I'm pulling for Astros.
Both teams are very good. With Kershaw on the bump for LA, Astros aren't likely to score many more.
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Both teams are very good. With Kershaw on the bump for LA, Astros aren't likely to score many more.
That's just because it's LA and Houston only has 7 fans. Small market teams rarely get any love.
i assume the astros are the underdogs, smaller franchise...so i'll route for them.
is kershaw the best pitcher on dodgers team?
Yes.
The best in baseball. Arguably.
he is the best pitcher in baseball.
(then why wasn't he pitching in the first place, right?)
i caught a bit of last game, and they took someone called rich hall off...and then he flipped his shit...why he do that? and why did they take him off?
The more I think about it the more i don't like most of the Dodgers. Puig is a douche. Bellinger swings like a tard. Taylor wears his stirrups wrong (you show more strap and less of the top, not the other way around.) Turner is a goofy leprechaun that needs to go to the Yankees for a day just so that he'd have to cut that shit on his ginger head.
So yeah... Go Astros.
So yeah... Go Astros.
Regular season baseball, starters are allowed to go 100+ pitches if they are doing well.
Postseason ball, where games are more important, they get yanked much faster. Pitchers never want to come out if they are doing well.
ahh okies cool
a typical regular season game will use 3 or 4 pitchers.
we'll likely see each team use 8 or 9 tonight, more as the game goes on.
although if the Dodgers can get some runs they might let Kershaw go the rest of the way as well as he is doing. He's an animal.
do they change more often because of fatigue?
Kind of. They just want to keep a fresh pitcher in the game and since most pitchers are terrible hitters they'll pinch hit for them and replace them every time a pitcher is due to bat.
so pitchers have to hit also? i didn't know that, i thought it was specialised like in NFL...pitchers get paid to pitch etc
Yes. Statistics show that a pitcher is less effective the longer he is out there. Typically they wait until he starts screwing up before they yank him. But in postseason they try to get in front of it and pull them before they get in trouble, which causes pitchers to flip their shit. It's a fairly new concept...and not one that I'm all that in favor of.
ahh that explains where i read about baseball being stat heavy nowadays, reduces the player to ones and zeros
National League pitchers hit since it's real baseball.
American League uses the designated hitter and the pitchers don't bat.
In the World Series - which pits both leagues against each other - the home team's rule applies. So since tonight is in a National League park, the pitchers have to hit.
ahhh awesome, i'm learning everyday haha
HBP?
hit by pitch.
he's been plunked his first 2 at bats tonight.
if you are hit by a pitch you are awarded 1st base