Fuhgeddaboudit!

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1. The Dodgers have to stop kissing Clayton’s ass and start him in the first game of the playoffs.. with his velocity down to 90 and below and he was not deservant of pitching that game.. To me unless he gets medical attention in the off season , he should not be on the Dodger roster in 2024. He is a first ballot Hall of Famer and should retire as a Dodger. He is all done. I would have started Miller followed by Pepiot in Game 2. You need pitchers with swing and miss stuff in the playoffs. Game 3 would a bullpen game with Lynn starting. Right now we’re in trouble. AF needs to prioritize pitching in 2024. We need to sign the pitcher in Japan.

2. I thought that double that went over Peralta’s head was catchable as well. Seemed like he stood there and waited for it to go off the wall for quite a while when he was only a few feet away. I paid $27.50 to get a discounted month on sling TV so I could watch all these cable games. They better not go out quickly this year! Go Dodgers!

3. Sometimes it’s better to lose 11-2 than 3-1. Clear the slate and start over.

   Monday will tell the tale!

   1. 100% agree. If they would have come back in the 8th or 9th by beating our bullpen I think that would have been much worse.

4. Yenier Fernandez Highlights:

   https://www.mlb.com/video/yeiner-fernandez-s-diving-grab?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share

   https://www.mlb.com/video/yeiner-fernande-s-3-run-triple?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share

   https://www.mlb.com/video/yeiner-fernandez-s-two-run-double?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share

   This guy has always been solid – now he’s better than that!

5. Man, I came here for some AFL talk and got it. Let’s go Glendale Devil Dogs! Or is it Diamond Dogs! Casparius in da house!

   I came back from driving my wife to a baby shower hours away just in time to see Outman drop the ball. I went to start dinner and by the time I came back it was 5-0.

   I’m no moron so I turned it off.

   1. Well, I am a moron, so I watched the whole debacle!

      1. I watched until the end of the 7th. The Dodgers were down 10-0. I guess I’m an indecisive moron. 🙂

6. Didn’t even see a Dodger at bat. Shut it off in top 1st. Went to bed at 9:30 CST and feel fresh as a daisy.

   Wish we didn’t have an off day as it’s better to play right away in my opinion.

7. The offense scored 2, I said 2 runs off against a guy they have absolutely owned! so if Clayton gets out of the first with just 3 runs they still lose. Clayton Kershaw owes no apology for his post season record. he is not Clayton anymore, but he is still the best pitcher, I know Sandy might be, in Dodger history. So, let’s not forget Walker wasn’t right, Gonsolin wasn’t right, and now Clayton isn’t right. if it’s the end of his career so, be it, but don’t discredit his career with the Dodgers, he could have left many times after Mattingly butchered the pitching and overusing him in the playoffs! The series isn’t over! oh yeah, the mighty Braves lost too!

   1. Best? CK is certainly Hall of Fame worthy. He is a great pitcher during the regular season, has the best career ERA, 2.48, of any pitcher in the modern era. But postseason, he is just average. He was not overused by Mattingly in the playoffs. In four playoff series under DM< he was never used more than 2 times in any of those series. He pitched an average of 13 innings in those series. That is not being overused. He had a 2-5 record in those series. His two worst came against St. Louis in 13 and 14. He was 0-4 with a combined ERA over 7 in 22.2 innings. He gave up 18 earned runs in those 4 games. Almost a run an inning. No, he was not overused. At least not by Mattingly. Since he started with a 2-6 record in his first seven playoff appearances, he has done a lot better. He is 11-7 in the postseason since 2016. He has pitched more than 2 games in a series three times in the Roberts era. 2016 NLDS against the Nationals when he had a win and a save in three games against them. But he only pitched 12.1 innings in the three games. 2017 World Series against Houston. He started two games, and then relieved in game 7 when it was already out of hand, and in 2018 he pitched in three games in the NLCS against Milwaukee. Even in the WS against Houston, he only pitched 15.2 innings in three games. So that is not overuse. Yesterday's game was a total embarrassment to him. But he wore it like the pro he is. No, the series is not over. They get Gallen tomorrow, he is the D-Backs best pitcher by far. But even he has a career record of 1-4 against the Dodgers. All four of his losses have come at Dodger Stadium.

