2014 World Series Game Six Live Blog

7:59	Dave Cameron: The season either ends tonight, or we get a winner-take-all Game 7 tomorrow. Drama!

7:59	Dave Cameron: Royals

8:00	Dave Cameron: Jeff Sullivan and I have the action tonight. Let’s get this party started.

8:03	Dave Cameron: Interesting to see all the notes that both managers are planning on early hooks for their starters. Buster Olney says Herrera could come in as early as the 3rd inning, while Bumgarner’s availability tomorrow means Petit pitches again today.

8:03	Dave Cameron: When it’s win-or-go-home, roles go out the window, I guess.

8:04	Jeff Sullivan: Baseball chat!

8:04	Comment From Black Jesus Predictions?

8:05	Dave Cameron: I’ll take the Royals, since Yost is apparently willing to get 6 outs from Davis/Holland if need be.

8:05	Dave Cameron: Innings 1-3

8:05	Jeff Sullivan: I’ll take the Royals, since there’s something I want to do in Portland tomorrow night so I expect to not be able to do it

8:06	Comment From Jaack If this game goes stupid innings, would either team actually let a position player pitch?

8:06	Dave Cameron: Not unless they just ran out of pitchers and the last guy was physically able to keep going.

8:06	Dave Cameron: physically unable.

8:06	Jeff Sullivan: Who would be the best position player pitching?

8:06	Jeff Sullivan: I’ll say Escobar

8:06	Dave Cameron: Posey?

8:06	Jeff Sullivan: Hope we find out!

8:07	Comment From Compton FG odds have the Royals at 26.3% chance of winning this series. Any reason to believe it’s greater or less than that?

8:07	Jeff Sullivan: Not by more than a few percentage points

8:07	Dave Cameron: Two 50/50 shots, basically.

8:07	Comment From Jaack Belt was drafted as a pitcher I think?

8:07	Dave Cameron: Yeah, he was.

8:08	Jeff Sullivan: He never pitched anywhere professionally

8:08	Dave Cameron: No, but he was highly thought of as a pitching prospect.

8:08	Dave Cameron: James Loney was the same way.

8:09	Jeff Sullivan: Really upsetting to see the words written on Ventura’s hat

8:10	Dave Cameron: Gotta be even tougher for a guy his age, at a similar point in his career.

8:10	Jeff Sullivan: Seems like an awful lot of people in the game were at least fairly close with Taveras

8:10	Jeff Sullivan: …boy was Blanco ever beneath that fastball

8:10	Dave Cameron: He didn’t even really get that close.

8:11	Jeff Sullivan: Somehow he seemed ahead of it?

8:11	Comment From BurleighGrimes I didn’t know they’re allowed to write stuff on their hats? Ventura was evidently extremely close to OT.

8:11	Jeff Sullivan: Maybe white’s permitted. Sweat stains are white anyway

8:11	Dave Cameron: That looked like a hit off the bat.

8:11	Dave Cameron: But Royals D.

8:11	Jeff Sullivan: Playing hurt!

8:11	Jeff Sullivan: And Dave is ahead of me a few seconds

8:11	Comment From Kimball He overran it 🙂

8:12	Comment From Fletch What’s wrong with Lorenzo?

8:12	Jeff Sullivan: Lower body injuries

8:12	Jeff Sullivan: Everyone’s hurt but he’s a little extra hurt

8:12	Comment From Black Jesus Stingy low strike zone…

8:12	Dave Cameron: In that there is actually a bottom edge, unlike the last few games.

8:12	Comment From Guest It doesn’t seem to impact his defense though.

8:12	Jeff Sullivan: Nor his sprinting speed, yet

8:13	Dave Cameron: Looks like Posey missed one there.

8:13	Dave Cameron: 3-1 fastball down the middle.

8:13	Comment From Jon What to make of Posey’s recent lack of extra base hits?

8:13	Jeff Sullivan: I don’t like that you’re ahead of me!

8:14	Dave Cameron: Sorry. How far ahead?

8:14	Dave Cameron: I’ll type slower.

8:14	Jeff Sullivan: 2-3 seconds

8:14	Dave Cameron: Okay, I’ll buffer myself.

8:14	Comment From divcoman I’m almost certain that the players aren’t allowed to write things on their uniforms. But I can’t imagine MLB enforcing this. They’d appear to be ogres.

8:14	Dave Cameron: Fining Ventura for this would be abominable PR.

8:15	Jeff Sullivan: NFL would do it

8:15	Comment From David S. The NFL would fine him and not think twice

8:15	Jeff Sullivan: Agree with David S!

8:15	Comment From Jaack NFL actually is trying to fine him.

8:15	Dave Cameron: I laughed.

8:16	Jeff Sullivan: Of note — Ventura topped out at 97 in that inning. So either he’s showing some restraint and not overthrowing from adrenaline, or he’s a little cranky again

8:16	Dave Cameron: I said on Jonah Keri’s podcast today that the combination of low postseason K% and leaving a start with shoulder issues scared me a bit.

8:17	Jeff Sullivan: Yeah, it’s crazy that he’s back. Herrera, too. Things could’ve been so much worse for them this month

8:17	Comment From Compton They finally swapped Infante and Moose! My OCD really wanted it to be alternating L-R throughout. So neat, so clean!

8:17	Jeff Sullivan: 9-1 are both right-handed

8:18	Comment From Black Jesus They need to find some way to piss Peavey off

8:18	Jeff Sullivan: Regular baseball seems to do it

8:18	Dave Cameron: Maybe by misspelling his name?

