Hunter

In all fairness Columbus has a pretty good arena. I was there for their first ever preseason and regular season games, which were against the Blackhawks. Sorry you live in Columbus, I hated living there.

I wasn't sure we would win the series, but I knew we would win the game. The Heyward wall climb, the Bryant HR, the Ross/Rizzo bobble, everything was going our way.

/facepalm

The Nationals made a lot of dumb decisions. Wieters moves up on pitches way too much, hence getting interference called, and getting knocked in the head. Werth is just horribly awful in the outfield, He is a Schwarber equalizer on defense. No reason to be leaning too far off base in that situation = don't get picked off. Both teams were terrible with LOB, 15 and 19. Can you point to an egregiously bad decision he made that cost him the game? The most idiotic thing he did to me was challenging the first play- that was Marc Trestman like. But many people would argue Joe managed the game as poorly as Dusty. If the pickoff doesn't happen and Wade blows up in the 8th, that decision to blow the whole pen and then put him in the 7th would be second guessed forever. You can also point to game 7 last year. But Dusty's players horsefeathers up over and over. Everyone loves to blame managers because everyone can second guess them. Most people have such limited understanding of basketball or football Xs and Os that they can't be second guessed to the same degree. But in the end, baseball managers are most important for team morale and motivation. Their in game decision making is overrated. Not to say its not important, but overrated in general. In this series? There are quite a few times he could have pinch-hit Kendrick or Lind and he didn't. Nats fans were screaming over it. Werth should have been replaced in the outfield several times and wasn't. The whole Strasburg saga could have horribly backfired on them. Pitching an injured Scherzer on such short rest and after he went long in his last game, wasn't helpful. Joe made a few bad decisions, like putting Carl in, but when no one else can throw strikes, what do you do? Also, Baker having a hissy fit every time something went wrong doesn't help. It was just like 2003. Stuff starts to unwind and instead of rallying his guys, he's over there smacking on the railing and hiding his toothpick.

It was a pretty good pitch by Davis.

Werth is even worse on defense than I thought. His UZR/150 is -15.1 for this season. Guy hasn't caught a a single 40% chance or lower catch in 4 seasons. and is career 21% rating on Even catches in the 40%-60%.

The Nationals made a lot of dumb decisions. Wieters moves up on pitches way too much, hence getting interference called, and getting knocked in the head. Werth is just horribly awful in the outfield, He is a Schwarber equalizer on defense. No reason to be leaning too far off base in that situation = don't get picked off. Both teams were terrible with LOB, 15 and 19.

Here's hoping for an easier series.

That's literally one reason why we won the game. The Scherzer inning reminded me of the Bartman game and how Dusty was just disgusted and never did anything to calm his team down (and in fact, made things worse). It was something to be on the other side this time.

Cardinals 2011-2014 so 4 years.

1. Game 7 Indians - duh 2. Game 5 Indians - because I was there 3. Game 6 Dodgers - Watching Kershaw's heart get ripped out 4. Game 1 Dodgers - My goodness that Miggy Grand Slam, really wish I could have been at Wrigley for that 5. NL Wild Card Pirates - Beginning of awesomeness 6. Game 3 Cardinals NLDS - we won game 2, but this was the game we just stepped on them and haven't looked back 7. Game 4 San Francisco - such tears

I'm partial to Rizzo crushing the life out of Kershaw. That was the moment I absolutely knew we were going to the World Series.

nearly a 5 hour 9 inning game.

No they don't deserve it. They are over their debt ratio and still allowed to spend money.

Thank goodness they are swinging at this junk.

another 1-2-3 for us on 12 pitches sigh.

Really hate going 1-2-3 after we give them such a long inning.

Werth never really chases anything that isn't near the zone. Don't understand why we throw so far out with him.

Up 3 and start of an inning. Throw strikes

Well he's due based on recent history. Great, sucks, great, sucks....so great again?

Pretty sure Dusty has out-challenged Maddon 20-1

wow

There is another forum if you want to talk politics.

2 walks all game then 2 in this inning

Monty would be due up 2nd next inning. Guess let him take it