotten him out earlier. As it is the first four innings shouldn't even count against him, he'll throw more pitches than that warming up during game 5 (or 6 whatever.) AND they went to Jansen for a two-inning save, which you'd think would play into our favor for future games considering they taxed his ass in the NLDS and used him up in Game 5 except we only got him to throw like 18 pitches in two innings. After a playoff loss I like to try and take away some silver linings and we got basically none of them (except the pitching, i like that outside of Gonzalez' close your eyes and swing single off chapman in game 1 we've really kept them off the board.) there now im back on board go cobs

plz be good jake http://i.imgur.com/ZCQDDDh.jpg?1

If it was another guy that would make me more confident. Like I said if he goes on short rest I'll feel better going into that game than I did coming into this one, but it's striking seeing people's opinions about him "Oh it's playoff Kershaw we're going to get him." *we don't get him* "Well we almost got him. (Editors note 7 innings of two hit ball on just 84 pitches) "Ok but we'all get him next time because it's gonna be hot outside"

I'm not sure where all this wishful thinking re: Kershaw has come from lately. People were sure all day today and even during the game we were going to get to him and he only needed 84pitches to get through 7 shutout innings. I would be more enthused to face him on three days rest than five days rest but I can't imagine feeling good about it considering what we just saw.

I'm not sure if I should be offended or proud that you confused me and goony somehow

If you didn't care how your posts are treated you wouldn't ask your posts to not be treated in a certain way. Besides, your tea leaves probably had our pre-ASB slump never ending, and ultimately fighting the Brewers for 5th place. But FWIW, Kyle and Fan are not at all alike. Fan represents every reactionary fan with a hair social media trigger who calms down as quickly as he exploded. And whether or not he 'ruins the game thread experience' of his fellow posters, he'd never willfully drag them into his well of despair, which he probabaly vacates following the game. Kyle, on the other hand, enjoys his well, and if it were up to him, he'd suck us all down with him and feast upon our souls. This is really fun because I just realized most of you probably don't realize who I am

I'd buy into this, except if the plane started going down, I know Javy would take the wheel and land it safely. He'd probably do a few cool tricks with it first, though. And then say something adorable that would be recorded by the black box

as long as we make sure theo is on a different plane we'll be ok in the longrun

i feel like bryant got completely screwed over on (at least) 2 at bats tonight. Id really like to have those two at bats over. I know that's what you get when you face a guy like kershaw but he and dex are the two guys i felt most comfortable with against kershaw and getting 25 percent of their at bats messed with by a weird ump is pretty upsetting.

i know this is fun for you, being able to talk nonsense with everyone on your side because im being *that guy* but you are really not doing well at this I'm just shamelessly trying to buy a new pair of shoes. I'LL GIVE YOU +200!!!!! ok cool ILL TAKE IT

luckily for me, real life is going to intervene and my monday and tuesday are horrifically busy. Unfortunately for everyone else, my wed-sunday is pretty wide open. I'll try and tone it down, but i still claim this thread as mine

yeah that's not what i said "let's not go acting like im rondon fan here" -TBS Playoffs Insider i know this is fun for you, being able to talk nonsense with everyone on your side because im being *that guy* but you are really not doing well at this

i dont care how the posts are treated, or i wouldn't be posting them. i dont think the tea leaves read in our favor in the next three games, hopefully im wrong. If you didn't care how your posts are treated you wouldn't ask your posts to not be treated in a certain way. yeah that's not what i said

You said if you were given +200 on the Dodgers winning all three games in LA means you think it's a 1 in 3 chance of happening. That's about a 70% chance of winning each game, which is ridiculous. i said if it was +200 i'd bet it.