Just got home from the game. Sports are wild. Highs and lows. Saw the Yankees lose two World Series games in person but also had an absolutely incredible time. They literally forgot how to catch the ball. Lots of changes coming to this team.
Just got home from the game. Sports are wild. Highs and lows. Saw the Yankees lose two World Series games in person but also had an absolutely incredible time.
It would have stung if you had paid for the tickets.
If I had known then what I know now...
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Just got home from the game. Sports are wild. Highs and lows. Saw the Yankees lose two World Series games in person but also had an absolutely incredible time.
It would have stung if you had paid for the tickets.
All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
It's astounding those plays the Yankees didn't make. The Dodgers did to them what the Yankees did to their opponents from 1996 to 2000 when they won 16 of 19 World Series games.
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Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
Anyone else think Rizzo didn't even try to get there on that play? 100% Cole should have covered. But when Rizzo saw he wasn't, it looked like it would have at least been a close play with Rizzo sprinted there himself. Got to at least try in a World Series. ** just saw the comments on the previous page, I'm not the only one.
All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
Something he should have learned in Little League. Should be the natural/instinctive move to head to first on any grounder over there.
Judge dropping the routine fly ball was just pathetic. No fucking excuse. The throw from Volpe to 3rd? I'm a little more forgiving on that play. It was a bang-bang play, his angle on the throw itself was tough. Should he even have gone to 3rd with the throw? That play, again, I'm able to somewhat forgive.
But fucking Cole? ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS COVER 1ST BASE!!!!
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All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
It's astounding those plays the Yankees didn't make. The Dodgers did to them what the Yankees did to their opponents from 1996 to 2000 when they won 16 of 19 World Series games.
Your team ran the bases like a bunch of drunks, the entire series. Last night they played defense like a bunch of drunks. A shame.
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
Anyone else think Rizzo didn't even try to get there on that play? 100% Cole should have covered. But when Rizzo saw he wasn't, it looked like it would have at least been a close play with Rizzo sprinted there himself. Got to at least try in a World Series. ** just saw the comments on the previous page, I'm not the only one.
Rizzo is known for not taking first on his own. He wants the pitcher there. Cole said in the post that he took a wrong angle. Rizzo still had the ball in his hands and should have sprinted to first. He still had time.
All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
Anyone else think Rizzo didn't even try to get there on that play? 100% Cole should have covered. But when Rizzo saw he wasn't, it looked like it would have at least been a close play with Rizzo sprinted there himself. Got to at least try in a World Series. ** just saw the comments on the previous page, I'm not the only one.
Rizzo is known for not taking first on his own. He wants the pitcher there. Cole said in the post that he took a wrong angle. Rizzo still had the ball in his hands and should have sprinted to first. He still had time.
Yeah, I didn't really understand why he didn't take it to first himself. Boone, for whatever it's worth (probably nothing) talked about how he had to play it a bit back with the spin and between hops, but yeah...can't happen.
I have definitely covered 1B pitching softball way better than Cole did last night, and that's two beers in.
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The World Series are probably the only baseball games I watch all year. This was not complicated. The Dodgers had far better pitching and hitting than the Yankees. Yamamoto was so dominant and the LA hitters just ate up the Yankees pitching staff. The Yankees were simply outclassed. Yes, bad plays, maybe a few bad decisions by Boone, but when it comes down to it, the Dodgers were a much better team top to bottom.
The World Series are probably the only baseball games I watch all year. This was not complicated. The Dodgers had far better pitching and hitting than the Yankees. Yamamoto was so dominant and the LA hitters just ate up the Yankees pitching staff. The Yankees were simply outclassed. Yes, bad plays, maybe a few bad decisions by Boone, but when it comes down to it, the Dodgers were a much better team top to bottom.
A much better team and they played good fundamental baseball. The Yankees played like there was gallons of Vodka in those Gatorade coolers.
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
All Cole had to do was cover 1st base. That's all he had to fucking do.