8:18	Comment From mtsw More like “Peevey” amirite?

8:18	Comment From Tyler do i watch game 7 if i need to be up at 3:30 AM the next morning?

8:18	Jeff Sullivan: You always watch Game 7

8:19	Comment From BurleighGrimes Apparently, Tavares was going to spend time at Yordano Ventura’s house this winter as soon as the World Series was over. I can’t imagine going to work with so much grief in my heart.

8:19	Jeff Sullivan: For some people this is the best possible way to heal

8:19	Jeff Sullivan: How in the heck did Aoki hit that

8:19	Dave Cameron: Weird swing didn’t work twice.

8:19	Dave Cameron: (Did I delay enough?)

8:19	Jeff Sullivan: haha what was that

8:19	Comment From Guest Where is Marlins Man?

8:20	Jeff Sullivan: I can’t possibly imagine giving a shit

8:20	Comment From mtsw What could possibly happen in Game 6 that would provoke enough public interest that Game 7 out-rates Thursday Night Football this week? Anything?

8:20	Jeff Sullivan: No

8:20	Jeff Sullivan: Maybe one of the managers putting a bounty on another guy’s head

8:21	Comment From Guest Football game during God Bless America

8:21	Comment From Scott Aoki’s a free agent after the season, right? What kind of deal do you see him getting?

8:21	Jeff Sullivan: huh. 2/15?

8:21	Dave Cameron: Crowdsourcing results coming tomorrow!

8:21	Jeff Sullivan: What a deal he’s been

8:22	Comment From Ruki Is there still time to get in my crowdsourcing? When is the deadline to get mine in?

8:22	Dave Cameron: Deadline has passed.

8:22	Jeff Sullivan: Feels like it’s taken a minute between Peavy pitches for some reason here

8:23	Comment From mtsw Any chance Aoki returns to Japan? Seems like it’s not really worth it to stay at 2/15ish when he could prob get a healthy portion of that in NPB.

8:23	Dave Cameron: He’s channeling Luke Gregerson.

8:23	Jeff Sullivan: Huh?

8:23	Jeff Sullivan: Why would…

8:23	Comment From Oil Can Boyd Can you imagine getting as visibly angry at your place of work as some pitchers do at theirs?

8:23	Comment From Scott Aoki’s probably over here in the first place because he wants the challenge of playing at the highest level.

8:24	Jeff Sullivan: I watched Carlos Beltran slide into Felix Hernandez from my desk at my old biotech and beat the crap out of my cubicle wall

8:24	Jeff Sullivan: Kind of forgot where I was

8:24	Comment From Cashmere Taco I can’t even imagine wearing short sleeves and a cup to work like they do

8:24	Comment From Dan I cursed at AutoCAD pretty loud today when it crashed and I lost a bunch of work

8:25	Comment From BurleighGrimes Does it seem like the royals have gotten gunshy about running?

8:25	Jeff Sullivan: The Orioles were great about managing the running game, and the Giants are no slouches themselves

8:25	Dave Cameron: Ishikawa takes pride in his defense.

8:25	Jeff Sullivan: Royals watering down the outfield

8:25	Dave Cameron: Cain held when he was getting the go ahead sign. Interesting.

8:26	Jeff Sullivan: WILL THAT COST THE ROYALS THE GAME?!??!?!

8:26	Comment From Neil Very late go sign

8:26	Comment From Guest HR was right about the bad positioning of the 3B coach.

8:26	Comment From Kimball Is/how is catcher blocking quantified in runs? Seems like its value is so context dependent as to be hard to quantify reliably.

8:26	Jeff Sullivan: We know the value of extra bases

8:27	Comment From Jimbo And Cain was looking at the ball almost the whole time. He may have picked up the signal if he had his eye on the coach instead.

8:27	Comment From mtsw Will Major Leaguers get chewed out by the manager for ignoring base coaches signs, or is the presumption that they’re recommendations and the final decision is best left to the player?

8:27	Dave Cameron: I’m sure they’ll ask him why he stopped. If he has a good reason, it will be fine.

8:28	Jeff Sullivan: I’d probably trust Cain’s judgment over the coach anyway

8:28	Comment From thinking which defense is better. 3 Michael Morses, or 2 Cains

8:28	Jeff Sullivan: it’s probably 3 Morses but I don’t want it to be

8:29	Dave Cameron: About the question on pitch blocking: http://www.hardballtimes.co…

8:29	Dave Cameron: I’m not sure it is.

8:29	Jeff Sullivan: It’s close

8:29	Jeff Sullivan: I have no mathematical way of trying to solve this

8:29	Dave Cameron: The problem for the 2 Cains is the lines. They would be screwed on any ball hit down the line.

8:29	Comment From Matt I’m suffering from a herniated disc and I have a new found respect for athletes that play through injury.

8:30	Jeff Sullivan: Back injuries are funny and pathetic until you have one

8:30	Comment From Scott The Giants like keeping their WS teams intact, but they can’t keep Morse for another year in LF, right?

8:30	Dave Cameron: He’ll be someone’s 1B next year.

8:31	Comment From Cashmere Taco Morse -> Brewers

8:31	Dave Cameron: I could see that.

8:31	Jeff Sullivan: If the Padres are done with Alonso at any point…

8:32	Comment From chuckb I have to take my son to basketball practice. Should I follow the game on Gameday or just follow the live blog?

8:32	Jeff Sullivan: Live blog probably won’t give you enough gameplay details

8:32	Comment From Andruw Jones Am I the best defensive outfielder you’ve seen play?

