One thing I agree with ESPN (rare). In order to put the losing streak behind them, they have to show up and win on the road and the series against the Nats. Sweep would be nice.
Hoping Clayton can get his ERA under 2. Max has outperformed him by most objective metrics and volume but I'd still like it to be close.
With you. this has always been a fortuitous song !! Yo oh Black Betty ram a jamma, Black Betty don't lie rama jamma
OK I'm wrong.. slightly Contacted the stats geeks/gods over at baseball-reference.com about the watched v. swinging strikeouts and today received an email reply with a link.. https://www.baseball-reference.com/...hes-batting.shtml#players_pitches_batting::27 We suck at watching strike 3's but we're 'only' 4th worst in the MLB, behind the Brewers, Madres and dBags. 333 of them v. league average of 279. KC Royals have only 197 We're near mid pack on strikeouts swinging FYI
baker changed the pitching matchups game 1 still the same but he put aj cole in for game 2 and slid strasberg back to game 3 and no gio gonzalez -- who's pretty much owned us (link) on paper it doesn't make a lot of sense, but would appear to favor us
Well, it looks and sounds like no one gives us a chance against the Nats. Makes winning this series all the more important. Btw, the Card's Martinez is now pitching against the Cubs with purple hair. Indeed. Purple. And somehow, Fernando Rodney's douchebag Bazooka Joe cap tilt is infinitely more annoying to me.
who's that? Harold Reynolds? The Dodgers have the best record in MLB. We fans can rip them and agonize as much as we want. It is a defense mechanism. But the national media can eff off. 3 bad weeks and we are toast to them.
No actually, not Reynolds. Everyone else. And yes, they can eff off. And then they can fuck off. And then suck elephant dick. Just reporting...
I hope sincerely that you are absolutely correct, and all your projections come to fruition... Within your post is another example of something I just don 't quite get though. I've been reading, lately especially, about how players perform better, or like sacks of shit...whatever...because of an unfamiliar or stressful situation. For instance, Forsythe bites the big one basically this year because he " was never on a winner before ". If we are "winners", I guess. And Wood essentially was a "stopper" a couple of times, so that's why he gave up double digit HRs and sucked, indeed. And Granderson is not used to being on a winner, either...so he's pressing. Poor babies. Poor fucking cuntish millionaire babies...if you can't play ball, f you can't play your game without the psychologically perfect environment existing for you all the time - every game you're in there, then pound salt, delicate little twerps. Sorry, I just don't get all the excuses...it's not a sustained artillery barrage. It's baseball. It's A Game. If you're now on a winner, play like one...if you need to stop a slide and pitch your ass off, pitch your ass off. Whatever you need to do. Whenever. Play ball.
No Barnes tonight. Screw off Dave. Getting Grandal "right"? Yeah, that always works for us in the post.
We had a horrendous losing streak and the Indians rolled off 22 straight, yet we still have the best record in baseball, and I believe a 3.5 game lead for HFA for the entire playoffs including the World Series. This while playing in a division that has the two wildcard teams in it. The Nats had to deal with the Mets, Phillies and the Marlins. Let them write us off. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
