Anderson vs. Musgrove.
A 22-game lead in the regular season doesn't matter for shit, now that we've dropped two straight in a best-of-five series, and are facing an elimination game way earlier than we had expected in this postseason. David is actually going to slay Goliath. The Dodgers hadn't really been challenged all year during the regular season, so let's see how this team fares when the stakes are actually meaningful and our backs are against the wall.
That said, I'm not expecting much. Our bats are now 0-for-17 in the last two games, and we have not scored a run against this Padres bullpen in the entire series. It's easy to point the finger at Will Smith, 0-for-4 last night and choker in multiple run-scoring opportunities this whole series. But the fact of the matter is that Chris Taylor (0-for-4 with 2 Ks) isn't much of a replacement for the listless Cody Bellinger; Mookie Betts (1-for-3 last night) is batting .182 in leadoff; Justin Turner is batting .100 this series; and Trayce Thompson (1-for 3, batting .111) is also punchless.
Dodgers pitchers are getting maligned here, especialy with Tony Gonsolin's four-out starting performance in Game 3. But six arms only let two runs cross the plate last night in Game 3. This is about our lack of offensive performance when the presure is on--and we can't score more than one run all game.
This is bad. I'm still drunk while writing this post. I'll probably stay this way through Game 4.
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Nervous as ever here.
NLDS GAME 4
Betts RF
T. Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Smith C
Muncy 3B
J. Turner DH
Thompson CF
Taylor LF
Lux 2B
Anderson P
What a surprise. Will Smith chokes again.
0 for our last 20 with RISP.
Mookie with a one out walk. Trea with a laser to left for a double.
Second and third with one out.
IT’S A MIRACLE!
2 RBIs for Freddie! 2-0 good guys!
What a play by Trayce!!
That makes up for his backwards K.
Freeman is 3 for 3 tonight. His bat woke up.
Why are we swinging at the first pitch? Lux, Betts, Turner on the second pitch… ???
Will Smith is so fucking bad, it hurts.
Will might be a little tired with his wife giving birth early this morning. But a hit would still be nice.
BTW, the Dodgers giving him a helicopter ride back to SD is pretty badass!
Mr. Anderson is through 5 scoreless innings. 2-0.
Muncy grounds out. On the first pitch.
Bowl of ice cream acquired. Let’s get some more runs!
Java Joe is tiring. Time for CT3 to run into one.
CT3 and Lux join the choke parade
Doc pulls Tyler Anderson.
Martin gets Soto out, but Machado reaches. One out.
Not sure about taking out Anderson. Two on and two out.
Martin gets out of it! Big K there!
Bunt for Trea and HBP for Freeman. Bases loaded for Smith again. Time to summon that Dad Power!
Watch Slappy ground into a triple play here
Sac fly RBI. 3-0 Dodgers!
I stand corrected. Sac fly scores Mookie.
It’s an improvement. I’ll take it.
JT has a chance here with two on scoring position.
Nothing else doing. 3-0 going to the bottom of the seventh.
Justin Turner is not batting well, and he is very slow.
Kahnle in some trouble here. Uh-oh.
Kahnle gets nobody out and is pulled. 3-1.
Shit. 3-2 now. Still nobody out.
Tie game. Nobody out. This is bad.
Almonte gets Machado and Drury. Now Vesia coming in.
Bullpen is not having a good inning. Pods lead 5-3 now.
Ball 2 on Cronenworth was the same pitch the ump called for strike one. Could have ended the inning right there and still be tied.
Finally the inning ends. Down by two. Bottom of our order coming up.
Here’s Bellinger.
That’s the white flag.
Gahhhh I was out and just got home. Last time I checked it was 2-0. But it's only 2 runs. We can do this!!!! I hope
Why not Vargas?!
Well that was a pathetic half inning.
Top of the order. Last licks. Hold onto your butts.
Come on you bums!
Sigh
Horrible.
Welp, that’s baseball.
The season ends painfully.
That sucked so bad
that was fucking bad.real fucking bad
eff all this shit
Go Phillies
It turned out this was the last game Anderson would pitch for the Dodgers.
Perhaps this was Tyler's response for being pulled after five innings and 86 pitches
in NLDS Game 4 versus the Padres?
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