McGarnagle
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- Aug 5, 2017
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I'm just devastated more than mad. Like I guess I'm mad but just more disappointed.
Exceeding expectations, knocking out the Yankees and Rays, taking Houston to 6, we were gravy. Successful season. But losing 3 in a row after the way the first three games played out is a gut punch.
I believe Laz Diaz cost us a pennant, I honestly do. But not the only reason, there were many other opportunities to overcome that that we failed at. After game 3 if you told me that Pivetta, Sale, and Eovaldi would all give you great starts of 2 earned runs or fewer I'd have thought we'd have easily closed them out. But the offense went ice cold and the defense made several crucial errors at the same time.
Houston's pitching staff was dead in the water, they had Greinke pitching game 4, their other starters were guys who couldn't get out of the second, their pen was full of trash and overworked. And we let them off the hook. Partof it was Laz Diaz for sure, part of it was Framber Valdez making adjustments (cough cough) between starts, but moreover it was just being dumb and stranding runners left and right. Renfroe grounding into like 7 double plays, whatever the f*** Shaw was trying to do, never getting the runners in from third. Etc.
But more than anything this is the first time I'm really questioning Cora. He's definitely still the skipper for this team going forward, but the mystique is fading because he had a really bad series and got thoroughly outmanaged by a dinosaur in Dusty Baker. That's just too absurd to even think about in the year 2021.
It all just sucks. And now I have to root for Atlanta? Gross. In the end they did arrive a year ahead of schedule which means the future may be bright, but we'll see what Chaim and the computer algorithms do this winter.
Exceeding expectations, knocking out the Yankees and Rays, taking Houston to 6, we were gravy. Successful season. But losing 3 in a row after the way the first three games played out is a gut punch.
I believe Laz Diaz cost us a pennant, I honestly do. But not the only reason, there were many other opportunities to overcome that that we failed at. After game 3 if you told me that Pivetta, Sale, and Eovaldi would all give you great starts of 2 earned runs or fewer I'd have thought we'd have easily closed them out. But the offense went ice cold and the defense made several crucial errors at the same time.
Houston's pitching staff was dead in the water, they had Greinke pitching game 4, their other starters were guys who couldn't get out of the second, their pen was full of trash and overworked. And we let them off the hook. Partof it was Laz Diaz for sure, part of it was Framber Valdez making adjustments (cough cough) between starts, but moreover it was just being dumb and stranding runners left and right. Renfroe grounding into like 7 double plays, whatever the f*** Shaw was trying to do, never getting the runners in from third. Etc.
But more than anything this is the first time I'm really questioning Cora. He's definitely still the skipper for this team going forward, but the mystique is fading because he had a really bad series and got thoroughly outmanaged by a dinosaur in Dusty Baker. That's just too absurd to even think about in the year 2021.
It all just sucks. And now I have to root for Atlanta? Gross. In the end they did arrive a year ahead of schedule which means the future may be bright, but we'll see what Chaim and the computer algorithms do this winter.
