If Walker keeps this up Dback fans are gonna Taijuan on

48 pitch half inning LMAO

Jason Bateman waving the towel in the front row over there.

This game is over, Kershaw will get at least 7 innings work.

Turner!

Incoming Kershit meltdown.

Well this is over.

Good. I wanted to go to bed.

It's happening

****, leave him in Roberts. I wanna see a Kershit meltdown.

Big time moment for Washington, for once. Down 3-1 in the 8th inning, Bryce Harper just destroyed the baseball. Tie game.

That game was going to be over a good 15 minutes early... ugh.

The way the Cubs pen is pitching right now it still might be.

Well, that helps... and maybe no bottom of the 9th now.

And there it is. Zimmerman 3 run bomb.

I have mixed feelings about the whole juiced ball/homerun derby thing.... it's still dramatic and all, but not as much when it seems like every run is scored on the long ball.

A relief pitcher's two out, two run triple.... now that's awesome.

And any game Lester doesn't win is a good game... douche.

I'd prefer 2014 to 2017 baseball, but home runs are fun to see. This year is just nuts though. Everybody and their mother hitting double digit homers.

The funny thing is everyone complains about pace of play, this juiced ball thing is absolutely the worst thing you could do. Taxes the pitching staffs beyond belief and makes the games last forever.

On the bright side, at least those were earned.... unlike watching games at the ****ing ridiculous Minute Maid Park, where a line drive off the concrete wall in left is a home run and a line drive off the padding is a single.

Puig is entertaining.

Dodgers 6 LewBacks 2

7-2

Chris Sale and Justin Verlander making bullpen appearances today. Welcome to 2017 playoff baseball!

It's definitely like we've crossed over into a different thought process in playoff baseball strategy. It's always been different than the regular season for sure, but now it's basically throw everything you have against the wall and don't hold anything back. Astros are going to get hammered if they blow this game.

Did the Royals and Giants start the trend in 14?

The 'Cyborg Bullpen'.

The Giants using Bumgarner to 'Bumgarner' teams.

That infield looks like straight mud.

That was a nasty pitch by Sale.

'Stros tie it with Bregman HR. And Gattis gets jammed and hits a grounder just over the corner of the 3B bag that the ball girl picks up by mistake. GR2B. Lead run at 2nd

'Stros taking care of business late. 5-3 Houston ^9th.

WOW!!

Wow. Boston inside the park HR. 5-4 Stros bottom 9.

Bad decision by Springer there. He should've just let the ball bounce off the wall and field it

Boston Gone

I wonder if their last ALDS Game 4 was in any of the Houston players' minds. Incredible finish.

Scherzer gets his no hitter broken up in the 7th inning against the Cubs. Dusty Baker goes to the pen.

And the Cubs tie it up anyway.

And threatening to put on more.

Inarguably one of the 3 best pitchers in baseball on the mound, he's given up 1 hit and isn't at 100 pitches yet.

And you pull him to go to the 5th best arm in your bullpen. Don't every change, Dusty. Don't ever change.

That guy's just a complete idiot. He's like Matheny if Matheny cussed more. I'm honestly not completely convinced I'd take Baker over Matheny and I would probably take any random idiot from this board over Matheny.

What the hell, Baker?

Can't wait for the backlash and his reasoning.

Damnit Cubs.

And base running dumbassery killed the Cubs chances of extending the inning.

Max has been battling a tweaked hamstring. So if Max said he can't go any more because of it, then who is to argue against Baker?

What a terrible base running mistake.

Zobrist! That was sweeeeet.

You watching this game?

Did Max look like someone who told his manager he couldn't go anymore when he walked off the mound and then spent the remainder of the inning pacing the dugout like a caged animal?

I agree - if Scherzer asked out, there's nobody to really criticize. But Max did not look like a man that asked out of that ballgame. He looked to be lobbying to stay in and seemed not at all happy to have to give up the ball.

Baker has had a history of letting pitchers stay in the game too long and them pitchers getting rocked when he does so. shit happens.

Yes, I'm watching this game.