8:32	Jeff Sullivan: 2009 Franklin Gutierrez, dang it

8:33	Jeff Sullivan: Well that was well-placed

8:33	Comment From Barry That hit was the Hunter Penceiest hit ever.

8:33	Jeff Sullivan: Best possible way to hit that pitch

8:33	Jeff Sullivan: That at-bat went 99 – 93 – 94. Curious

8:34	Jeff Sullivan: How long has Ventura been cutting the ball?

8:34	Comment From ralph Is Pence the fastest guy not thought of as a speed guy, and also the guy with the most power who’s not thought of as a power guy?

8:35	Dave Cameron: Probably. His top speeds on the bases have been equal to guys like Cain’s.

8:35	Jeff Sullivan: That was embarrassing

8:35	Jeff Sullivan: Pablo Sandoval, hitting coach

8:36	Dave Cameron: Interesting route, but he gets there.

8:36	Jeff Sullivan: How does he do that

8:36	Jeff Sullivan: What a fun player to watch

8:36	Jeff Sullivan: Glad he’s not on my favorite team, but he is not dull

8:36	Dave Cameron: I don’t think I’d enjoy watching him every day.

8:37	Jeff Sullivan: Only on a team that’s already bad

8:37	Comment From Dem Eyes Would you let Hunter Pence be alone with your children? He seems like he might like to eat them.

8:37	Jeff Sullivan: I think he seems nice

8:37	Dave Cameron: He’s rich. He’d probably buy them neat things.

8:37	Jeff Sullivan: Yeah. He’d be a wonderful babysitter!

8:38	Comment From Derp Even tradionalistas, as Tom Tango calls them, have to realize that it’s silly to show a player’s World Series batting average, right?

8:38	Dave Cameron: Frtios chilli pizza immediately followed by “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.”

8:38	Jeff Sullivan: Depends what you’re showing the numbers for. If you want to indicate some probability of a hit, it’s silly. If you just want to show something recent, then, whatever

8:38	Comment From Ruki Fritos Chili Pizza? I feel like I’m going to be sick.

8:38	Dave Cameron: That’s how that pizza was invented.

8:39	Jeff Sullivan: It’s just a Frito pie on a pizza. It’s stupid but I’m sure it tastes fine

8:39	Jeff Sullivan: Like, a chorizo/black bean pizza is amazing

8:39	Dave Cameron: Chorizo is good. Black beans are good.

8:39	Dave Cameron: Fritos are not, and I’m betting Papa Johns chili sucks too.

8:39	Jeff Sullivan: Agree, but I bet you could make an edible version at home

8:40	Jeff Sullivan: While we’re talking about food, that gelato that’s $10 to ship? A Salt & Straw pint from a few blocks away is $9.

8:40	Comment From ralph What would Morse’s UZR/150 be right now if he went back to his original position of SS?

8:40	Dave Cameron: Gotta love capitalism.

8:40	Jeff Sullivan: -all of the WAR

8:41	Comment From Robert Should baseball be concerned with low playoff ratings or shoud it just keep harvesting the gane’s popularity on a local level?

8:41	Dave Cameron: Baseball is making record revenues. World Series ratings are mostly irrelevant.

8:41	Dave Cameron: That was smoked.

8:42	Dave Cameron: Peavy getting smoked, but he did this last start too.

8:42	Dave Cameron: And the Giants bullpen gets warm.

8:42	Jeff Sullivan: Okay so actually that’s how you hit that pitch down and away

8:43	Comment From yo hot take: the i don’t think this game is ending 0-0

8:43	Comment From chuckb I find chorizo far too greasy. Is something wrong with me?

8:43	Jeff Sullivan: soyrizo is good

8:44	Comment From Vic Romano On one hand, the BT Sport broadcast isn’t saddling me with the ever-annoying Joe Buck…..but on the other hand, they are saddling me with the ever-annoying Rick Sutcliffe.

8:44	Dave Cameron: Looked like Belt should have gotten that.

8:44	Jeff Sullivan: Sutcliffe is the worst

8:44	Jeff Sullivan: #lineupmagic

8:44	Dave Cameron: He mistimed the dive.

8:44	Jeff Sullivan: Mound visit already

8:44	Dave Cameron: Took an extra step, it looked like.

8:44	Jeff Sullivan: Not a bad pitch. Pitch before was a bad pitch

8:45	Dave Cameron: Yeah, extra step, and dove too late. Not an easy play, but he should have made that.

8:45	Jeff Sullivan: Reverse-line Donaldson play

8:46	Dave Cameron: Awful swing by Infante. That wasn’t close.

8:46	Comment From ralph Is there a second-time-through-the-World Series penalty?

8:46	Jeff Sullivan: You’d think a hurt Infante would swing less often than usual

8:46	Jeff Sullivan: Wonder when the last time is that Javier Lopez was warming in the second inning

8:47	Dave Cameron: Infante is getting himself out.

8:47	Dave Cameron: Brutal at-bat, Omar.

8:47	Jeff Sullivan: Oh god, that was as bad as the Alcides Escobar strikeout from Game 1

8:48	Dave Cameron: Maybe worse!

8:48	Jeff Sullivan: Same pitch four times in a row

8:48	Comment From David S. I don’t have shoes on and I’ve had 3 beers and I could’ve had a better AB

8:49	Dave Cameron: Bad pitch, good result. Escobar swung through a meatball.

8:50	Jeff Sullivan: Ehhh, a little too far away to be a meatball

8:50	Dave Cameron: Not a good inning for Brandon Belt.

