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I understand your point, but I wouldn't use the Harvey game to illustrate it. He went into the 9th inning having already thrown 101 pitches (hunted that down), not 85, and he had a two-run lead, not three. If you give Kershaw one baserunner, the reliever can come in, give up a home run, and you've still got the lead; Harvey's one baserunner brings the tying run to the plate. More than that, Terry Collins inexplicably left Harvey in even after he walked the leadoff batter. Plus it was the World Series, not a divisional series, and the Mets faced elimination.
In any event, playing it safe is fine. But does that mean that, for the rest of time, we will never have games like Gibson in '64 and '67, Morris in '92, or Bumgarner in '14 to talk about for years afterwards? I was partly joking about Posnanski's old-man nostalgia. He's kind of like Nixon visiting China in 1972: Posnanski can write about this because--after a career advocating against putting Morris in the HOF, arguing for Raines and Whittaker, and just in general being very attentive to the sabermetric side of things--you can't caricature him as Joe Morgan. He's the best kind of baseball writer, one who can hold two contradictory thoughts in his mind at the same time.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
First and second, no outs, 3-0 count on Muncy ... and they escape with no runs scored. Altanta definitely earned this one.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 8 October 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
Camargo fouled out to first.
Flowers popped out to first.
Markakis popped out to third.
Albies popped out to second.
Flowers fouled out to catcher.
Inciarte popped out to shortstop.
fuckin' fuck sklja;sdf12!#$*&^P(&
― WmC, Monday, 8 October 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link