8. A couple of months ago I wrote a Post that the Dodgers should put a fork in Kershaw because having him around only clouds the issue, because as Andrew so rightly says – everyone seems too scared to take control of the situation, and so it has transpired.

   Maybe all the D’Backs detractors will sit up and take notice now.

   1. The D-Backs are a good team. But so are the Dodgers. Even up the series, head to AZ and win what you can. I take Miller over Gallen who is 0-4 at Dodger Stadium.

      1. Agree 100%.

         We won game 1 last year and lost the series.

         We lose game 1 this year and WIN the series.

         1. I think it will go five probably. I think the Dodgers were really embarrassed by how they played. I also think Sheehan got a taste of playoff baseball. Now he knows what the pressure is like. I shut the game off after the second inning and watched USC-Arizona. Now that was a tight game. USC hung on by their fingernails and beat a very talented and tenacious Wildcats team, 43-41 in 3 overtimes. USC’s offense was stymied a lot. Wildcats put up almost 500 yards of offense. Notre Dame lost, so I am really happy.

   2. Yes, I remember Watford commenting earlier this year that Kershaw was no better than a #3 starter. I disagreed with Watford, and somehow Clayton performed well in the regular season. But I must give Watford credit for expressing concern with Kershaw’s ability throughout this year. I will always support Kershaw, but I would not pitch him again this year.

      1. They might not have any choice. But if they do, I would save him for game five if it gets that far. I would not pitch him in Arizona. His ERA there is well over 4. Kersh is who he is. His fastball is not what it once was, and if his location is off, which it was last night, he gets lit up.

   3. From The Athletic:

      Kershaw gave up six runs and secured only one out. He became the first pitcher in postseason history to allow five runs and five hits before recording an out, according to ESPN Stats & Info. It was the worst performance of his checkered October career. It would be hard to draw up a worse opening to this postseason for the Dodgers, a 100-win club still reliant upon Kershaw even as he managed a shoulder injury in the second half. Arizona hounded him with hellacious swings that demonstrated the aggressiveness of their approach and their comfort with Kershaw’s reduced arsenal.

      To the untrained eye, in the season’s final months, Kershaw maintained his usual standard. He posted a 2.23 ERA in his final eight starts, including a five-inning, one-run outing against Arizona on Aug. 29. Yet as the postseason approached, this version of Kershaw was not the same pitcher who won three National League Cy Young awards in the first half of the 2010s. He was not the same pitcher the Dodgers once trusted on short rest every October during most of that decade. He was not even the same pitcher who earned his 10th All-Star berth this past summer before injuring his shoulder in late June.”,

      He claims he is not injured, but how can anyone reconcile the 2.48 ER he put up this year and the 162.00 ERA Last night… unless he is just a choke artist!

      1. We know he is not a choke artist, so your question answers itself.

9. Well, that didn’t work.

   Not the start we expected. But it’s ONE game. It’s the same situation as if Kersh went 5 innings and we lost 1 to 0. Miller is our Ace and and we carry on tomorrow, as planned.

   Hey, STB, assure me again why I won’t have to worry about missing any part for the second game on TBS and FS1.
   “No problem guys. With the new rules, the odds that the games run into each other are probably less than 10%. Very few games are lasting even 3 hours these day”

   If you wanted to record the Twins -Asstros game for later viewing on FS1, you may have been disappointed to see the Ranger – Orioles game on instead, and in the 7th inning. By the time they got to your game, it was top of the third. What you have to know and plan ahead in order to set your recorder correctly to not miss your team’s start. You need to set up to start recording 2 channels just in case game 1 runs over. You play “guest what channel”. You needed to know to set record FS-1 and F-2 at the same time. But if it’s in the National League, you need to set up one recording on TBS and set up another recording at the start of game 2, on TNT.

   I hope that’s clear enough?

   1. I was only referring to Dodger games Phil and although the game turned out to be rather lengthy it was actually over in the first inning ……… in far less than 3 hours. Problem solved. 🙂

      1. STB – 3:09, 2:58, 3:03 and 3:04. Those were the length of games yesterday, all in a 3 hour window. And that’s without extra innings, weather delays, injuries and other reasons for a delay.
         Stagger the networks or expand the windows for the reasons I mentioned. And it’s not just Dodger games. I like to watch entire games; not joining them in the 3rd inning. The Dodger game being over in the first inning is irrelevant. To miss portions of any game and to channel search to catch the start of games in unnecessary.
         To me, the problem IS NOT solved. You may be fine with it. I’m not. So how about you just let me stay pissed off? I’m expressing my opinion about this stupid decision by Fox and TNT. You feel it’s necessary to defend the networks. Good for you.

