Sounds like a good way to get a fresh arm in the penOriginally Posted by CrimsonCowboy
Sounds like a good way to get a fresh arm in the pen
Ivermectin Man
You can still bet on Game 7.
Ivermectin Man
Snit? Always!!!!!!!!!!!
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jpx7 (10-22-2021)
Our ACE and all the LA damage came from the bottom half of their lineup. Their bull pen and the bottom half of our lineup did absolutely nothing. What does that tell us? Anything? Did AA notice?
That’s gonna impact his wanking career.
I know people like to be dramatic (like me, but I'm almost always trolling) but last night didn't really prove anything. Max was terrible and off just a hair, so a good team handled his mistakes. It happens. With Atlanta going home, they just need to take care of business. And I think they will. Ian should have plenty of rest, the high-leverage BP arms will have two days and off and the offense just needs to be more timely. Overall, it's simply a blowout loss to a team that can turn it on and did. The Dodgers clearly have the edge with Scherzer going tomorrow but that means very little in the long run and Morton-Buehler is a good push either way.
We hit better against a starter we see every inning it seems like vs facing a different guy every inning.
Does anyone really expect Anderson to do any better than 4 innings?
Minter, Jackson, Matzek, and Smith should be the last 4 innings unless Anderson is dealing. So if he can go 5 strong I’d be good turning it over to the bullpen. I would come up with a bogus injury for Martin to get Strider in like he should of been anyways.
On the optimistic side, Scherzer is coming off of a dead arm and admitted he was tired after his last start. Who even knows how effective he will be. Beuhler also appears to be worn down at this point. He's been shaky over the past month, and didn't look great his last outing against us.
Yeah, I don't have much confidence in Anderson on Saturday. LA just feels like a bad matchup for him. His shaky command against a patient lineup like this is a bad setup.
Aligned. I'm actually not even thinking about this in the mindset of "we are about to choke" - I simply don't feel good about going up against arguably the best pitcher in the world. Game 7 anything can happen of course. But when your up 3-1 two years in a row, your not in it for an "anything can happen game"
Good Twitter thread from EOF on Fried's performance last night.
https://twitter.com/EOF34/status/145...791838217?s=20
GovClintonTyree (10-23-2021), jpx7 (10-22-2021), UNCBlue012 (10-22-2021)
Exact same thing he was doing at the beginning of the year.
So I just happen to be in Atlanta and my son and I are just happening to go to game 6 tomorrow
Is this the setup to a George Carlin punchline?
No, but the Braves shouldn't push him either. Go Anderson for four, five at most, and then unleash some combination of Minter, Jackson, Matzek and Smith.
Silver linings:
We have two games left if we need them, and they are both in Atlanta, which regardless of our home/road split is WAY better than Dodgers' stadium.
If we win one of those two, we get to celebrate in front of the home crowd.
We have Ian and Morton available on full rest. Ian has shown himself to be solid under pressure in the playoffs, even if it usually takes him a million pitches to get through 5 scoreless. And Morton is Morton. He is historically good in elimination games.
Cy's mom gets a day off today.
Soler is back. Our bench immediately goes from a huge weakness to at least average.
Our top guys in the bullpen are well rested. They needed that. It is the one HUGE plus from losing a blowout. If we had lost another 1-run game, we would be looking at Matzek going 10 straight and **** like that.
Did I miss anything?
Last edited by Dalyn; 10-23-2021 at 08:07 AM.
jpx7 (10-22-2021)
One or two more home games of playoff revenue!
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