2017 NLDS: Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals

2 run game and it's still early but I can't recall a team making a boner like that in an elimination game and winning

I mean, 3 run game

ROBOT MANAGERS NOW

yeah, someone asked Dave Cameron yesterday if Scherzer would relieve and he said "He won't throw much on 2 days' rest." (He got an extra day but the point stands.)

xxxxp

wietersed

Strange inning. Only one ball was hit hard (Russell's double). And somehow it all started by Scherzer mowing down Bryant and Rizzo.

this could end 12-11

i love that my upstairs neighbor is watching the game on a feed that's like a minute ahead of mine, so i hear him yell YES and i know something good is going to happen soon

this time i'm not being sarcastic, i really do love that

werthless

ouch.

what a mess of a game for the nats

I'm not sure why they're assuming Werth lost the ball in the lights. Maybe he just messed up.

i feel bad for werth. not only did that happen, but this could be his last game. he's 38, at the end of a 7-year contract, and he's been worth just a hair over replacement value over the last 3 years.

RIP. you were very hairy

:-O

how the fuck are there still 3+ innings of this left

this could end 12-11

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)

hmmm ...

All pitchers are terrible

pretty epic, you guys

i don't think there is enough evidence...

well good job Maddon, nice challenge.

terrible

Will Lackey have to save the game in the 9th?

oh god

maddon is dustying

It has been 11 hours

Blergh.

Astros to rip all of these reamining big club teams apart.

good christ, it's never easy

During this game I had children and now one of them is interviewing me on my deathbed

44 pitches for Davis tonight

go Dodgers!

Cubs need to improve on a lot of things fast if they want to repeat against the Dodgers.

I am now older than Dusty

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.

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

The Nationals will never ever win a world series. Goodnight everyone.

that challenge was still ridiculously called.

370 pitches were thrown in this game.

Lol, my feed was lagging so badly that I just finished watching the 8th inning. Didn’t realize it was over!

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

that is: intentional walk, passed ball K where the batter reaches, catcher's interference, hit by pitch

wow

http://sabr.org/research/was-there-seven-way-game-seven-ways-reaching-first-base

This game had every one!!

I reached first base with all of your moms during this game.

and it had lots more common things, like me napping from the 6th til bottom 9th

guess what, longest 9-inning PS game ever

Dusty Baker’s Sweet Redemption Tour 2017, brought to you by USA Today’s Bob Nightengale:

Chicago

that challenge was still ridiculously called.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, October 13, 2017 12:57 AM

bullshit btw

don't get caught

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.

that isn't the rule rn though

right, the rule needs to be changed