This whole season the Dodgers gave the opponents a little taste of what it could be like then just took it away. Especially the Padres. We gave them a little taste of the division title then took it away. Then we gave them hope in the NLDS. Had they beaten us then they probably win their first WS. Clearly Dodgers and Padres were 1 and 2 in Baseball this season.
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 10:17 pm Post subject:
aprevo15 wrote:
This whole season the Dodgers gave the opponents a little taste of what it could be like then just took it away. Especially the Padres. We gave them a little taste of the division title then took it away. Then we gave them hope in the NLDS. Had they beaten us then they probably win their first WS. Clearly Dodgers and Padres were 1 and 2 in Baseball this season.
Yeah, I totally agree. This year stuff just lined up for us. On paper, our rotation wasn't deep enough. The Padres get a 2-1 lead on us and force us into a bullpen game. Kike wasn't even supposed to be a starter. Rojas re-aggravates his injury and Kike has to go in, and he should have been in from the beginning, but it works out for us as he does his thing. Then the guy we signed to a $325MM contract gives us 5 scoreless in a winner-take-all game, and the pen shuts it down from there. We ride the momentum into the NLCS, with the biggest game, honestly, probably being Game 3 where Buehler gave us a scoreless outing to re-establish the lead in that series. Then Game 1 of the World Series is a tense one, they get the lead in the 10th, and we have an epic moment that we'll all remember forever. We ride that momentum to a 3-0 lead. We essentially punt Game 4, and Game 5 it's looking like they have us dead to rights and it's looking like we have to come back to LA with the Yankees carrying a ton of momentum. Then that 5th inning happens where they literally give us 3 outs. Then in the 8th inning, we get a rally and end up tying the score and then taking the lead on two sac flies. Think of how often we've harped on how the Dodgers fail to drive in runners in close games with a man on 3rd and less than 2 outs. Well, we did it tonight, twice, to literally win a championship. And the first sac fly to tie the score by Lux even got the eventual winning run to 3rd base with just 1 out.
Again, we won tonight even though they had 19 total bases and we had just 8. It was our year. The stars aligned.
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They gave us 6 outs man in one inning.....I still cant help but chuckle over that. Dante Bichette, one of the worst defensive outfielders in MLB history who actually put up a NEGATIVE WAR season after a 0.298 34 HRs 133 RBIs statline because of how atrocious his defense is would have made that play in his sleep playing centerfield - a position no manager in his right mind would ever put Bichette in. Then the Volpe error......what kind of toss was that???? Cole and Rizzo, that was inexplicable from two veteran players. Catcher's Interference????? Then a brain fart Balk by Weaver. My goodness, I guess the Yankees really didnt want to fly back west.
"During the 12 full seasons since the Guggenheim Baseball Management group assumed control of the Dodgers, they've won 99.2 of every 162 regular-season games they've played"
Holy cow are we fortunate to have them as an ownership group. Doubly so when juxtaposed to the dumpster fire of a FO that is the Lakers. _________________ KOBE
They gave us 6 outs man in one inning.....I still cant help but chuckle over that. Dante Bichette, one of the worst defensive outfielders in MLB history who actually put up a NEGATIVE WAR season after a 0.298 34 HRs 133 RBIs statline because of how atrocious his defense is would have made that play in his sleep playing centerfield - a position no manager in his right mind would ever put Bichette in. Then the Volpe error......what kind of toss was that???? Cole and Rizzo, that was inexplicable from two veteran players. Catcher's Interference????? Then a brain fart Balk by Weaver. My goodness, I guess the Yankees really didnt want to fly back west.
Judge's home run and the catch running in to the wall became crap with that 1 dropped ball. I wasn't even shouting for joy that inning. I was just LMAO the whole inning.
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 10:29 pm Post subject:
1995Lakers wrote:
They gave us 6 outs man in one inning.....I still cant help but chuckle over that. Dante Bichette, one of the worst defensive outfielders in MLB history who actually put up a NEGATIVE WAR season after a 0.298 34 HRs 133 RBIs statline because of how atrocious his defense is would have made that play in his sleep playing centerfield - a position no manager in his right mind would ever put Bichette in. Then the Volpe error......what kind of toss was that???? Cole and Rizzo, that was inexplicable from two veteran players. Catcher's Interference????? Then a brain fart Balk by Weaver. My goodness, I guess the Yankees really didnt want to fly back west.
More catcher interference this year and in the last few years because of the ridiculousness of pitch framing. The catchers are trying to catch the ball early to yank it and frame stuff, and when you do that, you run the occasional risk of that happening. OOPS!
Just can't believe Judge dropped that ball. That's a 99.9% catch. The Volpe error is more understandable, in that he does have to hurry the throw to make the out. So given that, you can at least see how a guy could rush his throw and botch it. Then on the Mookie dribbler, yeah, that's just all on Cole. He had to have been so mentally fried from the two errors before that he simply forgot that you always just run that out, even if you think the first baseman is going to do it himself. It certainly wasn't Rizzo's fault, as the ball had spun back towards second base enough to where there's no way Rizzo was winning that race to the bag. Just a total brain cramp from Cole, and then he was under so much stress from the mental mistake and the extra pitches that he then gave up hits to Freeman and Teo. And honestly, the pitch to Freddie wasn't a bad one, a firm fastball on the inside corner. Freddie is just such a great hitter that he pulled the hands in and fought it off. The one to Teo just looked like a tired, hanging offspeed pitch.
