Yep. Told my buddy that was October baseball. Gonna be like that for every game, especially in the AL.
Agreed, especially game one in the divisional series in ‘16, but game two was like...damn. Game three was tense-ish, but I never lost my cool.
I was watching at a bar. As soon as he came in, guy next to me and I both basically said, "Shit, he's going to blow it." at the same time. We pretty much became instant best friends for the next 20 minutes.
2007 was the worst. Blowing the 3-1 lead in that series got to me even worse than the WS for some reason.
Hard for me to pick which was more devastating- 2016 Cubs or 2007 Red Sox. I was 11 when the 1997 Marlins happened, so I was not as emotionally invested.
I believe Cleveland lost that Game 7 because they refused to bring Charlie Sheen out as full on Wild Thing to throw the first pitch, and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise. It would have been incredible.
Baseball is such a weird sport. Only game where you’ll sacrifice riding the hot hand in favor of another guy because that’s the inning you’ve decided he pitches.
I hate to armchair manage, and I realize the bullpen has been horrendous this year, but it was asking a lot of a young pitcher (who had thrown on HELL of a game at that point) to bring Bieber out in the 7th.
I haven’t been as emotional invested or even paying nearly as much attention this season The Tribe bats bitching out like nobodies business after being so hot during that streak is the reason Oh well, all fucking in on this postseason
Regardless of how the rest of the series shakes out, these first two games were HUGE for the Tribe. 1. Boston is 100% going to have home field in the playoffs. Tribe just took two in a row in Boston in what felt like playoff games. 2. Both the best and youngest pitchers got wins. Especially a great confidence booster for Bieber. 3. Cleveland was playing with a depleted lineup. 4. Baseball is a confidence game as much as anything. Indians just showed they can more than hang with a team many are calling to be up there when it comes to regular season wins in history.
So when's that waiver deadline? Is it possible the Tribe can still pick up some of those sexy veteran bats?
Would really like to cut the shit and make Hand the closer. I know it’s not in Terry’s DNA to give up on a guy, but it’s time. You have a real talent in Hand and you can put Cody in a much better position to succeed as a setup.
The annoying thing is that Allen pitched in low-leverage situations for two weeks or so after the Hand trade. He did well and now he’s back to blowing saves.
Terry is so, so delicate with player psyche. While I somewhat appreciate it and realize it’s led to a lot of his success, he gets in his own was quite a bit, too. Holding out hope that McCallister could be a reliable guy, was another, but we finally let that bird free. I’m gonna be optimistic and say that Terry I just being a little loose with the lead we have in the division. Down the stretch, I want to believe he’ll make things more permanent.
I feel the same way about the division lead. I think it’s why we’re seeing Miller less and the starters aren’t going as deep into games as they normally would.
Yeeeeep. Getting burned by Kluber’s back at the end of last year (I don’t care if he won’t say it, we all know he was not healthy) opened their eyes a bit. I’m sure the streak was hard to ignore and not play into, as well. It’s easy for me to say, “Well, he shoulda sat Kluber down for a while”, in the middle of a 22-game streak, your heart and balls can overrule your brain.
that may have been the worst save attempt I've ever seen. literally what I would expect to happen if we pulled some rando out of the stands to pitch
I realize that every team has blown leads/saves, but I feel like we're over 20 games that we probably should've won if not for our bullpen. It's a big number.
We're supposedly 7th in the AL in save percentage at 70% (34 out of 49) but that feels wrong to be league average. Maybe we were just so good last year it makes average feel terrible. We were #1 in the AL by a wide margin in terms of % last year.
meanwhile andrew miller is on the shelf for the 483948431th time this season. i want to believe in this team and they're obviously talented enough to win a title, but it's looking like they're gonna have to do it in spite of the bullpen