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2015 ALCS - Toronto Blue Jays (93-69) vs Kansas City Royals (95-67)

The strike zone has been weird all night. And not just against the Jays.  It's been consistently inconsistent on both sides
 
Gibbons...what are you doing.  Hendriks gives up 2 runs...it's still 11-6.  So let's bring in Osuna even though we have a short turnover tomorrow with a 4PM game and play 3 days in a row?  Why?

Especially when Smoak really should have been charged with an error on the Zobrist double.
 
Osuna gives up a 2-run home run and then gets the next two out. 

11-8 win.  This KC team is scary at manufacturing runs.  Not a good way to end this game in terms of momentum.
 
L K said:
Gibbons...what are you doing.  Hendriks gives up 2 runs...it's still 11-6.  So let's bring in Osuna even though we have a short turnover tomorrow with a 4PM game and play 3 days in a row?  Why?

Especially when Smoak really should have been charged with an error on the Zobrist double.
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Don't think it should have been an error, it hit where the turf edge is and rolled instead of hopping, tricky play.
 
KC has to see this BS "every 2nd hit has to find a hole" sooner or later.  It's ridiculous.  They don't have some innate ability to find the gaps in the D.
 
L K said:
Gibbons...what are you doing.  Hendriks gives up 2 runs...it's still 11-6.  So let's bring in Osuna even though we have a short turnover tomorrow with a 4PM game and play 3 days in a row?  Why?
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Especially if you figure that Osuna is going to be counted on to get some big outs, why let them see him before you have to?
 
Some good news on Cecil:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-cecil-continues-his-recovery-throws-off-flat-ground/

If  the Jays advance past the Royals in this series, he may be ready for the WS.
 
Just watched the clip of Tulo getting thrown out:

http://deadspin.com/that-troy-tulowitzki-ejection-sure-was-strange-1737542236

Insane. I know you can't compare everything to hockey but could you imagine if NHL refs had the ability to do this type of stuff without consequence?
 
The way these kc guys hit I don't get how they're not going to mash dickey. 

I'm trying to find his recent history against kc... I found his last start in August. 7IP 0 runs 6SO. Well that's what the Jays need tonight.
 
Joe S. said:
The way these kc guys hit I don't get how they're not going to mash dickey. 

I'm trying to find his recent history against kc... I found his last start in August. 7IP 0 runs 6SO. Well that's what the Jays need tonight.
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They're good at finding holes, but part of that is because, like the Jays, they're a very good fastball hitting team. The knuckleball is a completely different animal. It could really go either way this afternoon/evening.
 
Joe S. said:
The way these kc guys hit I don't get how they're not going to mash dickey. 

I'm trying to find his recent history against kc... I found his last start in August. 7IP 0 runs 6SO. Well that's what the Jays need tonight.
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Dickey's been great the last half of the season, but the knuckleball always makes me weary.  I've wondered back to the days of Tim Wakefield and Tom Candiotti how their flutterball pitches don't get destroyed.
 
Peter D. said:
Dickey's been great the last half of the season, but the knuckleball always makes me weary.  I've wondered back to the days of Tim Wakefield and Tom Candiotti how their flutterball pitches don't get destroyed.
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Partly, it's about how hard it is to really square up a knuckleball on a regular basis, and partly, it's physics. The batter has to transfer a lot more energy into a 65 mph knuckleball to hit it out of the park than he does for a 95 mph fastball. When guys hit monster shots off of the flamethrowers, it's because the pitcher did a lot of the work for them.
 
Yeah, with Dickey it's really going to be a "good knuckleball" or down 3-1 sort of game.
 
Peter D. said:
Joe S. said:
The way these kc guys hit I don't get how they're not going to mash dickey. 

I'm trying to find his recent history against kc... I found his last start in August. 7IP 0 runs 6SO. Well that's what the Jays need tonight.
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Dickey's been great the last half of the season, but the knuckleball always makes me weary.  I've wondered back to the days of Tim Wakefield and Tom Candiotti how their flutterball pitches don't get destroyed.
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Well the difference is Wakefield and Candiotti are literally throwing at half the speed Dickey is.

It's Dickey's fastball that scares me - at best it's 82, and if they make contact with one of those, forget it...
 
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