JotCast | 2016 World Series Game 6 Live Blog

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Dave Cameron

10:56

The best injury ever.

Eno Sarris

10:56

the fact that we can even look at this in this much detail is unbelievable

Alfrz

10:57

The cleat that saved the cubs season.

Cubs fan

10:57

Landing ankle better or worse than push off tho

Guest

10:58

Even a grand slam maintains the Cubs lead -- nothing "saved the Cubs season" that inning and burning/risking injury to chapman may have cost it

Eno Sarris

10:58

Worse. Velo more correlated to landing foot pressure than push off foot.

Tyler

10:58

Is it weird that I feel bad for these players agents when they get burned so hard going into FA

Dave Cameron

10:58

The agents are the ones to empathize with.

10:59

please show someone else warming up in the cubs pen

Guest

10:59

Can someone take a guess as to why Chapman came in the game? Because I honestly can't come up with anything.

Dave Cameron

10:59

Risk aversion.

joe buck

11:00

you know it's bad when I'm calling you out for being in panic mode

divcoman

11:00

The commentary on Fox is actually pretty good on the use of Chapman.

tenaciousdeucer

11:00

Maddon's practice is if he gets Chapman warmed up he is getting in the game.

Dave Cameron

11:00

He shouldn't have been warming up;

Zmccoy

11:01

If a 5 run lead isn't big enough for the cubs to feel comfortable with another reliever, what is?

Jeff K

11:02

With the big three arms reference for Cleveland, is Shaw really better than Otero?

Eno Sarris

11:02

Yes. 95 mph cutter is nasty!

Zonk

11:02

I will be perplexed if Chapman comes out next inning to face the lower part of the order

Phoenix2042

11:03

No one warming up and two outs. He's coming in.

El Dragon

11:03

So, have the Cubs just decided, screw it, Chapman is gonna pitch 2 innings today and tomorrow? Cause that seems dumb, but it's the only conclusion I can come up with.

Dave Cameron

11:04

I think Maddon just doesn't want to risk losing this game, even if the risk is tiny, and he's not considering what it does to tomorrow at all.

Drama Llama

11:04

F'ing hell Chapman is going back out, what in the world?

Dave Cameron

11:04

This is the logical conclusion of "win today, figure out tomorrow then"

And it's dumb'

Jeff K

11:05

It also shows that he doesn't trust the rest of his pen at all, even with a 97% probability of winning

Dave Cameron

11:05

it's fine to not trust them in close games. This isn't a close game.

Drew

11:05

At what point is it reasonable? 3 runs? 2 runs?

Dave Cameron

11:05

If the lead was 3, this would be fine-ish, if overly conservative.

11:06

4 is too risk-averse. 5 is dumb.

Phoenix2042

11:06

Just to play devil's advocate, maybe he knows that Lester is going to be able to pitch a lot tomorrow?

Dave Cameron

11:06

The best plan was to have Lester AND Chapman pitch a lot tomorrow.

It wasn't an either/or situation.

Zmccoy

11:07

I'd rather have chapman for 2 tomorrow than Lester for 2.

alpha

11:07

Best pitchers freshest for game 7 is always the best option

Greg j

11:07

Who knows who has the lead tomorrow? Today it matters.

Dave Cameron

11:07

This is the dumbest argument of them all.

Guest

11:08

We might lose tomorrow, so might as well make chapman throw worthless innings today!

sethmoko

11:08

I don't care who has the lead tomorrow. The Cubs will need 27 outs tomorrow (at least). Now Chapman can get fewer of them... Probably

A guess

11:08

How much of Madden's risk aversion is specific to this team and context? I.e., would a manager who didn't hold the Cubs World Series chances in their hands be more open to risk?

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