What does it all mean?
November 2, 2016
While I Was Waiting…for Game 7
November 3, 2016Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
-Shakespeare((A man once attributed with the following quote “I would not have had to have written so many tragedies if baseball existed in my day)).
For the Indians November 2, 2016 would be a tragedy.
In the most anticipated World Series Game of the past quarter century there was music in the air and history in the making. The National Anthem was led by the world renowned Cleveland Orchestra.
They should do national anthems like that more often. Wow. That was awesome! Cleveland Orchestra was beautiful & crowd singing along.
— Tony Lastoria (@TonyIBI) November 2, 2016
The world’s most dramatic theater, baseball, commenced.
With a 1-2 count in the top of the first, leadoff hitter Dexter Fowler went yard.
That ball was torched. Tribe’s going to play from behind tonight.
— Wahoo’s on First (@WahoosOnFirst) November 3, 2016
Hendricks escaped some hard contact and an error. With Game 7 moving to the second inning 1-0 Cubs.
Jose Ramirez led off the bottom of the second with a hit only to be caught hanging off first base. Indians fans were rightfully unhappy.
STOP. DOING. THAT.
— WORLD SERIES SY (@sportsyelling) November 3, 2016
But many felt that Ramirez was caught because of a balk.
That was a balk on the Ramirez pickoff. Hendricks’ left foot moved before right. Not that I’d expect this garbage crew to see or call it
— Al Ciammaichella (@Gotribe31) November 3, 2016
A single by Chisenhall was followed by a ground ball double play from Davis. Hendricks continually dodging the outcomes of solid contact.
As the Indians moved to the bottom of the 3rd, the momentum continued to swing hither and thither.
*Fowler HR
*Schwarber infield hit
*Schwarber steal
*Baez error
*Ramirez liner off Hendricks
*Ramirez pickoff
*Chisenhall throw
it’s the 3rd.—2) (@jessespector) November 3, 2016
After a leadoff double from postseason mercenary Coco Crisp, Roberto Perez was tasked with bunting, moving Crisp to third successfully.
Carlos Santana came through with a “clutch” one out single to tie the Game 7 at 1.
TIE! That is a Rally… #RallyTogether
— Jared K Mueller (@JaredKMueller) November 3, 2016
A chopper from Kipnis drew a play at second, a bobble by Baez and a review left the Indians with runners on first and second with one out.
How the hell do you make that out call in the first place?
— Jacob M (@Jacob_McM) November 3, 2016
Hendricks avoided more injury with hard hit outs to left field and third from Lindor and Napoli respectively.
Bryant reached on a single, Rizzo on a HBP and Zobrist hit a chopper, butchered by Mike Napoli with the Indians barely escaping with 1 out, runners on first and third.
Russell then hit a sac fly and Davis hesitated giving the Cubs a 2-1 lead.
200-foot sacrifice fly. Indefensible.
— Kevin Dean (@kvnbsbl) November 3, 2016
Indians veterans Napoli and Davis wilted early under the lights and costing the Indians two runs.
Kluber ran out of filth with his defense collapsing behind him. Wilson Contreras doubled to center on an awful route by Rajai Davis for a 3-1 lead.
Francona chose to stick with Kluber who was not missing any bats and paid the price with Javier Baez taking Kluber out of the yard to right center, making it 4-1 Cubs.
Corey Kluber’s postseason was spectacular. He simply ran out of gas.
— Adam Burke (@SkatingTripods) November 3, 2016
Rizzo doubled in Bryant against Andrew Miller and the arms that carried the Indians so far finally showed cracks.
However, the Indians would bounce back quickly fighting their way back into the game. Santana would walk, Kipnis reaching on error with two outs. With Santana and Kipnis on second third, Lester spiked a pitch and Ross struggled to find the baseball allowing both Santana and a brilliantly aggressive Jason Kipnis to score.
Tribe Twitter awakened.
Not dead yet.
— Monte the Color Man (@Monte_Colorman) November 3, 2016
The Cubs led the Indians 5-3 after five innings.
David Ross would take the once unbreakable Andrew Miller deep to extend the Cubs lead to 6-3.
Napoli, in an offensive and defensive slump since early August waved his twig and struck out once again to lead off the Indians half of the 6th.
Party at Crapoli’s, The Return
— Reverend Dizzle (@Dizzle729) November 3, 2016
Experiencing the seventh was intense, looking back it was monotonous as the score remained 6-3 Cubs.
