2016 AL Wild Card: Baltimore Orioles vs.Toronto Blue Jays

sorry that was uncalled for

"Ubaldo Jimenez through five pitches in the 11th."

Don't worry, Dusty Baker will do some bullpen move this post season that is even worse.

Please baseball Jesus give us Texas Toronto rematch

u got it

@keithlaw
Either Britton was unavailable or Buck Showalter just blundered his way into playoff history.

Honestly thought they might walk EE and hope for another double play (or an over-anxious Bautista striking out).

Exhausted. Hope Osuna's okay.

there really isn't a single team in the AL i want to root for. go adrian beltre i guess?

bummed we're going to have so few chances at another postseason with manny

i mean manny's looking like his bff arod in the playoffs but after he becomes a NYY this team goes back into storage

at last Pedro, Sheffield questioning Buck's brains on the postgame

lots of players to root for in the Ranger's squad: Beltre, Beltran, Lucroy, Darvish for starters.

all 4 of the panelists in fact xp

i can root for Cleveland despite the mascot shit

Damn I am stupid

How many millions did EE just tack onto his upcoming contract?

lots of players to root for in the Ranger's squad: Beltre, Beltran, Lucroy, Darvish for starters.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:46 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but they have that lucky-team-that-didn't-deserve-it stink to them

o's had that for years so i guess it's natural to root for them

if it's anything but a sudden injury, the Buck quotes are gonna be good/facepalming

cubs better win it all istg

britton was available

maybe buck just didn't want to win

huh

oh buck

is he gonna give us the matt williams 'he's the closer'

for buck's sakes

"(Britton) was fine... We had some good options."

EEEEEDIOT

to be fair, britton should have been unavailable because he'd already pitched the ninth

"nothing philosophical about it"

Buck accepted death as envitable in do or die.

people pinning this on "it wasn't a save situation" are wrong and dumb, buck really isn't that rigid with it

this was buck fucking up in a way that was totally uniquely buck.

buck has this "this is unconventional but if you just believe in me it'll all work out" complex and it's always brilliant until it doesn't work out

he can be allergic to doing the most obvious thing

https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/783517787595608064

at no point in this season was i expecting francisco liriano to win the AL wild card game

used to think it was his brilliant overmanaging and attention to detail but i'm pretty sure he just goes by feeling, and it didn't *feel* right to use britton then

he believes in orioles magic more than the fans they have left

i honestly don't blame him for not using britton.

tho i am *incredibly* drunk right now

"No one has been pitching better for us than Ubaldo."

That is not an old Rockies quote.

tho i am *incredibly* drunk right now

obviously! ;)

Managers change their reliever usage patterns in postseason all the time, as we've seen. Maybe Showalter won't get to.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 2, 2016 8:43 AM

obv i am not a sufficiently experienced Buckwatcher

ubaldo held hitters to a .151/.229/.244 line over 35 innings since sept. 1, so it's not like he was a terrible choice

otoh he'd only made 8 appearances out of the bullpen in an 11-year career, and i'd be kinda surprised if many of them began with runners on the corners

Zahn pointed out how much trouble Bautista has with Jiminez--understatement: 38 AB, .079/.222/.105. On the other hand, Encarnacion hadn't had much success either: 41 AB, .220/.360/.366.

obv i am not a sufficiently experienced Buckwatcher

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:18 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh fuck off, i've explained in about 40 different ways that this isn't a pattern

Yeah I think the decision came down to Britton vs Jimenez no matter what, save or no save, etc. It was still unforgivably the wrong decision and we all saw it coming. Perhaps the real mistake was to not ease up Jimenez and put him in the stretch right away.

otoh he'd only made 8 appearances out of the bullpen in an 11-year career, and i'd be kinda surprised if many of them began with runners on the corners

No, Jiminez came in with the bases empty, he gave up all three hits.

oh yeah that's right. well in that case, take him out. i don't know. it's even worse.

It was right after Duensing was brought in to face (and retire) that lefty masher Carrera -- you definitely don't want that guy facing a righty from the sixth inning on.

the first two hits came so quickly it's easy to forget

britton should've been in to face all three, and then the next three if need be

I like Carrera, he's just a weird guy to be playing matchups with in extra innings (regardless of whether your closer is available or not).

as much as this is on buck, important to remember that the offense did literally nothing after stroman was taken out, and the jays don't even have a good pen

Zahn pointed out how much trouble Bautista has with Jiminez--understatement: 38 AB, .079/.222/.105. On the other hand, Encarnacion hadn't had much success either: 41 AB, .220/.360/.366.

Without checking, I wonder how much of that was in the NL when they were all different players (especially Bautista)? Trusting Zaun to use statistics correctly is like trusting kids with matches.

1 for 12 with 3 walks over the last 2 years, and the hit was a single. a few games where a healthy bautista sat. BVP numbers are worthless though.