CLOSED (NLDS) DODGERS/PHILLIES

This reminded me of a one goal Stanley Cup finals game. You knew it would turn on one play.

About all I can about Pages is he made contact. Kerkering just panicked. Feel for him. Really admired how he stepped up and answered the tough questions after the game. Reminded me of Eckersley after the Gibson walkoff. Kim's wheels came in valuable there.

Pitching was lights out for both teams and to think the Phillies didn't have Wheeler available. Glasnow set the tone. Sheehan gave up the unearned run (his fault, although the inning opening hit by Realmoto was a bloop). Only 36 pitches to get through 3 innings for Stone Cold Sasaki. He should have gone out for a fourth. Vesia did his usual high wire act, although Smith didn't do him any favors with the passed ball.

Final play aside, the Dodgers got some good fortune in scoring their first run. A third strike to Call was missed. That ended up being the tying run. Great AB by Mookie drawing the walk against the monster Duran. So glad they walked Sho. No way he works a walk there. Probably hits a weak ground ball to second or pops one up to short.

Also had a little rub of the green in the 11th. Neither Edman's or Muncy's single were hit hard but found the outfield grass. Didn't see Kike working a patient walk to load the bases.

Both teams combined for 1-13 with RSIP.

My impression is they just beat the best team in the playoffs. Obviously that doesn't ensure success in any future series, but it was a test of their mettle and they passed it.

 

On Duran from today's Athletic............

Jhoan Duran faced 81 batters after a summer trade brought him to the Phillies. He walked only one of them. He had walked two of the nine Dodgers batters he faced earlier in this series, but Duran is the portrait of command. He pounds the strike zone.

That is why, with an open base, the Phillies chose to put Shohei Ohtani on first. They loaded the bases in the seventh inning. Ohtani had been 2-for-6 with two homers and two walks against Duran in his career. Although Ohtani had not produced all series, the Phillies made a logical choice. They weren’t going to let Ohtani beat them.

Then Duran walked Betts on six pitches. It was the first time in his career Duran walked in a run.

 

A big block of cheese need with this whine.....

 

I was thinking that the last play could have been a frenzy of replay challenges...Kim never touched home. His foot went down before the plate edge...my vantage point, anyway ( TV). Then, I think he went back and touched it...Idk. But I don't want to be like good 'ol Bob Euker with the "he missed the tag" commercial from nosebleed RF.seats.
So, Phillies could have challenged that. But Realmuto had the plate blocked with his foot, so Dodgers could have challenged that...I guess. Could have beed 20 minutes of waiting for NY replay decisions.
Maybe. I don't know if any of it was reviewable but I think so.
The line up was milquetoast again against Sanchez, but they got lucky with the scumpires and their "balls and strikes" Our lone run at the time...
Glasnow and Sasaki... rocks on the hill. Sasaki looks like he's got himself a place in the LA bp for years, if his recent results dictate his career arc. I know this is very obscure and on a strange tangent, but he reminds me of a kid in WWII when Japan was desperate, willing to give his life for his country and his canopy be bolted down in a kamikaze fighter. A terrible and formidable enemy. It's just his face. He sits there, out in the bp, quietly, with his glove on his knee or on his hand , jacket over his shoulders, hat on, waiting for the call.... " put me in coach"... He has became the "Divine Wind".
Ohtani and Pages and FREEMAN are going to have to get some kind of shit together other than the garbage they have given so far...little or nofhing offensively. Bwfore thenext go round.
It's amazing the these three have been almost useless so far.
It's literally boring to see Shohei up at the plate. his AB have become the timeto obey the tyranny of the enlarged prostate. Maybe send him to the opthalmologist over the next four days?
Can't hurt.

 

For sure...really can't stand that LA won.
Li!e my favorite singer ever sang... " I guess the lord must be in NY City"...
But he ain't...

 

Bottalico is especially bitter.

 

Emotionally I barely survived a Vesia inning. Not sure I would make it through a Treinen inning.

 

Whiny bitches to be sure.

 

Both Dodger runs were scored by players (Dean and Kim) who never came to the plate in the game.

 

keep thinking in a given moment what it feels like to be that guy
did he sleep last night and is he feeling suicidal?
just has to let more time pass in between the thoughts of how wrong things went in that moment
saw JT go straight to him and lift his head up w his hand and walk him off the field
that's a great team mate and on a human level everyone of us that ever played sports has a moment or two like that we relive
and those happened in games no one was watching
can't imagine

 

You're assuming he lives that long.

 

Shame to think people can be so cruel and unable to separate sports and the real world but we know for sure that's the truth
Billy Bucks and the Chicago kid had their lives changed forever by that evil
In Philadelphia you can almost guarantee it's coming
Especially if he's in a contract year and ends up on another squad

 

Can he hit? Because we 've got a leadoff hitter I'm getting weary watching strike out.
Damn, he's not even in the vicinity of the pitch.
Wtf?