Nice post. If you had asked me how a team drops three off its magic number with only one game, I may have been stumped.
Is Lux injured (?) or has the ghost of Billy Martin appeared and punished Gavin for his defensive doldrums ?
These ESPN announcers R-E-A-L-L-Y want LoCal to win this game & it's pretty obvious. Fuckin amateurs.
Pepiot killed the bullpen last night. Good stuff, needs to throw strikes. Bases loaded walk to Belli and a HBP to Taylor (even though it didn't hit him) were gifts from the gods, as was Trea's jam shot falling in. Rare bad outing for Phillips. He had nothing. Still don't trust him, but Kimbrel has looked like a competent MLB pitcher of late. Hembree is an accident waiting to happen. Maybe this new Trayce Thompson isn't a fluke?
If Trayce can be LA's version of those Gnat bastards Scutaro & Panik during those WS years... I'd be happy. I'd swear neither of those guys were worth a shit until it was a key game in Sept & Oct. Then they turned into Teddy Ballgame.