Bumgarner actually. We will never see his likes again in playoffsOriginally Posted by BCR
Anyone know how to tie a noose?
Sticking with the plan.
Felt like ump gave Jays the calls early and late it was all Dodgers.
Will check the scorecard in the am.
Can’t let Ohtani hit more than one homer. After his first two at bats he should have been walked everytime.
And our bats went dead after 3 of our top batters were taken out. I guess 4 if you include Barger.
How improbable was Will Klein's performance tonight?
In AAA this year, he had a 6.23 ERA and 1.75 WHIP through 43.1 innings.
In 2024, his only prior Major League season, he gave up 9 ER, 12 H, and 6 BB in just 7.1 innings.
The only positive number? He had a 2.35 ERA and 21 K with the Dodgers over 14 appearances this season over 15 1/3 innings, but still allowed 24 baserunners (14 H, 10 BB).
Here he just strolls into Game 3 of the World Series in extras, and tosses 4 scoreless, allowing just 1 hit, 2 walks, and striking out 5, including the last batter when he was clearly out of gas. Klein also never threw more than 30 pitches this year with the Dodgers until tonight. He had 72 here.
He will probably go back to being a failpitcher after this, but at least he'll have this game he can show to his grandkids one day.
Very low chance Kershaw throws another pitch in MLB, unless he's absolutely needed.
They can leave this outing as his final contribution -- getting a necessary final out in a tied game during extras, with inherited runners on base, which the Dodgers ultimately won.
Now if the Dodgers win this ring, he gets to really say he was part of the effort, rather than just a mop-up guy who was hammered for 6 runs in his one appearance.
That's the reason he came back -- so he can actually have been part of a winning full season World Series.
This game was really close to perfect as far as stories that can be told for this year's team. Ohtani absolutely dominated with the bat to the point of setting a modern-era extra base hit record, and then was auto-walked in his last FIVE plate appearances, going 9/9 in reaching base today (another record). Kershaw got his happy ending postseason performance, albeit very brief. The pitching hero was not one of the high priced acquisitions, but a no-name minor leaguer who somehow shut down the Blue Jays for the final 4 innings of the contest. And then Freddie Freeman gets another walkoff HR, reminiscent of last year.
New Bonds-Ohtani Rule coming?
https://twitter.com/JonnyRoot_/status/1983026637282390119
I kind of agree that it takes a lot of the fun out of the game for them just to decide to auto-walk a hot superstar. They wouldn't let him hit in his final FIVE plate appearances.
So you can just throw 4 balls a foot outside the strike zone? Seems silly. Just part of the game. If Mookie was normal Mookie, they couldn’t do it. Right now, it’s dumb to pitch to him in any tight game. That’s up to the bottom to the lineup to create a situation where they can’t. Or move him down in lineup.
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