Game 157: Wang is right

by Doghouse on Sep 24, 2011 4:40 PM EDT

Today's game story: CMW's comeback season ends w/Nats win.

via www.fangraphs.com

Can he bunt? Chien-Ming Wang (+24.4% pitching, +3.4% hitting) fans 4, walks none, and gives up only 1 ER over the course of 6 IP. He even singles in a run (his first major league hit, +5.4%).
Steady: Ryan Zimmerman (+10.2%) is 2-4.
Demonstrating something: Chris Marrero (+8.5%) singles in a run for the early lead (+10.4%), while Danny Espinosa (+8.3%) singles in two more to tack on (+9.8%).
WPA doesn't give him credit for this: Ivan Rodriguez (-2.7%) guns down a runner to help defuse a runners-corners jam in the aeyeth (+8.1%).

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To me Pudge

’s play was the ballgame. 1st and 3rd one out in the bottom of the eyght (I got one eye one the Cubs/Cards game on the outfield scoreboard, Cards down 1-0 in the bottom of the 9th,man on third, 2 outs) and he throws out Bourne stealing!…. Then Clip gets the 3rd out… Then all of a sudden the Cards are up and have won the game 2-1. Then Drew moze down down the Braves in the bottom of the nynth?
Talk about a turn of events in the wild card race!

by PerryMason on Sep 24, 2011 5:13 PM EDT reply actions

Davey Johnson agreed, called it the play of the ballgame as well...

Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."

by Patrick Reddington on Sep 24, 2011 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

YEAH! Pudge!

Plus I don’t think Ramos could have done that. He’s working on his moves and throws, but he’s got a ways to go. And NO WAY could he have gotten all those WILD pitches Clip was throwing that inning!

SO my MVP was definitely Pudge despite the lack of respect and love from WPA (just another flaw, among the many, in that set of metrics)

And BIG SMIRK to the haters who said he shouldn’t play another game this year!
;-)

"player development" should not be gladiator games. by cat daddy3000 on Aug 6, 2011

by MissB on Sep 24, 2011 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions

It's a first!

Miss B and Davey Johnson agree!

by PerryMason on Sep 24, 2011 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions

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by Mike Prada on Sep 24, 2011 6:58 PM EDT reply actions

Got to say

Love how loose this team has been all week. The team definitely plays better with this kind of energy as opposed to everyone screaming their throats dry whenever Werth takes a pitch

Whats the frequency, Kenneth?

by ZimforPrez on Sep 24, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions