Walker Buehler (regular season: 8-5, 2.62) vs Sean Newcomb (rs: 12-9, 3.90).
Goddammit, Dodgers. Now you've given us hope.
In the 2017 NLDS against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers started:
- Clayton Kershaw
- Rich Hill
- Yu Darvish
In the 2018 NLDS against the Braves, the Dodgers are starting:
- Hyun-Jin Ryu
- Clayton Kershaw
- Walker Buehler
Which rotation makes you feel better?
Despite a frustratingly topsy-turvy regular season, the Dodgers are again in a position to sweep their NLDS opponent (we swept Arizona last year; haha, eat it Snakes!). Not only that, but the 2018 Dodgers led the NL in home runs with 235, while the 2017 edition was fourth with 221.
This is conflicting: How can this year's team, which scratched its way to a division title, seem better than last year's juggernaut? If this year's team could just stop leaving the bases loaded, we might stand a chance against the Brewers in the NLCS.
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Taylor LF
Turner 3B
Freese 1B
Machado SS
Kemp RF
Bellinger CF
Hernández 2B
Grandal C
Buehler P
Thanks Spank!
Did Puig get benched for his TOOTBLAN, or does Kemp have good numbers against Newcomb?
I hope Kemp has that extra I’m-playing-my-former-team gear tonight!
Kemp was 1 for 6 vs Newcomb this season
JT single!
Freese GIDP boo
Time for Buehler to get to work.
5 pitch inning! Yeah, that’ll work!
Looking forward to Buehler's 45-pitch CG
Kemp GIDP boo
Come on Bellinger! Can’t boot balls like that!
Buehler walks the pitcher on four straight. Not even close. Barves finally get a run. 1-0.
Walker living up to his name
Gift strike to end the streak.
I would have preferred the walk. Shit!
ugh
5-0 after two. Time for our bats to wake up.
This is when everyone tries to hit 5-run home runs
Two on, two out and Turner coming up.
Turner comes through! 5-2 now.
Machado down swinging. But we’re on the board.
Nice 1-2-3 inning for Buehler.
MANNY MACHADO IS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT
Tommy’s at the game!
Belli with a nice, albeit awkward, catch for out #2 in the 4th
Great catch by Bellinger at the wall!
Awkward for sure!
Buehler settling in. We need some hits now.
CT3!!
CT3 HR makes it 5-4!
Top of the fifth and the Barves are bringing in their third pitcher.
MAXIMUM MUNCY
Muncy!!!
All tied up!
Matty double to open the 6th!
Cody moves him over
Kemp gunned at the plate by Culberson.
Yaz works a two-out walk after Kemp is thrown out at the plate
RANCHO ARDIENDO
Fuck.
"If this year's team could just stop leaving the bases loaded, we might stand a chance against the Brewers in the NLCS."
I hope Alex Wood is a free agent
That felt like two momentum shifts for the Barves.
Every year the Dodgers make a high-profile acquisition that turns out to be a huge disappointment. 2017: Yu Darvish. 2018: Manny Machado
Only one hit this series so far for Machado.
Baez in for the 7th
Baez strikes out the side. Let’s get some hits!
Dozier gets a leadoff single, meaning he has sold his soul to the devil.
Let’s score this, dammit
Belli, I’m talking to you
C'mon Belli
Ah yes 2017 Bellinger
Bellinger, you are horrible
Goddammit
Suzuki bobbles the ball and Dozier takes second by inches!
Grandal works a two-out walk
Puig grounds out weakly. Really terrible
No clutch hitting. Damn!
Scott Alexander with a surprisingly effective inning. Last licks here
Alexander has a clean eighth. Top of the order coming up for us in the ninth.
Joc with a leadoff single. Let’s go!
Surprisingly tenacious AB by Joc ends in a leadoff single
JT walks
Love these ABs
Muncy Ks. Manny 0-2 count
BOOOOOO
Manny Ks on a WP/PB. Runners move up
Shit.
The Dodgers lose a very, very winnable game
And that’s all she wrote.
I blame Machado. And Dozier.
FUCK
Sooooo many LOB tonight.
ugh
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