Kersh (21-3, 1.77) vs. Waino (20-9, 2.38).
A year ago, the Cardinals owned the Dodgers in the NLCS. In Game 1, Joe Kelly plunked Hanley Ramirez in the McRibs and we were McFucked. Matt Kemp was already on crutches. Twice Kershaw faced the rookie Michael Wacha, and twice Wacha won, with the nadir arriving in the form of a humiliating Game 6 shellacking in which Kershaw was charged with seven earned runs.
Things be different now. The setting is one round earlier. Kelly is on the Red Sox, and some Red Sox are probably on some island in the Bahamas. Kemp is hot and healthy. Most significantly, Kershaw has thrown far fewer innings this year (198 1/3 as opposed to 236). And Wacha has been relegated to the Cards' bullpen after a major DL stint for a shoulder issue.
Oh, and Kershaw's pissed. Yeah, he'll say all the right things, but you know he's just dying to shut these ribcrackers down. And there are 215 million reasons to think he'll deliver. You could say the same for Hanley, who knows he's putting his skills on display for potential free-agent suitors.
Then there are the external narratives. Heat! Shadows!
It's time for Dodger baseball! Brought to you live, from Hades! #RIP pic.twitter.com/yqkvUiYqQn
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— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 2, 2014This thread will also serve as your scoreboard watching thread for those other teams playing today. GO BLUE!
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Tim Hudson quoted as saying what you have between your legs is what will take you far in the post season.
Phew. I feel better now.
Fuck you FuckHeads
Jayson Werth looking a little like a Manson family member but as long as he goes all helter skelter on the gnats who the hell cares??
1-2-3 inning for Stras.
Go Nats!
Go Stan!
Rooting for a Matt Williams team feels wrong. In my heart he'll always be one of the evil ones. Brings back memories of having Jackie Clark as our hitting coach.
Jayson works the walk.
But no damage as Peavy escapes the 1st
Delmon Young with the bases loaded
First-pitch swinging, bases-clearing double! O's take the lead!
OK, I think we have confirmation that Detroit has the worse bullpen.
Stras gives up a single to Pence, escapes 2nd
Frankly I'm worried ours could do the same, Gnomes
Oh, not to say the Dodger bullpen isn't capable...
Just that this is going to be hard to top AND NO I DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM TRY.
On the other hand: IF you had to choose an area of weakness for your team, bullpen is an obvious pick. Preferable to shitty starting pitching or a lack of hitting
Strasburg in a jam. Two on, no out
One out
STOOPID GIANTS EVEN YEAR DEVIL MAGIC
Well said, Orel! I am fucking stoked for this one. Checking in from the Stone Brewery at the foot of Petco Park.
Holee fuck there's another game going on right now?!?
How did gnats get a run?? I had to go pick my daughter up at work and missed it.
Wow, Peavy's pitching a NO-HITTER
Single, sac, passed ball, single
PEAVY HAS NOT GIVEN UP A HIT
Sandoval starts the 4th with a single. Devil magic
Thanks, Orel.
WARNING!! WARNING!!
DON'T DRINK THE SAISON,DUSTY!!! TRUST ME
shit shit shit
2-0 Evil
Two on, two out
FB mega-nervous
Will any of us be at the game?
Nice D by Rendon to keep it 2-0 Giants
JAKE PEAVY IS PITCHING A NO HITTER
JAKE PEAVY IS PITCHING A NO HITTER
JAKE PEAVY IS PITCHING A NO HITTER
C'mon, Jeysus Werth
Not so sure about that called K on Werth. It looked outside.
Peavy at 70 pitches with one out in the 4th
Nats making contact, hitting 'em where they are
Well said, DB
Strasburg falling apart. Hits Posey to put two on, one out in the 5th
Da fuq with these shiteaters? Are we the only ones who can beat a bunch of Gnats?
Stoopid Nats.
And, what Dusty said.
THERE IT IS BABY!!!
HIT
Glimmer of hope, guys!
SQUASHED
Immediately erased. Wheee!
Glimmer extinguished.
Giants-Royals WS. Whee!
Thanks for playing, Stras
Icky feelings in my tummy.
