Oso planning to go pro
Good points on Game 6, 2003, guys.Gonzalez booted a sure DP ball, Prior lost his composure, Dusty messed up, etc. Just a shyte-show of historic proportions, which made it a surreal half-hour. I have seen a LOT of baseball (as have many other Scoopers) and there’s never been anything like it.As for Buckner, the recent 30-for-30 on the Mets did a good job of explaining how huge an eff-up that was by McNamara. Buckner had a heck of a career and deserved better.
Buckner's error lost the game for the Red Sox but the Cubs still had the lead after the Bartman interference. Cubs fans always ignore what came after and blame everything on Bartman.
I don't think many people actually blame bartman.
They most certainly did at the time.
You can watch the entirety of the top 8th (only) on YouTube. I watched it last night, if I were a Cub fan, there’s one singular person I’d be pissed at, and that’s Dusty Baker.It’s a monstrosity how he handled that inning. He just casually starts the inning with no one warming up and Prior near 100 pitches. As soon as Pierre doubles, you should at minimum have someone up. Prior is at 105 (!) pitches with the heart of the order coming up. It’s at pitch 113 (8 pitches into Castillo’s at bat) that Farnsworth gets up to stretch. Ironically pitch 113 is also the Bartman incident.Prior walks Castillo on the next pitch, and Ivan Rodriguez comes up. A clearly fatigued Prior (velocity down to 92) gives up a basehit to I-Rod, 3-1 Cubs. Clearly with his pitch count at 117, go ahead run at the plate in the form of clean up hitter (young) Miguel Cabrera (who homered earlier in the series off Prior) Dusty is coming out, right? Wrong. First pitch, Alex Gonzalez play happens. Still 3-1 Cubs.He now HAS TO get Prior out, 118 pitches, Derek Lee (2-3 off Prior in game 2 with a HR) coming up.He keeps Prior in! First pitch to Lee, rocket double to left, two runs score, 3-3 game.If the above happened today, I don’t know if Dusty makes it out of Wrigley with his job.
I don't know. Shortstop makes a pretty routine play for 2 and none of that matters.
Even fielded cleanly, as slow as that ball is hit to Gonzalez’s right, a double play turn there is slim/unlikely .
The checked swing is among the last judgement calls.
Idk why Flores was even batting there0/17 against Scherzer
Really? They had two options- Casali, a light hitting backup catcher 0/2 career against Scherzer, and Duggar, a backup OF 0/3 in the series who’s never faced Scherzer.
This Red Sox/Astros game is going to be 6 hours long. I’m not joking.
Wow. Braves in 4?