8:50	Jeff Sullivan: That was…

8:50	Jeff Sullivan: That was something, all right

8:50	Dave Cameron: These kinds of plays are the worst way to lose.

8:51	Jeff Sullivan: Like the Matt Adams inning a few weeks ago

8:51	Comment From divcoman The very rare case where sliding into first was the right play.

8:51	Comment From mtsw Mound visit seems premature given that they’re basically being BABIPed to death, not that Peavy is pitching bad.

8:51	Comment From 45 To be fair, plays like that are how the Giants got here in the first place.

8:51	Jeff Sullivan: Not just about correcting bad pitching; also about calming a guy down. Bad hits are frustrating and Peavy runs high-temper

8:52	Dave Cameron: I’d have had Lopez in here.

8:52	Dave Cameron: You need this out.

8:52	Jeff Sullivan: MIght not want to use him on a guy without much of a platoon split. I don’t know

8:53	Dave Cameron: Lopez’s platoon split overrides Aoki’s, I think.

8:53	Jeff Sullivan: Both, of course, are factors

8:53	Comment From Cistulli is a monster One wonders if Peavy is 100% healthy here, since even if reports say he is, that doesn’t mean it’s the case.

8:53	Jeff Sullivan: I don’t think he’s ever 100% healthy

8:53	Comment From Daniel Peavy is done after this right?

8:53	Dave Cameron: Absolutely.

8:54	Dave Cameron: That’s probably called a strike if the count isn’t 0-2.

8:54	Comment From Guest is there any data to show when balls are more likely to be called strikes? like the comment you just made?

8:54	Jeff Sullivan: Really trying hard to elevate a fastball here and he’s not elevating enough

8:54	Dave Cameron: Yeah, the zone changes by count.

8:55	Dave Cameron: Shrinks with 2 strikes, grows in 3-0/3-1 situations.

8:56	Jeff Sullivan: Same thing. Trying to go high, didn’t go high enough. Like five times in that at-bat

8:56	Dave Cameron: So why stick with Peavy against the LHB if you’re going to pull him with the RHB coming up?

8:56	Jeff Sullivan: Second time Bochy’s done that in the series

8:57	Comment From Jimbo Peavey has stood near the mound on every hit. That throw nearly got by Posey.

8:57	Dave Cameron: Royals win expectancy up to 83%.

8:57	Dave Cameron: http://www.fangraphs.com/li…

8:59	Comment From Henry Dave: I asked this to someone else the other day, but that WP model assumes run environment of regular season, right? If so, shouldn’t it be even higher for this postseason game (lower run env. usually)?

8:59	Dave Cameron: Yeah, but environment isn’t that much lower.

8:59	Comment From ralph Would you add a couple ticks to that Royals WE, given their bullpen? (Man it’d be cool if you had customized WE for teams during the WS.)

8:59	Jeff Sullivan: It makes only very small differences to the WE%

8:59	Dave Cameron: Yeah, you could bump it up a little bit, but still not going to change much.

8:59	Comment From Jed Why has Petit not started over Peavy or Vogelsong?

9:00	Dave Cameron: Because he just pitched two days ago?

9:00	Jeff Sullivan: I think he means during the playoffs

9:01	Comment From Davod I would think the Giants’ bullpen now is gonna be a bit worn out for game 7 if this stays close

9:01	Jeff Sullivan: Adrenaline will get them over anything

9:01	Dave Cameron: Would be interesting to see at what point Bochy would punt today and play for tomorrow.

9:01	Dave Cameron: If this gets to 5-0 or 6-0, maybe then we get 3 innings of Hunter Strickland.

9:01	Jeff Sullivan: 6+ run deficit in the 6th+ inning

9:02	Jeff Sullivan: And Strickland, also, isn’t bad!

9:02	Comment From Devo HanRam to the yanks?

9:02	Jeff Sullivan: Have to ask, why would you bring this up in a world series chat?

9:02	Comment From John extended Strickland over extended Lincecum?

9:02	Dave Cameron: If you’re punting, you want Lincecum for an inning or two tomorrow.

9:02	Comment From Guest Does seeing lots of pitches in an AB make a significant difference in the outcome?

9:03	Jeff Sullivan: I believe hitters get better results as plate appearances get longer and longer

9:03	Jeff Sullivan: This is some kind of big inning

9:03	Dave Cameron: Not over yet. But headed that direction.

9:03	Jeff Sullivan: One ball hit with real authority

9:03	Comment From Dave Game over

9:03	Comment From mtsw KC must have made same sacrifice to BABIP Gods that they did before the Orioles series…

9:03	Comment From Godot Giants getting a big ol’ taste of their own “crappily hit balls falling for hits” medicine.

9:04	Comment From Bob So Giants will get crushed and go into game 7 with Hudson tomorrow and no Petit

9:04	Dave Cameron: They have Bumgarner tomorrow.

9:04	Comment From Ben Just got here, is Bumgarner available tonight?

9:04	Jeff Sullivan: They’re saving him

9:05	Comment From T why did Giants start peavy in game 2/5 in stead of hudson? wouldn’t you prefer to have peavy for one game in AT&T park more?

9:05	Dave Cameron: Hudson was pretty bad in the second half.

9:06	Jeff Sullivan: Not sure I’ve ever seen a time-out with a pitch AND a swing

9:06	Dave Cameron: Yeah, me either.

9:06	Jeff Sullivan: That was pretty great. And it was a hit!

