2012 MLB Playoff Thread

[jung]

Damn....shame of it is that Storen was throwing good sliders...he just lost confidence in it and insisted on trying to get the hitter to chase it off the plate. If he just got one of those sliders over the the outer third I think he would have had his out...his save and game over.

 

The one he threw after the FB off the inside of the plate would have had him dead if he threw it for a strike. Thats baseball

[a700hitter]

Welcome to being a fan of a competitive team, Natstown

They finished 9th out of 16 in attendance. The Cubs with 101 losses and the Rockies with 98 losses outdrew the Nats.

[a700hitter]

it's good to weed out the chokers before going to the NLCS. I would throw my TV out the window if I had to watch the Nats choke away a WS to the Skanks if they get that far.

[jung]

Even though I said that a slider on the plate would have saved Storen, the reason I did not like him there....look at the difference between the way Mott is walking around the mound and the way Storen was.

[a700hitter]

Even though I said that a slider on the plate would have saved Storen, the reason I did not like him there....look at the difference between the way Mott is walking around the mound and the way Storen was.

Storen was having a heart attack. He needed a diaper on the mound. f***ing loser.

[jung]

Well good game thread guys...love calling out the pitches, pitch by pitch cause it is so much fun to do it along with the pitcher and the hitter.

[a700hitter]

I can see the Sox big off season acquisition being this puke Descalso. He'll be this year's Punto.

[jung]

Very good point 700. I would absolutely jump out a window if the Spanks won a WS on that s***. I would have not been able to do anything but swear for a week at least.

[a700hitter]

Very good point 700. I would absolutely jump out a window if the Spanks won a WS on that s***. I would have not been able to do anything but swear for a week at least.

Me too and age has mellowed me.

[jung]

Ya know what I can go back to now.....remember when I huffed and snorted about leaving Gonzalez in for those runs on walks in the 5th because this whole thing of leaving the starter in as long as he has not lost the lead yet drives me completely nuts.....

 

Like I said then...this was no dog days of August game where you are trying to get Gonzalez a win...should have got him out of there and then...lifted him the very next inning! So Gonzalez never threw a pitch in the 6th having given up runs on walks to end the 5th. DJ has a lot to answer for here.

[redsoxrules]

Big hit for Scutaro , Giants now leading 5-1 in the 4th

[jung]

That had to be pretty satisfying for Scuts given that take out play from earlier in the game. Hope he glared into the Cards dugout.

[redsoxrules]

That was such a dirty slide by Holiday .

They should suspend players for s*** like that .

[jung]

Well I don't think the league will do anything but if the Giants get up on the Cards enough not to worry about series consequences, the players will likely take care of it.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

A see a 2006 world series rematch

[Bellhorn04]

A see a 2006 world series rematch

 

Yep. 2 teams that won 88 games this year. And the Cards would have missed the playoffs completely if not for the added wild card.

[Station 13]

Yep. 2 teams that won 88 games this year. And the Cards would have missed the playoffs completely if not for the added wild card.

 

That team barely get in 2006, and last year and this year.

[Bellhorn04]

That team barely get in 2006, and last year and this year.

 

I know. They have mastered the art of sneaking in the playoffs and then getting red hot.

[jung]

Filling in more teams at the bottom of the bracket is making a mockery of the 162 though. Baseball is not like any of the other pro team sports in that none of the others have as many regular season games.

 

The best team that the AL could have put up against the NL this year got knocked out in the one game play in...nice work Uncle Bud. The Rangers would likely have knocked the ridiculous Yanks out before getting to Detroit and turning the ALCS into Custer vs Guardians. It took the anemic Orioles to allow the Yanks to drift aimlessly into the ALCS.

 

In the national league in spite of all the who-hah about setting this up so that the WC team had a harder time moving forward in the post season, once this year's WC play in winner got past the one game play in, the fact that they were hot still was more important than home field or pitching match ups or anything else. All this maneuvering did not change the one constant since the development of division series play and league championships before the WS. The hottest teams at playoff time move forward.

 

I think it is dangerous for MLB to add even the one additional WC team and I think they should go back to what they had. It simply makes the 162 less and less meaningful, not more meaningful as Uncle Bud implied when this whole nonsense of another WC team got started.

[ibot2much]

The Cards were amazing last year...but this year-- with their long time mamager and their big money player gone--I never thought they had a chance for anything.

[jung]

What a game Zito is pitching tonight (game 5). Location is unreal and he is throwing a big breaking curve ball for strikes anytime he wants to. Has not missed with the FB either. One of the best control pitcher performances I have seen in a long time at least so far.

[redsoxrules]

Scutaro has been a beast in this series ,Giants up early 4-0

[jung]

Pitching is so critical in the post season. I actually think that if the Giants pull off the seven game series win, the turning point will have been the game 5 Zito pitched. The Giants had lost a little faith in Zito. Stuck Tim in the rotation ahead of him cauae they just did not feel like Zito would get it done. They come back almost on a hunch with Zito in game 5 and he just throws an absolute beauty of a game with Giants backs against the wall.

[jung]

Scutaro continues to hit and moves Pagan to 3rd with a hit and run single to the opposite field. How come we never get players like that?

[redsoxrules]

GO Giants !

Would love to see Scutaro make the WS

[redsoxrules]

Scutaro has done something no else has in league championship play.

He becomes the first player to have 6 Multi hit games in a LCS

 

Sandoval follows up with a double.

Great chance for the Giants to bust this game open

[Station 13]

Cards imploded that inning. Don't you just hate that one reliever who is in and let all the runners on base scored, and then get pulled himself?

[jung]

Funny how two teams will have a different perspective on a series. Card's manager commenting that there was a "different" feeling in the Cards dugout for game 6 with Hamilton out of the game....almost sounded like they felt like the baseball gods had deserted them. I thought the Giants took tremendous momentum and confidence out of seeing Zito go out there and dominate in game 5.

 

In fact, since game 5 absolutely nothing has gone the Cards way and everything has gone the Giants way.

[jung]

Well if this finishes as it appears, I guess we will know who the disciplined hitting team will be and and which will be the team of free swingers. Giants have really worked counts, got Lohse to get the ball up in the zone and just pounded out hits on him and anybody else the Cards have tossed out there tonight. They have put on a clinic so far tonight.

[jung]

Cards commenting again that they never felt like they were out of that 6-0 game against the Nats....in this game they never really looked like they were in it even at 0-0.