NLCS and ALCS Official Thread
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Nobody is beating the Astro's as long as they stay healthy.
No matter who they play, they'll have 3 or 4 of the best starting rotation.
No matter who they play, they'll have 3 or 4 of the best starting rotation.
Dodgers get retribution if Houston and LA make it to the WS. Too many bats in the Dodgers lineup and bench.
Will be at Game 5 on Thursday night and finally get to see Verlander pitch. Went to 10 games this year and the schedule never timed up right until then. Go Astros!
Giving LA the night game. With a 9:09 start on the east coast, only die hards will see the end of that game.
So the Astros are a bunch of dirty, rotten cheaters.
https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-re...mpting-steal-signs-information-032027336.html
Go Sox!
https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-re...mpting-steal-signs-information-032027336.html
Go Sox!
The Dodgers and Manny Machado are just dirty. I wonder if the league will step in and say anything before today's game. Go Brewers!
Machado called out as 'dirty' after eventful G4
In the 10th, Machado dragged his left leg into Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar's back leg as he crossed first base. The contact angered Aguilar, leading to a heated exchange and clearing both benches and bullpens.
"It's a dirty play by a dirty player," Brewers right fielder Christian Yelich said.
"It looked like it," Aguilar said. "I've known Manny for many years and I don't know why he would act like that."
https://www.mlb.com/news/manny-machado-called-out-as-dirty-player/c-297998148
Machado called out as 'dirty' after eventful G4
In the 10th, Machado dragged his left leg into Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar's back leg as he crossed first base. The contact angered Aguilar, leading to a heated exchange and clearing both benches and bullpens.
"It's a dirty play by a dirty player," Brewers right fielder Christian Yelich said.
"It looked like it," Aguilar said. "I've known Manny for many years and I don't know why he would act like that."
https://www.mlb.com/news/manny-machado-called-out-as-dirty-player/c-297998148
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To say the way Counsell manages his pitching staff is unconventional would be a massive understatement. Yanking your starter after giving up a walk to the first batter of the game???
He's been unconventional for a while now. My question is the same as the announcers are discussing: Is it unethical/Should what he's doing be addressed by the MLB Commissioner's office?
My own take is that it's pretty cool...If your bullpen is better than your somewhat injury-depleted starting pitching, then play to your strength.
You pull your pitcher for a righty to intentionally mess up my lineup, the gloves come off. Your pitcher gets high ear and then one in the ribs.
That's fair perhaps. I just don't think that MLB should get involved.
I know baseball has more unwritten rules than all the other sports combined but he didn't break a written rule so I don't know how the commissioner's office can do anything. I agree with Fiji. Let the players handle it on the field.
Interesting. What did Smoltz say about it? He’s tremendous in the booth.
Tradition & long-established protocol/the "unwritten rules". That would be the argument...not saying I agree, was just asking what you all think.
I don't get. Are you saying that by putting in a pitcher that favors the remaining lineup is busch league?
I played baseball all the way through high school and have never heard that being against the unwritten rules. If you have the middle staff that can carry a team over weak starters, then by all means, trot them out on a carousel.
As an Astros fan, Ive always been lucky we've had long inning aces - Mike Scott, Nolan Ryan, Oswalt, Hampton, Randy Johnson, Schilling, Clemens, Verlander with a stud closer, but if a team has mid relief arms and use them, I say, why not? The Brewers are going to have to get creative to win it all with the teams left in this.
It's somewhat like the strategy the Rays used most of this season, using an "opener" (as opposed to a true starter) whose job was to get through an inning or two. They had little choice; due to injuries they only had a couple of health starters who were worth a crap.
I think it's something you'll see more teams do in the future, and it does make sense. There are a lot more guys around who are capable of getting a few outs than there are who can give you 5 or 6 quality innings.
I think it's something you'll see more teams do in the future, and it does make sense. There are a lot more guys around who are capable of getting a few outs than there are who can give you 5 or 6 quality innings.
But this isn’t an opener. It was just deception and pretty Bush league. The Rays were starting relievers with the expectation they would go 1-2 innings. Counsell started a starter and then pulled him after one batter to screw up the other teams batting order. It’s obviously not illegal it’s just kinda cheap and amateur hour.
He pulled his starting lefty, that the Dodgers set their lineup to, for a righty. Each team knows the next day starter so you can adjust your lineup for the righty v lefty matchup.
No way should that be fan interference. Betts went into the stands. The fan didn't reach out at all.
