Reply To: Dodgers in 5

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As I noted above.  A key element it seems of World Series is scouting.  I felt Toronto had the perfect team and scouts for last night.  Make contact.  Plate discipline.  They actually looked a lot like the dodgers of 2017-2018.

dodgers have evolved with Shohei pages and teo and also kike into a lot more swing and miss than they used to be

 

dodgers had a chance to knock that starter out several times and couldn’t convert.  Freddie’s baserunning error blew up a potentially big inning.  Dodgers scored 4.  Which isn’t bad but isn’t great.

Toronto should have their greatest success against lefties.  So snell tubing up 2 in 6 before the blowup didn’t bug me that much.  His fastball command wasn’t there.

goal is to take one so we will have tonight to see about that.

wife was funny   Before the game she was all nervous   Asked me why I wasn’t   I said “we’ve been to the WS 5 times in 9 years  cheated out of 1-2   Won the last 2 and here for another   It’s a great run and dynasty   Nothing is really gained or lost by winning   Just adding to the legacy    Win and it’s historic   Lose and they’ll be back in the playoffs next year   It’s house money  why be nervous?”

 

afterward I explained that no one had repeated for 25 years because it’s hard   You need health  luck and a good matchup to win that much  in two years someone is bound to trip you up    No one has repeated from the NL since the 75-76 Reds   50 years ago   So again  it’s not easy even if the dodgers made it look  that way for a couple rounds

we will see how tonight plays out   Yamamoto worries me because I think he’s mentally fragile   But he’s a righty with sink   Toronto doesn’t Chase   It will be interesting for sure

not sure how much it matters but I though Snell got squeezed at the top of her strike zone 3-4 times   Didn’t help     But springer  bo bichette vlad and that fat dumpy catcher dude who doesn’t at all look like a player are all just solid contact guys that wear you out and get your pitch count up

 

ane pretty obvious the dodgers still have not solved their pen problems    Sheehan has not been the answer in the post season  and Banda for vesia there was also a loss