The offense gave him a 5 run lead and only needed 4 innings. What a great last 3 appearances by Morton though.
Verlander threw 28 innings in the ALCS and WS, he pitched a grand total of 2 innings with the Astros having scored more than 1 run.
Also the official scorer could have opted to award the win to Peacock which some would have done in the regular season.
I did think it was funny when Smoltz and Buck are like, "The Astros are turning to their most trusted reliever Peacock." and below his name it pops up with the stat line of 10 ip and 7 er. Too funny. Morton was the man clocking in at 99 with a wicked curve and ice in his veins.
In the case when the starter doesn't go 5 and leaves with the lead that is never relinquished, it is up to the official scorer as to who gets the win. Oftentimes, they will give it to Peacock in that situation, especially since he pitched well, got out of a jam and didn't give up a run. Can't argue with the decision, however.
Our guys in the Nerd Cave do great job with helping pitchers figure out why they do great at the things they do best and how they can further improve upon it. High speed cameras and sensors help capture things like spin rate, trajectory, form, release height and angle, etc... This in turn allows us to help pitchers figure out the best pitching motions and how to repeat it over and over until it becomes muscle memory.
Remember when every pitcher who came up with the Braves (and later the Cardinals) just happened to be awesome? I remember a lot of people chalking it up to the coaching (Leo Mazzone and Dave Duncan, respectively). We now have a system in place like that... or better, because it relies less on the human aspect. This front office... wow. We're really fortunate.
Didn't surprise me at all. Matter of fact, wouldn't have surprised me if someone like Mike Fiers did this. Of course, Morton was much better than Fiers in the regular season, but for a stretch, Fiers was actually our best pitcher. The playoffs and World Series have a way of making great players ordinary and average, or better than average, players great. Just glad it was Morton who was on the mound during the final out. Only better would have been Giles. Very sad how much hate he's gotten- no matter how bad of a run he had in the playoffs, he was definitely a key contributor this year. Many people are just stupid.
The "non-slider" baseballs prohibited Giles from using his one + pitch. He didn't belong in there tossing up all fastballs.
Yo **** Giles! I Don't give a **** what he did in the regular season, his ass choked and he can not handle the big pressure games! He's definitely not our closer next year... Get rid of him or trade his ass asap!
Giles hasn't delivered the goods, but after seeing Morton's turnaround this season, anything is possible. I'm going to give Giles a chance because his stuff is filthy when he's on.
Wouldn't be champs without the WS performances of altuve, springer, correa, verlander, peacock, mccann, gurriel, bregman, keuchel, or morton. So basically the whole team but morton was unbelievable.
Sure that can happen, but it can't be caused by steroids, in Morton's case it sounded like he was afraid of getting injured and just held back (and his increase literally can't be caused by steroids). As was said, the benefit of steroids to a pitcher, it the same as hgh, it's the recovery, but those are side effects, if that was your goal, you'd use synthetic tb4, known as tb-500, tb4 is the protein most responsible for recovery from those 2 (and in general), only tb-500 has no clinical side effects and so far even WADA can't test for it.
McCullers went Nuke Laloosh for 3 innings, hitting 4 batters and the mascot, and you have to wonder first, if that impacted the Dodgers crowding the plate in game 7, but secondly if McCann was telling the batters he doesn’t know where it’s going either.
