Josh Donaldson is no doubt looking forward to his first post-season without having to get past the Royals.
Nice catch by Granderson.
To be fair, if they had an actual center fielder playing the position, he’d have just been under it, instead of all the drama. Still looked cool, though.
I can’t believe Reed got out of that jam in the 8th. The way he was pitching I was sure he was going to give up at least one run.
Well, the part of my prediction about a low-scoring game and Familia blowing it came to pass.
Giants! Giants! Giants!!!
Conor Gillaspie.
Deep in your hearts, you all knew he would be the hero…
I was actually wondering earlier in the game why he was in this majorly important game.
I was screaming when Santiago Casilla was warming up. Why is Bruce Bochy trying to kill me?
He’s this year’s Travis Ishikawa.
And the only reason he was in the game is because Eduardo Nunez, the regular third baseman, is hurt.
Giants SOP, duh.
Oh yeah baby…
BELIEVEN
YES! YES! YES!!!
GO GIANTS!!!
(uhh… okay… now we got the Cubs gauntlet…)
Hi, Mr. Giant! The name’s David, and this ain’t no gauntlet.
It’s a sling. 
Mets fan here. I think that I can hold back my blind rage long enough to type something coherent, so here goes. What the f&(!!! Bumgarner is 4-0 in our stadium. He hasn’t given a run up in 42 innings on the road in the playoffs. He is a beast, and everyone knows this. So what is our batting strategy going to be? Lets all swing at the first pitch because it is more likely to be a strike. WHAT??? Stupid. Just plain stupid. I knew that the game was over in the 4th inning when Thor was up over 60 pitches and MadBum had thrown 21. 21 F&(*n pitches in 3 innings!!! The guy has been known to go 110-120 pitches in a start, and you think you can beat him by swinging early? Meanwhile, Thor was actually throwing a better game, but the Giants were taking him deep into the count and he couldn’t go past the 7th. That is how you beat MadBum. You make him pitch, and make the Giants have to use their bullpen. AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! Oh, and as my Dad always used to say, Familia is a bum, and needs to go.
I am not exactly sure why Toronto is starting Marco Estrada today. I guess you can elect to use JA Happ in Game 5, but the team’s best starter is Aaron Sanchez, and you’d think that’s the guy you’d want to be able to start twice.
I mean, there’s nothing wrong with Estrada, I guess. He’s a good pitcher. But Happ and Sanchez are better.
Yep, the Cubs are very impressive, very strong. They’re no David, they are Goliath. And it’d take a small boy David to beat them, someone like a Gorkys Hernandez or a Joe Panik (or a Conor Gillaspie!).
Seriously. I was very surprised the Mets swung early and often. We Giants fans don’t have much faith in our bullpen. And Syndergaard was dealing. It was a very tense game, a nail-biter.
The post season is a horror film. The Giants are this awful, shambling, monstrosity lurking and coming, coming, always coming…and moaning “eeeeven yeeeaaarrrr bullshit….” and the other teams are laughing nervously. Dodgers and Nationals are saying “uh, Cubs, go see what’s making that noise”
I’ll be at Wrigley Field Saturday night, assuming the weather doesn’t ground flights out of DCA Saturday afternoon.
Go Cubs Go!
I take some small consolation in the knowledge that it’s not just Dodger fans these days who are desperate for someone to put an end to the Giants.
Here’s hoping the Cubs deal with the Giants the way Malcolm Reynolds deals with people who threaten him.
I’m a big Giants fan, shared seasons tickets when I lived there (before they were good), and I follow them as much as I can (well, at least every other year). And I’m rooting for them to win it all again. But after three titles, even I won’t be horribly disappointed if the Cubs beat them. So I can certainly understand the desire by 95% of the country to see them lose.
Just as long as someone beats those fucking Dodgers.