A side note to the game but an issue for Major League Baseball optics nonetheless, Aroldis Chapman entered in the 8th with his domestic violence being irrelevant to coverage.
Reminder, Cubs warming man in pen who choked and fired weapon in dispute with girlfriend. https://t.co/toeFMvQXEY
— Mike Hattery (@snarkyhatman) October 29, 2016
In the 8th, Brandon Guyer doubled home Jose Ramirez with an absolutely exceptional at bat against Aroldis Chapman, the tying run came to the plate in Rajai Davis.
Guyer was acquired to get base hits against lefties. He got a base hit against a lefty. Some things still make sense.
— T.J. Zuppe (@TJZuppe) November 3, 2016
Out of nowhere, Rajai Davis had the most important at bat of his career, taking Chapman deep to tie Game 7 at 6.
OH MY FREAKING GOD!!!!!!
— Tyler Stotsky (@tstotsky63) November 3, 2016
I can’t stop shaking
— Adam Burke (@SkatingTripods) November 3, 2016
Time to shut the freeways down.
— damiEn bowman 3.4 (@damiEnbowman) November 3, 2016
That was one of the greatest moments of my life. I leaped into my brother’s arms and cried.
— T.D. Dery #1More (@TD1TribeKU) November 3, 2016
Cody Allen returned for the 9th inning walking the leadoff hitter David Ross but inducing a force out at second base. In entered Bryan Shaw.
With Heyward stealing, Yan Gomes threw a one hopper to Jason Kipnis, Kipnis could not keep the ball in front of him and Heyward reached third base with one out. Twitter was rightfully frustrated.
Oh god that’s really bad
— Chad Young (@chadyoung) November 3, 2016
Baez struck out attempting to safety squeeze.
Lindor then covered what felt like most of North America, ranging into center field, throwing out Dexter Fowler to take the Indians to the 9th inning with a score of 6-6.
With Game 7 on the line, Indians fans could not wait to get their shirts off.
J.R. Smith has started something. There is an increasingly large contingent of shirtless men in RF standing room area.
— Anthony Castrovince (@castrovince) November 3, 2016
Aroldis Chapman staved off a velocity drop to send Game 7 to extra innings.
Game 7 was then delayed before beginning the 10th inning.
Schwarber singles to open 10th. Almora replaces him and turns in some heads-up baserunning, moving to 2B on deep CF flyout by Bryant.
— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) November 3, 2016
Ben Zobrist, history will remember your name
— Taylor Blake Ward (@TaylorBlakeWard) November 3, 2016
After walking Anthony Rizzo, Ben Zobrist punished the Indians for an opposite field RBI double. Montero followed with an RBI single of his own and the Cubs moved closer World Series Title.
Well, not that he was particularly liked anyway, but Shaw just became an All-Time CLE Villain
— Gavin Potter (@potter_gavin) November 3, 2016
The bullpen usage was interesting late in Cleveland.
…Bauer? Tito not having his best inning. https://t.co/H6fkzhiKFa
— ChampiNOMship (@SportsNom) November 3, 2016
Fortunately for the Indians, Trevor Bauer did a phenomenal job escaping a bases loaded jam. The Cubs led 8-6 going to the bottom of the 10th.
Napoli continued his quest for free agency, whiffing at another fastball. 1 out.
Ramirez grounded out to shortstop. 2 out.
Brandon Guyer walked, bringing Rajai Davis to the plate.
Guyer would advance to second on indifference.
Rajai Davis delivered an RBI single to center field. 8-7 Cubs.
Leaving the game in the hands of Michael Martinez, unfortunately, not a great big league hitter.
Here are a list of active pitchers with a higher career wRC+ than Michael Martinez, who has a 35 wRC+ in *578* plate appearances: pic.twitter.com/SwOSP7ePJu
— August Fagerstrom (@AugustFG_) October 29, 2016
Bryant to Rizzo, Cubs are World Series Champions!
The Indians rode Corey Kluber, Andrew Miller, and Bryan Shaw to Game 7 of the World Series against the best team in baseball in the past five years. Unfortunately, each pitcher broke down in the most intense outing of their big league career. The Indians had an unforgettable season while missing a former MVP candidate, Michael Brantley, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar. For Indians fans it is hard not to be proud of this Indians team, for baseball fans it is hard not to be happy for this Cubs team.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:-Shakespeare((A man once attributed with the following quote “I would not have had to have written so many tragedies if baseball existed in my day [↩]
- (Jesse Spector [↩]
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Done.
