Is Hill definitely pitching today? I had a strong feeling they'd opt for Ryu on 3 days rest, especially since he's been so dominant lately. Plus they have Kershaw waiting for game 5 on full rest.
Is Hill definitely pitching today? I had a strong feeling they'd opt for Ryu on 3 days rest, especially since he's been so dominant lately. Plus they have Kershaw waiting for game 5 on full rest.
Don’t worry guys, if Folty ****s his pants again we have Teheran ready to take over.
cajunrevenge (10-08-2018), DirkPiggler (10-08-2018), gamecock4braves (10-08-2018), jpx7 (10-08-2018), thewupk (10-08-2018)
Although theoretically every pitcher is available, pitch counts from last night probably rule out Newcomb (43 pitches), Gausman (49), Touki (29) and Viz (31) from today's game.
This leaves 3 righties available (Brach, Sobotka, Teheran) and 3 lefties (Venters, Minter, Fried).
I'm assuming Minter is held back for the ninth or at most a 4 out save.
It is not as much depth and flexibility as heading into last night's game. I wouldn't be surprised to see Teheran brought in to face a couple right handed batters. Better at the start of an inning given he is not a reliever. If Folty leaves early Teheran could be asked to pitch multiple innings.
The ideal is Folty gives us 6 innings. Then you can mix and match your way through the 7th and 8th and basically have the platoon advantage with every at bat.
If Folty goes less than 6 then Snit will have to take some chances in terms of allowing the Dodgers to have the platoon advantage in certain at bats.
Last edited by nsacpi; 10-08-2018 at 11:27 AM.
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jpx7 (10-08-2018)
Six would be great. Because we could then burn a lefty and righty each in both the 7th and 8th before turning it over to Minter.
Five is not so bad, but would probably bring Julion into play for a couple hitters.
Less than five and Julion probably will be asked to go multiple innings.
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We didn't get skunked
We get a second game of playoff revenue. It's all gravy to me.
lineup
1. Acuna
2. Albies
3. Freeman
4. Muk
5. Camargo
6. Flowers
7. Inciarte
8. Culberson
9. Folty
expecting a yuge game from Flowers
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jpx7 (10-08-2018), UNCBlue012 (10-08-2018)
Acuna gonna carry us this game. 4-4 2 HR and a SB.
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jpx7 (10-08-2018), UNCBlue012 (10-08-2018)
Dodgers lineup
1. Pederson
2. Turner
3. Muncy
4. Manny
5. Grandal
6. Hernandez
7. Bellinger
8. Puig
9. Hill
couple observations: they dont have a lefty bat on the bench, if we can get Pederson out of the lineup it would create a stretch of 4 consecutive RH hitters from 8 to 2 in the lineup albeit with one of them having reverse splits...I would make an effort to force Roberts to pinch hit for Pederson in his third AB
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Whatever happens please dont pitch Teheran in this game.
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It’s over."
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jpx7 (10-08-2018)
jpx7 (10-08-2018)
What happened to Ender being our postseason hero? That’s all everyone predicted all season.
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