Lisa is all of us after the Corey news.
Clayton Kershaw (18-4, 2.31) vs. Jose Quintana (11-11, 4.15)
It's never easy for #ThisTeam.
Let's get the worst out of the way. Corey Seager is out. Not for Game 1, but for the entire NLCS. This sucks. A LOT. Confident Dodger fans woke up to the news of his back injury and were immediately flooded with memories of Hanley Ramirez and Joe Kelly. Not the feelings you want to be having before an epic NLCS rematch.
All is not lost, however. Clayton Kershaw has the ball for Game 1. He was wobbly in Game 1 of the NLDS, but at the end of the day, he's still Clayton Kershaw. Pedro Baez was left off the NLCS roster too, despite (thankfully) never making an appearance in the NLDS. Charlie Culberson is taking Seager's spot on the roster (with Joc taking Pedro's), and while he hasn't played much lately, we know Charlie's got the potential to make history.
The Dodgers' biggest advantage is that they're well-rested, while the Cubs had to scratch and claw and burn through starting pitchers just to barely survive against the Nationals. In fact, when you think about it, the Dodgers' and Cubs' roles are reversed from last year.
Let's hope the end result is too.
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Taylor CF
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Hernandez LF
Forsythe 2B
Barnes C
Puig RF
Culberson SS
Kershaw P
Got a little light-headed reading that lineup. And not in the good way.
Kiké in he cleanup spot against a lefty works for me. Let's do this!
DAMMIT COREY
There goes the no-hitter.
Hrmmmm.
Whew!
Kershaw gets through the first unscathed. Need to calm those nerves.
Desperately seeking my inner Karina.
Kershaw working hard. Offense...not so much.
FFFFFFUUUUUUCK
Playoff Kershaw deserves his own bobblehead
Turner's starting to look like the lead singer of My Morning Jacket
http://inyourspeakers.com/files/imagecache/gallery_full/gallery/Inyourspeakers%20Media/My%20Morning%20Jacket%20-%20Jim%20James%203.jpg
And USC's sucking all over the field seven miles away.
Ugh
Cubs fans are crawling out of the woodwork up here in the northwest. Why do so many of them think it's appropriate to bring their babies to a bar?
Jason - cause that's where they were conceived
Bears repeating: FFFFFFUUUUUUCK
Delino is making far too much sense
YOU SEE. QUINTANA'S NOT A MACHINE .
Puig with an RBI double and Culberson hits a sac fly to tie the game. Kershaw pulled for a pinch hitter.
Farmer grounds out. Going to the 6th now.
Maeda so boss out of the pen.
CT3!!!!!!
Is it just me, or does Camping World seem like a weird sponser for the NLCS?
old white people love camping. And baseball. Or maybe old baseball-loving people love camping.
YOU GUYS WE'RE WINNING
we even got a shitty replay call for us!!!! it's all coming up Milhouse!!!
if you don't want Culberson running him over, ya can't block it... that's the way it is............................
Delino III's Spongebob demands means I just saw Puig's rainbow of a homer. A beaut!
Not be a Debbie downer, but he better start running making contact. Celebrate and admire your work later.
Somebody call Maddon a "Wah"-mbulance
(even though he's right :-)
bah everyone likes this over-regulation
The Cubs fan refrain: I don't care if it's a rule, it doesn't count!
My answer of "neither does last year" did not go over well.
Ron Darling bitching and moaning about the "bad rule" is annoying too.
Win!!
So what'd I miss?
First NLCS WIN in 32 years!!!
wait what? why is that our first nlcs win in 32 years? I thought we won twice last year, wait what?
First NLCS game 1 win in 3 decades?
First Game One Win
oh I have a bad memory, I thought we were up 2-0 last year
Yeah GAME ONE win sorry!
Fave tidbit from tonight: no errors!
I don't understand these hand slides at the plate. Just slide straight into the plate.
this was the least stressful game of the playoffs so far
And Trojans Win!
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