JotCast | 2017 World Series Game 1 Live Blog

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Jeff Sullivan

6:05

Haven't bothered. Streaming is fine

Jeff Lunhow

6:05

Altuve

Sorry was trying to enter my password

Jeff Sullivan

6:05

Gurriel down again, but at least it was swinging this time. 1-1! Through 3.5

jake

6:06

does saying that unfamiliarity doesn't benefit either side more somewhat contradict the TTO penalty? or at least, the part of TTO that is borne out by hitters getting more looks at a guy

Jeff Sullivan

6:06

There's in-game familiarity and there's familiarity from some other week or month or season. I don't think the latter means much of anything. So I don't think the absence of it means much of anything

6:07

Is the playoff run environment just good pitching beating good hitting, or an just an overwhelming amount of good pitching?

Jeff Sullivan

6:07

The pitching is better, relative to the average, than the hitting is. So there's good hitting, but great pitching

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/rating-all-the-playoff-teams/

Think of it as something like 110 wRC+ vs. 80 ERA-

Alec Asher Wojciechowski

6:08

Bregman has 3 postseason HRs. 2 vs Sale and 1 vs Kershaw

Scary Terry

6:08

Kershaw finally in a World Series, so next guy I need to see is Vottomatic

FlyingNimbus

6:09

I really want to see what would happen if Kershaw just threw curveballs for an inning.

Kent Brockman

6:09

What are Correa's chances of becoming the best player in baseball at some point in his career?

Jeff Sullivan

6:09

10-20%?

Eno Sarris

6:09

This is just so stupid looking, and I don't want to explain why, but if there's sound maybe it's worth it: https://streamable.com/myxhy

Sterling Mallory Chris Archer

6:09

Jeff really dropping the almighty’s name tonight. Having an existential crisis?

Jeff Sullivan

6:09

I have a limited range of exclamations

Eno Sarris

6:09

that was last inning's inning-ending strikeout.

Sterling Mallory Chris Archer

6:10

Eno where are you watching from at the ballpark?

Eno Sarris

6:10

Behind home plate, reserve level.

say hey

6:10

What if Mariners were here Jeff re rooting interest?

Jeff Sullivan

6:10

I genuinely cannot imagine

Enlightening Round

6:10

Kershaw’s curve will serve him well when the velocity goes away

Jeff Sullivan

6:10

Drink for Smoltz saying "erect"

K-Man

6:11

BRegman seems like the type Greinke once talked about, the player who is so oblivious and so onvinced of his own invincibility he just plays well without thinking.

David

6:11

Eno - buddy's in Boston for a month for work. Where does he go for beer?

Eno Sarris

6:12

Night shift is far, but Lord Hobo and Cambridge brewing are close. One more...

FlyingNimbus

6:12

I assumed the TTO penalty was largely influenced by fatigue

Eno Sarris

6:12

lamplighter

Jeff Sullivan

6:12

It's part fatigue and part seeing all the pitches

Scott Wood

6:13

Could Kershaw pull a McCullers and just throw his curveball a million times in a row? I don't think so b/c it's more sweeping and McCullers is sharper? Please discuss amongst yourselves.

Jeff Sullivan

6:13

Kershaw's other stuff is way too good to avoid. McCullers' curve is a weapon in large part because it's like 88 miles per hour

Eno Sarris

6:13

McCullers is also like 7 mph faster.

Jeff Sullivan

6:13

It's the Kimbrel curve!

6:14

Puig took another first pitch btw

forestation

6:14

Is the relative dominance of pitching to hitting in the postseason a function of this specific group of teams, or is pitching talent more dispersed than hitting in general?

Jeff Sullivan

6:14

Easier to lean on the best pitchers in the playoffs. Can't spot when you use your best hitters in the same way

6:15

Puig with the weak groundout on a 3-and-1 change down the middle. To the fifth! 1-1

Guest

6:15

So much for Jeff's article

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