         1. I share your disappointment if not your fury. And I agree they’re being stupid about it.

            Didn’t know you needed my permission to be pissed about it and I certainly agree you have that right.

10. So who is ready for a Arizona Diamondbacks vs Texas Rangers world Series seems to happen every year the teams that get hit in that first round continue to stay hot why the teams that sit cold up and stop hitting and pitching. That game last nite was over when it was 3 to 0 and the Dodgers hadn’t even batted yet. It was a first round TKO to the the jaw. Now Dodgers have to win three games against these pesky snakes just like last year the bats go cold in the playoffs. Oh and who else loss the Braves against the Phillies who last year took that momentum and went right to the series. Right now that looks like the Diamondbacks this year. What were the odds on the Diamondbacks winning the world series this year. Because right now the Dodgers might be cooked again from what I saw.

11. We had a very good season. I’m impressed that we won our division so easily. And we did all of that with 4/5 of our starting pitchers out. After last night, it would have been better to maybe have had 5/5 out. But I say this just to be funny….I would never disrespect Clayton.

    Anyhow, Gallen won’t be easy and I’m not sure how Miller will respond pitching in his first playoff game with a ton of pressure in him. I won’t be upset if he lays an egg…he will grow from experience. And like I said, we had a great season winning 100. You can’t take that away from us.

12. Kersh is one of my favorite all time athletes watching him get beat down with very little left in the tank is like getting punched in the gut. Nothing sadder then watching a great athlete past their prime struggling to no avail attempting to find their glory days. There’s just to many miles on that once great arm, brass needs to save him from himself. Please Dodgers don’t throw him back out there. Please. Seeing him stooped down on bench afterwards totally defeated is something I never want to see again

13. One game

14. How well Bobby does tomorrow night will fore tell the likely outcome of this series. If he pitches well and shuts down the snakes we are in pretty good shape. But if he can’t handle the pressure and we have another bad game it will probably not end well.

15. No way are the Dodgers being honest about Kersh’s health. And an injured pitcher is a dead-meat pitcher.
    But somehow they think sending him out to pitch is part of a winning formula for this series.

16. I can’t help but to think if we’re down 2 games to 1 and they send Clay out for game 4 in Arizona where he normally doesn’t pitch well only to get shelled again ending the series and season it might be worst disaster in dodger history. Man I hate being so negative but so hard not to be after last year and last night. They need to change the five day layoff thing I’m convinced it gives the team with layoff a huge disadvantage for so many reasons. They need to find a sense of urgency and some tenacity quick if not same story just a year later. Wouldn’t that be a big blow to the fan base with some of us having hard time getting over it

17. Enough of the sentimental narrative building starts with CK. Love that guy but he should not have started game 1 in the post season. He won’t get another start despite what Doc says if the NLDS goes to game 4 or 5

18. Yes, press releases are not facts. No one in any sport is going to give any kind of honest answer. A guy is ‘ok’ and not injured until they announce he is going for surgery. And sure announce whoever you want as starting pitcher for game 4 and we won’t really know until we see who walks out there. So no need to fill up blog with guess is he injured or not

19. So Seager walked 4 times today. Great strategy if you can get the next 2 guys out.

20. For the last few months I’ve been rooting for a Dodgers-Orioles World Series.
    This has turned out to be a much longer longshot than expected.
    At least the Dodgers are in better shape than the O’s, who are now down 2-0 to the Rangers. The Rangers are playing with great confidence, and it’s hard to imagine the O’s have much at this point.
    I expect the Dodgers to battle back behind Bobby Miller and Pepiot. Right now, it’s hard to have much confidence in Kershaw, though Roberts professes he’s fine. I’d nervously opt for Lance Lynn, on a short leash, perhaps with an opener.
    It’s quite reach to suggest that the opener might have turned out much different if Outman had made that catch. We can “what if?” every single play, and every single pitch. But the obvious, overriding plain fact is that Kershaw simply got hammered. A misplayed ball in the first inning is not like a misplayed ball with a game on the line, as Seiya Suzuki knows.

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