JotCast | 2017 NLDS Game 5 Live Blog

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Catching Metrics

7:12

Having a below average defensive catcher bites! In the worst way.

7:12

They have to move on from Wieters next year right?

Jesse

7:12

If Matt Wieters is the starting catcher again next year it's gonna be real hard to be a Nats fan.

Josiah

7:13

The combination of cubs magic and nats ineptitude is on full display

Long live Jeff Frye

7:13

Can you explain the passed ball on a strikeout rule again? I thought 1st had to be unoccupied.

Jeff Sullivan

7:13

Without looking it up, going to guess that's not true with two outs

Dr. Bob

7:13

Matt Wieters is awful and nobody listened to us O's fans

Jeff Sullivan

7:14

Bases-loaded hit-by-pitch. This is the most amazing thing I have seen all year

7-4 Cubs. Max Scherzer started better than he's looked lately. Wieters has been a catastrophe

nickg

7:14

Strong possibility of this being an all-time great bad game.

Luber

7:14

are the nats cursed

libre

7:14

Almost as if pitching on short rest is hard ... *coughKERSHAWcough* ...

Daniel

7:15

Tire fire for the Nats

Lachlan

7:15

This is actually remarkable

Jeff Sullivan

7:15

Roark and Solis throwing in the bullpen

Evan

7:15

Being a Nats fan seems like it would be hard in general.

Jeff Sullivan

7:16

The inning is over! To muted applause

Sad fan

7:16

Two catcher interference calls this postseason. What is the record?

Jeff Sullivan

7:16

That was just the 14th playoff catcher's interference call ever on record

Four of them in the last two playoffs

Mike

7:16

catchers interferene in both LDS game 5s, what are the odds

Guest

7:16

What happened to Wieters??

Jeff Sullivan

7:17

He got bad a while ago

That inning was kept alive by a lot of things, but it was mostly kept alive by a Willson Contreras infield single with a hit probability of 15%

Goober

7:18

Scherzer has allowed 7 in a row to reach without a single well hit ball.

Jeff Sullivan

7:18

Russell hit the ball 103 miles per hour

Frostilicus

7:18

The Nats were up 3 just 3 innings ago...but this game feels locked up for Chicago, doesn't it?

Veteran Playoff Catcher

7:19

Whoever said Scherzer would give up a HR had an insufficient imagination

IslandPen

7:19

really can't imagine a worse way to forfeit a season. worse than 2012 and 2016.

ESPN

7:19

Will the Nats ever win a playoff game?

Jeff Sullivan

7:19

They seem to win a couple every year!

M. Wolicki

7:19

The nats are the Mets of the playoffs.

Netflix and Rich Hill

7:20

Do you ever have an idea of what a player looks like in your head only to come to find out you were inconceivably wrong? I thought Solis was a lanky, African-American.

Jeff Sullivan

7:20

I still don't know what Sammy Solis looks like and I've seen him at least a dozen times

Leadoff walk for Murphy. I don't want to talk about momentum but the Nats could really use some life here right away

Avid Reader

7:20

Already looking forward to your article about this tomorrow, Jeff!

Jeff Sullivan

7:21

I'm taking the night off after this probable five-hour live blog. Already scheduled a far more boring post about Didi Gregorius

Ryan

7:21

it's an emotional rollercoaster being a Nats fan, loved seeing Scherzer come in, this sucks

Matt

7:21

if Bryant spends his entire career as uncltuch as fuck but is otherwise HoF does that meaningfully effect his chances?

Jeff Sullivan

7:21

I doubt anyone would really notice or care

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