JotCast | 2018 World Series Game One Live Chat

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Nate

11:49

What response do you give to people who think it's easy to bunt against the shift?

Meg Rowley

11:49

I invite them to consider the ways in which they are incorrect.

So much of baseball is hard. Baseball is so hard. The things you practice less are even harder.

Jeff Sullivan

11:50

I think bunting decently is harder than fans believe, but I also think bunting decently is easier than left-handed hitters tell the press

Cam

11:50

To me, Wood seems fairly simple to figure out. When he's throwing 92-94, he's good. When he's throwing 89-91, he's bad. And he's been throwing the latter for the majority.

Dodger Fan

11:51

There is nothing more 2018 Dodgers than somehow sneaking into the World Series and then getting swept

Jay Jaffe

11:51

first time I've seen a four-game sweep in Game 1 and that's going back the past 41 World Series

Jeff Sullivan

11:52

I think 2007 was a Game 1 sweep

11:53

Ninth inning time. I cannot promise this will be interesting, but it will be conclusive

JBJ

11:54

Do I get traded this offseason

Jeff Sullivan

11:54

You do not

Monsignor Martinez

11:54

The Red Sox won 108 games with a catching platoon that totaled -1.7 WAR

Jay Jaffe

11:55

second base and third base weren't so hot, either.

Matt

11:55

Wood / Baez is not the correct discussion. The correct discussion is Wood / Jansen. Jansen should have been up and hot. Wood flips Devers for Nunez, and then Jansen faces Nunez.

Jeff Sullivan

11:55

If Wood is announced, then he has to face at least one batter

Super Benintendo

11:56

Story potential on weakest infield for a WS team?

Jay Jaffe

11:56

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/1988.shtml

Jeff Sullivan

11:56

Good lord

Guy Smiley

11:56

Is the Chatwood deal really a comp? What an outlier and boondoggle!

Jeff Sullivan

11:57

The double TJ thing is going to be a major variable, no matter what Olney writes

Jay Jaffe

11:57

3.0 bWAR in that 1988 Dodger infield, 2.1 of it from Sax

Nate

11:57

It's easy to win 108 when you play Baltimore 19 times.

Meg Rowley

11:57

Helps, but even by BaseRuns they were a 99 win team.

Jeff Sullivan

11:58

There's the Beat LA chant. Yankees are excluded!

Meg Rowley

11:58

Beneath Boston's notice finally.

Jeff Sullivan

11:58

@Nate: Red Sox had baseball's 7th-easiest schedule, according to Baseball Reference. Nothing ridiculous

11:59

Oh, right, Craig Kimbrel is good

Adam

11:59

Kimbrel in a 4 run game?

Jeff Sullivan

11:59

Getting him action

It's working!

*** Wednesday, October 24 ***

Joe

12:00

Losing World Series games is a super dope feeling.

Meg Rowley

12:00

I'll have to take your word for it.

Jeff Sullivan

12:00

Super Benintendo

12:00

Jay ... wow. I mean. Just wow. Yep. I reckon Boegarts alone was worth that much (3.8...)

Meg Rowley

12:00

(but sorry you're feeling lousy, that's never fun)

Ben Brode

12:00

kimbrel and turner are twins? some beautiful beards out there

Meg Rowley

12:01

Cousins more like

Jay Jaffe

12:01

the Dodgers had a hell of a time moving on from the Longest Running Infield, and yet their pitching was good neough to keep them competitive for most of the decade https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/pos.shtml

Jeff Sullivan

12:01

Love that Leon knee-pad slide out to the other box

The 6ix

12:02

Where did the total interleague record end up this year? NL was ahead for the first time in years last time I checked.

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