9:06	Comment From Jeff How many pitches could Bumgarner go, realistically, in a Game 7?

9:06	Dave Cameron: ~50ish.

9:07	Comment From Guest Does Jeff get paid overtime for these extra chats?

9:07	Jeff Sullivan: I just do my other work worse

9:07	Dave Cameron: Haha.

9:07	Dave Cameron: This is hilarious.

9:07	Jeff Sullivan: Unbelievable

9:08	Jeff Sullivan: You can’t predict baseball because baseball has a mental disorder

9:08	Comment From That Guy So how does that show up on the field trackers? A 6-inch double?

9:08	Comment From Anonymous NotGraphs lives another day!!!

9:09	Comment From Chadwicks Treatise A very very Royals inning

9:09	Jeff Sullivan: In fairness, also a very Giants inning, if they were the ones scoring

9:09	Jeff Sullivan: They’ve had this coming

9:09	Comment From The Big Dipper Still a lot of game left

9:09	Jeff Sullivan: probably four hours’ worth for some reason

9:10	Comment From Guest Royals chances to win it all at 50 % yet?

9:10	Jeff Sullivan: probably about on the nose

9:10	Dave Cameron: So when do we just call this a night and say see you tomorrow?

9:10	Jeff Sullivan: Whenever you like! I’ve already chatted three hours today!

9:10	Comment From Dan NO CAMERON YOU MAKE SULLIVAN WORK

9:10	Comment From Dan COUNTRY BREAKFAST

9:11	Comment From Daniel Time to talk about ice cream again

9:11	Jeff Sullivan: Or just eat some

9:11	Jeff Sullivan: That quieted a lot of the people asking about starting Petit

9:11	Dave Cameron: Hey, Belt makes a play.

9:11	Jeff Sullivan: A blowout at least makes things better for bullpen health tomorrow

9:12	Comment From guest oh yeah there was only 1 out

9:12	Comment From Clayton Pull Ventura now? Save him for tomorrow? Surely Duffy can finish this.

9:12	Dave Cameron: No way he’s able to come back tomorrow on 0 days rest after having a shoulder problem two weeks ago.

9:12	Jeff Sullivan: better to just have Duffy tomorrow

9:13	Comment From Matt This series has been awesome.

9:13	Jeff Sullivan: one game decided by fewer than five runs

9:13	Jeff Sullivan: sooooo

9:14	Comment From Barry Do you now pull Petit so you have him tomorrow?

9:14	Jeff Sullivan: Probably have Lincecum go in the third

9:15	Dave Cameron: Liberty just went outside and took a dump, or as we call it around here, a Peavy.

9:15	Jeff Sullivan: That’s also what they call it in October in San Diego!

9:15	Comment From Ben So um, how about HanRam to the, uh, Yanks was it?

9:15	Jeff Sullivan: General baseball chat!

9:15	Jeff Sullivan: Hanley Ramirez to New York for 10/252!

9:15	Dave Cameron: Fair warning: I have a Fox piece to write tonight, so I might make you do this yourself in the not too distant future.

9:16	Jeff Sullivan: Wait, there’s a cooking show with children?

9:16	Jeff Sullivan: Why are you so unkind to me

9:16	Comment From ralph Wait, they’re cooking children?

9:16	Comment From Tom Can I just say #MarlinsMan is possibly my favorite thing about this postseason?

9:16	Jeff Sullivan: This isn’t new, though. He’s done this before

9:17	Comment From Jon Royals go HDH 7-9 even if it’s 6-0, right?

9:17	Dave Cameron: Hah, I hadn’t seen Belt fell down at the end of that bad play.

9:17	Jeff Sullivan: Actually I doubt it? Not unless they need to

9:17	Dave Cameron: I’m not sure he could have done more things wrong tehre.

9:17	Jeff Sullivan: Two minutes please, just knocked over a glass of water

9:18	Comment From jesucristo Is Ventura allowed to write on his hat?

9:18	Comment From Anonymous “Fielder’s Choice” is being generous. I don’t think baseball has an acronym for “Fielder’s OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING”

9:18	Dave Cameron: They need a new designation.

9:18	Dave Cameron: Fielding Brain Fart.

9:18	Comment From Anonymous FOOTBLAN?

9:18	Comment From Percy Fielding Flub

9:18	Comment From Ben A juniors game I once played featured the official scorer just writing “Lots of Errors” in the little box

9:18	Comment From Punt in the Twunt fielder’s bad choice

9:19	Comment From tru on track for a brisk 5-hour, 9 inning game

9:19	Comment From Vic Romano Tomorrow’s Royals pitchers….Herrera, Davis, Holland for 3 innings each. How awesome/insane would that be?

9:19	Dave Cameron: Probably a little too aggressive. 2 each.

9:19	Comment From Matt kind of amazing that Jeremy Guthrie is going to start Game 7 of the World Series

9:20	Comment From Shrewd Cat What is the Giants WE atm?

9:20	Dave Cameron: 3%

9:21	Jeff Sullivan: This is an example of how pitchers suck at strikes

9:21	Jeff Sullivan: Absolutely no reason to not be pounding teh zone right now

9:21	Dave Cameron: I can’t think of a scenario where you want to throw strikes more.

9:21	Comment From Godot Lance Lynn batting. Throw more strikes.

9:21	Jeff Sullivan: Yusmeiro Petit batting

9:22	Comment From Bob How long does an inning have to go for it to be like sitting through a rain delay for the starter

9:22	Jeff Sullivan: Bedard long

9:23	Comment From Corry I’ll try this one again! Thoughts on Brandon Phillips becoming best defensive 2nd basemen of all time based on fielding percentage?