Anyone else think Rizzo didn't even try to get there on that play? 100% Cole should have covered. But when Rizzo saw he wasn't, it looked like it would have at least been a close play with Rizzo sprinted there himself. Got to at least try in a World Series. ** just saw the comments on the previous page, I'm not the only one.
Rizzo is known for not taking first on his own. He wants the pitcher there. Cole said in the post that he took a wrong angle. Rizzo still had the ball in his hands and should have sprinted to first. He still had time.
It's an elimination game of the World Series. Rizzo is equally at fault for not even trying. Looked like he had at least a 50/50 chance of making the out on his own. Game 42 of the season when you're up, sure, teach the pitcher he needs to cover. But don't let him learn that lesson over the cost of losing the World Series.
The World Series are probably the only baseball games I watch all year. This was not complicated. The Dodgers had far better pitching and hitting than the Yankees. Yamamoto was so dominant and the LA hitters just ate up the Yankees pitching staff. The Yankees were simply outclassed. Yes, bad plays, maybe a few bad decisions by Boone, but when it comes down to it, the Dodgers were a much better team top to bottom.
Take away the 5th inning and it was a blow out. Even just take away Judge's drop and it's still a blowout, the other errors wouldn't have happened (theoretically, would have had 3 outs by then). I wouldn't say Dodgers dominated last night, take away 1 error and Yankees win by 4.
The dodgers were clearly the better team but the Yankees also did everything they could do to lose that series. It should be going back to LA but they shot themselves in the foot.
The dodgers were clearly the better team but the Yankees also did everything they could do to lose that series. It should be going back to LA but they shot themselves in the foot.
One day they pulled Cole out to fast, the next they left him in too long. They were simply outmatched.
How so? Did they instruct Aaron Boone to have the wrong pitcher face Freeman in game 1 and also then instruct fat Nestor Cortes to serve him up a meatball? Did they make Carlos Rodon suck? Did they secretly give Walker Buhler a bionic arm? Did they instruct Judge to drop a routine fly ball?
Your Mattingly-less Yanks played like the Bad News Bears before Kelly Leak joined and got spanked by a better team.
The World Series are probably the only baseball games I watch all year. This was not complicated. The Dodgers had far better pitching and hitting than the Yankees. Yamamoto was so dominant and the LA hitters just ate up the Yankees pitching staff. The Yankees were simply outclassed. Yes, bad plays, maybe a few bad decisions by Boone, but when it comes down to it, the Dodgers were a much better team top to bottom.
Take away the 5th inning and it was a blow out. Even just take away Judge's drop and it's still a blowout,
The dodgers were clearly the better team but the Yankees also did everything they could do to lose that series. It should be going back to LA but they shot themselves in the foot.
One day they pulled Cole out to fast, the next they left him in too long. They were simply outmatched.
He wasn't left in too long. He wasn't hit hard that 5th inning. Pitched an extra 1.2 innings. The first game was the screw up.
It looked like rizzo expected cole to be there, was caught flat footed, and by the time he would have gotten that old, wooden body moving to first base, it would have been too late at that point.
For cole, the only thing I can think of, is he thought/ expected rizzo to field the ball very close to the base and misjudged it.
I feel like the giants are going to come over the top with the Soto offer
But the errors did happen. That is the difference between champions and second place.
Yes. But I disagree that the Dodgers had far better pitching and batting. Game 1 goes into extra innings.
Game 2 the dodgers win by 2 after being scoreless for the last 6 innings and Yankees had the bases loaded in the 9th Game 3 Dodgers win by 2 again off better timed hits (what I mean, both teams had only 5 hits, they just produced more runs with their hits). Game 4 Yankees win by a blowout and Dodgers did look pretty weak after the first inning. Game 5 Dodgers win by 1. Was a close game. Only allowed to come back because of 3 errors in 1 innings. If any one of those errors did not happen, Yankees win.
And I'mm a Dodger fan, I grew up there and that was the team I grew up watching and going to the games. I think if they had a rematch next week, it's a 50/50 call on who wins. A couple of those games could have easily gone the other way. Freeman strikes out/flies out/grounds out instead of hitting a homer in game 1, Yankees win. So many of these games came down to 1 swing or 1 play. That to me isn't "far better" pitching or batting. It's just coming out on the right side of luck. I'd say Yankees had better offense and pitching in game 5, just their defense broke down.
