Hanged and banged.

I felt that grand slam coming in my bones.

Volquez is a jinx, got no hit his last playoff start and getting 1 hit tonight

This is why you pitch Cole when you have a chance to avoid this Winner take all game. Stuff can happen and it has. It's not over yet but the crowd is killed and Bumgarner looks unhittable.

noon on Friday..I'm gonna have to get up about the same time I go to work. blah

You can't blame the Pirates for throwing Cole on Sunday in n attempt to win the division.

Dallas Braden looks like he could have wrestled in the 80s

Bwa haha just came here to make fun of him.

<font color=goldenrod>While I get why the Pirates did it...they still only had like a 2% chance of actually winning the division. If they beat the Reds, Wainwright was going to pitch against the D-Backs with everything on the line. Can't really see how the Cardinals would have lost that one.

Seems moot anyway. It didn't matter who the Pirates threw in the Wild Card game, nobody was touching Bumgarner.</font>

Damn @Sandoval

5:30 needs to come the hell on

forealz

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Grandma somehow got into the Giants dugout

security these days, first people are jumping the fence at the white house, now old people are getting into dugouts at baseball games..

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1927 looks like it was done in ms paint and 1961 looks awkwardly surprised

love the '61 logo

lol @ 1927 and 1934 though

Cruz continuing on owning the Tigers in the playoffs

Did Joba eat Bray Wyatt?

Andrew Romine

I have no words

I love Detroits Bullpen..

Well then. I was all worried that that Torii Hunter line drive could have potentially lead to a go-ahead run by Miggy (Kinsler would have been at 3B, Hunter at 1B then the HR)


Thankfully, that hypothetical is so far in the rear-view.

That was fun, lets do it again tomorrow. Hahaha

gonna be there up in the nosebleeds

nice

plz punch anyone that starts OLE or Seven Nation Army chants though

<font color=goldenrod>Listened to the meltdown on the way home. Chris fucking Berman was doing the announcing. Ugh.</font>

Chris Berman is the "Detroit Tigers bullpen" of announcing

Im not going now. Wait til the ALCS now.

Braves will keep Fredi Gonzalez around. They also hired Bo Porter as Third Base coach.

PEAVY

Kershaw is a fucking dreadful playoff pitcher.

who could have possibly envisioned an Orioles/Royals ALCS..? I'm actually more concerned if the o's have to play the Royals because they have good pitching/defense...


/wish I had went through with my predictions

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Need 1 more against the Angels to tie another record of that type.

Royals currently seem like a team destined to win it all.

Have tickets to every Nationals playoff game but ent been able to go to either one so far... Nats gonna get swept and leave OssMan at a paltry 2 games watched this year

BTW watched the last 4 innings of last night's 3-2 loss at the hands of Giants... Bruce Harper home run insane

The Tigers are crumbling and weren't helped by their manager's inept decision making regarding his bullpen. I never understood Ausmus' hiring in the first place, since he had zero experience at any level. Not the kind of guy to helm a championship caliber team, imo.

I've said a dozen times that Ausmus isn't the right manager for this particular team. Maybe in a year or two after the window has closed, THEN bring in the young guy. But for a team that's built basically to try to win a WS, go with a guy who's been there before.

That all being said, I don't know if any manager could make this bullpen work.

<font color=goldenrod>Frankly I don't think we're too far off from every single manager in the big leagues being a former catcher. It seems to be all you need to get a job nowadays.</font>

Buck Showalter eats bumbling inept coaches for breakfast. Ned Yost doesn't stand a chance.

They have both Sanchez and Porcello who can throw multiple innings out of the pen. If he wasn't a robot about using relievers Detroit could be dangerous at the backend of playoff games.

That was Leyland's main problem at the end of his tenure too, he would have a strict "8th inning guy" (Benoit) and 9th (Valverde) regardless of anything else, and wouldn't stray from that

I understand being cautious with Sanchez but this is the time of year where you have to take some risks.

Also, you don't set strict pitch limits on guys, even when they're returning from injury. You analyze mechanics, velocity, pitch effectiveness and command. There's no magic number for being tired.