It’s deserved after being so good for so long.
Turns out what the Nats needed to get over the hump was a terrible managerial decision that will be remembered by fans in general for decades and Dodger fans for lifetimes. But they got it!
Somewhere Joe Kelly is still pitching everyone!
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What did Davey do that was so terrible? Or do you mean Roberts letting Kelly try to dig himself out of the hole he put himself in was the decision? My analytical brain is not functioning right now because it's just after 1 AM and I just found out that we won because I was too effing nervous to actually watch the game.
Does anyone else kinda feel bad for Kershaw? Like oof I'd want to retire right this moment, buy an island in the Caribbean, and never talk to another human again if I was him right now.
Definitely, leaving Kelly in. I have no idea what he was thinking there.
Twice in the last two games, I've said to my friends: "some day I'll feel badly for Kershaw. But today is not that day."
Truth be told, putting him in for more than one batter was a bad idea. Sorry dude, but he's just not that great in October.
I am supremely happy with the gutty series win. I feel no pity for anyone remotely associated with the Dodgers. They have no idea what Montreal/Washington fans have dealt with for all these years.
Kershaw should've never come out in for the 8th to face Rendon & Soto (and than Kendrick/Zimmerman if anyone reached) and Kelly shouldn't have been out there at all after his game 3 debacle. But hey, I'll take out. Now onto St. Louis. As I said in one of the other posts, Jack Flaherty won't pitch until game 3, so unless it goes 7, which is entirely possible they'll only see him once in the series so they better close it out in 5 o 6. They aren't winning a game 7 in St. Louis with Flaherty pitching I don't think. The problem is they NEVER play well in St. Louis, and unfortunately unlike the Dodgers, the Cardinals are the polar opposites of a playoff underachiever, their like the cockroach you can never kill.
I'm guessing....Miles Mikolas vs. Corbin game 1 (advantage Cards); Adam Wainwright vs. Scherzer game 2 (advantage Cards), Flaherty vs. Strasburg game 3 (advantage Cards better bullpen, probably a bullpen game), and Dakota Hudson vs. Sanchez game 4 (advantage Nats). Neither team was expecting to be in this spot and both playing with house money, so should be a good series. I'll go Cards in 6 games. They have home field, plus the playoff intangibles, but let's see what happens.
I think the rotation lays out like this:
1) Sanchez
2) Corbin
3) Max
4) Stras
5) Sanchez
6) Max
7) Stras
from game 3 on, Corbin's the 2nd relief lefty, and they really should add Fedde and Ross to the bullpen. There's no point in having Strickland out there right now.
Actually I forgot how many pitches Corbin threw tonight so I think Sanchez probably ends up getting the ball for game 1 (advantage Nats), with Scherzer probably for game 2.
I can think of several million reasons I don't feel bad for him
Rotation is
Sánchez
Scherzer
Strasburg
Corbin
Sánchez
Scherzer
Strasburg
Everyone on full rest.
Greatest game in Nats history. So emotional. Greatest LDS game ever?
I still can't believe it. Stras gutted out that quality start and the bullpen was nails.
Lerners realizing how dumb they are for not locking him up before the season for $250 million.
It had to be like this! Grand slam by Howie Kendrick in extras. Only way this could've ever happened! \s
A great win and a great series.
So nice to see a couple LA fans fist-bumping Nats fans to congratulate them on their way out of the stadium after the Kendrick Slam. "Respect, Dudes."
Its hard to imagine a series where the load was spread so evenly among the 25 man team. Everybody had a moment in the spotlight. Soto, Rendon, of course. The Zimmerman dinger. Stras, Max starting and in relief.
Or where there was so much redemption. Corbin coming in strong after a poor relief performance. Howie coming through with the killing blow after base-running mistakes and errors. Doolittle stepping up. Even MAT contributed.
And yes, that had to be a top 10 all time game. Good Karma.
The Bandwagon is getting bigger.
Oh my god, I can't believe it what I just saw. It happened in the most unlikeliest of ways. None of us could write this script for sure. But we will take it. I am on different planet right now. GO NATS!
"Well I like it! I love it! I want some more of it!
I tried, so hard, I can't rise above it!
Don't know what it is about that Nationals' clutchness
But I like it! I love it! I want some more of it!
Hats off to Mike Rizzo. He brought in DM, and now that decision's looking pretty good. He traded for Howie, then re-signed him. He traded for Rainey and his many years of control, and signed Corbin and Anibal. He traded for Doo and Hudson. No doubt he had two big whiffs on Rosenthal and Bear Claw, but remember: TR was essentially a 1 year deal. Imagine what we would be saying about Rizzo if he had signed Joe Kelly for 3 years and $27 million!
He's what I say: #LoveLiveRizzo!
@MNB4 Good one!!!!
@Nattydread Amen and amen!
Amazing!!!!!! #stayinthefight
My guess for the morning sports headline: "Team of Destiny! Nats' victory a metaphor for the season!" #HadToHappen. Ha!
Kinda glad we didn't have a fire sale back in May, huh?
Talk earlier about what the "old guys" can contribute to the game. Then we have Zimm with his HR and then Howie with his Grand Potato. Makes one feel all happy inside. Not that they'd handle a full 162 games, of course, but nice to have that geriatric brigade contribute.
Going to very hungover at work today, hell yeah
All the bad luck from previous years morphing into good luck!
Who did you pick to win the Nats / Dodgers series?
I am saving ALL ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM FOR ANOTHER DAY! TODAY IS A DAY OF JUBILEE!!!!! (For the Cards series, u have to go Sanchez, Max, Stras, Corbin, Sanchez, Max Stras......if u pitch Corbin in game 2 then u can’t pitch max and stras twice and keep them on regular rest. Also. Cardinals don’t really have lefty mashers so i think Corbin lining up to go only once is ok with me. The only q is would it make sense given that max is coming off injury and also suggested we almost killed him in G4 to give him an extra couple days of rest....). But that means max only goes once in series. I defer to Davey on that. But I think you need our righties against the cardinals with goldy ozuna etc.
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