Fri, 9/28 7:15p: Ryu vs. Bumgarner
Sat, 9/29 1:05p: Kershaw vs. Rodriguez
Sun, 9/30 12:05p:
(Quick note: I've paid so little attention to the Gnats this year that I have no idea who Rodriguez and Suarez are.)
Hey, remember last Saturday? 2.5 games up in the division with 7 to play? So cool, right? It's amazing what going 1-3 against out-of-contention division rivals will do to your spirits. (Not the spirits we've ingested since then, but those are in play this weekend too.) In that same span, the Rockies have gone 5-0 and now sit 1 game up in the division going into the final weekend.
But just how final will this final weekend be for our beloved, but, let's be honest, wholly mediocre 2018 Dodgers? Well, they'd have to be truly, spectacularly awful in San Francisco to miss the postseason entirely. They do have a 1 game lead on the Cardinals for the second Wild Card, so only getting swept by the Giants, combined with the Cardinals sweeping the Cubs, would mean the Dodgers season would end on Sunday. Not outside the realm of possibility, but let's think a little more positively. (SoSG Patron Saint of Positivity Karina and old friend Yvonne Carrasco would have it no other way.)
The best way for the Dodgers to play past Sunday is to JUST WIN, BABY! A sweep of the Gnats would guarantee a Wild Card spot and maaaayyybe secure a division win, if the red-hot Rockies pick this weekend to up and die. Two out of three isn't as great, but would guarantee at least a tiebreaker game with the Cards for the WC.
So, yeah, this season, which started with a river of shit, is coming to a potentially painful finish. But it could also be the start of something AMAZING. What are you going to do, not watch? Well, I mean yeah, you're not, because you don't have Spectrum. But you're going to at least pay attention, right?!
GO BLUE! (Pretty please?)
UPDATE 9/30 9a (Sax): With the Dodgers and Rockies tied after 161 games, Rich Hill will take the mound today for the Dodgers. Holy shit, I'm freaking out here.
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GAME 1 THE GIANTS WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE THE GIANTS
Hernández RF
Turner 3B
Freese 1B
Machado SS
Kemp LF
Taylor CF
Grandal C
Dozier 2B
Ryu P
Dereck Rodriguez has been pretty good from what I can tell
Nats leave the bases loaded in the top of the 2nd. Rox GIDP with two on in the bottom of the 2nd. 0-0 after 2
That's a damn good GT, Gnomes!
Nats leave the bases loaded in the top of the 3rd
Thanks! Back on that horse!
Nats are Dodger-esque with RISP.
COL 1, WSH 0, bot 3
Turner 2-RBI triple makes it 2-1 Nats, top 4!
ugh
Rox winning, Dodgers losing
Rox won, Dodgers tied
TURN DOWN FOR WHAT
Rox win, Dodgers winning
Turner!!
Kiké owns MadBum! 3 for 3 and 2 runs.
Let's see some small ball now
Not like that, Manny
we ahead in runs and everyone split? what the fuck,man?! come on fuckers. FUCK THE GNATS!!
To quote pet Sematary... sometimes, dead is better!
But to also quote Monty python “we’re not dead yet!”
Oye. Muncy Mia
oh shit. no wonder. te chingastes pinche Doyers. you were two games ahead last time i checked. I'm in a Rams bliss at the moment. forgive me,bishes.
WIN
C'mon Spank we got this. Maybe.
i hope so,Orel. i really do.
Two games to play. One game back.
Early game today, too: we play before Nats@Rox
GAME 2 KERSHAW'S LAST STAND???
Pederson LF
Turner 3B
Muncy 1B
Machado SS
Bellinger CF
Puig RF
Grandal C
Hernández 2B
Kershaw P
STL 2, CHC 1, bot 6
STL 2, CHC 1, top 9
Goddammit Cards win
I like this lead off every inning with a home run strategy.
Gnats take the lead in the 3rd. 3-2.
Kiké ties it up with a double to right center! 3-3!
Kershaw with a 2 RBI single! 5-3 Dodgers!
Grandal drops a relay at the plate. Must be a day ending in y. 5-4 Dodgers.
Gnats tie it up on a sac fly.
Kershaw due up second. He’s gonna try to hit a bomb.
Kiké with a leadoff single. Toles batting for Kershaw.
Manny triple puts the Dodgers ahead in the 8th!
Back-to-back 2-out singles by Kiké and Kemp in the 9th
Geico!!
