Interesting contrast in yesterday's games, no? You had three teams who have had to play at a nonstop pitch of intensity for the last couple weeks, executing; and you had Atlanta, which had its crappish division won...well, by Labor Day, if we're being generous about...whatever happened in Philadelphia, and hasn't necessarily had to focus quite so hard of late.
We do have a poolie who's visited Chavez Ravine recently; maybe s/he wants to report on what might face a visiting pitcher. On TV, it doesn't seem like it's as intense for the away team as, say, Fenway, but who knows what rattled Folty last night -- Koufax in his eyeline, not enough humidity, the fearsome line-up.
Points for the opener:
Blackmon 1
Yelich 5
A little more love in the nightcap:
Albies 1
Freeman 1
Muncy 4
Turner 2
Standings and schedule after the jump!
A veritable barrage of baseball hits at 2:05 ET, which should get the rest of the pool on the board; at the moment we have a handful of AL-only slates with nada.
For the moment, it's Bingham 2 with 7, MArbour with 6, everyone ELSE who picked Yelich in third with those 5 points, Richardson at 4, and...the rest.
And "the rest," should they have picked on CLE/HOU, should likely not rely on a ton of pointage in the opener, as it's Kluber v. Verlander at 2:05 (TBS).
Rox @ Crew goes again at 4:15 on FS1.
Yanks/Sox is the primetime program, unsurprisingly, and that bows at 7:32 on TBS, with The Battle Of The Four-Letter Words -- Happ v. Sale.
Last but not least, Sanchez v. Kershaw at 9:37 on FS1.
Questions, comments, dark muttering about booth dumbassery? We're open.
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Re: recent trip to Dodger Stadium. Recent, as in rejiggering a return from vacation to hit the Dodgers/Rockies play-in game. Firstly, that place is wiiiiiiide. No friendly confines there. There's a ginormous speaker facing into center field from behind that produces more than enough sound to fill the entire place, which I found disconcerting. The fans were engaged, and did many rounds of "Rockies suck" (even while ahead in the game, which struck me as both unnecessary and unimaginative). They also booed Marquez when he left the game :/
The experience left me unimpressed. Glad I ticked the box, but have no plans to return.
(The live organ is cool; the organist was clearly the cleverest of the operation. S/he opted for Back to Black for Chuck Nazty and Neverending Story for our Trevor. Also cool: the views from the top -- that would be 9th-floor -- concourse.)
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