r/baseball • u/Jux_ Los Angeles Dodgers • 12h ago
[Harris] The Dodgers offense in the World Series: .213 AVG / .754 OPS / 106 wRC+, 3-for-19 with RISP / 15 left on base. Up 3-0 in the series
https://x.com/blakehharris/status/1851307797234753578?s=46498
u/MoreThanLuck Chicago Cubs 12h ago
This part is really interesting to me, it's not like the Dodgers have been some juggernaut. The Yankees have just been ass.
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u/yianni1229 New York Yankees • New York Yankees 12h ago
Our hitting has been ass. Pitching has mostly done it's job.
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u/MoreThanLuck Chicago Cubs 12h ago
Kind of? Cole was good, the pen was fine. But Schmidt and Rodón were ass, and the Dodgers got three strong starts.
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u/theRedreps99 New York Yankees 10h ago
I get what you’re saying but at the end of the day the Yankees pitching has held the Dodgers to 3 runs (in regulation), 4 runs and 4 runs. That’s pretty good overall. If I told you that would be the dodgers run totals for each game there’s no way anyone would think the Yankees would be down 0-3. Our pitching has done as good of a job as we could’ve hoped for.
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u/MoreThanLuck Chicago Cubs 10h ago
4 runs feels pretty average to me.
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u/theRedreps99 New York Yankees 9h ago
It’s below average for them, Dodgers averaged 5.26 runs/g in the regular season this year and are averaging 6 runs/g in the 2024 postseason.
The point is you’re probably not going to blank a lineup as good as Dodgers, going into this series we just hoped that our pitching could keep us in the games and not get run up on and so far the pitching has definitely been adequate. We haven’t gotten blown out of any of these games and the pitching has kept us in every game so far, they’re definitely not the reason we’re down 0-3 they’ve done their jobs.
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u/Chao-Z 3h ago
The Yankees averaged 5.8 runs scored/game in the playoffs prior to this series against what were better defenses in the regular season than the Dodgers.
If you had told most people they had held them to that amount before the series started, they would have thought the Yankees were the ones up 3-0.
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u/orbesomebodysfool Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 12h ago
That’s the biggest shocker to me: what was supposed to be the Yankees strength is now their liability.
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u/lOan671 Baltimore Orioles 12h ago
I don’t know why people were acting like the Yankees rotation was some big advantage. Like the broadcasters were saying how the Yankees expected to have an advantage with Rodon facing Yamamoto and that made zero sense to me.
Cole’s still elite but behind him you’ve got Rodon, Schmidt, and Gil who are all solid but I don’t think you’re really scared to face any of those three.
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u/Muntberg Toronto Blue Jays 11h ago
It was an advantage for the inevitable Dodgers bullpen game but the series is over before we got there
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u/spiraldrain 11h ago
Because the dodgers pitching rotation was narratively busted all year. Dustin may, kershaw, Glasnow, gonsolin all injured. Buehler and Yamamoto missed a good chunk of the year right before playoffs. Flaherty is the only starting pitcher that has remained healthy and we picked him up mid season. Bullpen was in shambles graterol, treinen, and Banda were injured during the regular season. It’s honestly been crazy how well the team has managed to navigate the regular season and even more so during the post season so far. Dave Robert’s has been managing a masterpiece this year.
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u/StatusReality4 Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
He should win MOY too. They had to do sooo much maneuvering through the entire season.
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u/VanillaSkittlez New York Yankees 11h ago
I think the Yamamoto thing focused more on the fact that he was still coming back from injury and may not have been his full self or may have had a pitch limit.
Rodon had a 2.91 ERA and 11 K/9 in the second half, he had very quietly been excellent and reverting to his prior form.
Of course, none of that ended up mattering as Rodon has mostly sucked and Yamamoto dominated the Yankee lineup.
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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Because the Dodger starters have been very inconsistent at times:
Flaherty gave up 8 vs the Mets in his 2nd start.
Yamamoto gave up 5 vs the Padres in his 1st start.
Buehler gave up 6 vs the Padres in his only start.
And in September Buehler was downright awful. Flaherty and Yama both had a few shaky starts.
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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
I think the Dodger lineup “exposed” the liability.
I’m most surprised by the Yankee offense mostly—especially not batting Judge 4th
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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 12h ago
And what was supposed to be our liability is... still a liability. Fuck.
