Give Lidge Another Chance or Let Oswalt/Bullpen Finish?

Game 2, control issues, managed to save it. Game 3, complete control of slider, heater wasn't fooling anyone. Game 4, needed miraculous DP. Game 5, had control for 2outs, then got cute, overthrew, crashed. Anyone else see a pattern?

 

I want Lidge and no one else. I'd like to see him pitch two innings like Rivera does.

 

Even Rivera has lost a world series. Crap happens. You suck it up and come back and do it again. That is what makes you great. Lidge struck out 2 of 4 one night the announcers were like he is off. Well, he just wasn't on. Live and die with Lidge. He'll get it done when it counts.

 

Avoiding Lidge would be a disaster for his psyche. It would be admitting that the team has lost confidence in him. You have to give him the ball just like you would have before.

Lights out Lidge is the man. He will come up big for us again.

 

you go to lidge and don't even think for a second that garner would hesitate to do the same thing. one excrutiatingly, painful pitch doesn't detract from everything he has done in the past. he's still one of the best closers in the game and i'd rather have him out there in the ninth than anyone else.

 

The Cards have seen a lot of Lidge, and you don't really know where his confidence is. I'm torn on letting him finish tomorrow if we're ahead.

 

Hope that pitch doesn't make Lidge become the next Byung Hun Kim.

 

I hope Lidge gets another chance, that would more than likely mean we are world series bound.

DD

 

Give it to Lidge again. Don't pitch to Pujols again.

Lidge's control this post-season hasn't seemed as razor sharp as it has been in the past. His stuff is still good, but the location is lacking.

 

You go to Lidge the next game in the same situation. You just hope that he can bounch back from it, and given his personality I think he can do it.

If he blows another save this series however.... he might be done forever.

 

You give the ball to Lidge just like we have in the past. You don't shy away from him and show him you have no confidence. You want him to have no confidence if we make the WS....

 

It was a blown save. BS happens.

Dance with the one who brung ya. Lidge is the best closer in the NL. I really don't believe it's even a question in the minds of Astros management.

That said, give him the ball but read him the riot act at least twice before game time, something akin to, "If the lead is more than one run, it's better to walk in a run than pitch to the best freaking hitter alive, much less with a base open."

 

Lidge gets the Save, no question.

 

go with who got us there....still the best closer in all of baseball.

 

I guess the good luck of coming in on Sunday really did work huh?

 

it did...i should have come to see you monday night. i didn't go to the game, though. it's my fault!

 

Trust me i was at the game and i have never been so high and then figuratively speaking kicked in the nuts so fast....

 

ugh...yeah. it was just horrible.

 

Lidge gets the call from the pen.....
He is the BEST closer in the all of major league baseball. We have a record of something 80-2 when leading after eight innings and thats because of Lidge. The guy made one bad pitch and I'm sure he has been playing that over in his mind for the past two days.

They reported on the 610 sports babble that Roy O told Lidge as the plane was flying to St. Louis that Pujols home run ball just struck the plane......LOL
That tells me the guys are loose and still giving each other the busines...good news if you ask me.

 

I'm with the give it to Lidge crowd. The one thing a lot of people seem to be forgetting is that right after he gave up the homerun to Pujols he came back and struck out Sanders. If he really was that rattled he probably would've given up a hit or a 4 pitch walk to Sanders. He didn't. He shook off the homerun and came back and pitched liked he always does.

I got faith in Lidge that he's both enough of a professional to shake this off and enough of a competitor to be up for coming back and getting another shot at the Cards.

That said I hope the Stros score 14 runs to the Cards 2 so we don't have to worry about the Cards Murders Row winning it on one swing in the 9th.