2016 NLDS - San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs

Giants in five

cubs in who cares cubs

i really, really like the Giants chances. their starting pitching can take them back to the World Series.

don't get me wrong, i know the Cubs are the better team but...

cubs

Anyone but the fucking Giants.

go Cubs go, but if they choke at least NA gets to put his Bears shit on

giants somehow.

Rooting for the Cubs to crush the Giants into a bowl of tomato paste.

not sure why the games list TBD for the Cubs after game 2, they announced Arrieta for game 3 and Lackey for game 4
i'll go Cubs in 4

cubs obv

i'm with Childs on this one, i don't believe in this even year crap. cubs in 4.

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cubs in 4

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Cubs in four.

this Giant hate is cranking me up. you people!

DON'T LOOK AT ME

Rany Jazayerli:

How unusual is Joe Maddon’s approach to defensive positioning? We had to invent a new metric to fully appreciate it — and to understand what it might mean for the Cubs’ World Series hopes.

https://theringer.com/we-had-to-invent-a-new-metric-to-properly-appreciate-the-cubs-84f371e73b90#.x4vaklefn

a version of this could be posted every year, or at least every year that a clearly dominant team is in the postseason, but it's still worth reading for anyone who might assume that the best team will probably win the world series:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-2016-cubs-are-already-a-success/

deadspin came up with a good description of tragically injured cub kyle schwarber: a fun strong home-run chub who mashes magnificent taters

Game 3 time on Monday has been announced it will be at 6:30 pacific

That line in the Cameron piece about how the Cubs probably don't feel lucky to have to go through Cueto and Bumgarner...I mean, too bad! I'm sure they're not griping about it.

Here's my argument in favor of "tournament baseball" - the team that plays better than the other team in a particular game usually wins that game.

more D, from Sam Miller

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17738547/the-cubs-historically-excellent-defense

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the team that plays better than the other team in a particular game usually wins that game.

i'd agree with that if you mean "usually" as in like 51% of the time.

i mean, let's say both team's starting pitchers dominate. they don't allow any hits or runs. until the 9th inning. in the 8th inning, Team A gets two singles, then a home run. They're up 3-0. Team B bats in the bottom of the 9th. The first guy hits a home run. Then there are two singles, and then the ending ends. They lose 3-1. Both teams end up with 3 hits (2 singles and a home run). Did team A really play better?

versions of that happen all the time. sure there are plenty of games where one team makes a few terrible errors and the starting pitcher obviously doesn't have it. but there's a reason that even division-winning teams still lose 40% of the time, and it's not because they forget how to be good at baseball during 2/5 of their games

this means the Giants are going to win in 3, right?

Let's Go Giants!

i'm not as high stressed tonight.

one and done drove me up the wall. best of five is so much better.

probably would have been out?

not what is suppose to happen

i understand trying to go and all that but i felt like they could have waited. by rushing it they threw him out pretty easily.

this camera angle is driving me crazy. how long have the Cubs played here?

couple of weeks now

The angle and framing are really bad and weird, I wonder why. Doesn't usually look like this.

i understand that the whole world outside Giants fans are for the Cubs. but do the announcers have to be this over the top about it?

it's ridiculous

that was bad, should not happen in this type of game.

i thought that 3 - 1 pitch was a home run

wow

(you should really who is at bat, that's Pence not Posey)

this is their chance

denied

yes, i'm sort of hanging on every pitch and for that i'm sorry

you have to bee seeing the same thing

lol, i really didn't mean bee

good game, i'm going to shut up now...

cueto is so fun to watch

smoltz > reynolds is what I'm saying

Smoltz: "If you drop a golf ball in Hunter Pence's hair, you are not getting it out"

Otm tho

what a game from Matt Moore.

^^^^^

Brillant brillant stuff by Moore. Now to the 9th.

Also love how mlb.tv let have you KNBR while watching the TBS feed.

Moore pretty much doing this seasons Vogelsong.

Giants are pretty much death by a thousand cuts and this stadium with the pitching kinda neutralizes big power teams in a short series.

They are built for this big place in the same way Herzog's Cardinals teams were built to play on Astroturf.

La neuvième manche, putain.

GULP

Oh boy

geesh Giants

*throwing objects across the room*

this is SO giants

lol

Gotta turn a double here dammit

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Grant Brisbee ‏@mccoveychron
"Bochy is walking out to the mound. Still walking. He just walked past it? Now he's climbing the arcade. He's... yes, he's in the Bay now."

total meltdown

Omg what are they doing

now let's turn this into a no aroldis needed situation

guess who is in the market for a closer!

does romo always giggle when he fucks up? i guess when you have 3 rings it doesn't matter much

His coping mechanism

he had that "ooooooh the teacher caught yooou!!" look on his face except the teacher was bruce bochy and there was no one else there

Wow!

Un real

Was not really rooting for either team, but I did want to see a game 5. Can't believe how predictably bad the Giants were in the 9th though, after 8 incredible innings by Moore.

They are who we thought they were

Ouch.

Managing the pitching/bullpen has been one of the Bochy/Righetti's forte, so much that they were confident about trading for Moore and paying good money to Samardzija. I don't know what they could have done to prevent his implosion, it does seem like since the end of August they have tried everything, I'm sure they'll have the ressources to fix this. They still have a lot of very good elements, and they gave us great moments this season.

Rooting for the Nats now, because you know.

Also the Cubs are really really good, jesus.

i know anything can happen in 7 games blah blah but it's really hard to imagine the nats beating this team

dodgers maybe

Giants are pretty much death by a thousand cuts and this stadium with the pitching kinda neutralizes big power teams in a short series.

lol

slept from the 6th inning on here, of course

Even Year: Bullshit!

go Cubs go, at least through the LCS

i'm sorry, Bee OK

at least you don't hafta watch that CF camera angle from Wrigley again.

@SamMillerBB Oct 10

Another manager wishing he'd brought in Zach Britton

I went to bed early with a headache last night so this was a pleasant surprise when I woke up. Watching the ninth inning now, I'd blame the SF defense before their relievers. There were a lot of ground balls past diving infielders, plus the botched double play.

Baez was obviously the MVP for this series

Grant Brisbee
‏@mccoveychron
"Bochy is walking out to the mound. Still walking. He just walked past it? Now he's climbing the arcade. He's... yes, he's in the Bay now."

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can't imagine watching that as a Giants fan. brutal. in obvious hindsight, felt like you needed to leave one of those relievers in there. Like they would each throw 3 balls right away... needed to settle in a bit. props to the cubbies who I will hate all postseason & until i perish from the earth.

i would have left law in but whatever

Should have put Cueto in for an inning, ha.

I was kind of looking forward to a game 5 and the Cueto/Bumgarner two-headed monster taking on the Cubs (obv. MadBum was coming in to save that if they had a lead).

Really only Zobrist's ball was hit hard in that inning, so yeah, maybe Bochy should have left one of his guys in to get settled.

This bit from Schoenfield's column really blew my mind:

We've never seen this happen before -- at least not in the postseason. Only three times in playoff history had a team rallied from a three-run deficit in the ninth inning, and all three of those games, amazingly, were in 1986. Those teams (the Angels in Game 4 of the ALCS, the Red Sox in Game 5 of the ALCS and the Mets over the Astros in Game 6 of the NLCS) all needed extra innings to pull off a win.

this would hurt so much worse for me if i hadn't just gone through the NBA finals

:(
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/11/casilla-weeps-after-being-passed-over-in-fateful-collapse-in-ninth/