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[CygnusXS]

Being a sports fan on the east coast must suck. Its only 10:20 here!

Those poor bastards.

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Don't worry Cards even if you go for another couple hours you got fans on the west coast too

 

[Meier]

Well, I like those career numbers...


*knocks on wood*

 

[Meier]

God dammit.

 

[lazybones18]

Cards win

 

[Dominican Power]

Carlos Beltran is un-fucking-believable

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

god damn it.

 

[BFIB]

Can we just clone Beltran?

 

[CygnusXS]

Yep

 

[rekameohs]

ops

 

[NomarTyme]

What a shitty game. Congrats to the Cards. Donny has managed to fuck Jansen up.

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Oh man that was huge.

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

Carlos Danger

 

[squicken]

Just not gonna get Beltran there

 

[Cloudy]

Beltran is ridiculous

 

[Little Green Yoda]

Thanks, Carlos!!

The guys are going to be tired for game 2.

 

[beast786]

Oh boy

 

[Fenderputty]

Well that sucks.

 

[Corran Horn]

Fuck you Beltran!

 

[The Frankman]

One of the best postseason hitters of all time. Will look good in a Mets uni next year.

 

[Carlbeego]

Man this is gonna be a 2004 or a 2006 rematch.

Hate rematches.

 

[LJ11]

Just not gonna get Beltran there

3-1 count and he's nowhere near the plate. Fat one incoming.

Love Carlos.

 

[Meier]

Fucking Pirates. Choke artists.

 

[sf2fanatic]

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[BFIB]

This is the win we needed. Because we are not going to win against Kershaw tomorrow. At least going to LA split w/ Waino going in game 3. Good shot now.

 

[The Frankman]

3-1 count and he's nowhere near the plate. Fat one incoming.

Love Carlos.

You think Mets go after him in the offseason?

 

[squicken]

3-1 count and he's nowhere near the plate. Fat one incoming.

Love Carlos.

He was an Astro for like 4 months, and besides Berkman, my favorite player. Rooting for him to get a ring

 

[LJ11]

You think Mets go after him in the offseason?

He's not coming back, that bridge is burned regardless of what Carlos says.

He was an Astro for like 4 months, and besides Berkman, my favorite player. Rooting for him to get a ring

Impossible not to root for him.

 

[Little Green Yoda]

This is the win we needed. Because we are not going to win against Kershaw tomorrow. At least going to LA split w/ Waino going in game 3. Good shot now.

Believe in Wacha. He's due to finish off a no-no one of these days.

 

[rekameohs]

You think Mets go after him in the offseason?

Maybe they could trade Zach Wheeler to rent him for a couple of months!

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Grinding out a win after that pitching from Greinke, I'm pretty damn happy.

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

This is the win we needed. Because we are not going to win against Kershaw tomorrow. At least going to LA split w/ Waino going in game 3. Good shot now.

Haven't the Cardinals actually done really well against Kershaw?

 

[brianjones]

fuck mattingly

taking out agon cost not only agon AB's but hanley as well

i guess you cant really blame one person when you go 13 innings

 

[BFIB]

Believe in Wacha. He's due to finish off a no-no one of these days.

Tomorrow is going to be interesting. There could be some lag going in playing so long tonight. Hopefully the Cards can get some pressure on Kershaw early and then let Wacha do his thing.

Beltran is not going to see another strike this series.

 

[Little Green Yoda]

Haven't the Cardinals actually done really well against Kershaw?

The Cards haven't hit him well. The Dodgers just give him shit run support when he pitches against us.

 

[Meier]

Just showed that stupid stutter step move that Gordon made on the ground out. You dumb piece of shit.

 

[sf2fanatic]

fuck mattingly

taking out agon cost not only agon AB's but hanley as well

i guess you cant really blame one person when you go 13 innings

Dammit Agon for being so slow..

 

[BFIB]

Just showed that stupid stutter step move that Gordon made on the ground out. You dumb piece of shit.

If the Cards end up winning this series, I think one of the first things that Mattingly will have to answer for is only having one lefty in the 'pen. Especially in situations like that on Beltran where you could force him to hit from the right side.

 

[squicken]

I stopped following the sport too closely, but I'm shocked at how every pitcher now throws 95. Stros had Dotel, Lidge then Wagner and no one else had anything else like that. Now there's like 5 or 6 in every pen like that it seems

 

[The Frankman]

If the Cards end up winning this series, I think one of the first things that Mattingly will have to answer for is only having one lefty in the 'pen. Especially in situations like that on Beltran where you could force him to hit from the right side.

The right side traditionally is his better power side though.

 

[beanman25]

Such a roller coaster!

Go Cardinals!!!!

 

[BFIB]

Mattingly making it clear he was going for the win when he lifted AGon. Said Puig "swung early".

 

[Little Green Yoda]

I stopped following the sport too closely, but I'm shocked at how every pitcher now throws 95. Stros had Dotel, Lidge then Wagner and no one else had anything else like that. Now there's like 5 or 6 in every pen like that it seems

The Cards have a lot of flamethrowers in the pen but I don't think having as many as they do is necessarily the norm across the majors.

 

[CygnusXS]

I stopped following the sport too closely, but I'm shocked at how every pitcher now throws 95. Stros had Dotel, Lidge then Wagner and no one else had anything else like that. Now there's like 5 or 6 in every pen like that it seems

I haven't done a census on this, but I'd be willing to bet that every organization has at least one guy who throws 100+ in their system somewhere.

 

[Little Green Yoda]

I haven't done a census on this, but I'd be willing to bet that every organization has at least one guy who throws 100+ in their system somewhere.

This is true but most of them don't sniff the majors due to control issues. Having a major league bullpen full of guys who throw that hard with command isn't commonplace.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

That's baseball for you. Here's to hopefully a much better showing tomorrow (well today) offensively for the Dodgers.

If not then welp.

 

[Opiate]

Haven't the Cardinals actually done really well against Kershaw?

They did hit him for four runs in one outing, but the sample size here is 3 games in the last two years. It's not exactly a huge sample size to draw real meaning from.

I'm always amused when they show statistics like "Matt Holliday is 6 for 33 in his career against the Dodgers" or something like that as if this represents anything meaningful. Who is "The Dodgers?" I can imagine a single batter having a particularly tough time against a particular pitcher, but not a batter having trouble with all pitchers who happen to wear a Dodgers uniform over the course of 10+ years. In almost all of these cases any dramatic overperformance or underperformance can more likely be attributed to random chance, and I'd say the same of our record against Kershaw (With the knowledge that our offense is reasonably good in general).

 

[Caja 117]

You can question Donni for the pinch runner, but you arent going to win a game if your lineup goes 1 for 11 with RiSP.

In the last 18+ innings or so the only batter that has driven run for the dodgers has been Uribe.

 

[Sir Alemeth]

Well done Cards.
Beltran still sucks.

 

[KidA Seven]

That's what the Cardinals do. That's why I didn't want to face them.


Fuck Young


He's been dog shit for the Dodgers.