Sunday, August 03, 2014

Post-Game 112 Thread: The Black Hole Of 4 and 5

CUBS 7, DODGERS 3

As the movie poster says, "You can't escape the most powerful force in the universe." That may be true for Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, and Hyun-Jin Ryu; however, when we throw up Dan Haren or Josh Beckett this second half of the season, much like a black hole, you can't escape the suck.

Beckett had yet another non-quality start, this time going 4.0 IP before being pulled three batters into the fifth, having given up two more runs to put the Dodgers down 3-1. Beckett did have 6 Ks to go with his 3 BBs, but was as shakey as a pizza parlor and Mattingly had no choice but to go to the pen early...which proved fateful when Brandon League and Chris Perez combined to give up four runs in the last two innings to put the game out of reach. Not even Matt Kemp, who homered again and went 2-for-4 on the day, could claw back this deficit.

You might have heard this once or ten thousand times during the broadcasts, but when a last-place team comes out and spanks you Friday, and again Sunday (and our Saturday win was only due to extra-inning heroics), it doesn't give one a lot of confidence. Nor does the back half of our starting rotation, which seems universally catastrophic. Better fire up those waiver wire deals, Neddie.

12 comments:

Steve Sax said...

Did MPQ go down for all you guys, right at the point of the end of the Deadpool quests? Boo.

Orel said...

Boo indeed! I was up to #11 at one point

Steve Sax said...

first beckett's implosion, now this

Steve Sax said...

yep, it's a bug

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=13573

Steve Sax said...

Given the late night, I figure they won't solve this until morning. That sucks.

Orel said...

Deadpool covers for everyone!

Orel said...

COMM LINK DISRUPTED MESSAGE - 8/3

Postby LakeStone » Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:19 pm
Hi Everyone -

We are currently looking into the Comm Link Disrupted message many of the players are seeing right now when they launch Marvel Puzzle Quest. We will provide an update here on the forums once we have more news to share and we get everyone back into the game. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Orel said...

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13582

Steve Sax said...

I'm so pissed, the all caps heading is appropriate

Steve Sax said...

All right, it's back up.

And I got me a Deadpool!

Fred's Brim said...

what a coincidence, Deadpool is what they are calling the back end of our rotation

Fred's Brim said...

for realz though, I think Beckett looked better last night, still a little wild but not a total mess. If we had scored a couple more runs for him, I think Donnie leaves him in. With Haren and Beckett, Donnie is managing like it's the playoffs