JotCast | 2016 World Series Game 2 Live Blog

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Craig Edwards

5:07

You might be setting the bar a bit too high.

Wolfie

5:07

What would you consider Bauer's "put away pitch"? Or does he have one?

Jeff Sullivan

5:07

Curveball, followed by sinker. These are graded relatively

5:08

So this is an extremely slow game, I've noticed.

Jon

5:08

I sucked at little league so I always played right field. Why does the worst defender play LF usually in the majors?

Craig Edwards

5:09

in little league right handed batters pull the ball to left field so the left fielder gets a lot more chances. In the majors, that isn't the case and you need a stronger arm for rf.

Amazon Prime and Wilmer Difo

5:09

If this game is raindee out in the 7th and it's still 1-0 do they call it, or are all WS games played through

Jeff Sullivan

5:09

We'd be back for the finish tomorrow!

anonymous

5:09

Whenever people talk about 'curses' I assume they're being ironic.

Jeff Sullivan

5:09

They feel like one of those things that trends only because people are talking about how stupid it is that it's trending

EccentricChemist

5:11

Craig, if you went to the doubleheaders in Saturdays, would you then advocate for the extended 25 man roster swapping?

Craig Edwards

5:11

Yes, 25 man roster is sort of arbitrary anyway.

5:12

Wish there was more of a neutral on the Joe buck vote. Don't hate him nearly as much as other cubs fans

alpha

5:12

"don't like him" isn't strong enough wording

Jeff Sullivan

5:12

I should have added a neutral option but then again, internet voters never vote on a neutral platform

Trevor Bauer has a witchy nose

Uncle Jimbo

5:12

I would prefer an audio track of the ambient stadium noise over just about any PBP announcer. I can see what happened on the field, no one needs to tell me what I just saw.

Craig Edwards

5:13

but then who read the sponsorhsips?

Jeff Sullivan

5:13

Gameday tells me Bauer has thrown 40 strikes so far but I don't recall seeing more than three of them

alpha

5:14

Cubs need another pitcher. Hammels can be improved on

Jeff Sullivan

5:14

Schwarber comes through! Green light, slams a single into right-center. 2-0 Cubs

Craig Edwards

5:14

Cubs have had two straight years of good injury luck on the pitching front. Need as many decent pitchers as possible, Hammell included.

Jeff Sullivan

5:14

That was a *terrible* 3-and-0 fastball. Literally right down the gut

CamdenWarehouse

5:15

If fowler leaves, who bats leadoff next year?

Craig Edwards

5:15

Zobrist, I would imagine.

Matt

5:16

Is Kyle Schwarber even old enough to have been alive when his goatee was considered fashionable?

Jeff Sullivan

5:16

There's a very specific kind of face for which a goatee like that is well suited

someone

5:16

I respect Joe Buck. I just wish his voice sounded a little more pleasant.

Jeff Sullivan

5:17

Holy shit Baez

That was a horrible pitch to chase!

In any case, 2-0 after two and a half.

We're on pace for a 4:08 contest...

Count Von Count

5:18

I'd think Bauer has to be done after this inning, right? Hasn't looked sharp all game.

Jeff Sullivan

5:18

I'd pull him now but I'm just particularly Bauer-averse

Now imagine this guy on short rest

5:18

More batters need to swing 3-0

Jeff Sullivan

5:19

Anecdotally there's been an unusual amount of that in these playoffs. In reality it's too small a sample

Matt

5:19

Increasingly over the past 2-3 years, the #1 thing that bothers me about watching baseball is fans (both live and TV) who think they can tell the strike zone from their vantage point. (I think it was actually a HBT article about the geometry of calling pitches from your couch that started it for me). Thoughts?

Jeff Sullivan

5:20

We're definitely all getting deceived by the camera angles and whatnot. I am not sufficiently educated to speak to what the illusions are, but our eyes suck, especially with off-center angles like tonight's. God bless pitch-tracking data

Nietsniew

5:20

CRAIG DONT STEAL MY IDEAS

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