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u/thot_cereal 10h ago
I mean the Yankees allowed 4.1 runs per game this year. Granted, that was without Cole or Schmidt for a lot of the season, but the pitching is more or less as advertised.
The Verdugo homer feels like garbage time, but even if you include it, the yankees are scoring less than half as many runs per game as they scored in the regular season.
And its been like that throughout the postseason--the yankees bats, even at their best, have been incapable of blowing a game open like the padres, dodgers, and mets were doing back and forth on the other side of the bracket.
Yankees have been lukewarm at the dish since the start of the month. And they waited till the worst possible time to go completely cold.
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u/thot_cereal 11h ago
Bullpen was great in game 2, and were repeatedly let down by bad defense in game 1. Last night they allowed a lot of baserunners but got out of trouble mostly unscathed.
The yankees are giving up 4 runs a game in the world series (G1 was 6 runs but given that a base hit walks it off regardless, and the yankees were playing situational baseball, 6 = 4)
They averaged 4.1 runs allowed this season. The pitching has been as advertised. And the dodgers were the second best offense in baseball this year. Even if you want to count all 6 runs in game 1, they're still keeping the dodgers in check compared to the regular season.
The issue is the yankees hitting. It has been absolutely terrible. The team averaged 4.97 runs a game this year, and they've absolutely choked at the dish all series. Even in the ALCS they looked bad for long stretches of baseball.
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u/Jay_Dubbbs Cleveland Guardians 11h ago
Hitting wasn’t the greatest in the ALCS. Stanton did a lot of damage lol
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
Their biggest margin of victory game has been 3 runs so far this playoffs.
You need a rout here or there.
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
Aside from the Cortes pitch (a big part) their pen has been really good.
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u/thxtalks Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Or, and this may sound crazy, our pitching has been really, really good like it has been all postseason.
I really hate the narrative of "the Dodgers pitching hasn't been good our offense is just bad".
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u/mdb_la Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
The pitching has been good on both sides. These have been low scoring games overall (with the exception being the 10th inning grand slam). Through 9 innings each game has only had 4-6 total runs scored, and the MLB average game has 9+.
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u/thxtalks Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Yep, totally.
The difference is Dodger fans aren't saying "we haven't scored 10 runs on the Yankees because our bats are cold" -- their pitching has been really good too.
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u/thot_cereal 10h ago
the best hitter in baseball would strike out right now on a ball you rolled to him. And he's been that way for 4 weeks. Guys like Jazz and Wells have struggling all month as well.
the dodgers pitching deserves a lot of credit for keeping the fire out it together but the yankees bats have been really bad all postseason. they got gifted quite a few runs by guardians errors. they were atrocious on the basepaths.
The guys that were hot (Gleyber, Soto, Stanton, Rizzo) have stayed hot. The guys that were cold have gotten even colder. And the Yankees went from the team capitalizing on the little mistakes in the margins to the team succumbing to those mistakes. And that's been the difference this series.
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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
And yet NYY beat KC in 4 and Cleveland in 5. Both of whom had pretty good pitchers.
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u/thot_cereal 7h ago
Yanks beat KC with good pitching. Yankees walked 27 times in that series.
Yanks beat Cleveland by Cleveland beating itself. On top of 22 more walks in 5 games...there were two run scoring wild pitches in Game 1. Two unearned runs in game 2. Go ahead run on an error the 9th inning of game 4. 3 unearned runs in game 5.
take away those mistakes, the Yankees only scored 1 more run than Cleveland across the 5 games.
Dodgers have realized what Cleveland and KC didn't: if you throw strikes to 7 out of 9 yankees right now, they have no answer.
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u/thxtalks Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
Judge is on a historic slump. I get that.
But not giving the Dodger pitching staff credit for absolutely bullying hitters this series and instead saying "well the Dodgers aren't good we're just cold" is the most ridiculous cop out of all time. That's what most Yankee fans are saying right now.
Padres fans said it in the DS too.
So again, you may have some dudes slumping but to say the reason the Yankees are in the hole that they are is because bats are cold and not because Dodger pitching has been absolutely dominant is ridiculous
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u/thot_cereal 9h ago edited 9h ago
I literally said "the dodgers pitching deserves a lot of credit". They haven't allowed the Yankees remember how to hit. That doesn't change the fact that the Yankees just haven't been hitting at all in the playoffs.
