Weird to see both teams bring infield in this early...

Hitters aren't getting worse; pitchers are getting better.

Bieber's slider is about as pure gyro as I've seen. PITCHF/X had it at 0 horizontal, -0.2 vertical this year.

I remember when I first saw Kimbrel throw a 90 MPH curveball. Now, ten different pitchers did so this year, with Varland leading the way with 24 in the regular season, and back-to-back to start outing tonight.

At some point, managers have to learn to trust their 5/6/7th relievers in the playoffs for more than mop-up work, or let their SP go. Can't go to same relievers every single night...

Hoffman being able to throw that good of a slider on 2-0 after 2 bad misses with the slider was the key to that at-bat.

Playing 'What a Fool Believes' in the stadium on a road challenge is amazing...

Ohtani emptying the tank there, or just ramping up for Vlad? Hit 99 on all 3 fastballs...

Wasn't watching that close last night, but after the 2 HR on fastballs to start game, Snell threw 33 straight offspeed/breaking balls, before striking out Gimenez on a fastball to end the 2nd.

2nd and 3rd, no outs. No Ks, but no runs...

Ohtani is always a bit jumpy in his motion, but feels extra jumpy tonight, understandably.

Did Freddie assume Vlad was stepping on 1B first and not run out of the box? He's not fast, but that seemed too slow-developing to be a double play...

Safe if he runs through home...

Dominguez finally in, after innings of warming up. When I warmed up for 6 innings of a playoff game freshman year of college, I lost the game in 4 pitches once I finally got in...