32+ GIFs for 32 games.
Cleaning up Baseball Prospectus, one Russell Carleton unfiltered post at a time.
Cleaning up the internet, one dumb tweet at a time.
You’ve seen it in a hundred chyrons: The Giants do well against fastballs that come in faster than 95 mph. But the stat is nonsense. Is the idea behind it nonsense, too?
Just 16 hours and 45 minutes from the moment I hit publish…
A strong outing from Yordano Ventura and a rough second inning for the Giants means we all get a Game Seven on Wednesday.
Or: Something perilously close to Jeremy Affeldt/Javier Lopez slash fiction.
The Giants take a one-game lead. One-game leads can be fleeting, but Madison Bumgarner’s big-game reputation will not be.
Yusmeiro Petit has been an unheralded and surprising key during the Giants’ postseason run and he came up big once again on Saturday night.
And we’re back, ready for Round Two.
On the impossibility of the Royals getting up from a drubbing like that.
After months of moving downward, the October strike zone is suddenly rising.
Madison Bumgarner keeps building his legend, while the Royals’ game got thoroughly botched.
Searching for the weakness in Bumgarner’s gameplan.
What a half-dozen big-league managers see as the most important skills for the job.
Classifying the fans you’ll see in the stands for the first two games of the World Series.