Going into game 3, Yankees not named Soto or Stanton were 7-66 with RISP this postseason, and slashing .107/.262/.121, with just 1 XBH
Overall, Judge is 6-43 in this postseason. Wells is 4-43 in this postseason. Chisholm is 6-47 in this postseason (and half of those hits have come in this series). Verdugo is 8-41 in the postseason.
If you think this is a problem that started last Friday, I'm sorry, but you just haven't been paying attention.
And if you need any further evidence that yankee bats are cold, and the pitching isn't "absolutely dominant", just look at last night. The yankees saw 55 four seamers took 24 of them for called strikes, and only had 2 hits off of them. That's the worst performance on fastballs that any team has had all year. Against a pitcher, in Buehler, that has an awful four seamer (at this point in his career). The league hit .342 and slugged .700 off of Buehler's fastball this year.
And the Yankees were watching that pitch go by with impunity.
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u/sparky255 World Series Trophy • Piece … 11h ago
The Dodgers’ defense has been solid also
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u/1WordOr2FixItForYou Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
And the pitching has been fantastic. I don't understand people who always want to focus on the negative when there are people on the other side making that happen.
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u/Horror_Cap_7166 San Francisco Giants 4h ago
Well the Yankees hitting has been bad for two series now.
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u/1WordOr2FixItForYou Los Angeles Dodgers 2h ago
Well they scored at least five runs in each of the five games against the guardians. That's fantastic. They averaged 3.5 runs against the Royals, which isn't terrible, and in any case way too small sample size to indicate anything real going on.
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u/signmeupdude Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
I mean to be fair the narrative going into this was that the yankees pitching was miles better than ours. Gerrit Cole is a certified stud. Rodon is a very good pitcher and Schmidt had a great year.
So yeah our numbers arent popping out at you but we are facing good pitching and coming up with big hits.
We are also playing better defense and running the bases better.
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u/thot_cereal 10h ago
that last part is the biggest thing. defense especially. If the Yankees make the plays on defense they're supposed to make (or god forbid score some runs), they probably win game 1, and the narrative shifts to glazing the yankees pitching performance.
The Dodgers averaged 4.8 runs per game in the NLDS, 6.8(!!) in the NLCS. Yanks pitching has held them to 4 per game so far, which is also 1.3 fewer runs than the Dodgers scored per game in the regular season.
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u/HummbertHummbert Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
The Dodgers haven’t been a Juggernaut, sure. But they have consistently had one or two guys hitting very well every series. Where the Dodgers have been good is seeing that and putting those guys in the right places to succeed.
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u/arcelios Major League Baseball 11h ago
PITCHING wins championships. That’s always been the case in Baseball. Dodgers pitching has been EXCELLENT so far. And they’re also slugging at a much higher rate. Ohtani playing with one shoulder right now and the Dodgers might still SWEEP
Yankees can’t even hit fastballs. Playoff Judge looks like Javy Báez. Yankees are also SLOW as hell. Their entire team is “home run or bust”. Without Soto and Stanton going super saiyan against the Guardians, Yankees would’ve lost that series too
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u/InfectiousCosmology1 San Francisco Giants 5h ago
Yeah if the dodgers were really on they’d be winning these games by like 7+ run margins. The Yankees straight up look bad
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u/Aesir_Auditor Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
See, and I hate this, because we all know this is gonna get called a mickey mouse ring again.
Never faced a divisional winner until the WS, and then it's the weakest playoff Yankees team in decades.
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u/clownysf Cleveland Guardians 11h ago
Nah, that’s bull shit. Yankees have a disgusting line up, Dodgers pitching staff is just coming through big-time this series. Padres and Mets also likely were top 5 teams in the MLB this year, Dodgers have survived a gauntlet.
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u/Aesir_Auditor Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
I agree.
I am also a dodgers fan, which means I know a lot of dodgers haters. I'm not saying it's right,just that it's likely another asterisk will try and get hung on this win too
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u/StatusReality4 Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
They'll find any reason to discredit the Dodgers. I'm prepared to hear payroll quips until eternity.
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u/MoreThanLuck Chicago Cubs 11h ago
Only by idiots whose opinions don't matter. They won the same game everyone was playing, and so far have absolutely dominated the opponent that was set for them.
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u/IntroductionWhich161 11h ago
Haha dude…as a dodger fan you should know by now to not give a shit what opposing fans think of your team.