I'll say it again: we beat them with 8 total bases and they had 19! If there's been a greater disparity in a World Series win, it couldn't be by much more.
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"During the 12 full seasons since the Guggenheim Baseball Management group assumed control of the Dodgers, they've won 99.2 of every 162 regular-season games they've played"
Holy cow are we fortunate to have them as an ownership group. Doubly so when juxtaposed to the dumpster fire of a FO that is the Lakers.
I remember a lot wanting Mark Cuban to buy the team. Glad he didn't.
They gave us 6 outs man in one inning.....I still cant help but chuckle over that. Dante Bichette, one of the worst defensive outfielders in MLB history who actually put up a NEGATIVE WAR season after a 0.298 34 HRs 133 RBIs statline because of how atrocious his defense is would have made that play in his sleep playing centerfield - a position no manager in his right mind would ever put Bichette in. Then the Volpe error......what kind of toss was that???? Cole and Rizzo, that was inexplicable from two veteran players. Catcher's Interference????? Then a brain fart Balk by Weaver. My goodness, I guess the Yankees really didnt want to fly back west.
More catcher interference this year and in the last few years because of the ridiculousness of pitch framing. The catchers are trying to catch the ball early to yank it and frame stuff, and when you do that, you run the occasional risk of that happening. OOPS!
Just can't believe Judge dropped that ball. That's a 99.9% catch. The Volpe error is more understandable, in that he does have to hurry the throw to make the out. So given that, you can at least see how a guy could rush his throw and botch it. Then on the Mookie dribbler, yeah, that's just all on Cole. He had to have been so mentally fried from the two errors before that he simply forgot that you always just run that out, even if you think the first baseman is going to do it himself. It certainly wasn't Rizzo's fault, as the ball had spun back towards second base enough to where there's no way Rizzo was winning that race to the bag. Just a total brain cramp from Cole, and then he was under so much stress from the mental mistake and the extra pitches that he then gave up hits to Freeman and Teo. And honestly, the pitch to Freddie wasn't a bad one, a firm fastball on the inside corner. Freddie is just such a great hitter that he pulled the hands in and fought it off. The one to Teo just looked like a tired, hanging offspeed pitch.
I'll say it again: we beat them with 8 total bases and they had 19! If there's been a greater disparity in a World Series win, it couldn't be by much more.
Its baseball baby......we got thoroughly outplayed today, their hitters were locked in, and they GIVE us the trophy.
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 10:51 pm Post subject:
jonnybravo wrote:
ChickenStu wrote:
Steve007 wrote:
People can talk about 2020 meaning less or being too different, but I’m really glad the team won that title. This isn’t the 90’s Braves. This team didn’t just win a championship. The team won it AGAIN.
This one means more for sure. Down 2-1 to the hated Padres and we were in deep doo-doo. They were better than us on paper, with our injuries. To get past that was just epic. We were legit favored against the Mets, but they had been playing good ball for a long time so that was no gimme. Then this World Series, I mean, the Yankees flat-out gave us this game tonight (they had 19 total bases and we had 8!), and obviously we were oh-so-close to losing Game 1. It was just ultimately our turn. Our turn to win some improbable games and to have some moments that people will remember forever, chief among them the Freddie grand slam, of course.
It's kind of like how the Kings won their first Stanley Cup in 2012, unexpectedly just rampaging through the playoffs. But the '14 Cup just felt so much more meaningful, coming back from 3-0 down to the Sharks in the first round, down 3-2 to the Ducks in the second round, winning in Game 7 in OT on the road at Chicago in the WCF, and then winning 3 OT games against the Rangers to win the Cup. This kind of felt like that, for me, and the Kings and Dodgers are my two favorite teams, by far. I love the Lakers too of course, but I'm not passionate about basketball the way I am for baseball and hockey.
No way I sleep tonight before, say, 4AM. On way too much of a high.
This postseason felt different the moment Shohei hit that 3 run bomb in game 1 of the NLDS. I said during the post game that the anxiety and tension at the bar I was at was through the roof before that HR. You could feel it through the TV and each and every one here probably had that same "oh shiaaat....not again". I can't remember who it was (Will or Enrique?) but one of the players even said it completely took away the tension the team was feeling. One swing of the bat and it felt like a different team.
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 10:52 pm Post subject:
Just saw on Twitter: 15 different Dodger pitchers recorded a save this season, including the postseason and Buehler's save tonight, obviously. Fifteen! This really was a team effort this year. No set closer, different guys hurt all year, some stars, and obviously, big pitchers before and during the postseason.
