GDT: Braves @ Phillies Game 3: No Mentum Like Momentum

[Garmel]

Maybe if the Dodgers go down tonight we'll get rid of this playoff format for next year.

 

[msstate7]

I turned it off. **** Snitker and **** this choking dog of an offense.

Yeah, the move/no move was idiotic, but the offense is the problem. This team can't win when it counts

 

[USMA76]

Haha wtf is this team? Like the Pats going undefeated and losing the Super Bowl. W T F

The analogy would be apt if we'd won multiple WS before that.

 

[Frek21]

Now he brings Hand in lol. **** you Snit

 

[msstate7]

Maybe if the Dodgers go down tonight we'll get rid of this playoff format for next year.

Phillies waltz to WS if that happens

 

[drewdat]

Tonkin got us a couple outs and we pull him to save him for tomorrow. Maybe he is the relief ace and not the mopup guy?

 

[Slippyjms]

Umm no… if you’re only down 3 and need one out in an important game, you don’t put in the worst pitcher on your roster. The epitome of dumb. There’s literally zero excuse or defense of that decision

Well I could have defended it but now Snit screwed it up again. Where was Hand earlier?

 

[Strike3urout]

Completely agreed. This is fireable IMO. Whatever benefit he brings does not outweigh single-handedly throwing away a critical playoff game.

Nothing will happen…there will be some fluff pieces tomorrow about how the team is looking ahead to game 4 after tough loss. It will talk about how Morton‘s absence was the key blow, and that there were no good options available. There will be zero public pressure on Snit‘s dumb ass.

 

[bravesnumberone]

The 3rd? I'll bet $100 on that

I might edit that to the fourth. But if he does, it'll be because Snit leaves him in there past the expiration date to give up a three-run bomb to Turner or Harper.

 

[Metaphysicist]

I am not throwing in the towel. Non zero chance the offense finds some life and we come back here and we could still get the next two.

But I am baffled that Tonkin was the go to. I just, can't imagine why he was the call here. I am not even mad, just baffled.

 

[Bluedevilruss]

Bringing in Hand now makes me irrationally angry.

 

[Super]

I am not throwing in the towel. Non zero chance the offense finds some life and we come back here and we could still get the next two.

But I am baffled that Tonkin was the go to. I just, can't imagine why he was the call here. I am not even mad, just baffled.

Not having a lefty up for Harper is equally egregious. This is the playoffs.

 

[msstate7]

We need to make the Phillies use Alvarado and Kimbrel today. Come on bats, wake up!

 

[bravesnumberone]

This is the worst game of Snit's tenure. Not even a remotely close second, given the circumstances.

 

[VirginiaBrave]

We aren’t watching the same game apparently. Nola is still making our lineup look like a little league team

I told you the other night we were done three or four. The Braves are a great organization but put them in a must-win and they fail. This year was predictable though with Strider and Fried the only legit SP on the active roster.

 

[bravesnumberone]

We need to make the Phillies use Alvarado and Kimbrel today. Come on bats, wake up!

They can quite easily go back to back in the playoffs. We're FINNISH, dude.

 

[Hudson2]

Snit is dumb as a box of rocks. No way in hell that Elder should have been pitching to Harper.

 

[NinersSBChamps]

The Hand stopped the bleeding.

 

[Strike3urout]

And Hand puts in the sting a little deeper

 

[chop2chip]

I always defended Snit because he clearly gets the player management part right and the thought was that the front office would insulate his strategic ineptitude in the playoffs. But this is a master class disaster.

AA and Terry need to have a real good long thought how to address this moving forward.