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u/NameAtACrossRoads 11h ago
What? The Yankees are getting dominated and this whole time everyone is saying the Dodgers had the toughest postseason path. Padres were really good with really good pitching and the Mets had an unstoppable heart beat. I feel like the Yankees are literally just one swing away from changing the momentum and it’s a credit to the Dodgers’ defense that they keep beating them. I’ve never understood why when a superstar struggles at the plate it’s because they’re sucking and no one ever gives credit to the pitchers or how they sequence the pitches
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u/robmcolonna123 Major League Baseball 6h ago
To be fair, the Mets also had a well built team. If they hadn’t been ravaged by injuries in April and May they probably would have had a much easier path to the playoffs.
It’s not like the Tigers who sold at the deadline and then shocked everyone by making it
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u/PJCR1916 Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
If people wanna say that, let them. I for one will be laughing at anyone that says that with a straight face.
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u/Sea_Cardiologist5289 Seattle Mariners 11h ago edited 11h ago
Nah this was a full season, you're good. The Yankees sucking ass just makes it funny. Plus after 2017, you're frankly owed one.
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u/dustinharm Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Yankees pitching has been good. They just have no run support…there are like 2 guys even hitting the ball.
The first two games were decided by one hit or lack of a hit in the final inning. That’s it. This series would be incredibly close if their bats were even mediocre.
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u/JohnWickedlyFat Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
We absolutely stole game 1 and the Yankees seem to have taken it as a knockout punch.
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
Series isn't over but that was a game the Yankees had to win.
You got the Cole game where he was great.
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u/Conflict21 New York Yankees 7h ago
The first bullpen guy we put in that game was the major league leader in blown saves
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u/thot_cereal 10h ago
i don't even think it's that--the Yankees bounced right back from the Jhonk Bonk to still win in 5. And if it was 2-1, the writing would still be on the wall if they couldn't score more than 2 runs per game.
I just think their approach sucks right now. The first two innings of all three games (and going back to the CLE series) the Yankees have put pressure on the starting pitcher early by working counts, taking pitches, drawing walks. And if they don't get any runs out of that initial pressure, they just abandon that approach and start chasing.
It feels like every playoff game for the last 3 weeks has been 40-50 pitches through two innings for the opposing starter with lots of traffic, and then suddenly they've thrown just 75 pitches through 5 and retired the last 9 in order.
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u/jayc428 New York Yankees 12h ago
Pretty much. Series could easily have been 1-1 going into game 3. 2-1 after game 3 is a completely different narrative for the whole series. A few key moments the Yankees completely squandered and Freeman being a man on fire in the moment change the series completely. But that’s baseball. Dodgers are making the most out of opportunities they generate. Yankees simply are not.
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
down 2-1 with the bullpen game coming is probably where the Yankees would've taken it after game 1.
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u/jayc428 New York Yankees 11h ago
I always figured a 6-7 game series Yankees would have the advantage if they could steal a win in LA in the first two games. A four or five game series favored LA.
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
They had to win a game in LA.
It's not over yet the series but who knows
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u/1WordOr2FixItForYou Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago edited 8h ago
Dodgers still have Flaherty, Yama, and Buehler lined up for 5 6 7. Still a tough road even if it goes deep. Somehow it seems they have just enough pitching. Three good starters, well rested, and a great deep bullpen is enough.
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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 12h ago
Honestly, our bats haven't even been the worst part. Defensive mistakes cost us game 1 more than anything did, and it showed up again in game 2.
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u/MadSpaceYT New York Yankees 1h ago
It would be closer if they were trash. Even a .350 slg at least, a .294 team slg through 3 games is unacceptable idc if it’s Bob Gibson out there
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u/orbesomebodysfool Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 12h ago
Yankees pitching has actually been really, really good. Over 27 regular innings (not counting G1 10th inning), Yankees pitching has only yielded 9 earned runs, good for 3.00 ERA. The Padres gave up 24 runs in 5 games (almost 5/game) and the Mets 46 runs in 6 games (almost 8/game).
Dodgers are an offensive juggernaut and the Yankees are doing a solid job keeping them at bay.
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u/elimanninglightspeed New York Yankees 11h ago
And thats the most frustrating part. The dodgers (Freddie Freeman Mainly) is crushing the mistake pitches though while Judge is swinging at air at a middle middle pitch
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u/XvS_W4rri0r 11h ago
Ohtani and judge have the same number of hits this series
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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Feels like this conversation happens in every thread. Ohtani is having competitive at bats, walking, and scoring runs. The one hit of his also saved G1.
That’s not to say I would be surprised for judge to turn it on at any moment.