Gnomes killin' it on the Twitters again!
It helps when my boss isn't in the office.
Thanks, Gnomes' boss!
Nats wriggle off the hook. Still 2-0
Hard to believe, but the Nats still have 4 innings to work with.
Peavy seems to be going 3-2 a lot lately.
T-minus one hour!
FUCK FRISCO!!!
Time to settle in for some HATE!!
Hot hot hate!
Tie it up, you bearded monstrosity.
Take the lead, you other bearded monstrosity.
NATSO ARDIENDO
Gordon 2B
Puig CF
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp RF
Ramirez SS
Crawford LF
Uribe 3B
Ellis C
Kershaw P
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
STOOPID NATS CAN'T HIT 100MPH FASTBALL.
RSV 8 row U in the shade.
Goddamn Nats. You suck ass.
Oh this is becoming painful.
DC fans look like someone shot the president.
Fairy dust
Goat blood.
I'm ready to do whatever Jobu wants.
i was doing the charleston to that version of God Bless America
BRYCE!!!
THINK KC ROYALS EVERYONE!!
Time Warner is the Apple II of cable providers. #ShittyReception #FUCK
BLOOD!
I'm here. And nervous!
Let's go, Dodgers!
Can't see a goddamn fucking thing now but the next channel up is clear as day. WTF?!!
BACK TO BACKERS!!
Yowsa! this game best not go into extra innings.
that last home run is about to land at JFK
Four Sons!
and a daughter in law, Orel!
Sorry, when I said "I'm here," I meant that I'm in front of a computer screen, in a foreign country, ready to "watch" this game on streaming internet.
Not, I'm here at the Stadium, unfortunately.
My mom is there though. You may see her in the Stadium Club...
I'm not going to watch the other game; bad mojo
I have the feed on "FS1-INT".
No other option.
Game hasn't started yet, blue title screen up
ÉPALE KARINA!
Switching over to MLBN.
blue rally towels in effect!!!
Feeling like BIG FAT "W" today! Go Blue!
STRIKE ONE
Kid opens with a K.
SIDDOWN
Don't recognize the Cards' #2 batter. Don't know if that means anything
Well, that isn't good.
1-0 St Louis.
Shit. Guess I recognize him now
Uhhh...
Oh... he's that guy.. the latest Cards postseason icey veined killer
3 batters in and i'm hitting the mute button.
OK we got this
Nats rallying
Joe Buck opened up the broadcast by saying how excited he was to be there for Fox Sports 1's first playoff game.
Whoop dee frickin doo
Dammit, I can't do the video feed from fox + KLAC audio feed with Vin. BOOOOOOOO
STOP BUNTING DEE
Gordon completely fooled on that pitch
do not panic
Basehit Puig. Nice job
crowd sounds like it comes alive with Puig on first. Don't do anything dumb, Yasiel
Mart Hart and Larry King w/suspenders in da hizzouse
AGon fooled badly on that 1-1 curve. 1-2 count.
SI MLB @si_mlb 1m1 minute ago
Randal Grichuk's home run is just the third Clayton Kershaw has ever given up on his curveball in 1,400-plus innings.
AGon Ks. Two out. Buck sounds excited by that K.
Siddown Gon..
damn
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Run & hit!
Buck all over Puig's poor baserunning, and Puig takes off as Kemp has a sweet line drive. Puig takes third.
Two out. Come on, Hanley. Chance for redemption.
And they pitch inside to him. Wainwright, dick move.
Kemp single and unfortunately for the people at Fox Puig did not make a baserunning mistake
Dammit, quick line out to third for the third out.
We need Hanley hitting, not intimidated. 1-0 through 1.
shit
I hate that Joe Fuck is calling our game.
Suddenly the shadows are being talked about as if it's a pity to the Cardinals batters. #FS1Bias
Come on, ump. those are two strikes there you didn't call
Good job Dee.
I'm not getting a lot of work done here
Whoops, Clayton uncorks one over A.J.'s head
Clearly struggling with his curve. GREAT
nice play Ellis. 1-0 through 1.5
Giants win
shadows didn't hurt Gonzo from seeing that throw from AJ. i guess they only bother the batters.
