Comments on: The Game 1 forecast looks to be … blah http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Wed, 22 May 2013 02:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: muffinb http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212559 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:08:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212559 They use it because it puts more strategy into the game. Makes you decide if you want to keep your pitcher in the game or decide to bat for him. I like it a lot more than the DH. Makes the game like it should be played. A pitcher is part of the team and should bat. My opinion only

]]> By: chadh88 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212553 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:58:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212553 I wasn’t hating on Mitch Moreland personally, just used him since he has been the Rangers DH. I know he is likely a better hitter than most of the StL staff, but don’t count out the ability of our pitchers to get hits. Most the Rangers starters have swung a bat so infrequently, that they should be a more automatic out than the StL pitchers who have been hitting all year. And possibly more importantly, Stl pitchers are more adept at bunting a runner over.

Agreed this may be a small advantage and CJ Wilson may hit a HR and completely obliterate the point, but any advantage is an advantage and bunting Molina over to 2nd could be the difference between scoring and not scoring a run.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212547 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:49:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212547 Don’t be hating on Mitch Moreland. He be the Delmon Young of that team. I just picked him to be the WS MVP. He’ll out hit any pitcher you care to name (for the next 7 games he can, or so I assert. Hey, Delmon Young and Yuniesky Betancourt were absolute beasts this post season. Who saw that coming? That’s right. Nobody. Therefore you gotta now see it coming, amiright?), so you will eat those words.

]]> By: salvomania http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212426 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:20:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212426 Yeah it sucked when tonight’s starter, Chris Carpenter got that hit off Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS; I’m sure Roy was thinking “i’ll just breeze through Carpenter leading off the 8th, and then if I don’t have too much trouble with the 1-2 hitters I’ll be back out for the 9th.”

Instead it leads to a long, laborious 20+ pitch inning for Roy—the last inning he pitched in 2011. That’s the beauty of the pitcher batting: you can’t just assume they’re an automatic out, and it’s that much more fun and exciting when they do something.

And if a “great” hitter makes outs in 7 of every 10 at-bats, and a pitcher makes outs in 8.5 of every 10 at-bats, it’s not that huge of a difference.

And some pitchers (just like some shortstops) can hit: Cardinals starter Edwin Jackson had a higher batting average than every Ranger except Young and Napoli.

]]> By: chadh88 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212414 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:11:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212414 I meant to address that @ philiplewis1 as well.

]]> By: chadh88 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212411 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:10:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212411 cur68,

Pitchers should be able to hit. Besides Mitch Moreland is hitting .105 while Chris Carpenter is hitting .333 this postseason. Just saying.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212399 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:00:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212399 Amen on the DH. Watching pitchers hit is like watching fat guy put on bra. Wrong on so many levels yet it looks like he might just have a reason for doing what he’s dong. All in all; he can holster his man boobs out of my sight. Same with pitchers batting; practice that somewhere else, not during my ballgame which features professional hitters.

]]> By: philiplewis1 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212344 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:24:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212344 Amen to that. Forget the All Star win thing. It’s not worth it. Oh, and while you’re at it, make the DH applicable for all 7 games so we don’t have to suffer through the automatic out. How the NL can continue to justify not using the DH is beyond me. They may be the only league in the entire world that doesn’t use it. What kind of sense does that make

]]> By: nategearhart http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212302 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:57:41 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212302 If best record determined home field advantage, we’d be looking at 69 degrees and no rain in Arlington for Game 1. Oh wells.

]]> By: El Bravo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212299 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:50:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212299 I won’t thumb you at all, in any direction, or any other dude for that matter. In fact, I’m not even all that interested in thumbing ladies either…just seems awkward.

]]> By: halladaysbiceps http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212285 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:41:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212285 I’m used to the thumbs down. It’s happened all year. No worries. I consider it a compliment when they thumb me down.

]]> By: jtorrey13 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212271 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:26:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212271 I’m beginning to think halladaysbiceps could type, “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times” and get a thumbs down.

]]> By: halladaysbiceps http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/the-game-1-forecast-looks-to-be-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-212245 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:53:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=93569#comment-212245 Cold temperatures tonight = probable low scoring game.

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