Posted on 10/06/2016 5:08:31 PM PDT by Mariner
So Conor Gillaspie in 2016 is Marco Scutaro from 2012 or Travis Ishikawa from 2014 or Cody Ross from 2010, at least for one enormous Wild-Card game and that means it could go on and on again…
And Madison Bumgarner in 2016 is… Madison Bumgarner, the perpetual postseason legend.
That’s a two-paragraph summary of the Giants’ scintillating 3-0 Wild-Card victory over the Mets tonight, and yes, obviously, the patterns and connections from the previous three Giants postseason trips are impossible to ignore.
You know who probably understands this better than anybody? That’d be the Cubs, who now face the Giants in the NLDS, starting with Games 1 and 2 at Wrigley Field on Friday and Saturday.
And just having Bumgarner out there, throwing up 0’s, calms everybody on the Giants roster, and just knowing that he’s on the team sets them up in every postseason series.
I think the Giants weren’t as stressed as another team would be going up against somebody like Noah Syndergaard, because they knew their guy probably would match Syndergaard, and would stay on the mound longer than Syndergaard.
–Key point: I am not in New York and am not covering the Giants in this first week of the postseason and the best reporting and analysis, as always, will come from those who are.
But I covered most of those previous Giants World Series runs–in 2010, 2012 and 2014–and what we all know is that the Giants are very, very difficult to kill off in October, even when they’re matched up against a more talented (on paper) opponent.
The Cubs are more talented. The Cubs are the most talented team in baseball.
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LOL! He did send Werth to the slaughter.
I can’t remember another hour inning.
An hour and six minutes!
10:39 pm to 11:45 pm! Eight different pitchers.
If this goes extras, this could get ridiculous. I cannot believe we had to take Rendon out because we issue a walk with the pitcher on deck ...
If it goes long enough, maybe the fans at the game could take Metro home, after all ...
It’s up to Lady Luck now.
A few more hour innings and it's dawn.
I wonder how many fans had to leave early.
LOL Kershaw coming in for the 9th?
Definitely, if Jansen falters.
Murphy comes up 4th in the inning.
he faltered
This is getting good! Two on, one out, and Murphy up.
double play or home run could end this
Two outs.
And now it comes back to bite. Rendon's spot up with 2 outs in 9th.
And that’s all she wrote.
yep tough loss for the Nats
Oh well. At least we have (hopefully) seen Espinoza’s last plate appearance as a Nat (or, probably, as an MLB starter anywhere). Flawed, injured, team, put up a decent fight.
a National tragedy ...
Painful loss for the Nats. They should look into moving back to Montreal, DC is poison.
It would have been poetic to have to face that damn Dusty Baker.
A Sporting News article I read said the Dodgers were a slightly better match-up for the Cubs though. Here we go.
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