What a gritty, gutty group. Despite my vocal disappointment at what I see as the wrong thing during games or with strategy, I'm just so proud of this team.
Just saw on Twitter: 15 different Dodger pitchers recorded a save this season, including the postseason and Buehler's save tonight, obviously. Fifteen! This really was a team effort this year. No set closer, different guys hurt all year, some stars, and obviously, big pitchers before and during the postseason.
What a gritty, gutty group. Despite my vocal disappointment at what I see as the wrong thing during games or with strategy, I'm just so proud of this team.
Hopefully you have little place in your heart for Will now.
You think Judge and Ohtani struggling in this WS was due to fatigue? I know Ohtani got hurt but before he got hurt he was struggling a bit. The whole season playing up to their MVP performance has got to take a toll. WS comes around and the body knows the season is almost over so fatigue starts to set in.
Mookie didn't struggle this year because he had some time off and Freddie didn't have to carry the burden of being the second best on the team after Ohtani came. If you think about Seager in the past he never plays the whole season and when he won with us it was a short season.
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:13 pm Post subject:
aprevo15 wrote:
ChickenStu wrote:
Just saw on Twitter: 15 different Dodger pitchers recorded a save this season, including the postseason and Buehler's save tonight, obviously. Fifteen! This really was a team effort this year. No set closer, different guys hurt all year, some stars, and obviously, big pitchers before and during the postseason.
What a gritty, gutty group. Despite my vocal disappointment at what I see as the wrong thing during games or with strategy, I'm just so proud of this team.
Hopefully you have little place in your heart for Will now.
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:15 pm Post subject:
C M B wrote:
was there no watch party at dodger stadium today? trying to find fan jubilee videos to get high on
If you go to the LA Kings Twitter handle, they have a video of the last out up on the big scoreboard, as the final out came during an intermission between periods, which is pretty convenient.
Actually, why am I making you go find it lol, here it is:
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:19 pm Post subject:
Sorry if I missed this in the hoopla, but Daniel Hudson announced that he will retire after the game. He didn't have it for the last few months, but that was probably because he was overworked, out of necessity, when we needed guys to actually get the job done for us during the regular season (when other guys were injured and unavailable). He was outstanding for the first half of the season, so who knows if we even win the division without his contributions. He had an outstanding career, so hats off to him. Goes out a champion.
You think Judge and Ohtani struggling in this WS was due to fatigue? I know Ohtani got hurt but before he got hurt he was struggling a bit. The whole season playing up to their MVP performance has got to take a toll. WS comes around and the body knows the season is almost over so fatigue starts to set in.
Mookie didn't struggle this year because he had some time off and Freddie didn't have to carry the burden of being the second best on the team after Ohtani came. If you think about Seager in the past he never plays the whole season and when he won with us it was a short season.
Can't speak for Judge but Ohtani's OPS was hovering around .900 before the WS. He had struggled in his first two games of the WS and was hurt in the last three so really the drop off in his performance was a really small sample size. _________________ KOBE
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Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:41 pm Post subject:
ChickenStu wrote:
C M B wrote:
was there no watch party at dodger stadium today? trying to find fan jubilee videos to get high on
If you go to the LA Kings Twitter handle, they have a video of the last out up on the big scoreboard, as the final out came during an intermission between periods, which is pretty convenient.
Actually, why am I making you go find it lol, here it is:
ty CS...(bleep) awesome vid. I love cross-team celebrations. lmao at the guys on the Zamboni. Oh and would you look at that, Staples Center even dropped I Love LA in there at the moment of triumph...when that last strike was caught I was hoping that somewhere in LA that Randy Newman was being blasted where a bunch of people were gathered. anyone who doesn't cry at this song is not a human being
CRANK UP THE BEACH BOYS BABY, DON'T LET THE MUSIC STOP _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
You think Judge and Ohtani struggling in this WS was due to fatigue? I know Ohtani got hurt but before he got hurt he was struggling a bit. The whole season playing up to their MVP performance has got to take a toll. WS comes around and the body knows the season is almost over so fatigue starts to set in.
Mookie didn't struggle this year because he had some time off and Freddie didn't have to carry the burden of being the second best on the team after Ohtani came. If you think about Seager in the past he never plays the whole season and when he won with us it was a short season.
Maybe but Ohtani didn’t have to pitch this season, is a DH so he doesn’t even have to play defense, and they both got almost a week off going into this series.
But it is the longest season/postseason Ohtani ever had.
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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 1:25 am Post subject:
Oh, I meant to post this earlier, but I saw Cole get asked about that play at first base by reporters after the game. It wasn't a brain cramp on his part. He explained that because of the strange swing and how weird the ball came off the bat, he said he thought he might need to field it, so he broke towards the ball and towards the foul line, rather than breaking right for the bag. And once the ball went where it did and clearly got well past him, he had taken the wrong angle so he was in no position to recover and then go to the bag. Essentially, a misread of the ball off the bat because of the cue shot and how weirdly it left the bat.
I'm sure that inning will be a nightmare for Yankee fans for years to come. Maybe decades.
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