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Or Zobrist in a big spot over Napoli.
right. Moreover, a lot of the Cubbie narrative is a self-consciously cutesy “poor us lovable losers.” Very similar to the proud Boston whining when I lived there. Their fans had pain, but it was a winking/smirking pain, as in “why can’t they be normal like our other teams?” In Cleveland we’ve had across-the-board pain, no happiness or relief or justifiable pride in any team until LeBron summoned everything to knock that wall down.
I surveyed your kids. Turns out, you’re not their favorite dad. Sorry.
It’s certainly darker!
oh yes. And you know what I meant as well. Going from brooding resignation at 10:00 to screaming disbelief at 11:30 to rain delay at midnight to the slow squeeze of Cub RISP to freakin’ Guyer yet again to … done. Blow outs are emotionally easier for me./
Good post, tb2.
That’s right!
2017 NFL Draft is right around the corner!
Should it have been a Draft post, instead?
Oh, I’m working on some things – just need to tidy up the MLB season stuff first.
I’ll be there with you once I finish up in this decompression chamber.
Two words: Mitch Trubisky
Well, I blame Mark Shapiro
I missed that, then. I didn’t realize there was no one left.
I wanted to put an asterisks by the “three” in mistakes. Top two were for sure, but hindsight weighed in more on 3.
Sad but not depressed. Thanks, Cavs!
I will never forget Ty Lue sitting in his chair on the sidelines bawling his eyes out into a towel uncontrollably for 10 straight minutes.
“music”
you are a terrible businessman
seeing as you are giving away your patent rights, I’ll market it and pay an administrative fee for decoding the usage. cannot wait for the January Cabo vacation I get from this one.
He is a four word player:
Ohio born Mitch Trubisky
Thanks for the kindness TB2. AL Central does how it does.
Between the Tigers, White Sox, Indians, and Royals — lot of postseason heft we have had for our smaller market teams. Now that the Twins have snarfed some Tribe FO men, they might not be all that far behind from pushing too.
1 taco = 3 innings
You should have driven further
It’s a full week of Indians posts that have hit around 100 comments each while Browns posts sit around 20-30
I don’t know what to do in this world but I am enjoying it
Commenting on WFNY is cheaper than going to a psychiatrist
Isn’t Frankie Mejia almost done stewing in the minors?
This minor league Team-Snarker just needs an off day. I strive for your level
Funny you should bring up the draft though. For as much as Browns fans look forward to the draft, this has been an oddly quiet topic so far. Joe Gilbert is slacking!
so…does that mean no gifts in December? YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
I’ll suspect Bode and Gilbert have been distracted by the Tribe.
We all eagerly await their vast cornucopia of delicious draft morsels Soon To Come.
How awesome is LeBron? He went from Babe Ruth to Paul Bunyan/John Henry to Jesus (or the Easter Bunny, if you prefer). The guy is beyond mythical to Clevelanders.
OK, you win that one.
Results may vary, however.
This is all that needs to be said about it. There were so few season ticket holders, that the team could give out a bunch to each of them. I’m glad the team threw a bone to the few fans dedicated enough to throw a few thousand dollars down to support them from day one.
“Francona: masterful and gutsy”
Ugh. I was going to save my Francona comments for another day, but come on.
World Series came down to the cribbage team of trust getting big opportunites and letting us down. Tomlin, Napoli, Shaw, and even Martinez. Its one thing that Tito is subpar at game management, but hes supposed to excel at player management, and he played favorites.
Still hasn’t reached Kosar level, yet.
wow. Tomlin and Shaw were bad playoff and WS choices? Your choice of the last roster guy would have done what Martinez could not? Don’t know what to say, other than you’re being a little harsh and you might be in an opinion group of one.
agree. The Royals had good reason to believe they’d at least be in the playoffs. Texas probably still can’t believe they were swept in the first round.
Being against Tomlin on three days rest and Shaw against so many lefties should certainly not have an opinion group of one. Being against Martinez, who swings the bat as well as a decent-hitting pitcher, should have a huge opinion group.
And it’s not that these guys were on the playoff rosters. It’s that we know they are limited players and were given very long leashes anyway. It’s one thing to do that in the dog days when everyone is dragging, but completely different when it’s do or die.
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