Rolling Kershaw choking in the post season thread pt 1 - DODGERS V. NATS NLDS 2016

@ScottMillerBbl
Mgr Dave Roberts on starting Kershaw on short rest: Way pen been used past couple days, Urias pitch count is issue, w/Kershaw can go deeper

that ball 4 to harper looked pretty good

not off to a great start

RIP dodgers

27-pitch first ouch

lol kk

H9ow did the pitches look, generally? i will prob miss his entire performance (live)

I should be watching this live but an empty beer garden is inviting.

Going empty beer garden over home town elimination

whatta buncha Petey Pessimists

time to get oscar optimistic

Oscar Optimistic ascendant

9 pitch 2nd and back on track

Shaggy 2 dope rushes the mound! Childhood ruined! Everything ruined!

Srsly who here is rooting for the nats?

me

H9ow did the pitches look, generally? i will prob miss his entire performance (live)

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:27 PM (eighteen minutes ago)

he actually looked awful in the first inning! missed a bunch of his spots. looked much better in the second

Spottie are you from D.C. Or ?

giants fan grew up in salinas ca live in phx az now

but i like good games more than anything. and i love to watch the best at what they do so i like watching kershaw

i would like to see Harper in the WS someday (not w/ NYY), but after Daniel Murphy has sunk into oblivion.

kershaw's got decent wheels!

"Kershaw is like a ballerina"

With that shadow, they are not going to hit Kershaw at all.

lmao dude posing

Doing it for the gifs

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/785981231045365761

aw man this is greaaaat bball

Yikes.

Shadow went away along with Krershaw's win.

Neither of these clubs seem able to pitch well inside today at all. Ron Hunt would be proud.

here comes the 'he is not clutch' brigades (not on ILB thankfully).

he is not clutch

Haha

I did laugh.

Bad call on puig there

just got in, i hear the Nats owe the HP ump a check

yay future HOFer Utley

nl providing all of the entertainment this post-season

@pedromoura
Written on the whiteboard in the Dodgers' clubhouse: "The umps lost"

@keithlaw

I think Roberts made about as bad a series of tactical decisions as you'll see in an MLB game.

what were they besides sticking w/ CK?

He burnt that right-handed reliever who came in and plunked that guy in one pitch, could be one I suppose.

good read

Kershaw's postseason relievers have allowed 9 of 14 inherited runners to score.

https://theringer.com/clayton-kershaw-october-luck-los-angeles-dodgers-2016-mlb-playoffs-4969800e9610#.se9hxbr6i

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-history-of-clayton-kershaws-postseason-bullpens/

on a very related note

i think it's ok to admit that kershaw just hasn't been great in the postseason. even if all 9 of those runners had been stranded, his postseason ERA would still be 3.77

sure, but that's... lower!

No matter how much you massage the stats, he hasn't been nearly as dominant as in the regular season.

The sixth and seventh inning meltdowns are real. There was that game a couple of years ago against the Cardinals when he was dominating and then inexplicably gave up a go ahead three run homer to Matt Adams. I think Kershaw had given up one HR on his curve to a LHB in the previous three years. When it happens in the playoffs that's not bad luck or a small sample size, that's a guy making a horrible pitch at the worst possible time.

Yes, i was lamenting in a bar the other day that Kershawgod disappears in October.

It's funny that the Effectively Wild podcast has been obsessing over Rich Hill all year (mostly guessing what his market value will be this winter) and he gets to start this game.

tbh he hasn't been vintage since coming off the dl

PECOTA goin 54% Nats tonight

Urias in waiting when Hill's done

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17785233/los-angeles-dodgers-pitcher-rich-hill-start-game-5-nlds-vs-washington-nationals

Scherzer FTW

"lol ok" -- anthony rizzo

"i skipped a period" -- betty rizzo

Did Reynolds say "I thought this game was managed in so many moves"?

Thought for sure he was going to get a hit--Wilmer Difo sounded so much like the name of someone who'd get a hit in that situation.

Nice to see Yardbarker blogger Dontrelle Willis.

I'm still upset his intro music was never by D-Train

this was a great series. not surprised dodgers wins were all of the one run variety.