We were promised greatness. Leading into this game, the prospective Madison Bumgarner vs. Noah Syndergaardmatchup was supposed to be the clash of aces that makes for must-see baseball. The game’s most notorious postseason pitcher–one of the greatest of all time already–faced off against the hardest-throwing starting pitcher in the game, a young ace who carried his team on […]
Day: October 6, 2016
2016 Wild Card Game Recap: Wait Till Next Year
Executive Summary Conor Gillaspie hit a three-run ninth-inning home run in support of a Madison Bumgarner shutout. Giants 3, Mets 0. Discussion and Analysis Conor Gillaspie batted only 205 times during the regular season. He started last night because Eduardo Nunez, the Giants’ big trade-deadline acquisition, injured his hamstring down the stretch. Gillaspie playing hero in the […]
For All You Kids Out There, NL Wild Card Review: “F*** it Dude, let’s go bowling”
“On the day that i become so forgetful that all of this melts away, I will burn all the calendars that counted the years down to such a worthless day.” It’s nobody’s fault really, but here we are. Time for Jarrett to write a bunch of the stuff for the Annual and figure out how many […]