Since 2010, he's 4-0 in World Series starts, 31 innings pitched, with an ERA of 0.29...
The best of any pitcher in history...
Facing the last Royals batter in the ninth inning tonight he was throwing just as hard and with as much accuracy as he was to the first batter in the first inning...
And he says that he'd be ready to go again on three days rest if it goes to a seventh game...
Try playing one which lasts five consecutive days.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
missed one. anodyne. but my computer wasn t reacting. I was clicking the answers with 10 seconds and it would not register until there were 5, 6, or 7 seconds left. I ll try again and see if I can get an accurate time later
wesw wrote:missed one. anodyne. but my computer wasn t reacting. I was clicking the answers with 10 seconds and it would not register until there were 5, 6, or 7 seconds left. I ll try again and see if I can get an accurate time later
Since 2010, he's 4-0 in World Series starts, 31 innings pitched, with an ERA of 0.29...
The best of any pitcher in history...
Facing the last Royals batter in the ninth inning tonight he was throwing just as hard and with as much accuracy as he was to the first batter in the first inning...
And he says that he'd be ready to go again on three days rest if it goes to a seventh game...
Bad idea. Last I checked, pitchers who did that were a combined 8-27. Take out the 3-0 Curt Schilling, and they are 5-27. (And seriously...that alone should get Schill to Cooperstown!)
It's funny, I turned on the game last night with the attitude, "Okay, I'll watch this till I can't stand it anymore"...
Which I anticipated to be some time in the second quarter, by which time I fully expected the Cowboys to be up by a couple of touchdowns...
Imagine my surprise...
As I was still watching in the fourth quarter instead of feeling good about the game, I felt a a gathering sense of impending doom:
"Okay, now they're going to blow it at the end of regulation, or lose it in over time"...
(Being a Redskins fan one always has this thought in mind; if you were to compile the statistics on how many times the "Skins have lost a game on the last score in the 4th quarter or in overtime versus how many times they have won in those situations over the past 20 years or so, it would not be pretty...)
So when I watched Romo's pass broken up on fourth down ending the game and giving the Redskins the win, rather than yelling and cheering, I just kind of sat there in silence, looking for a flag...
And then finally it began to sink in on me, "My God, they...they...they actually won..."
As for the QB situation:
It's awfully tough to bench a guy who goes 25 for 30 with 299 yards and runs for a touch against your division leading team in their house. Especially considering that until a week ago, that guy hadn't taken a single snap with the first string since August. Even when you've got RG3 waiting to come on. McKoy really showed enormous skill and poise....(especially in showing the cool to not fall apart after that first quarter intercepetion.)
But it could be a fluke, and fortunately for Redskins Head Coach Jay Gruden, this isn't a decision he has to make right away...
Griffin has been out since the second week of the season with an ankle injury. He says he can be ready to play against Minnesota next week, but if I'm Jay Gruden after what happened last night I think I'd say, "You know Robert, we don't want to rush you back in coming off that injury. I think we'll start Colt this week, and then the next week we have a bye, so that'll give you two weeks to really heal up well."
Then you start McKoy against the Vikings and see how he does; if he turns out not to be the real McKoy, you always have the option of pulling him and putting in Griffin.
You can't blame Griffin for the team's record since he's been out for six weeks, and he's still an outstanding quarterback. But at this point, having to win pretty much every game between now and the end of the season to make the playoffs, if I were Gruden I'd want to keep all my options open.
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you should have known the skins were gonna win. it s that way every year it seems. if the skins suck they beat the cowboys at least once, and if the cowboys suck, they at least beat the skins once
This is serious. There is plenty of time to come back but it doesn't look good right now. Especially now that Posey hit into a double play with the bases loaded.
The Royals' scoring so far is making this baseball game look as easy as cricket.
I'm hoping that the Giants got all the awful out of their system last night, (they were easily awful enough last night for three or four games... and it was really a team effort; awful pitching combined with awful batting) and play like they have more typically in critical situations in the post season...
(And seriously...that alone should get Schill to Cooperstown!)