9:23	Jeff Sullivan: Not even one single thought

9:23	Comment From Guest Who is the first FA to sign?

9:23	Jeff Sullivan: Somebody third-tier

9:23	Comment From Dan Cameron nice job on Jonah’s podcast! I raked leaves listening to you today.

9:23	Dave Cameron: Thanks, I think.

9:24	Comment From Daniel Fielding percentage is a load of bullpeavy

9:25	Jeff Sullivan: Yeah, what this game needs is more too-long plate appearances

9:25	Jeff Sullivan: I’m going to miss the playoffs, but I”m not going to miss the four hours of one game of the playoffs each day

9:26	Comment From Derp If a pitcher can throw 100MPH normally, he can throw a strike 99% of the time at _____ MPH.

9:26	Jeff Sullivan: none of them. can’t do it at any velocity

9:26	Dave Cameron: Another walk.

9:26	Dave Cameron: Amazing.

9:26	Jeff Sullivan: Incredible. How

9:26	Comment From JKB Yost is leaving

9:26	Jeff Sullivan: Coming up on an hour and a half! If the Giants don’t do something to make this game interesting now I’m going to be steamed

9:26	Comment From jesucristo Where are you Duffy?

9:27	Jeff Sullivan: Well that’ll work for me I guess

9:27	Dave Cameron: I’m not one who says “make a pitcher throw strikes”, but a first pitch swing there?

9:27	Jeff Sullivan: That was surprising. Wasn’t even a clear strike

9:27	Comment From Guest Would people riot in Kc if the Giants came back? On a 1-10 how shocked would you guys be

9:28	Jeff Sullivan: Funny you ask that

9:28	Comment From alex That’s unfair – isn’t a ball in front of the plate supposed to bounce over the fielder’s head?

9:28	Jeff Sullivan: Hypothetically, let’s say the Royals force Game 7, lead in the 9th, and then Greg Holland melts down and the Royals lose. Are people still thankful for the playoff run? if so, how long until they realize it?

9:28	Dave Cameron: Very quickly, I think.

9:28	Jeff Sullivan: Interesting

9:29	Jeff Sullivan: It would probably take me some weeks

9:29	Dave Cameron: How long did 1995 take you?

9:29	Jeff Sullivan: I was a child. Who cares what I thought?

9:29	Dave Cameron: Fair.

9:29	Dave Cameron: The music is super annoying, but I like this MLB commercial.

9:30	Dave Cameron: Jean Machi in. So that answers the question about when Bochy punts.

9:30	Jeff Sullivan: When do we punt

9:30	Comment From cave dameron If Madison Bumgarner gives up 52 straight HRs, he’ll still have a lower career postseason ERA than Jake Peavy.

9:30	Dave Cameron: I’m going to write my Fox piece in a few innings if this doesn’t get closer.

9:31	Comment From Derp Is “the ball just sounds different coming off his bat” not as stupid as I think it is? Or is it just as stupid as I think it is? It cannot be more stupid than I think it is.

9:31	Jeff Sullivan: Not as stupid, but a little stupid, perhaps?

9:31	Comment From Mike So are the Royals the favorite in tomorrow’s game?

9:31	Dave Cameron: It’s real and overused, I think.

9:31	Jeff Sullivan: yeah, probably 55-45

9:31	Comment From Guest longest game everrrrr… and now there’s hardly any reason to keep watching

9:32	Dave Cameron: I think some people, well trained scouts, probably can pick up subtle differences in sound. I think announcers probably cannot.

9:32	Jeff Sullivan: Double whammy

9:32	Jeff Sullivan: This is Game 6 of the 2001 World Series. Hopefully tomorrow is Game 7

9:32	Dave Cameron: “Seven run inning was huge.”

9:32	Dave Cameron: Insight!

9:33	Jeff Sullivan: So with a Game 7, Yost gets his wish!

9:33	Comment From Ben It’s actually harder to throw strikes once you decrease velocity/effort beyond a certain point. Need a certain level of speed to maintain mechanics

9:33	Dave Cameron: Infante hits a pitch.

9:33	Jeff Sullivan: Which is why a lot of guys throw pretty normal when issuing an intentional walk

9:34	Comment From Guest Are you rooting for the Giants Jeff? Is it a west coast thing

9:34	Jeff Sullivan: I was rooting for something interesting. I’m not getting it tonight!

9:34	Dave Cameron: You could turn this into a Volcano chat, if that would be more interesting.

9:34	Dave Cameron: That would give me an excuse to leave.

9:34	Jeff Sullivan: Well obviously it would be more interesting

9:34	Jeff Sullivan: But like hell am I letting you get out of here

9:35	Comment From Davod So about Bumgarner going on short rest, I know pitchers usually pitch worse on short rest but are there measurable things that pitchers usually do worse on short rest? For example, maybe less velocity, less pitch movement?

9:35	Dave Cameron: I have a Fox piece to write. Have pity on me!

9:35	Jeff Sullivan: We don’t really know — they just generally do worse. But Bumgarner working out of the bullpen would offset some of that

9:35	Jeff Sullivan: Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s hard, writing for Fox can be inconvenient. You go when you feel it’s appropriate to go

9:36	Jeff Sullivan: Haha I don’t know

9:36	Jeff Sullivan: Just rewrite what I wrote about home-field advantages

9:36	Jeff Sullivan: which was a rewrite of what Petriello wrote about home-field advantages

9:36	Dave Cameron: The poll is a joke. Suggestions are seriously welcome, though.