CT3 insurance! 7-5 Dodgers
Bases loaded for Muncy now.
Muncy places it perfectly down the left field line! 2 run double!
So much insurance! We're gonna need it
Kenley allows the inherited runner to score in the 9th. 10-6 with two out
Please... end. this. thing.
WIN
Wild Card! Now we need the Nationals to win.
right on!
5-0 Nats, still batting in the 2nd!
6-1 Nats in the 5th
6-2 Nats, bot 6
9-2 Nats, still batting in the 7th
10-2 in the 8th!
Love that the Nationals decided to wake up.
12-2 going into bot 9
(they) WIN
Holy smokes this sets up a crazy day tomorrow, with all games starting at the same time!
Sherzer doesn’t get my vote for the Cy Young anymore.
Just updated the post: we're starting Hill (10-6, 3.87) vs. San Francisco's Suarez (7-12, 4.22).
Nationals start Fedde (2-3, 5.24) vs. Colorado's Anderson (6-9, 4.76).
THIS IS KAREN!!! I had to hi-jack my daughter's laptop because I CAN'T STAND not posting every game.
Watching last nights game was like being on a roller coaster with a bad hangover.
Fuck the Phillies for rolling over for the Rox. What happened to fielding your best team when there are Post Season implications??? Karma is a bitch Phiwwies and it's coming your way.
Finally, I am both surprised and totally beyond myself with excitement about where we are in the standings today. I am not saying anything more because i don't want to go anywhere near the whole jinx thing.
I will be with you all in spirit today and living and dying with every single freaking pitch.
GAME 3 FOR ALL THE MARBLES, OR MAYBE HALF OF THEM
Taylor LF
Turner 3B
Freese 1B
Machado SS
Hernández CF
Kemp RF
Grandal C
Dozier 2B
Hill P
Karen!!! Feel free to chime in more via your Panda alter ego. Yes, fuck the Phillies...but thanks to the Nats? We'll see...
CT3 leadoff IBB!
JT RBI double makes it 1-0!
Freese RBI makes it 2-0!
Manny GIDP and Kiké grounds out. Good start!
Blackmon triples in the Rockies' first AB. Gonna be that kinda day
K
Dozier can't hit but he can field! Nice play for the 2nd out in the 1st
Pop foul to Grandal, who caught it and didn't drop it! 1-2-3 in 11 pitches for Hill
Good start for the Dodgers. Let’s keep it up now guys!
Arenado homers. 2-0 Rox in the 1st
Kemp leadoff single in the 2nd
Dozier BB
Hill GIDP
Dammit Hill! Terrible bunt!
Another 1-2-3 inning for DM!
Btw...Love the individual game titles Orel.
3rd: JT HBP, Freese 2B
Machado RBI-single makes it 3-0!
Kiké RBI-single makes it 4-0!
Kiké has been hot!
Kemp RBI-double makes it 6-0!
Can the NL West tie breaker be run differential?
WP brings in Kemp. 7-0!
You're on the same page as Gnomes, 7777
Dozier HR! That's how you know things are going our way. 9-0!
Rox lead 4-0
Gnomes knows what’s up!
Another 1-2-3 for DM
TEN TO ZERO
Kiké with another multi hit game.
ELEVEN TO ZERO
I hope the Rockies see this score in their stadium and start to worry.
But Rox still up, 4-0
Wow even Dozier has RBI today
TWELVE TO ZERO
Splash bomb!!!
FOURTEEN TO ZERO
Rox lead 7-0
Muncy with a pinch hit homer makes it 14-0!
Kiké with a triple and he’s now 9 for 12 in this series.
Kiké > Yelich?
Maybe. All I know is, every time Kiké comes up I expect a hit. And he delivers.
1-2-3 fifth inning on only 6 pitches for Hill.
7-0 COL
Will be nice to get the Rox out of Coors
Especially since we just swept them in LA.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
For game 163, do both teams buy champagne and beer? Or is there just one supply that can wheeled from one clubhouse to the other?
Quad asking the hard questions!
Hill with 7 shutout innings on 75 pitches. Awesome!
9-0 Colorado.
Quad has dibs on the unused champagne
Austin Barnes hit a HR. Quick, bottle this fairy dust!
I’ll bring the excess champagne to any SoSG gathering.
Pence 0 for 4 in his final game. Love it.
Win!!
WIN
Buehler starts tomorrow
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