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Dave Cameron

12:20

I bet Verlander comes in at some point if it's close

kevinthecomic

12:21

Yesterday you had a post about how the dodgers should use darvish in game 6 because otherwise "Roberts would either have to continue to wear out Brandon Morrow, Kenta Maeda, and Kenley Jansen — leaving them less effective for another must-win tomorrow" -- so, this is exactly what roberts did -- are all 3 going to be less effective tonight?

Dave Cameron

12:21

I doubt Maeda even sees the mound tonight

And I wouldn't push Jansen for 2 full innings.

Jeremy B.

12:22

Is Kershaw the first Dodger pitcher out of the pen tonight? Maybe to start the 5th? Can't see any point in saving him for later in the game.

Dave Cameron

12:22

With Darvish being a righty, I bet they're hoping to get 23 batters faced out of him, and as long as he's throwing well, they'll let him go through the top four hitters a third time.

In an ideal world, he even gets you through 6.

ryth

12:23

Will we see kershaw, and more importantly if we do is that a bad idea?

Dave Cameron

12:23

Yes, no.

It's his throw-day.

I wouldn't push him too hard but a couple innings should be okay.

12:23

wait they would throw verlander again tonight?

Dave Cameron

12:23

For a couple of batters, yeah.

Mike

12:24

What’s the % Josh Fields gets an out tonight

Dave Cameron

12:24

Nick

12:24

Most likely to get the last outs of the world series. Peacock, verlanda, jansen, verlander, or other

Dave Cameron

12:24

Jansen

Peacock probably #2

12:24

Should Roberts consider starting Kershaw, having him pitch 2 innings or so, and then start "bullpenning" from there?

Dave Cameron

12:25

No real reason to force him to face the good righties and then bring in Darvish.

Kimball

12:26

Is Kip coming over for the game tonight?

Dave Cameron

12:26

No, I'm live blogging in solitude tonight. Those guys were distracting!

weezy

12:26

do you see any merit or credibility to a reliever TTO penalty? In the playoffs, each team sees the others best way more than they do at any point in the season

Dave Cameron

12:27

Ben Lindbergh looked for that last year and found nothing in the data.

v2micca

12:28

Which team would benefit more from a rain-out pushing game 7 back a day?

Dave Cameron

12:28

LA, by a lot.

Bagel

12:28

Do you think the Astros should be concerned about McCullers tonight? He really didn't look all that great in game 3.

Dave Cameron

12:29

Yeah, this is where Hinch's lack of trust in his relievers will be problematic.

If McCullers gets in trouble, what does he do? Morton isn't a quick get-ready guy.

Much higher probability that Hinch asks McCullers to get out of a big jam and gets burned, putting the team down big.

PTBNL

12:30

Dave, I see/hear a lot of broadcasts say things like "this pitcher gets better as the game goes on" and then they show that his ERA is lower in later innings than in earlier innings. Couldn't this be kind of misleading? The only time a pitcher gets to the later innings is when he has his good stuff and is keeping his team in the game. If a starter is throwing meatballs early on his manager will take him out early, but if he's dealing he's likely to be pitching later in the game.

Dave Cameron

12:30

No pitcher gets better as the game gets on.

12:31

And anyone showing you ERA, without accounting for relievers coming in and stranding the runners a starter left on, isn't worth listening to.

Hunky Dory

12:31

Re: using Morrow - we can never know for certain if Roberts won the battle lost the war. We know he won the battle, but if the pen doesn't pitch well tonight, that can't indubitably be chalked up to pulling Hill when he did.

Dave Cameron

12:31

In the same way, we can't know that Hill wouldn't have gotten Bregman out.

Sleepy

12:32

If the Dodgers win a low-scoring game tonight (meaning none of their hitters finishes the Series with a crazy stat line), could Rich Hill be named Series MVP? As a starter that didn't see the sixth inning in either start?

Dave Cameron

12:32

Nah

Guest

12:33

What's the chances we see Giles?

Dave Cameron

12:33

Nick

12:34

would you have trusted Stripling or Fields to steal some outs against Correa and Gurriel with a two run lead in the 8th in a do or die game?

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