:-O
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 13 October 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
how the fuck are there still 3+ innings of this left
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
this could end 12-11
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)
hmmm ...
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 13 October 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
All pitchers are terrible
― nomar, Friday, 13 October 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
pretty epic, you guys
― timellison, Friday, 13 October 2017 03:53 (six years ago) link
i don't think there is enough evidence...
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
well good job Maddon, nice challenge.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
terrible
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
Will Lackey have to save the game in the 9th?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
oh god
― nomar, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
maddon is dustying
― qualx, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:37 (six years ago) link
It has been 11 hours
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:40 (six years ago) link
Blergh.
Astros to rip all of these reamining big club teams apart.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
good christ, it's never easy
― nomar, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
During this game I had children and now one of them is interviewing me on my deathbed
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
44 pitches for Davis tonight
go Dodgers!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
Cubs need to improve on a lot of things fast if they want to repeat against the Dodgers.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
I am now older than Dusty
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2017 04:51 (six years ago) link
I didn't think Davis could finish the game, but he earned it. Hell of a pitch on the K to Harper to end the game.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:51 (six years ago) link
During this game I had children and now one of them is interviewing me on my deathbed they consider baseball a more exhausting investment than other products competing for their interest
― qualx, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
The Nationals will never ever win a world series. Goodnight everyone.
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
that challenge was still ridiculously called.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
370 pitches were thrown in this game.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
Lol, my feed was lagging so badly that I just finished watching the 8th inning. Didn’t realize it was over!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 October 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
None of the 2.73m half innings in our db have even had all 4 of these events. 22 w/ 3. Only 5 games had all 4.https://t.co/ntifpJIb6n— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) October 13, 2017
― nomar, Friday, 13 October 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
that is: intentional walk, passed ball K where the batter reaches, catcher's interference, hit by pitch
wow
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 October 2017 05:03 (six years ago) link
http://sabr.org/research/was-there-seven-way-game-seven-ways-reaching-first-base
This game had every one!!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 13 October 2017 05:08 (six years ago) link
I reached first base with all of your moms during this game.
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 October 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
and it had lots more common things, like me napping from the 6th til bottom 9th
guess what, longest 9-inning PS game ever
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
Dusty Baker’s Sweet Redemption Tour 2017, brought to you by USA Today’s Bob Nightengale:Chicago
― Andy K, Friday, 13 October 2017 10:27 (six years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Friday, October 13, 2017 12:57 AM
bullshit btw
don't get caught
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
nah, the way the rule is applied in the replay era is ridiculous. there is an easy solution: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dear-mlb-please-fix-the-slide-replay/
This play isn’t baseball. It’s giant human beings trying to play stupid some form of Twister. Sliding into a base and maintaining perfect contact isn’t some kind of skill players get selected for, and deciding games based on the outcome of these replays takes away from the elite skills competition that these players are actually competing in.So, here’s the same suggestion I made last year when Baez was called out after nearly getting concussed by Joe Panik. On slides or dives into a base, a player who makes contact with the bag before the tag is applied should be granted a vertical safe zone above the base so that he is still safe even if he is tagged while not physically touching the base so long as it is clear that he is still directly above the bag. If you slide in, your foot hits the base, and the laws of physics force your foot to bounce up an inch off the ground, but your foot is still over the base, then you’re still safe.
So, here’s the same suggestion I made last year when Baez was called out after nearly getting concussed by Joe Panik. On slides or dives into a base, a player who makes contact with the bag before the tag is applied should be granted a vertical safe zone above the base so that he is still safe even if he is tagged while not physically touching the base so long as it is clear that he is still directly above the bag. If you slide in, your foot hits the base, and the laws of physics force your foot to bounce up an inch off the ground, but your foot is still over the base, then you’re still safe.
― k3vin k., Friday, 13 October 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
that isn't the rule rn though
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
right, the rule needs to be changed
― k3vin k., Friday, 13 October 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
just saying the challenge was not "ridiculously called"
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
i don't think it's too much to ask that baseball players be touching a base to be safe
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
we can now simply look at the position of the players body in relation to the space above the base, a much easier thing to judge
yes, it is so much easier to determine whether a toe is vertically above another object than whether it is actually touching that object APPLAUSE DOT JJJJJJJIF
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
if the player touches the base before the tag is applied and loses contact momentarily, without sliding past the base or making an attempt to advance, i think that runner should be safe
― k3vin k., Friday, 13 October 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
what defines "momentarily"
what defines "sliding past"
let's not go monkeying with the fundamentals. you get tagged and you're not touching the base, you're out. maybe people will have to alter their slides? practice in a different way? that's fine!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
Put sensors in the base and the players’ shoes. Eliminate human judgement everywhere possible.
― Jeff, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
I find it hilarious that the same people who scream for robot umps whenever a strike is called on a pitch one-half inch off the plate (i.e. Cameron and his minions at Fangraphs) are now saying that we need to make a judgement call when a guy is tagged with his foot one-half inch off a base.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
my favorite thing about the nationals losing is how it makes the political writers i follow on twitter very sad
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 October 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
Sliding into a base and maintaining perfect contact isn’t some kind of skill players get selected for
noah syndergaard didn't get selected for his pickoff move, but it still matters. players aren't selected for their bunting skills, but every once in a while it comes into play.
sliding correctly *is* a skill, and some players do it better than others. (for some reason i recall that anthony rizzo does it well.) if you can't get to the base and stay on it, then maybe you shouldn't be running/straying too far from it.
i mean if you want to change the rule to encourage running because running is fun, or because you're tired of seeing stars fuck up their hands sliding head-first, that *might* be reasonable. meanwhile, the base is there and you should remain in contact with it
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
otm
― WilliamC, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
i don't know why nats fans are complaining about this instead of the play not being called dead when baez hit weiters on the backswing during the downfall of scherzer inning
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
i'd complain about it too -- i'd just blame lobaton instead of the umps/rule
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
With advancement, I believe we get a chance to pick up a player. Wondering if it's our opportunity to offload Schwarbs, have a pitcher complain about a sore arm and get an honest to goodness decent starter for the LA series. We'll need it. I was at Monday's game and it was a nail-biter. Just found out this AM that my buddy got us in the door for Wednesday - hoping there's reason to celebrate that day, or at least live another post-season game.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
i was wondering why happ got so little playing time this series
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
cubs starters were generally pretty good this series. it's still the bullpen that makes me scared.
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link