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braves were down 3 starters basically all year (strider, schwellie, and reylo) then lost Perez and Elder pretty much a week or two before the season ended.
our bullpen has been our strength all year, it's a bold strategy but so far.....
After all the hullabaloo the Braves find themselves basically in a best of three with home field advantage and their ace ready to go. Gamble certainly paid off so far at least.
Right? It's almost like the coaching staff knows better what choices to make than a bunch of clueless chuds watching from home. They trusted Sale to close out the Wild Card game and they trusted Kerr, Fuentes, and the rest of the bullpen to cover game 2. They made it to the post season for a reason and it wasn't because they are clueless, lol.
I will admit I was/am the doom and gloom “wtf is Walt doing”, but I stand corrected. That’s why he’s the skipper, but damn he makes some odd calls. Glad it works out.
Obviously it all looks great with hindsight now that they won the game, but I really think he made the right moves from a process standpoint too.
Like, I don’t have the analytics he has access to, but just from the eye test you could tell it wasn’t just a couple bad breaks for Holmes. He didn’t have it, and Weiss got him out of there before any serious damage could be done.
He let Kerr go longer than I would have expected, but he knew the matchups he wanted
He got the matchups he wanted for Lee, even though he didn’t deliver
He put in Suárez despite it only being the 6th inning to put out the only real fire the Dodgers had going
Let Fuentes keep rolling, and had Iglesias ready to lock it down.
Idk, I was very impressed. Even pinch hitting Tellez, which I thought was batshit, ended up being in the most optimal possible circumstances and it worked out great.
I think if nothing else, this postseason is showing us that you can and should push your pitchers harder than they’re used to in the regular season as long as you’re willing to pull the escape hatch at any time cough Stammen cough
These guys can handle it, and if they can’t they’ll show you very quickly if you’re paying attention
I mean, we are just happy it isn’t going to be Philly. The Braves or the Brewers have to save baseball in 2027 by killing off the Deferrals so we’re doing our part.
I'm so glad we won the game, but damn it feels like Max Muncy always does something to make things stressful against us. If he's not the best hitter against the Braves on the Dodgers then he's got to be one of the top ones.
Wait, what? The rules literally say it's up to the official scorer's discretion which reliever was most effective if the pitcher of record when the winning team took the lead for good had a short and/or ineffective appearance. I don't think there's any argument who that person is, and I don't think there's any argument that recording two outs while allowing a run should be seen as effective or efficient. That should be changed to Fuentes.
I love that he misremembers the series as two extra innings grinders, where in actuality we comfortably bounced them 5-0 in the second game (shoutout future World Series winner Ian Anderson)
Low key the bad challenge by Will Smith kind of changed everything too. Freddie took two probable balls for strikes after that cause he knew they were down to their last challenge
The Dodgers lineup has to be reshuffled somehow to get the homers with the guys on base. Idk how though and Dave loves his right left right left right left right left switch lineup.
So many other opportunities to have him pinch hit. But yeah lets throw a 21 year old kid in at the bottom of the 9th with two outs with what could be the deciding game of the series.
Im not sure what made everyone think our B2B World Series wins were cake walks and we look vulnerable everytime we dont win 10-0. We’ve been grinding out these wins for years.
They’re obviously the best team but people are acting like they’re the KD warriors who played one difficult series per season. Got downvoted for saying they didn’t cake walk the entire NL last year
They’ve been absolutely terrible the last two months. This game is just par for the course. Old, injured, terrible fundamentals. I’ve had a sinking feeling since August.
It was hilarious hearing Joe Davis call every dodgers play with electricity and excitement, then hearing him call the Braves moments like he was calling the masters.
So many Phillies fans and pages went all in for the Dodgers and shitting on the Sale decision, and now they are wallowing in this. Really making my whole year 😂
If Michael Harris sees pitches, he gets hits.
The LAD are definitely vulnerable because of the guys coming off injuries; but, their depth of talent and post-season experience is still going to be tough to beat.
The fanbase of the rest of the league hate the LAD because they're buying up the best talent in baseball; but, the guys in the line-up are actually all likable guys lol.
So we all thought they were hitting back to back home runs right? Maybe they aren't far enough into their dynasty to unlock that level of juj yet but it definitely feels like it.
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