2018 NLCS - Los Angeles Dodgers vs Milwaukee Brewers

Going back to game 163, Chacin has pitched 16 innings, 7 hits, one earned run.

Fuck yeah Arcia!

Speaking of guys who really stepped it up damn. Kratz and Arcia the dynamic duo

Already matched his regular season total lmao

i know they've gotten this far and bullpenning and everything but the brewers running out gio gonzalez, wade miley and joulys chacin in the first three games doesn't really inspire confidence

― mookieproof, Thursday, October 11, 2018 3:44 PM (four days ago)

dodgers starters' era in the series: 6.28
brewers starters: 0.69

#nice

hahahahahah Yelich you rule

Yelich you suck

Grandal on the other hand just not having a good day

I would be good with not using Hader unless a couple dudes get on

Hmmm ok guess Counsell really wants this one

that is what i'm thinking but right there with you. they could have used him in game 2.

I like it, glad he trusted other pitchers

welp

Jeffress having a rough go again

Is Bellinger the worst playoff batter ever? How would one determine that?

Just one more

Brew crew have been showing that they might actually be the better team

Never a doubt

Another suspensful game... def above average playoffs from what I've seen!

some real craziness with small sample sizes in these playoffs

Jeffress ain't pitching great but the BABIP against him has been like .800

He was the victim of some dink hits in game 2 that's for sure

hard to be too down on him, he did strike out 2 in the 9th. the AB vs. Puig was weird...must've really thought he was gonna chase that inside pitch but he didn't bite

That last 97 mph fastball on the outside corner was the pitch of a reliever who has all the confidence in the world (although Kratz framed it perfectly), I think Jeffress passed a hurdle.

jeffress is so fun to watch, dont know how he doesnt pass out, he's always breathing so hard.

The mental aspect seems to apply to both sides here. when guys like Knebel and Hader are rolling the way they are you can see it in the batters' approach - they're just wildly swinging and trying to fight pitches off, striking out on pitches that are 6 inches out of the zone because they feel they just have to guess. Jeffress on the other hand looks pretty mortal right now, and I wonder if his postseason struggles caused Puig to suddenly show patience with that inside pitch that he often strikes out on.

cody bellinger, career postseason

22 G, 15-for-92, .176/.239/.353, 3 HR, 10 RBI, 7 BB, 34 K

this season he's 1-for-21 with 5 K and has been brutally unlucky -- .063 BABIP

This is far better than I imagined.

he's due, as my dad usta say

feels like either of these teams is going to have trouble beating either the red sox or the astros

i want to know how many players have played 75+ games at both first base and center field in one season, as bellinger did this year

Brad Wilkerson?

brutally unlucky -- .063 BABIP

I would think 16 AB would be a small enough sample size to not really confirm whether he's been unlucky or not.

How about his major league record 28 strikeouts in last year's playoffs?

Counsell’s already got Peralta warming up

It’s 1-0 after 1

To me--sorry to harp on this--that all goes back to game one. These guys, rich as they are, are human beings, not automatons. How can you pitch if you think your manager's just waiting for an excuse to get you out of the game? So you go for a ball you shouldn't have gone for, and then, instead of admitting you're hurt, you make a transparently misguided attempt to keep pitching.

Love you Peralta.

bis

I dunno about that clem, pitchers always go for balls like that

feel like Gio was told during Game 1 that he was only gonna go at most once through the lineup

I would think 16 AB would be a small enough sample size to not really confirm whether he's been unlucky or not.

21 AB is too small a sample to confirm that he sucks; considering he has a (n above-average) career .306 BABIP in 1180 regular-season PA, i don't think it's unfair to call him unlucky within the 2018 playoff sample

Peralta....dealing ????

Brewers looking mighty helpless against that curveball

A+ work for the house organist playing "Candyman" after this

WILL SOMEBODY GET THE KID A HAPPY MEAL??? pic.twitter.com/fbi5qz6Qkd

— MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) October 17, 2018

jfc the Dodgers seem flustered even though they're only down......zero

Watched game 2 with my father who was in town and he mentioned that Moustakas, Braun & Yelich all grew up in LA as diehard Dodgers fans.

BUR NE S

such weird kerning on the Brews jerseys

this is just the same inning over and over again

21 AB is too small a sample to confirm that he sucks; considering he has a (n above-average) career .306 BABIP in 1180 regular-season PA, i don't think it's unfair to call him unlucky within the 2018 playoff sample

16 AB before tonight where he put the ball in play. I would think in small sample sizes that it's more common for an average to be low because a batter was making weak contact, not hitting em where the ain't, etc.

where THEY ain't

Wait, is this actually the same inning over and over again?

wtf machado

Aguilar is a badass for not freaking out over that.