fangraphs.com - 11/2/2009
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Several things stood out to me about last night’s game, so I’ll touch on them each briefly with the patented notes post.
1. I’ll give Charlie Manuel this – the man has cojones the size of the liberty bell. No matter how many times he had to watch Brad Lidge melt down ...
weretheteamtobeat.com - 11/2/2009
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weretheteamtobeat.com —
Well that sucked. That's been about my only
concrete thought for the past twelve hours since the...
game ended. The series isn't over and in baseball anything can happen, but I'm undeniably in a deep state of melancholy and depression today. It's not so much the fact that we're down 3-1, it's ...
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Life sucks at 3-1, now what?
philly.com - 11/2/2009
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philly.com —
The thing: that Brad Lidge really wasn't Brad
Lidge anymore. Perfection is the standard. Lidge set it....
Lidge knows it. That he never had a chance to match it, after his impeccable, impossible 2008 season, was a known fact. But he has not approached ...
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Rich Hofmann: The moment we all feared: Lidge implosion
pinstripealley.com - 11/2/2009
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More photos » by Rob Carr - AP
Browse more photos » Damon gets the AAB Award...
for the second straight night. His nine-pitch single with two outs in the ninth started a three-run rally that allowed Mo to ...
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Anatomy of an at-bat: Johnny Damon's single
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Summing Up Relief Pitching
baseballmusings.com —
From Fangraphs:
If there was one glaring lesson from last night’s game, it was how quickly a dominating pitcher can get humbled. Joba Chamberlain looked like he was at the top of his game, blowing away Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez with 97 MPH fastballs. After getting ahead of Pedro Feliz with two swinging strikes, Phillies hitters had missed on the six of seven swings they had taken against Chamberlain that inning. And then Feliz hit one out of the park to tie the game.
Fast forward to the ninth inning, and Lidge had no problems dispatching Hideki ...
Fewest top-end pitchers for a World Series team
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
Dave notes:
Just like in the ALCS, 84 percent of the innings thrown by Yankee pitchers have been handled by CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Andy Pettitte, and Mariano Rivera. Eighty-four percent.
Since 1969, if we look only at pitchers who made up at least 20% a team’s innings in the World Series, the leaders for the 2-pitcher group is the anomolous A’s of 1989 (think Earthquake and one week layoff). Otherwise, it’s the 1969 Orioles, where they had 2 pitchers totalling 74% of its innings. For the ...
Game 5 gameplan backfires on Yanks
River Avenue Blues —
... Coming into the playoffs, it was clear the Yankees had a strategy, and that was to ride their best arms as long as they could. Until Game 5, it had worked. The Yankees had used Sabathia, Burnett, Pettitte, and Rivera to cover 84 percent of the team’s postseason innings. Going with Burnett was a tactic consistent with that strategy. If they’d gone with Gaudin, it would have been altering the strategy because they felt comfortable with a 3-1 lead. In the World Series, no team should feel comfortable. ...
THT Live Roundtable: WS Edition
The Hardball Times —
... Question #3: Dave Cameron over at FanGraphs writes that Charlie Manuel has "cojones the size of the Liberty Bell." Eric Nussbaum of Pitchers and Poets praises ...
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fivetooltool.blogspot.com 11/2/2009 — > In the first, Joe Blanton had no movement on his pitches, not that he's usually drowning in it, and wound up surrendering two runs after the first two men reached base. Adding to the interest was watching A-Rod get hit, the third time that's happened in the last two games, leading to a ...
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