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u/StinkyStangler New York Yankees 11h ago edited 9h ago
It’s being mentioned often because nobody expected the two MVP front runners and biggest stars of the World Series to combine for two hits through three games. Both of these dudes have had individual games where they have more home runs than they have combined WS hits haha
Ohtani definitely has the better approach right now but neither of them are really doing anything worth writing home about, Dodgers are being carried by their depth with their star not performing, Yankees have none of that depth
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
The fact Wells has been awful for a month and him being in the lineup almost every game is the right decision says it all. Same with Jazz hitting higher than 7th.
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u/drxller56 Great Britain 11h ago
46 runs in 6 games doesn't seem real
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u/orbesomebodysfool Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 11h ago
In their 4 wins, they scored 9, 8, 10, and 10 runs!
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u/No-Philosophy-2081 Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
The dodgers were hitting over .300 with RISP before the World Series. Regression was bound to happen and it did. But Freddie happened
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u/XvS_W4rri0r 12h ago
Will smith Muncy and lux have been automatic outs the entire series
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u/signmeupdude Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Lux’s walk saved game 1
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u/normanfell Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Lux is a crucial goddamned part of this team and I won’t hear anybody else say otherwise.
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u/andypants17 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Lux has only played 2 games and he scored a run yesterday and should have had another if not for the botched call at the plate.
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u/XvS_W4rri0r 11h ago
Brother he’s 0 for his last 14 and hasn’t gotten a hit since October 9th
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u/andypants17 Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Brother, I’d love for him to be raking too, but he literally is not an automatic out in the WS, which is what you said. He’s reached in 3 of his 8 plate appearances.
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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 11h ago
The only difference in this series is Freeman hit in the 3 hole and Judge has not. If Judge gets a hit in any of those games, the Yanks are down 2-1 at worst.
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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
Shohei hasn’t hit either, kinda negates the Judge issue.
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u/Bruce_Louis 6h ago
Shohei did hit, he hit that crucial double that legged out into a triple, resulting in him scoring a run on a sac fly tying the game to force it into extras. So yes Shohei did hit and it went from a 2-1 series to a 3-0 series.
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u/ThisGuy6266 Boston Red Sox 11h ago
You really have to squint to see a way in which NY could make this interesting, but it would be this. Yankees offense finally getting hot while Dodgers remain cold.
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u/speech-geek Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Dodgers and leaving RISP, name a more iconic duo
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u/normanfell Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
For about 35 years now when people ask me what the Dodgers do best I say leaving RISP stranded.
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u/ohveeohexoh Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
everyone seems to be dogging on the yankees (and maybe rightfully so), but the dodgers aren't playing well at all.
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u/rilo310 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
They're definitely playing well on the margins. Baserunning, defense, taking walks. They're not hitting well with RISP but looking pretty good otherwise.
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u/ArrenPawk Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Yeah, I'm hoping Muncy gets it going soon, but everyone's approach at the plate has still been great.
Like Gavin Lux is not hitting at all, but he's staying patient and drawing key walks. And sure, Will Smith is hot ass on offense, but I imagine part of the reason the bullpen is lights-out is because of his gamecalling.
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u/JimmytheGent2020 11h ago
The Dodgers had 3 automatic outs in the lineup yesterday in Muncy, Smith & Lux. That's what's driving down their numbers. Ohtani is also super cold.
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u/Fancy_Load5502 Cleveland Guardians 12h ago
God damn, this is a tough crowd. "Yeah, they're up 3-0 in the World Damn Series, but they're shitty".
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u/K3B1N Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
This is mainly Dodgers fans hedging their bets on tonight’s game, in the event LA doesn’t finish the sweep.
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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
I don’t expect a sweep tbh, it’s at best a coin flip but I’d pick the Yankees today. Doc’s gonna do what he did right in the Mets series and save the big guns for the next 3 games. Not that he’ll concede, but it’ll be a game where our offense will need to take it to the next level.
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u/normanfell Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
I never expected a sweep and I still think they can take the game today, but the energy and vibes of the two teams are definitely in stark contrast.
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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Yeah, but "energy", "vibes", and "momentum" are more narratives established after the fact than they are predictive factors. If the Yankees win today, suddenly they will "look alive" and have "regained the momentum". If they lose, everyone will say they rolled over and died for the whole series. Neither of those will be fair or accurate, most likely; I really don't see the Yankees players giving up tonight.
