NLDS: Braves vs. Giants

#102
#102
If the editors of the AJC had any onions at all, there would be a giant picture of Posey being tagged on the front page of the paper tomorrow above the fold.

Lincecum was magnificent, Lowe wasn't quite as good, and the Braves played still more crappy defense, so I'm not exactly bitter about it, but it's still terrible to have the one run of the game scored on a call that would have been immediately overturned with any kind of a modern replay system. I love baseball, but there are things about the sport that are freaking indefensible.
 
#104
#104
I am definitely bitter. Even if the Braves would have lost in extra innings, a game should never be so clearly decided by one bad call. They had a chance. Especially if Lincecum came out in the 10th. But it's over now. On to game two...
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#108
#108
I can't imagine Lincecum would have come back out for the 10th. And oh, by the way, you can go to hell for even making me think about Jack Morris.
 
#111
#111
#1ArencibiaFan said:
Not some of the ones I saw tonight. If anything, they would've been borderline low strike to start out. The hitters need to see the ball up.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've never stood in there against a two-time Cy Young winner when he's got his top-shelf stuff going. The Braves' lineup may reek, but Lincecum was damn near unhittable after the first inning tonight. All you needed to see to know what kind of stuff Lincecum had was the pitch Heyward struck out on in the 9th. Jason Heyward doesn't swing at a lot of pitches that cross the plate at his shoelaces. Lincecum's stuff was ridiculous.
 
#112
#112
Vercingetorix said:
So you know what it's like to stand in there against a two-time Cy Young winner when he's got his A+ stuff going? The Braves' lineup may reek, but Lincecum was damn near unhittable after the first inning tonight. All you needed to see to know what kind of stuff Lincecum had was the pitch Heyward struck out on in the 9th. Jason Heyward doesn't swing at a lot of pitches that cross the plate at his shoelaces. Lincecum's stuff was ridiculous.
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I didn't say it wasn't. The Braves just seemed very impatient chasing low sliders that may or may not have been strikes to begin with.
 
#113
#113
#1ArencibiaFan said:
I didn't say it wasn't. The Braves just seemed very impatient chasing low sliders that may or may not have been strikes to begin with.
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I'm not sure that it's worth arguing about; I just think that there are times when you have to tip your hat to the other guy. Either he was amazing or the entire Braves lineup had a collective seizure and decided to start swinging at everything. The Braves' lineup is pretty crappy by playoff-team standards, but they're not as bad as Lincecum made them look tonight. He looked like a grown man pitching to five-year-olds with money riding on the outcome.
 
#116
#116
The Braves were pretty obviously a bat or two short of being a championship-caliber team in early August -- before both Chipper and Prado went out. This is a lineup with one legitimate established major-league hitter, a promising rookie, a career benchwarmer, a retread, and a bunch of spare parts. Any good starter with his A game going is going to make them look foolish, much less an elite pitcher like Lincecum.
 
#117
#117
Vercingetorix said:
The Braves were pretty obviously a bat or two short of being a championship-caliber team in early August -- before both Chipper and Prado went out.
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I would think much more of the organization if they would have signed Lee before Chipper went down.
 
#118
#118
cotton said:
I would think much more of the organization if they would have signed Lee before Chipper went down.
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No doubt. 1B was a smoking crater on July 30. If they were serious about winning, they would have tried to fix that position then. Waiting until Chipper goes down makes it look like they were just worried about ticket sales going into the crapper in September.
 
#120
#120
Don't care one way or another for the giants or braves buy I caught a few innings and big time Timmy Jim is... Big time.
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#121
#121
milohimself said:
Don't care one way or another for the giants or braves buy I caught a few innings and big time Timmy Jim is... Big time.
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He was nuts. He and Doc both looked like they could go about 20 more innings without being touched.

When Timmy is on, every single pitch... fastball change slider... just look so identical in every way, and the fastball just looks different when he is on, and he knows it
 
#122
#122
Vercingetorix said:
I'm not sure that it's worth arguing about; I just think that there are times when you have to tip your hat to the other guy. Either he was amazing or the entire Braves lineup had a collective seizure and decided to start swinging at everything. The Braves' lineup is pretty crappy by playoff-team standards, but they're not as bad as Lincecum made them look tonight. He looked like a grown man pitching to five-year-olds with money riding on the outcome.
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I agree about him being a two time CY winner for a reason, but every single fastball he threw was up. All of them. If he isn't putting fastballs at the knees, quit swinging at stuff comin in down there because the bottom is going to fall out. I'm assuming they swung at 84 balls that bounced because they looked like fastballs coming out of his hand. But considering he didn't spot a single fastball at the knees all night, at some point you have to quit being an absolute hack and take the damn thing knowing it's gonna be a ball.
 
#123
#123
Can't believe no comments on the Pablo Sandoval IBB. He would have fit in nicely with our lineup last night. Can't believe he didn't swing at any of the pitchouts. Atrocious decision.
 
#125
#125
Vercingetorix said:
No doubt. 1B was a smoking crater on July 30. If they were serious about winning, they would have tried to fix that position then. Waiting until Chipper goes down makes it look like they were just worried about ticket sales going into the crapper in September.
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Because they were. It is, and has been for some time, a team designed to keep people interested late into the season, and not a team designed to make a serious run at the pennant. They just happened to eek out the WC this year.
 
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