9:36	Dave Cameron: Because analyzing this game seems pointless.

9:36	Comment From psy jung is there a world in which Ventura is pulled after 2 and starts again tomorrow?

9:36	Jeff Sullivan: Not a world we’ve discovered

9:37	Comment From ralph Does your Fox piece actually have to be about Game 6?

9:37	Dave Cameron: It does not. Game 7 suggestions valid too.

9:37	Comment From Chris How do baseball writers like you guys deal with boring, lopsided games like this? The average schmuck like me can turn the game off and do other things, but this is your job. Is this the part of the job that sucks, or is it something else?

9:37	Jeff Sullivan: We’re going to have nothing but Game 7 content tomorrow because what can you write about this

9:37	Dave Cameron: This is part of the job that sucks. But every job has sucky parts, and relatively, this is not that sucky.

9:37	Jeff Sullivan: If we weren’t livechatting I’d be making dinner and hardly paying attention right now

9:38	Dave Cameron: What are you going to have for dinner instead?

9:38	Comment From ralph One easy suggestion would be to draw out your ideal pitching orders for each team.

9:38	Dave Cameron: Leaning that way too.

9:38	Jeff Sullivan: I tried a different pulled pork recipe with a mustard-based sauce. It’s good

9:38	Jeff Sullivan: Basically living out of my crockpot during October

9:38	Dave Cameron: I braised mine in apple cider the other day, then used apple sauce as the spread on the bun when I made the sandwich. Recommended.

9:39	Comment From The Big Dipper Tell me you’re not bastardizing it in the crockpot

9:39	Comment From The Big Dipper oh

9:39	Jeff Sullivan: Noted for the weekend!

9:39	Jeff Sullivan: I’m a blogger, the hell else am I supposed to do

9:39	Dave Cameron: Order a fritos chili pizza.

9:39	Jeff Sullivan: I’ll take honest pulled pork recommendations if you people have something better than a slow cooker

9:40	Comment From Daniel I think EW podcast had a guy on about bat sounds earlier this year.

9:40	Dave Cameron: Hey look, more runs!

9:40	Jeff Sullivan: It was a very interesting analysis!

9:40	Jeff Sullivan: I don’t see Blanco’s horse anywhere

9:41	Comment From Yo has there been a worse CS/WS game 7 SP matchup than Hudson/Guthrie?

9:41	Comment From Henry Dave, re: FOX piece: maybe short-rest penalty (to start MadBum or not)? That has to be a topic that a lot of people are interested in, and Saber community has a decent answer for…

9:41	Jeff Sullivan: Difference being neither one will last more than 2-3 innings

9:41	Dave Cameron: Yeah, a good suggestion too.

9:42	Comment From Guest 2 hours for 3 innings. Oh baseball

9:42	Jeff Sullivan: This is so pointless. I know I sound complainy but this is a waste of all of our attention and time

9:42	Comment From Anonymous The name ‘Gregor Blanco’ means ‘To Watch out for Whitey’.

9:43	Jeff Sullivan: good advice

9:43	Comment From LVP I liked the Giants better when Buster Posey was still playing for them.

9:43	Comment From Oil Can Boyd Volcano chat. We actually have volcano happenings.

9:43	Jeff Sullivan: Sulfur dioxide levels off the charts in regions of Iceland!

9:44	Jeff Sullivan: Plume hasn’t gotten high enough to have global consequences but it could head toward Scandinavia

9:44	Comment From Anonymous The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano, burning everything in its path, advanced more than 80 metres in the past 24 hours towards the town of Pahoa, on the eastern tip of the island, officials are reporting.

9:44	Jeff Sullivan: People are afraid of lava. It’s funny. Lava has killed basically like zero people in the recorded history of the planet.

9:44	Comment From Nick So is it safe to say that the painfully awkward San Francisco Giants showed up tonight?

9:45	Jeff Sullivan: Oh no, lava is over there, I better very slowly pack up all of my belongings and leave in a week or two.

9:45	Comment From Adam hey, a game 6 2001 stat!

9:45	Comment From John Most interesting volcano fact?

9:45	Dave Cameron: Another first pitch swing.

9:46	Jeff Sullivan: Most interesting volcano fact is like asking about most beautiful sunset

9:46	Jeff Sullivan: I like informing people that the Yellowstone hotspot has moved over the course of a few million years from the southeastern border of Oregon

9:47	Jeff Sullivan: Man I hope tomorrow’s game is close

9:47	Comment From Ryan So, Kyle Zimmer had shoulder surgery– think he helps the ROyals next year?

9:47	Jeff Sullivan: Not at least until July

9:47	Jeff Sullivan: Probably not until September

9:47	Comment From Jamie Dave’s got nothing on volcanoes?

9:48	Dave Cameron: Less than nothing.

9:48	Jeff Sullivan: use “pyroclastic” in a sentence

9:48	Dave Cameron: My friend was a pyroclastic, so he got arrested.

9:48	Jeff Sullivan: atta boy

9:49	Comment From Vic Romano I won my 8th grade spelling bee with the word “pyroclastic”.

9:49	Jeff Sullivan: I thought you might go with “I don’t know what pyroclastic means”

9:49	Comment From Jimbo “I do not know what pyroclastic means”.

9:49	Jeff Sullivan: bingo

9:49	Comment From Guest Pyroclastic is a word with 11 letters.

9:49	Jeff Sullivan: This chat has turned around 180 degrees!

