2021 NLDS Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants

This team

There is something magical this year

Crawford. There ya go Bee. A pretty nice game 1 so far

listening to the audio knbr audio feed on the mlb app. horizontal on the couch with jon miller murmuring in my ear

Sounds like heaven to me

One

What a perfect day

sweet game

One more time

😍 pic.twitter.com/ckI2DIuOpP

— MLB (@MLB) October 9, 2021

Walk didn't come back to bit him

Fuck

Stressed but remarkly calm

Longoria

Nice job Alex Wood, only two hits

nerves now ... bottom of the 7th

What a play by Crawford

oh man, didn't think he had those hops

Watson being hurt really hurts here

Breathe

in doval we trust

Yea

wind, pitching and defense

So fucking happy

Last time the Giants won a postseason game 1-0 on a solo homer -- Casey Stengel's mad dash in 1923.

Yeah, that factoid will be tough to top this postseason.

That's great...Giants lost a famous 1-0 WS game--7th game of the '62 Series, the one that ended with McCovey's liner to Bobby Richardson--but the one run scored on a DP, not a homer.

I'm sure I must have seen other 1-0 playoff games but the one I remember was the Braves beating the Indians in the final game of the '95 WS with Tom Glavine getting the win. So tense all game long.

giants got lucky last night lol.

BEAT LA

Giants very lucky in the 3rd. Dodger stadium just deep enough to keep that from being a grand slam. And great catch.

Should have pitched Cueto over Disco this game

justin turner now 1-for-17 in the series

hmm the dodgers are now starting knebel tonight???

possibly an attempt to set up a lefty-heavy lineup for urias to face, but it seems like overthinking

love the mind games.

and it’s not like urias is bad against righties, or that the giants’ righties are gonna be baffled by knebel

maybe just let yr best available pitcher pitch

I was thinking about how this would be if it were 1965 (or even 1975--Ryan or Tiant): the Dodgers would send out Scherzer on two days rest, he'd throw 147 pitches, and win (or lose) 6-4. Not meant as an endorsement: just a different world.

If it's not a blowout, tonight will be the first game I watch from start to finish all year.

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#SFGiants manager Gabe Kapler said he received a courtesy text earlier from #Dodgers manager Dave Roberts that they were going with an opener, and wasn’t surprised by the move with Knebel starting instead of Urias.

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) October 14, 2021

A courtesy text! lol

Surprising cordial

they are buds but thats hilarious.

the bad news is that my car's tire was shredded on a long drive back across illinois today, and none of the tire shops had the size wheel that i needed (the apparently bizarre 2016 honda fit) so i'm a hotel.

the good news is that i'm going to watch game 5 with a beer and take-out taco bell

Hope everyone enjoys this game

BEAT LA

honda (tires don't) fit

hope you're doing alright + you get free continental breakfast KM

Hope everyone enjoys this game

― Bee OK, Thursday, October 14, 2021 5:42 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes though hope the Giants fans enjoy it more :0

Great start

I know I keep saying this - but this giants team is so strange. A bunch of aging / journeymen vets all having amazing seasons at the same time. This is only my second time watching them play this year - I’ll eventually stop repeating myself.

it really is a strange team, i'm with you. just weird how they kept going the whole season

some people talk about cardinals devil magic

what if those people talked about...

giants tragic evil

uh that was Ball 5

Doesn't really matter that they were unlikely to win, you can't end the series that way

Ditto. Don Denkinger's famous blown call didn't end a series--it didn't even end Game 6.

Posnanski has a long post on last night's game:

Wilmer Flores didn’t swing. He didn’t come close to swinging. It was a blown call.

And that was a crummy way to end a brilliant game.

It’s a weird blown call because I think we’d all agree it probably didn’t make a difference. Scherzer still would have had Flores down 1-2 in the count, and Flores had gone one-for-11 in the series, and he’d never gotten a hit in 16 at-bats against Scherzer, and so the inevitable was still inevitable.

Still, there was something about that call that summed up this whole series and maybe even these whole playoffs. The Giants and the Dodgers should not have been playing a five-game series in early October. This whole thing was upside down, These are two of the best teams of the last decade, and they deserved — we deserved — a seven-game World Series to cherish forever.

Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Instead, the Dodgers go on, and the Giants will always be left wondering what miracles might have occurred had they been given their final strike.

since Bee is, I assume, prostrate on his floor for the foreseeable future; i went to start a poll for the NLCS, but had no idea how to set the time to the first pitch?!

thanks for taking over, yes i'm over baseball for now. anyways, just set it to close on Sunday and it will close at 5 PM Pacific on Saturday Night.

Still thinking about that last call...It's not something a manager can appeal, okay. But I thought the umpires, for anything that happens, have the option of getting together and conferring. Couldn't they ask to look at videotape themselves? Going back to that Denkinger call in 1985, the inning--the 9th--started with the bases empty, the Cardinals up 1-0 in the game and up 3-2 in the series. After Denkinger's missed call, the Royals have a man on first, but the Cardinals are still up 1-0 in the game and 3-2 in the series. And that call is infamous. This one ended the series.

i'm in the "that's baseball" camp i think

it’s just not feasible to go to the video for every borderline strike call. that this one ended a series is unfortunate, but so it goes

and unlike the denkinger play, a check-swing is a judgment call

I understand both of you, but in all honesty, a safe/out play at first seems no more or no less a judgement call to me than a checked swing--or at least in this case, where the bat is so clearly not even close to where you'd call a strike. Anyway, I won't mention it again. I do feel for Giants fans, though; I think they got screwed worse than 2003 Cubs fans or 1996 Orioles fans.

Okay, one last comment. What I think:

Managers obviously should not be allowed to appeal ball/strike calls.
Managers should not be allowed to appeal checked-swing calls.
Umpires should not be allowed to review ball/strike calls.

But: umpires should be allowed to review checked-swing calls, if someone on the crew feels one is needed. 99% of them would still not warrant a review--they would, indeed, fall under the judgement-call umbrella, or the game-situation wouldn't warrant doing so. But this is a rare and extreme case, and I think a review should have been in order.

the ump that made the call had the only angle from which to do so — no other ump on the field would ever question it. if you want the ump in the review room in NYC to be proactive, that’s feasible but also raises a ton of other issues

and just as a human nature thing, i doubt that umpires will be too interested in overruling coworkers who didn’t ask for help