2014 World Series thread

I thought maybe Gordon had checked up around second and gone to third on the second outfield blunder at the wall, but he never did. He was just sorta slow. He got to third easily, but the throw was getting to the cutoff man when he got there. No way in hell he makes it in safely. Definitely the right move to hold him up.

 

You guys can weigh in on Andrelton Simmons, but Crawford has arguably the strongest shortstop arm in the league. That play at the plate would not have been close.

If there's one thing to wonder with Ned, it's maybe pinch-hitting for Perez. Willingham, possibly?

Also having Escobar bunt when Bumgarner was struggling to find his groove. That helped.

 

Again, playing the odds but having to calculate it on the fly isn't exactly easy.

My thinking - again, with the benefit of time to ponder, is that they've already made two bad mistakes in the outfield. They were already on tilt.

 

Or Aoki (twice!), who has as many hits vs. Bumgarner as I have -- but with 18 more at-bats.

Perez had been hitting the ball okay of late but he swings at everything. I'm actually more disappointed in Hosmer and Moustakas, who brought out their "steroid jerks" to try and tie the game and be heroes late instead of getting the ball in play.

Some of Yost's moves (or lack of) seemed to be out of fear, like a baseball version of Marty Schottenheimer.

 

Oh, and yes.

 

http://deadspin.com/no-alex-gordon-could-not-have-scored-on-the-misplayed-1652625998?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Shortstop still had to make the throw - and in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7, buttholes can get puckered - but this is a pretty good indication that holding the runner was the correct call.

 

Not that it played into the decision to hold him up, but how would you like to be that third base coach if you wave him around and Buster Posey has time to spray three champagne bottles while Gordon is chugging down the line? It'd go down alongside Grady Little in 2003 in baseball infamy -- only worse, because it was fairly obvious Gordon was doing well just to get to third.

 

Absolutely the correct call to hold him. It would have been the correct call to hold Jarrod Dyson. (Well, actually, Dyson might have arrived at third base three seconds earlier.)

 

Last team to win Game 7 on the road was the We Are Family Pirates. The obvious and inescapable conclusion, then, is that liking each other works!

 

And cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

Scoring change in Game 7. Affeldt gets the win and Bumgarner the save.

 

Andrew Baggarly @CSNBaggs · 52m 52 minutes ago
Just told Affeldt about the scoring change, that he received the win. He immediately told his wife, they cried and embraced.