Yeah. If you’re gonna commit to bringing him in I’m unsure why you don’t let him try to get through that inning.
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How did the Astros score 9 runs? I didn't hear the banging of the trash cans.
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He was already at like 24 pitches or some shit. Already gave up the lead and loaded the bases. Still need him to start in 3 days.
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I get that, but he had electric stuff and was still getting swings and misses. Leaving him in for one more batter seems okay if he’s already been through 24 or some **** high stress pitches.
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He didn't throw a single pitch in the strike zone to Altuve, the last batter he faced.
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Cora basically gave the game up effectively when he took him out. But that decision conflicts with his earlier decision to pitch him. If the game was so important to you to use your ace on 2 days rest in a role he isn’t used to, I’d probably let him try to keep it a 1 run game there for one more batter.
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Fair enough. I just don’t know why you’re not all in with him at that juncture after committing him.
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:-)

That stat from ARod just now. "Laz Diaz missed 21 calls tonight. MLB average is 8 or 9." Man was giving up like 6 inches off the plate on the side he was fucking setting up on.

I'm like 99.9% sure I've seen Angel Hernandez in these playoffs. It's fucking ridiculous these guys are umpiring the playoffs, let alone anything.
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Laz is just a big believer in ushering in the new era of robo-umps.
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36 years ago tonight the Royals lost - at home - game 2 of the 1985 World Series to the cardinals.
Charlie Leibrandt pitched a great game and the Royals held a 2-0 lead in the top of the 9th. Howser failed to use Quiz to close it out. The Cards blooped a couple of singles, then a soft double. Another single and then Terry Pendleton cleared it with a bloop double down the RF line.

Howser would have been crucified today for saying “it was Charlie’s game to lose”.
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Also, the Astros are putting it to the Sox
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Also, the Royals destroyed the Jays, 14-2 in game 3 of the ALCS on this day 6 years ago.

Escobar led off with a bunt. Zobrist homered off RA Dickey and the rout was on. And on. And on.

This may have been the game where the legend of KC Connection went to a nephews birthday party and missed the game.
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KCC hasn’t been right since that day. Something died inside of him
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I think he was emotionally overcome at his 3rd cousin’s niece’s Bat Mitzvah that shook him up.
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The Dodgers throwing their starters out there for short relief innings between starts really seems to be working out.
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