How so? Did they instruct Aaron Boone to have the wrong pitcher face Freeman in game 1 and also then instruct fat Nestor Cortes to serve him up a meatball? Did they make Carlos Rodon suck? Did they secretly give Walker Buhler a bionic arm? Did they instruct Judge to drop a routine fly ball?
Your Mattingly-less Yanks played like the Bad News Bears before Kelly Leak joined and got spanked by a better team.
It's called a joke. Also Ohtani had the Dodgers in 5 so MLB wanted him to cover
The World Series are probably the only baseball games I watch all year. This was not complicated. The Dodgers had far better pitching and hitting than the Yankees. Yamamoto was so dominant and the LA hitters just ate up the Yankees pitching staff. The Yankees were simply outclassed. Yes, bad plays, maybe a few bad decisions by Boone, but when it comes down to it, the Dodgers were a much better team top to bottom.
Take away the 5th inning and it was a blow out. Even just take away Judge's drop and it's still a blowout,
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I get that. I'm just saying I don't consider one team far better when it comes down to one at bat or one missed play almost every game. Thats not far better, that's pretty evenly matched. A far better team doesn't need errors to win, isn't hoping for a 10th inning home run to come ahead, needing shutout in the last inning to hold the lead, etc. The yankees had their chances, multiple times in each game, and blew it.
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That's all he had to fucking do.
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Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
100% Cole should have covered. But when Rizzo saw he wasn't, it looked like it would have at least been a close play with Rizzo sprinted there himself. Got to at least try in a World Series.
** just saw the comments on the previous page, I'm not the only one.
But fucking Cole? ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS COVER 1ST BASE!!!!
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Last night they played defense like a bunch of drunks.
A shame.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
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The Yankees played like there was gallons of Vodka in those Gatorade coolers.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Game 42 of the season when you're up, sure, teach the pitcher he needs to cover. But don't let him learn that lesson over the cost of losing the World Series.
I wouldn't say Dodgers dominated last night, take away 1 error and Yankees win by 4.
One day they pulled Cole out to fast, the next they left him in too long. They were simply outmatched.
Did they instruct Aaron Boone to have the wrong pitcher face Freeman in game 1 and also then instruct fat Nestor Cortes to serve him up a meatball?
Did they make Carlos Rodon suck?
Did they secretly give Walker Buhler a bionic arm?
Did they instruct Judge to drop a routine fly ball?
Your Mattingly-less Yanks played like the Bad News Bears before Kelly Leak joined and got spanked by a better team.
For cole, the only thing I can think of, is he thought/ expected rizzo to field the ball very close to the base and misjudged it.
I feel like the giants are going to come over the top with the Soto offer
But I disagree that the Dodgers had far better pitching and batting.
Game 1 goes into extra innings.
Game 3 Dodgers win by 2 again off better timed hits (what I mean, both teams had only 5 hits, they just produced more runs with their hits).
Game 4 Yankees win by a blowout and Dodgers did look pretty weak after the first inning.
Game 5 Dodgers win by 1. Was a close game. Only allowed to come back because of 3 errors in 1 innings. If any one of those errors did not happen, Yankees win.
And I'mm a Dodger fan, I grew up there and that was the team I grew up watching and going to the games. I think if they had a rematch next week, it's a 50/50 call on who wins. A couple of those games could have easily gone the other way. Freeman strikes out/flies out/grounds out instead of hitting a homer in game 1, Yankees win. So many of these games came down to 1 swing or 1 play. That to me isn't "far better" pitching or batting. It's just coming out on the right side of luck. I'd say Yankees had better offense and pitching in game 5, just their defense broke down.
Thats not far better, that's pretty evenly matched. A far better team doesn't need errors to win, isn't hoping for a 10th inning home run to come ahead, needing shutout in the last inning to hold the lead, etc.
The yankees had their chances, multiple times in each game, and blew it.