2018 World Series -- Boston Red Sox vs Los Angeles Dodgers

After three rounds of bullpen games and SP's barely lasting four innings, in the WS every chump they throw out there to start is dealing! I hope clem is happy.

Never forget to bring a towel.

clem wd love 4.5 innings in 90 minutes... if he wasnt at an Alan Pakula film.

DICK MOUNTAIN FIELDS

YASIEL

PUIGGGGGGG

What other good-middling players have had a flair for the dramatic like Puig?

BOOM!! PUIG.

Best second-guessing moment of the series too.

what a lousy WS matchup huh you dorks

I have enjoyed what feels like baseball, yes.

Ted Lilly style.

*deletes 2:30 a.m. alarm*

Love that replay of Puig's HR from the first base side -- Puig celebrating in the foreground, Rodriguez slamming down his glove in the background. There's an iconic photo in the making there.

Hill is SO entertaining and **cking awesome

Yas has a LOT more talent and a "good-middling player", even before i ever saw him break a bat across knee i thought he reminded me of Bo in some ways

Talent, yes; meant more that his stats are good-middling, once you get past his first year-and-a-half. Bo's a good comparison.

Whatre we talkin bout

Just finished playing red dead 2

High leverage

Jansen burned by the HR again.

Holy crap just read abt puigs 3 run homer

Do Nut Damage!!!

I thought about going to bed after Puig's homer.

this must not stand

I thought about going to bed after Puig's homer.

i did

RIP

Maeda booboo

steve pearce mvp

Life has meaning again

Christ, how obnoxious

This is an all-time choke job by the Dodgers.

Unless there's literally no one available--which after last night, may be the case--why on Earth would you pitch Kimbrel?

The Dodgers are 54-0 when leading by 4 runs at any point this season, including postseason. They're the only team without such a loss.

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) October 28, 2018

Guess just ending the game would've been too predictable.

Can we skip to Kimbrel allowing two walks?

― Van Horn Street, Friday, 19 October 2018

We should pin this post until the end of the series.

Man, what a throw.

6-9 fellas

this aint over, RSN elitists

Boston was one great play away from making maybe the dumbest pitching change I've ever seen. You've got a five-run lead, and Kimbrel and Price are both in a very good place after lots of previous trouble. Kimbrel almost brings the tying run to the plate, at which point you bring in Price so he can maybe lose the game. I don't get it. Anyway, they won.

This is an all-time choke job by the Dodgers

I don't get this; they lost a lead. It happened to, say, the 2002 Giants.

^^^ that was an all-timer too! They were what, nine outs from winning the WS with a five run lead? Blowing leads of 4+ runs from the seventh inning on is rare!

At the time I didn't hate the decision to remove Hill. Maybe you'll need him to start game 7, maybe he'll be needed in relief in game 6, and there's no need to compromise that by making him throw another 20-25 pitches with a lead that the bullpen should handle 99% of the time.

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Watching the Dodgers/Red Sox final innings. It is amazing how a manager takes out a pitcher who is loose & dominating through almost 7 innings, Rich Hill of Dodgers, and brings in nervous reliever(s) who get shellacked. 4 run lead gone. Managers do it all the time, big mistake!

I hear there’s a baseball job opening in NYC if he wants to step down from his current position and show MLB how it’s done.

I wonder if Trump would be weighing in if it were Craig Counsell.

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Verlander is great but very beatable. Does not have a good ERA in playoff games

7:12 AM - 16 Oct 2012

ok lol

It's like taking out Obama and putting you in

— Very Spooky Michael (@Home_Halfway) October 28, 2018

so much worse than Smoltz

I too thought taking out Hill was fine. I don't like preemptive and needless pitching changes, but Roberts gave Hill a baserunner, and even let him go one batter after that); if Hill puts another guy on, then Boston's in a position to make it a one-run game. That all of that happened and worse, that's just baseball.

Kimbrel still mystifies me, though. Besides what I posted above, everything NoTime writes about Hill also applies to Kimbrel.

A friend and I are planning to get together for a possible game six, so I'll absolutely be rooting for the Dodgers today.

Kimbrel has been extremely lucky, his control has been spotty since June and now it’s gotten worse at the worst possible time. But he still Ks batters at a high rate and he’s had some great defense behind him.