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Muxosk

10:06

"Good Piece of Hitting" for sure since it usually refers to a bloop or an out that advances a runner, neither of which are really particularly good hitting.

Ben Clemens

10:06

Yeah I'm going to be honest, I lurked in my comments to read every compliment for months when I started writing here.

Craig Edwards

10:06

I think Petriello called one of the homers last night a good piece of hitting.

Ben Clemens

10:06

Now see, a home run is a good piece of hitting.

Joe

10:07

Great piece of hitting!

Muxosk

10:07

"great piece of hitting" right on cue from frenchy.

John

10:07

But what about "great piece of hitting"

Daniel

10:07

The best piece, really

Guest

10:07

"great piece of hitting"

kevinthecomic

10:08

Dodgers radio broadcast just said Kendrick was limping after that play

It seems the league's pitchers have caught up to Will Smith

Ben Clemens

10:08

I just spent about a minute trying to decide if there was a Will Smith song I could reply to this with.

I failed.

5 Run Homer

10:08

Wait is Kendrick at 1st??

Ben Clemens

10:09

Yes

5 Run Homer

10:09

Will Smith’s season so far has been that of a real Gemini Man

Ben Clemens

10:09

Big oof right there.

I laughed and didn't like myself for laughing.

Craig Edwards

10:10

Nats escape.

5 Run Homer

10:10

That’s high praise in my household

Rusty Shackleford

10:10

how hard do you think the nats will ride their starters to avoid going to their pen?

Ben Clemens

10:10

Very, very hard.

Their bullpen isn't even one of those where you can say they had bad results but they project to be basically fine.

It's just bad.

cO.COa

10:11

It seems like teams now move players around the diamond with impunity, particularly outfielders. I don’t feel like utility players have much value anymore since teams feel free to move players pretty much anywhere besides Catcher and Pitcher.

Craig Edwards

10:12

That might be true to some extent, but if you can play center field or shortstop, then there's definitely a lot of value in that. If teams feel like they can move players around more, that probably means players are just better than they used to be.

kevinthecomic

10:12

Think the Nats have a reliever who could go all 2018 Joe Kelly?

Ben Clemens

10:12

Maybe- the problem is, they have many relievers who could go 2015-2017 Joe Kelly.

Stephen

10:12

How many more innings does Buehler have to throw to justify not pinch hitting with runners on the corners and one out?

Craig Edwards

10:13

Good question. Maybe two?

RandyMarsh

10:13

If by utility you mean those w subpar bats, yeah, but the value of a guy like chris taylor or ben zobrist that can play all of these positions w/ an above avg bat is huuuge

Ben Clemens

10:13

Two or three, I think. He really is significantly better than the Dodger bullpen.

Craig Edwards

10:13

Right. Or Tony Phillips, who is the original in my book.

Dystopian Future

10:14

Any reason to be concerned that Davey Martinez brought in Daniel Hudson over Doolittle in the WC game? If you can't trust your best reliever to finish off a do or die game that's a problem no?

Connor

10:14

if Hill is a game 4 starter is there a chance he comes in today for an inning or two?

Ben Clemens

10:14

I don't think so. Daniel Hudson is a perfectly fine reliever.

10:15

Here's a hot-ish take: leverage matters much less in the postseason.

Craig Edwards

10:15

I think they have other options who are probably better given we are in the first game of the series with starter-level pitchers who aren't slated to start later.

Ben Clemens

10:15

Since your best pitchers pitch in more or less every game.

Nats Bullpen Observer

10:15

Davey has been using Hudson as closer recently since Doolittle was a lil' shaky later on in the year -- nothing in particular new about using him in the Wild Card Game

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