We don't know because we are not privy to that conversation. He may not looked like a man that asked out, I will agree with you on that. But I also do believe that the manager probably asked his catcher his thoughts as well. If the catcher says that he's losing his effectiveness, on top of that he is coming off the tweaked hamstring, you have to take that into consideration.

Either way, all of that is irrelevant since they got out of that inning without any damage.

What? The runner scored. That was hardly irrelevant.

And how much effectiveness could he have been losing - it was the first hit he'd given up all night. And you yanked him for Solis - Scherzer could throw lefthanded and be almost as good as Solis.

You don't yank Scherzer unless he asked out but if you do, you damn sure don't go to the 4th/5th best arm in your 'pen to get you out of it. And now Scherzer is almost certainly done for the series having thrown a whopping 98 pitches.

This is a lot like when Dusty was 'saving Zambrano for game 5' in a game they lost in 4. He just isn't worth a damn at managing a game or playing in the moment.

Yu Darvish just about hit someone in the face. Saved by the bill of his helmet or there would've been a major injury there.

Didn't expect they'd get 2 hit by Yu Darvish.... and WTF do you throw Greinke out there in the 6th at 103 pitches? Not even Yost would do something like that. :shake:

Yeah, Greinke not doing well in the Wild Card game screwed the D-Backs. It caused us to run our Ray in that game so he was not as effective as he might have otherwise been in game 2.

Ah well, excellent year and way more than I expected from them this year. But when the Dodgers are on they are very, very good. Not sure anyone has a chance to stop them.

I had their season opener on just for the hell of it and remember thinking, who the hell are these guys? LMAO They're a fun team to watch.

Is there a reason Diamondbacks fans hate Puig? I found something about 2013 and Luis Gonzalez, but that seems pretty weak, especially being 4 years ago.... I assume there's more to it than that? He seems pretty entertaining. :shrug:

Puig doesn't "play the game the right way."

i dont even know what that means, dude plays it the right way, once in a while he will do something stupid like try8ing to stretch out a single into a double, but outside of that, dude is more then likely going to win a gold glove had and excellent offensive year, been really good in the post season.

He just likes to troll a little bit and show emotion. Doing the same thing NFL and NBA players been doing for decades

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Astros going all the way

Strasburg with some apparent vaginal flu that's keeping him from pitching an elimination game today.

And yet Mike Matheny lives.

I guess some teams still care about the product on the field.

Looks like Strasburg is suddenly feeling better and is going to go today.

im not sure he's feeling better, but he knows if he doesnt pitch and they lose, its going to be a huge mark on his career. He's kinda forced into this, but thats what the great ones do. We will see what happens.

That'll happen when a few million people simultaneously call you a pussy.

Are we talking 2012?

I kid.

"I kid..."

Why?

2012 absolutely plays into it. I never understood how the Nats shut him down for that either.

The guy's National career was going to be about the times he DIDN'T answer the bell in the post-season with a sprinkling of his injury history and his massive contract.

He had to pitch, man. And Baker needs to keep an eye on him and have a relatively quick hook. But when they have Gio on regular rest for game 5 and Strasburg on regular rest for game 4, he can't sit it out.

Scherzer would've probably pitched game 4 if Dusty asked him to because Scherzer is a psychotic competitor. Strasburg, OTOH, doesn't seem to have that gear.

Haha! To this day no player has ever been a bigger pussy than Bip Roberts. I'll never forget him leaving Game 7 in the 97 series because he had a cold. They had a parabolic mic near the dugout that caught the conversation

later he claimed it was 'borderline influenza'.

Strasburg sure doesn't look like he's sick after the way he has performed through 6.

Lester threw to 1st.

And he got him on the 2nd attempt.

That's hilarious. And it was a shitty throw too.

Nats are going to regret that if they blow this one.

Lester just picked off a base runner. The world is coming to a end

I was always taught to get back to the bag at an angle away from the pitcher.

The Royals “cyborg” Davis is coming in!

Yikes...

What did I just witness

The air being sucked out of the stadium. WHOOSH

Wow. That was impressive.

Ouch.

Wader...check please.

If Davis was in a Royals uniform that wouldn’t happen

You could hear a pin drop in there. That probably ended the series.

This is stupid. You may need Wade tomorrow. Get him out of there ASAP.

Did the Cubs break Davis?