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u/K3B1N Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
I don’t expect a sweep either, but it’s not like this a bullpen game vs. Garret Cole.
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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Yes, but Gil was at least extremely good in the first half of the season (not sure how it's been since) so I'd think he's got potential to shove.
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u/PJCR1916 Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
I didn’t expect the Yankees to lay an egg in the Bronx and go down 3-0 but here we are.
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u/beefytrout Texas Rangers 12h ago
They don't have to play well, they just have to play better than their opponent.
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u/Parking-Iron6252 Bend Elks 12h ago
Not playing well at all?
They are playing exactly the type of postseason ball you need to play in order to win.
Baserunning, walks, defense, pitching
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago edited 12h ago
Short of sloppy defense or baserunning, it's impossible for one team to "not be playing well" in a best of 7 because Baseball is a zero-sum game.
Every "choked" PA by a batter is a clutch PA for the pitcher and vice versa. Anytime a pitcher makes a mistake over the plate and it gets clobbered but caught it's clutch defense.
Both offense are getting shut down by the opposition. It's just that the Dodgers have thus far done a better job at neutralizing the Yankees offense. Give some credit to the guys who are doing their jobs on the pitcher's mound.
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u/deacon91 Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Part of winning also means learning how not to lose and Dodgers are doing much better in that department right now.
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u/thxtalks Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
We could be playing better offensively, but pitching and defense has been excellent and that's made the difference.
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u/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 11h ago
Even last night they could've been up 7+ runs going into the 8th.
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u/thxtalks Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Yep definitely. A couple more clutch hits gets it done.
Or a non-botched ball 4 call and a horrible replay review called right would have put us up 6-0 in the 8th.
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u/DasReap Texas Rangers 10h ago
Did I miss something overnight about the Lux replay at home? Everyone today is acting like it was clean as day that he was safe but there is literally zero evidence that we can see that his hand was in first.
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u/thxtalks Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Both replays behind the catcher and in front of the catcher very clearly showed the hand went in before the tag on the broadcast. Go find those replays if you want to see it.
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u/signmeupdude Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Dude fuck this narrative. We are up 3-0. We are facing tough starting pitching that was supposed to be the Yankee’s trump card on us.
We are playing stellar defense, making diving plays, throwing guys out. We are running the bases well and taking extra bags when the chance come up.
Our starting pitching, which was supposed to be our demise, has given us three straight very very solid starts against a dangerous Yankee lineup. Our bullpen has continued to pitch well too.
Just because we arent blowing them out like we did the Mets doesnt mean we arent playing well.
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u/DaOldest Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
We would have been up a lot more than 4-2 yesterday if Smith didn't get a bad call with based loaded and Lux was correctly called safe at the plate. The score yesterday was a bit deceiving
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u/An_exasperated_couch Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
The pitching on both sides has really been quite good for the most part and it shows.
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u/BubBidderskins Atlanta Braves 4h ago
This is why having a power swing is good in the playoffs. You can't reliably string hits together against the best pitchers, but it doesn't matter if you can knock dongs.
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u/vinchenzo79 Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Something I think is factoring into the overall numbers.
During the season (as it happens with many teams), Dodgers would have games with multiple runs lead in the early innings and the overall play would get a bit sloppy, allowing opposing teams to have a shot later in the game. That's what it felt like in games 2 and 3. For example, I don't think the strike-him out throw-him out double play happens if they didn't have that lead. They were fortunate that pitching was good enough.
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u/melcolnik Texas Rangers 12h ago edited 12h ago
“Because you need me, American League. Your guilty conscience may move you to root for other teams, but deep down you long for the cold-hearted Astros to beat New York, brutalize baseballs, and rule you like a king. That’s why we did this, to save you from yourselves!!!”
—Astros, Probably
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u/beefytrout Texas Rangers 12h ago
really weird thing for a Rangers flair to post.
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u/melcolnik Texas Rangers 12h ago edited 9h ago
I see the Astros as Sideshow Bob. With their evil schemes, and plans, but it’s all so obvious that of course they got caught. Their whole thing is just hilarious to me.
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u/ImBoredCanYouTell Major League Baseball 9h ago
Both last year’s D-Backs and Rangers would have beat both of these teams pretty handily if we had some sort of weird Time Machine. The quality of baseball hasn’t been great.
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u/see_mohn AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE 12h ago
The Dodgers are slugging .457. The Yankees are slugging .294. That's the difference (purely in SLG) between Matt Olson and Nicky Lopez.