OT: Raise the Jolly Roger: Grab Your Winter Coat, It's Baseball Time!

[djt153]

I have bottomless hatred for Kyle schwarber

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Taillon retires Schwarber and Bryant with a risp and he makes it look simple.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Yeah, easy to keep piling praises on Taillon, but this is extremely impressive. The offense has dropped the ball mostly, and some of that is on Hurdle. Bell would be able to work counts a lot better than Gosselin, and Lester would probably be on the very of being knocked out of the game right now. Instead he's on pace to pretty comfortably get through 7, which means Taillon needs to keep it locked down.

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

I have bottomless hatred for Kyle schwarber

He's going to be an elite obp+power kind of hitter. You'd love him if he was on our team.

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

We've had way too many guys picked off at first base for such a short part of the season so far. It's a brutal way to lose an out and should not happen anywhere near this often.

 

[gtpeli2]

This is the worst Hurdle has ever managed. Guy is just a total idiot.

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

**** off Mercer.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Team has really let Taillon down today -- we'll see if he can again escape unscathed.

 

[DanielPlainview]

This defense can **** right off

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Unbelievable.

 

[gtpeli2]

Mercer is incredibly overrated. If Kang comes back, play him at SS and Freese at 3B.

 

[ResignCraigAdams]

**** off Mercer.

Dammit, Jameson doesn't deserve this.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Mercer is not overrated, and Kang is not a plus defender at SS.

This is exactly what you would expect with this lineup.

 

[ResignCraigAdams]

Such a stud.

 

[Retrocity]

Nice pitching by Taillon. Just wish the defense was better.

 

[Empoleon8771]

It sucks that Taillon got charged with an earned run there. The only reason that baserunner even scored there is because Mercer bobbled that ball.

 

[DanielPlainview]

Pinch hitting Gosselin with Jaso. A guy who hasn't hit a damn thing this year. Brilliant.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Regardless of the aggressively stupid lineup decisions and defensive miscues today, Taillon is incredibly fun to watch and this was even more encouraging. If you might make one slight knock on him, it's his inability to push into a higher gear to get out of tough situations, whether it's ones he's put himself into or ones that his defense has walked the team into. He did that several times today in different ways, by battling tough and not giving in, or by missing bats. That's what an elite pitcher does with regularity.

 

[ResignCraigAdams]

Uehera for 6 million is not a bad deal.

 

[TNT87]

Well you can't ask for a better opportunity than this.

 

[TNT87]

There's one.

 

[DanielPlainview]

Now, Hurdle had to have known they weren't going to give Bell anything to hit in that situation. Why not just pinch hit Hanson from the start instead of completely wasting Bell?

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

It sucks that Taillon got charged with an earned run there. The only reason that baserunner even scored there is because Mercer bobbled that ball.

The run was unearned because of the error.

Can't blow this opportunity... come on.

Boom... didn't exactly crush it but I"ll take it! Let's get this lead now and some insurance.

 

[gtpeli2]

Frazier can really hit. Terrible in the field but who cares.

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

Frazier can really hit. Terrible in the field but who cares.

I wouldn't say who cares, because as we've seen defense can cost us runs and games, but agreed that we have to find ways to keep his bat in the lineup when he's hitting like this.