Bear Down Wildcats

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:24 pm My son played Little League with Andre and went to high school with him at Cienega. That's his dad Tim cheering, he's a great guy.

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:03 am The Rays started the “Bullpen Game” trend out of necessity but don’t do it any more.

The Yankees used to do the one inning thing but now when they need spot starts from non-starters they just let them go for as long as they feel comfortable, often getting 3-4 innings out of essentially a long relief guy.

It wears out your bullpen to have six or seven guys throw, so not too many teams still have a guy only pitch in the first inning. Might as well bring up a starter from the minors (especially with the 26 man rosters and Covid travel squad) as opposed to throwing everyone in the bullpen and then needing them to pitch the next night because the starter they thought was reliable has a bad game.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:10 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:03 am The Rays started the “Bullpen Game” trend out of necessity but don’t do it any more.

The Yankees used to do the one inning thing but now when they need spot starts from non-starters they just let them go for as long as they feel comfortable, often getting 3-4 innings out of essentially a long relief guy.

It wears out your bullpen to have six or seven guys throw, so not too many teams still have a guy only pitch in the first inning. Might as well bring up a starter from the minors (especially with the 26 man rosters and Covid travel squad) as opposed to throwing everyone in the bullpen and then needing them to pitch the next night because the starter they thought was reliable has a bad game.

True Chi.

For the Dodgers they are doing it because of a couple of reasons. First they have 2 key starters out with Kershaw and Bauer. Also because their other starters like Urias, Buehler and Mad Max can be dominant they can afford a bullpen game because those guys can come back and give the bullpen a rest the next day. Finally the Dodger bullpen has been so good it’s not a throwaway game for them.

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:26 am Well lookee there… first place, huh?

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:29 pm Damn. Thought this was going like 13 innings there for a while.

The putting the runner on 2nd thing is only for the regular season, right?

Longhorned wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 10:11 am Meh. Getting on base is for teams that can't win on defense alone.

I saw somewhere that the Giants won game 3 after catching four balls with an expected batting average of .890

DrWildcat wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:32 am The 3-1 Braves collapse has started for the second consecutive year. If you can't tell, I'm a Braves fan, and because of that I fully expect them to blow this. Just trying to lower my expectations so I'm not disappointed.

Also, I posted above that I expected the Braves to lose G4 and they won so I figure I might as well try it again.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:31 am Not winning at least 1 of those first 2 games plus having to use a patchwork lineup including SP’s did them in.

They were counting on 3 Cy Young award winners to carry them through. Maybe if Bauer concentrated more on pounding the strike zone instead of women it would have been a better outcome.

Will be interesting to see what’s going to happen next year to Scherzer, Kershaw and especially Seager.