9:49	Comment From Grand Admiral Braun “World Series winning manager” could be on Ned Yost’s resume and ultimately in his obituary. Wow.

9:49	Jeff Sullivan: Bob Brenly’s already been there

9:50	Comment From Ruki how is it only the 4th inninng

9:50	Comment From The Big Dipper I wish this game would move more pyroclastically

9:50	Comment From Chris I really liked the movie Volcano. That’s…relevant to the discussion, right?

9:50	Jeff Sullivan: That movie, while ridiculous, featured relatively accurate portrayals of lava as a substance!

9:50	Comment From Anonymous Lava doesn’t kill people because we’ve been playing ‘The Floor Is Lava’ since we were old enough to stand.

9:51	Comment From Fred What has looked worse? This game, or that fritos chili pizza?

9:51	Comment From Adam Can you do a poll of Volcano, Dante’s Peak, and Pompeii?

9:51	Jeff Sullivan: The game has at least had funny moments

9:51	Comment From Daniel Dave should write about volcanos for Fox tomorrow.

9:51	Dave Cameron: Wasn’t there a Joe Vs the Volcano movie too?

9:51	Jeff Sullivan: yeah 🙁

9:51	Comment From Ryan RE: Game 7 Matchups: How about the 2006 NLCS with Oliver Perez vs. Jeff Suppan for worst of all time?

9:51	Comment From The Big Dipper If Yellowstone blows are we all gonna die?

9:52	Jeff Sullivan: not even like five of you

9:52	Comment From Guest Whose chatting tmrw?

9:52	Dave Cameron: Us!

9:52	Jeff Sullivan: I hope nobody actually reads this chat transcript when it’s posted

9:52	Dave Cameron: I might not even post it.

9:52	Jeff Sullivan: I can’t blame you

9:52	Comment From Yo I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored I’m so bored

9:52	Comment From Yo The floor is hot lava!

9:52	Comment From Jaack Just replace it with a THIS POST DELETED BY ADMINISTRATOR.

9:52

Comment From highrent
Its not lava that kills people. Its usually the smoke and cinder that is the result of an eruption. There has been some lava kills but usually people walking on semi-cooled lava and fall in ie dumb people. I come from a place where walking on ground that melts your shoes is a tourist attraction.

9:53	Comment From Ruki @Dave: How about trying to look into why pitchers are worse on short rest, even if it just ends up with you throwing your arms up?

9:53	Comment From That Guy Are managers actually more aggressive with their bullpens in game 7 scenarios or is that just something we accept as fact because it makes the most sense?

9:53	Jeff Sullivan: When there’s no tomorrow, they go pretty nuts

9:53	Dave Cameron: It’s a good study for FG, but probably not for Fox’s audience.

9:53	Jeff Sullivan: Writing for Fox can be weird like that

9:53	Dave Cameron: Tomorrow is Wednesday, so yes.

9:53	Comment From hscer I forget Jeff’s answer last time I mentioned the SimCity 2000 scenario where a volcano erupts in downtown Portland.

9:53	Jeff Sullivan: We’re over a lava field! It’s called the Boring lava field. That is true

9:54	Comment From Ryan Do you have any info on the demographics of the fangraphs audience versus, say, the Fox audience, or the ESPN audience, etc?

9:54	Dave Cameron: We don’t have demographic numbers for those guys, but I bet we skew younger.

9:55	Jeff Sullivan: Any minute now we should hear from that couple where the guy bought the girl a dog after the WC game

9:55	Comment From hscer Why are they interviewing these people?

9:55	Dave Cameron: Have you seen the game?

9:55	Jeff Sullivan: I haven’t for 40 minutes

9:55	Comment From Guest 8-0. Interview everyone!

9:55	Jeff Sullivan: God knows they have time

9:56	Comment From Lavalogist “Hello, how are sales?” – to the cotton candy salesman

9:56	Comment From Bernard Gilkey Whoa, did you see this? The Associated Press is reporting that volcanoes are for people who are lame.

9:56	Jeff Sullivan: it’s not true!!

9:57	Comment From Sean Has there ever been any sort of saber metric study on how much of a difference pitch tipping makes? Can’t be an easy thing to study, but Verduccis comment a few moments ago made me wonder

9:57	Jeff Sullivan: We don’t have a database of pitch-tippers.

9:57	Jeff Sullivan: It’s basically impossible to ever spot or confirm

9:57	Comment From Hank I’m in to see if a position player pitches.

9:57	Comment From Ben Gun to your head: Dante’s Peak or Volcano and don’t make some quip about the necessity of the gun

9:57	Jeff Sullivan: Dante’s Peak

9:57	Comment From Ruki This game is way better than fritos chili pizza. It has Ishikawa falling on his ass and Hunter Pence.

9:58	Comment From Guest Score?

9:58	Jeff Sullivan: Too much to too little, KC on top

9:58	Comment From Shea I just want to see my name on here

9:58	Dave Cameron: Brandon Belt is not having a good day.

9:58	Jeff Sullivan: Belt did all he could, except catch the baseball

9:59	Comment From Ben Dave, post this transcript as your Fox piece

9:59	Comment From amidon isn’t yellowstone a supervolcano though? not that i have any idea what a supervolcano is

9:59	Dave Cameron: Ben wants us to get fired.

9:59	Jeff Sullivan: If Yellowstone erupts the overwhelming likelihood is that the eruption is small and contained within the caldera

9:59	Comment From matt I don’t care how boring this is; better than any NFL game this season.

9:59	Jeff Sullivan: yeah, down with football!