{"id":9876,"date":"2014-10-07T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2014-10-07T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:17:49","slug":"would-you-have-pulled-fister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9876","title":{"rendered":"Would you have pulled Fister?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fister<\/a>

Fister shows Tim Hudson what *he* has between his legs. Photo via wp.com<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s only fair to discuss, since we just saw Matt Williams<\/strong> pull another starter in the midst of a shutout and sitting right at 100 pitches.\u00a0 That’s where Doug Fister<\/strong> stood after completing 7 innings last night before giving way to the conventional 1-2 punch of Clippard<\/strong>-Storen<\/strong> to finish off the Giants<\/a> in Game 3.<\/p>\n

With a 3 run lead and the top of the order due up in the 8th inning, the move to Clippard was a bit less arguable.\u00a0 Fister was on a shutout, but wasn’t half as dominant as Jordan Zimmermann<\/strong> was the previous night.\u00a0 Fister had given up 7 base runners in 7 innings: Zimmermann only 4 in 8 2\/3rds.\u00a0 It may smell like hindsight-is-20\/20, but I thought this was a good managerial move.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, even if the hits off of Storen were mostly weak (going back to last night too; Posey’s single was on a good outside pitch that he nubbed into center and Sandoval sliced a ball the other way, landing it three feet fair, usually a sign of luck and not malice), are you concerned about going back to him with the game on the line?<\/p>\n

Tonight, the Giants get our sole lefty Gio Gonzalez<\/strong>, who didn’t face the Giants this year.\u00a0 In his sole start against SF last year, he gave up 2 in 7 and took the loss.\u00a0 The Giants as a team possess a .258\/.318\/.390<\/a> slash line good for a wRC+ of 104 against lefties on the year, slightly better than how they fare against righties.\u00a0 So we may brace ourselves for a bit more offense than we’ve see so far.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Nats get Ryan Vogelsong<\/strong>, who had just a 87 ERA+ for the season and who got absolutely blitzed<\/a> in the two games he faced the Nats this year (2 starts, 11 1\/3 innings, 13 hits and 9 runs).<\/p>\n

Smells like a high-scoring, get into the bullpen early kind of game.\u00a0 Do you like the Nats’ chances?<\/p>\n

If we make it to game 5, do you dare to skip Strasburg<\/strong> and go with Zimmermann (who, by the way, would have his normal 4 full days of rest by the time the deciding game rolled around on thurs 10\/9\/14).<\/p>\n

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It’s only fair to discuss, since we just saw Matt Williams pull another starter in the midst of a shutout and sitting right at 100 pitches.\u00a0 That’s where Doug Fister stood after completing 7 innings last night before giving way to the conventional 1-2 punch of Clippard-Storen to finish off the Giants in Game 3. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2036],"tags":[241,52,385,43,1314,468,38,128],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-post-season","tag-doug-fister","tag-drew-storen","tag-gio-gonzalez","tag-jordan-zimmermann","tag-matt-williams","tag-ryan-vogelsong","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-tyler-clippard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}