posted by Ironman92

No Scherzer tonight! Back spasms

Ouch!

Joe Ross in his place 🤦🏻‍♂️
 

Nats will be hoping “because baseball” is in full effect

Cole's displeasure expressed on a 3-2 pitch ball call to the previous batter was enough to sway the ump to call strike 3 on Robles to get Cole out of the 7th  inning on another 3-2 pitch that was clearly out of the strike zone!

This HP ump needs replaced! He cannot handle this game. Gave Cole calls while first 3 innings and didn’t call it for Ross and it affected game. In 7th Cole throws a hissy fit like he has since the 4th on not getting the call....then on full count with runner on he calls strike 3 on the pitch 3 inches off the plate.

Awful.

Now going to give Nats calls but it’s too late

Bring on the robots to properly reward hitters that are good judges of the strike zone and is fair to pitchers!

The hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball.  And it is obvious that it is too hard for umps to judge a high percentage of close pitches correctly.  Technology is available to do much better and it won't be biased at all by players proficient in swaying the umps by framing, bellyaching and such.  Just get the robot call and go to the next pitch in the fairest manner possible!  More time will be available to appreciate the skills of hitters and pitchers which will be brought more to light with fairer calls.

posted by mhs95_06

The hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball.  And it is obvious that it is too hard for umps to judge a high percentage of close pitches correctly.  Technology is available to do much better and it won't be biased at all by players proficient in swaying the umps by framing, bellyaching and such.  Just get the robot call and go to the next pitch in the fairest manner possible!  More time will be available to appreciate the skills of hitters and pitchers which will be brought more to light with fairer calls.

He gave that strike 3 as a make up call for Cole who acted like a petulant child and complained all night from 4th-7th innings even though he got several calls more than Ross and Ross actually got hosed and cost 2 runs.

Now wondering if there's ever been a WS go 7 without the home team winning a game?

In other news, two women who flashed from behind the plate last night have been banned from MLB. 

posted by BRF

In other news, two women who flashed from behind the plate last night have been banned from MLB. 

That's a bit tone deaf. Game needs to find ways to RAISE rating and titties are as good a way to draw casual interest as anything else!

posted by BRF

In other news, two women who flashed from behind the plate last night have been banned from MLB. 

They did a very good job I thought.

posted by Heretic

Game needs to find ways to RAISE rating and titties are as good a way to draw casual interest as anything else!

I know and I missed it. 

Five WS games and 5 wins by the away team. a major league record. Friendly reminder that Wed. Oct.30th is FREE TACO day at Taco Bell.

posted by cat_lover

Five WS games and 5 wins by the away team. a major league record. Friendly reminder that Wed. Oct.30th is FREE TACO day at Taco Bell.

Didnt Atlanta and NYY do this back in the 90s? Before Yankees won at home in 6.

posted by BRF

I know and I missed it. 

#metoo

posted by Laley23

Didnt Atlanta and NYY do this back in the 90s? Before Yankees won at home in 6.

Maybe they did but the real point of my post is: FREE TACO at TACO BELL on  OCT 30th.
 

Great play by Chirinos to nip Eaton at first on the bunt to save the Nats from having 1st and 2nd with no out in the 1st!

But Rendon hits it in the 2B hole to get Turner in from 2nd, so the Nats score on Verlander in the first again.

Lol Smoltz is showing off

Strasburg is missing BADLY

He won’t last long pitching there

And the Astros get that run back in short order on a double, WP, and SF for the first out and run.  Then Strasburg gets it to 2 out and none on and puts a  94 mph 2-0 pitch in the middle middle and Bregman hammers it out for 2-0.  Then Gurriel takes one high and deep into the LF notch that Soto catches up against the fence, and may have hurt himself.  2-1 at the end of one -- lots of runs scored in the first inning in this post season!

Soto mocks smug Bregman...Love it! Way better than throwing at him to retaliate

Springer is clutch as fuck

Nats get out of jam and lead 3-2 after 5

Two games in a row that Robles is called out on an obviously outside pitchl