2021 NLDS Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants

Let's see if there is anymore magic

Karl: found a list of players that had won both awards and then checked bbref for the guys I wasn’t sure if they’d been on the same team/year or not.

Here we go

Anti magic

Sorry Bee. We were all (mostly) rooting for you.

sorry bee!

i don't like the la dodgers either :(

oh man that’s a tough way to lose

Ya that was a shite call to end it there.

scherzer is a maniac lol

Remember when Scherzer gave up a grand slam to a relief pitcher a few months ago

what an awful way for that to end

don't even care if he did go around, just give it to the batter

I have died

Well that sucked

My gut reaction

Happy for Scherzer, but the worst series-ending call I've ever seen; I don't think his bat was within a foot of that invisible it's-a-swing line.

I'm ok, I wanted the NL West title, everything else would have been gravy

But fuck the umpire, five horrible calls

"Huge props to Logan Webb... he shoved it up our butt twice" - Cody Bellinger pic.twitter.com/ggqQdknBxw

— Internet #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) October 15, 2021

So, other MVP/ROY teammates:
Mays/McCovey
Bench/Rose
Lynn/Carew
Lynn/Ripken
Pujols/Trout
Pujols/Bellinger

Watching live, I thought he went around, IOW that's called a strike more often than not. But what the hell, don't end a playoff series that way.

Ohtani/Trout

I see; misunderstood.

Next year, most likely, yes.

Brutal ending

season-ending. pic.twitter.com/APRlI0UZK7

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 15, 2021

Someone else will have to take over the thread polls, I'm out

check swing twitter is good as hell tonight

sorry bee! horrible call

#Justice4Wilmer

this was on too late for me but it looks like it was fucking epic?? game of the year?

oh no i just saw the last strike

it wasn't a great call but it's not like he had runners in scoring position or something

yeah imo much worse was that Kris Bryant AB w/ one on and no one out. he took 5 straight pitches, all well out of the zone, but the ump called two of them strikes anyway, and he struck out on the next pitch

the fix was in

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

Comparison between 2 morales calls https://streamable.com/q97s2c

Lol

christ.

Umpire: Doug Eddings
Final: Giants 1, Dodgers 2#ResilientSF // #Dodgers#SFvsLAD // #LADvsSF pic.twitter.com/MX0tUmJwzs

— Umpire Scorecards (@UmpScorecards) October 15, 2021

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?!

that isn’t bad, but the two worst calls coming in the same at-bat is rough

xp you can’t iirc, it’ll be at 8pm EDT (midnight GMT of the selected date) no matter what

the sox 'stros one ends in 7 hours somehow tho!

he's used his weird giants voodoo magic on the poll times!!

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.