2023 World Series: Arizona Diamondbacks vs Texas Rangers

If Pham does come up with two on, I want him to give up his AB to a little-used teammate who's never had the thrill of the World Series spotlight.

Another missed call.

There were Gonts in the earth in those days

How has Texas stayed in this post season with Leclerc pitching. Luckiest pitcher alive right now.

Garbage call

I think he missed that one too.

They did even up--missed strike, missed ball.

Lol

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Way to ruin a good inning ump

I irrationally hate Leclerc

It’s not his fault, but he just continues to pitch in incredibly frustrating innings. Not fun to watch

If you miss two pitches, one for each side, it's a wash. I know it affects the psychological procession of the AB, but I don't think you can say the net effect was big. The AB should have unfolded 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, and then the 5th pitch would have been a called strike three. I think I have that right.

? He's been awesome his last two times out.

Good Series so far.

Nothing's a wash in baseball, blow up your example to a whole AB/inning/game and tell me calling balls and strikes as opposites doesn't effect anything. On the biggest stage, the first AB of the 9th with the potential comeback, calling pitches like that is really poor form. Would love to see an analysis of AB results on a falsely called 2-strike pitch vs correctly called 2 strike pitch. My (limited) viewing experience tells me to expect an out 19/20 when it's called wrong

I said it was irrational!

Great series

I'm watching Jon Gray on the post-game show. Steroids and personalities aside, it must be amazing for a player to sit there between A-Rod, Ortiz, and Jeter. That's 9,000 hits and 1,500 HR.

The whole game, sure. We're talking one AB. If he calls the second pitch correctly, the batter's never ahead in the count.

I'd say it's been a good series, far from a great one thus far. G1 was classic, G2 was okay for a while and then a blowout, G3 was better, with some great defense, but interchangeable with hundreds of other WS games.

yeah I do think when a hitter gets an obviously bad strike call it messes with their head in the exact way you really don't want to have your head messed with

I agree, but wouldn't Moreno also have gotten a big psychological boost when he found himself sitting on a 2-0 pitch instead of 1-1?

Positive feedback vs. negative feedback ain’t equal

^^the main reason I don’t think it’s a wash and despise negative make up calls. If you screwed it up ump, own it, and don’t screw it up more

Disagree, but whatever the case, seems like a stretch to give this one pitch undue weight as to why they lost. Far more important was Walker running through the stop sign in the second.

yeah that was a real boner

Oh yeah, it's not the reason they lost at all. Didn't see that, will have to watch the highlights

for all the randomness of the postseason - BECAUSE of the randomness of the postseason - you need to be pretty much perfect with your fundamentals to eke any tiny edge you can get

Sheehan-ILX mind-meld on how good infielders have gotten:

Infield defense has become so good that we don’t think about it any more. We just expect plays to be made on these rockets, expect balls that don’t get through the dirt to become routine outs. Infielders now turn double plays with lethal efficiency, with even players we don’t immediately think of as wizards, like Seager, able to make plays. I mentioned using a time machine on Merrill Kelly, taking him back to the 1980s. Do the same with Seager, an average shortstop in our game, and he’d challenge Ozzie Smith for Gold Gloves each year. The baseline level of athleticism has risen slowly over time so that we don’t notice it. Today’s infielders, today’s infields, are out machines, though, even hampered by ill-conceived rules that dictate they position themselves poorly.

The lesson? Hit the ball up. I have been screaming this on Slack all month. You have to hit the ball up. Seager and Marte hit the same rocket last night. One hit it up for two runs, the other hit it down for two outs. Groundballs are death. Hit the ball up.

Texas must have made four plays last night that are described by that paragraph.

Have a feeling this will go seven. Both teams looked unbeatable last week, but they've both come down to earth a bit, highlighting weaknesses and an inconsistency that are more in keeping with the regular season.

adolis out :(

That sucks!

No posts? Working for today and tomorrows game, productivity has been destroyed by this series. The dbacks got caught stealing, they’re human!

Bullpen game! Is Heaney aiming for a full start or is he just an opener too?

Going to try and watch tonight's game but I have been busy. If it was the Giants or something I would have made time

Looks like I picked the right game

Rangers doing Rangers things again

i feel like, if you're trying to win the world series - you should have a starter.

Damn missed it, time to rewind

Seager

Let's go Gonts

Okay I caught up, Castro really ain’t having a series hey?

A series of unfortunate events maybe

If semein can stay alive for the rest of this series it’s gonna be tough for the dbags

Corey Seager, so hot right now

Cmoooon dbags, can’t be doing that!

ohhh it is just all unraveling now

crazy stat from before: the last time the Rangers won 9 straight road games was in 2013. assuming this holds it's gonna be 10 straight in the postseason

Nice at bat

Damnit dbags!

Cut that hair jankowski!!!

That is insane

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Mercy rangers, mercy

Wow

WAS THAT BOCHY SMILING?!?!?!?