Seems like Wainwright always has a 1-2 count
Didn't Uribe win a ring with the Giants as well?
Aha, now you say it.
Nice basehit Uribe
If we could just string these hits together...
Bloop single for Uribe!
There's a novel idea, Sax
Singles party!
Playas gonna hate hate hate hate hate
@Orel re: Clayton's curve: I thikn he was just working out kinks with light-hitting Adams at the plate.
Speakin go flight hitting, Ellis gets one up the middle that threads the needle. Wow that was close.
First and second, one out. Don't hit Kershaw, Adam.
*gives Jobu some rum*
perfect bunt, clayton.
Now it's all you, Dee.
Kersh sac bunt. Nicely done
Wainwright at 36 pitches
Come on, Dee. Those are HORRIBLE swings on the curve.
Shit, I quoted that Taylor Swift wrong. Apologies, guys
horrible swing by Dee for strike two
^song
So, there will be more bunting.
le sigh
another curve, Dee barely tipped that one. Come ON, Dee
Dee is gonna hack hack hack hack hack
40 pitches
at least Dee is making this a more respectable at bat
wow Dee
Dee's battling. I'll give him that.
Full count to Gordon
JUST A BIT OUTSIDE
ah fuck
well...whatever
And, Dee finally succumbs.
I wish I could be happy with all the pitches on Wainwright, but I'm not
Dee looked like he had no chance :(
Dodgers give up Drew Butera for their in-game interview. Might as well give up Sweet Lou Johnson for the interview!
Droop getting sunflower seeds thrown at him while doing interview with booth.
Buck calls Wainwright's shoulder-high fly out "a good swing"
#FS1Bias
Back to the top. Let's see if he's settled down.
Hanley, waaaaaaay out in left field for that third out. Kershaw looks a lot smoother, which is probably also due to the 8-9-1 in the lineup.
Still, well done Clayton. Quick inning.
Kid looking settled in.
Looking good. Let's go, 66.
Kershaw at 39 pitches through 3; Wainwright at 44 through 2.
Little known fact: at home, Joe Buck keeps all lights on in his house all the time. Not that he's anti-energy conservation or anything.
He's just fucking scared of shadows.
shadow
And of course, the Cardinals hit a batter.
"Not that it's intentional", of course says Joe Buck.
GONZO KEEP QUIET!
Those fucking fucker redbirds. How many of our guys do they get to hit???
This fucking whore is pissed.
That's pretty good camera work by FS1, btw, to show Wainwright and Puig together post-fracas. Well done, guys.
Let's get the revenge on the field, guys. Come on BLUE!
Speak with your bat Agon!!
"There's a lot of Spanish being spoken on the field right now." --Harold Reynolds, lamenting his unilingual educational pedigree
AGon needs to calm down
Adams is one very fat first baseman. It's sort of refreshing to see that.
wait a sec, did Verducci just COMPLIMENT Puig's baserunning?! (Puig ran inside the baseline to take away the double play)
what madness is this?
HAROLD REYNOLDS WOULD NEVER SAY THAT IN MY HOOD. WE'LL STEAL HIS HUBCAPS IF HE DID.
Reynolds gets in a UFC reference to plug Fox 1. Unbelievable.
REDEMPTION BABY!!!
Hanley ties it up! NICE
HanRam's vengeance
Ramirez SB without a Molina throw! KEEP IT COMING
ah, making Molina to look bad!
Carl Crawford! 2-1 Dodgers
What a rip, Carl Crawford. Wow.
Hanley doesn't steal that base, he doesn't score due to the ground-rule double. Well done, HanRam
200
whoop whoop!!!
Okay, it's only 2-1 though. Let's keep in the game, Dodgers.
Wainwrong is getting rocked!
I STEINER'D MYSELF ON THAT URINE FLYOUT.
2-1 through 3. My heart is racing.
I need to open a beer (which is a little inappropriate given the time zone that I'm in, but maybe it's appropriate at any time? perhaps?)
Why is Charlie on radio now? Are they benching Vinny?
@spank 4:47p: +1
I'm pretty sure I need to be medicated.
@Sax that's crazy talk. Right now is as an appropriate time as ever to crack one open!
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