Kevin Cash takes out Blake Snell and the Dodgers take the lead, a breakdown

let's talk about the pitching change that everyone's talking about blake snell was absolutely dealing in game six elimination game for the rays he's through five innings zero runs only one hit he's quieted the dodgers bats pollock is up here first pitch in the sixth inning it's a nice pop-up the pitch count is low he's only at 69 pitches here and one out keep it going one run lead do or die game world series on the line the next better barnes shows bunt takes hide now blake snow's only thrown 94 miles per hour beginning of the game it was 97 so you know he is slowing down a little bit and then he gets a little punch hit to center field there kiermeier corrals it we got a runner on we got one out and cash the manager he walks out he goes to the bullpen right away he doesn't even want to give snell the chance to plead his case to stay in the game and blake snell says [ __ ] a man not happy about it not happy at all felt like it was his game felt like he was dealing best he's pitched all season really so let's take a look at the numbers that support this because one you have non-analytical side at all just kind of common sense blake snell pitching really really well in this game nick anderson the reliever that cash is bringing in to replace him pitching very very poorly in this series has given up a run in all six of his most recent outings he's given up running seven out of nine of his postseason outings he just hasn't been doing well so common sense just says hey their best hitters coming up our guy's dealing this reliever's been bad keep the good picture in now if you want to go into the analytics we can go into the analytics because the biggest thing that kevin cash said is he believes in third time through the order the more times a batter sees a pitcher the better he's going to fare that's kind of the blanket case across the league well let's hone in on these individual performers blake snell in 2020 he was actually better the third time facing a batter than he was the second time so there's not a real drop off from second time to third time and if you want to take that back to 2019 it's the same thing 7 30 ops second time facing a batter and 7 16 ops third time facing about her so there's not a crazy drop off if anything he gets better the deeper into a game once he gets to the second time now let's look at the batter coming up mookie betts in 2020 he's clearly gets worse and worse the more times he sees the starting pitcher he goes from a 904 ops in his first at-bat to a 786 in his third let's go back another year in 2019 this was the same deal for mookie his worst numbers come from his third time facing a starting pitcher okay so the analytics don't really support that how about mookie bets versus lefties and righties blake snell's lefty blake snell has struck him out three times in this world series he's oh for four with the walk against mookie has a pretty good uh game plan against him i'm guessing mookie betts versus lefties this season was horrible his ops was 531 versus righties it was 1.061 what mookie betts did best this season was he hit fastballs from righties he had a 359 batting average and a 748 slugging against fastballs from righty pitchers against lefty pitchers he had a 212 batting average and a 242 slugging against fastballs by lefty pitchers and breaking balls by lefty pitchers basically he just doesn't even bring the bat to the box so you take out the lefty and they're bringing in nick anderson a righty who throws 64 percent four seam fastballs which is the very pitch mookie bets hits so i don't know if you want to use common sense to back up this decision you can't if you want to use analytics to back up this decision you can't nothing supports it besides kevin cash's blanket faith and trust in third time through the order can't let him do it brings in nick anderson first pitch fastball outside and away second pitch fastball outside in the way now he's in a fastball count mookie knows it that's what he does best he hits fastballs from righties he sends that one down the line barnes goes to third mookie goes to second now they got the tying run 90 feet away and the go-ahead run on second base no one can believe it snell says i bet he didn't even really look at the numbers cash looks at the number says oh [ __ ] i got the numbers wrong you can see belly waving around go go go go go go go hold up hold up hold up get back cash calls his mom says hey mom yeah uh i made a mistake people are gonna be mad at me yeah it's not gonna be fun for a little bit and then uh anderson throws the ball away and now the game's tied and just like that and just like that and then seeger hits one of the first and mookie's so fast and you put him on base by giving him the pitcher he loves the most and he scores on a ground ball out and now cash is sitting there looking over at robertson robert says thank you buddy thank you i'm not the bad manager this time and mookie's smiling because you know that's basically christmas give him a give him a righty pitcher that throws heat boom

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Length: 5min 4sec (304 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 28 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/SumoRock]

Felt so good to finally be on the other side of a managerial blunder.

[u/chrisumafp]

Dave Roberts actually did amazing work throughout the playoffs. We won two bullpen games we were expected to lose

Game 7 of the NLCS was a bullpen game against Ian Anderson

Game 6 of the World Series was a bullpen game against Blake Snell

How he managed to win both, despite a lopsided pitching matchup is underrated.

The 1-3 series comeback in the NLCS probably should rank as one of the greatest things the Dodgers ever achieved in their teams history

[u/SovietMcDonalds]

I thought he was going to pull a Strasburg from last year and go deep honestly. Still not as bad as the Russ Ortiz call lol

[u/thatoneguywhofucks]

No one out Dave Roberts Dave Roberts

[u/[deleted]]

For the rest of my life I’ll never understand this decision, great call tho 🙂