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Game 2: Dodgers (Kershaw) 1, Cubs 0 Game 3: Dodgers (Hill) 6, Cubs 0 Guess what happened next
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What? No, they don’t have to sweep the three home games to win. I'd say the next two games are pretty close to must wins. If we even it up through 4, we don't HAVE to beat Kershaw in game 5, but it would obviously help. Darvish is good, but not untouchable, and if Alex Wood had sucked any more in the second half, Maddon would have thrown him out there in the 9th inning last night.
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https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/joe-maddon-had-a-bad-night/ Cameron is hit or miss, but I agree with pretty much everything here.
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It would be near impossible to write/update the rule to allow runners to pop off the base briefly during the slide. Dave Cameron tried (https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dear-mlb-please-fix-the-slide-replay/), and the best he could do was some sort of 'if you're still over the base, you're still safe' rule, which seems like even harder to enforce, barring MLB installing cameras directly over every base. Flat bases I think fall apart when, as mentioned above, you think of how often first basemen are pushing off the edge of the bag to receive the ball. It would fundamentally alter the stretch they do to make the play, and I would guess greatly increase the amount of feet/ankles stepped on by the runner. Ultimately, I think runners are just going to have to adjust the way that they slide. We've already seen it on head first slides, with an increased emphasis on holding the bag or bringing a leg up to maintain contact. In the play against Washington, maybe it's just a matter of, if he wasn't so far off the bag, he wouldn't have had to slide back with the velocity he did, and wouldn't have popped off for those few hundredths of a second.
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Yeah but then he double switched Almora out in the 9th, so obviously he didn't value the glove that much. Even setting aside Wade's status, that's Rondon's spot if Wade can't go. Making Lackey come in to that situation after pitching last night is a borderline fireable offense.
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This whole fiasco has actually made me feel kinda bad for Lackey? While not a certainty, for better or for worse that's probably going to be the last pitch he ever throws. To get thrown into that situation is pretty brutal.
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I get that the offense has been terrible. But here's the thing...even someone like Bryant or Rizzo, I expect them to fail at least 60% of the time. Sometimes those failures run together, and it sucks and it's frustrating, but those guys and pretty much everyone else in the lineup have earned the benefit of the doubt over the last two plus years. I expect Joe to make the best decision every time, because there is a right answer out there. There's no way you can defend this decision, especially if Davis was available. There's almost a sick satisfaction in having it backfire so perfectly.
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Do you see the problem here? Here’s the thing. Wades arm is about to fall off. And they haven’t hit worth horsefeathers for the entire playoffs. Roll the dice with lackey who’s been ok lately. How about rondon? And if you go with ‘he gave up a home run yesterday’ as if that outweighs the 36 lackey gave up this year, then you’re as bad as maddon was tonight.
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I know you’ve been around forever, but this is a bad post.
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Oh cool leonys martin.
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I was under the impression lackey only made the NLDS because they weren’t sure about jakes health. So I’m not even sure why he’s here right now, much less pitching right now.
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Davis isn’t even warming up. I wonder if we broke him.
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After watching almora bat against the best righty reliever in baseball while Schwarber, happ, and la Stella all sat on the bench.
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Watch joe throw out rondon here.
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Schwarbo for almora? Or should we not sacrifice defense at this point?
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they're all cutters Yeah but aren’t they usually mid-90s?
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Was that a 91 mph fastball?
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Big three vs kenley. This would be the time to stop letting our center field platoon carry the offense.
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Wade Davis please
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He's really good, but he isn't invincible. The path is the large adult son sitting on bench waitin g to pinch hit.
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Ian happ please, not the guy who has been basically a pitcher against lefties all year
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weird that the offense started struggling at the same time they started facing some of the best pitchers in baseball. We can agree that's a problem right? Not just a coincidence. No they’re definitely related. That’s the horsefeathering point.
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His entire career thus far?
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Narrator: It isn’t.