Phillies Outduel Spencer Strider and the Braves to Advance 

Bro was throwing 100 down the dick

He was 100% sitting on that, knew he had to be faster to the zone because of the one he fouled off earlier in the at-bat, and credit to him he hit it on the button. I mean, smoked that thing

After he took the Slider deep he *knew* Strider wasnt coming back with his breaking ball. So he could just sit fastball.

The same pitcher that said he doesn't like fans in the stands? Now we know why cuz he can't handle it

@@joebsniffs Pretty sure that was meant to be an impression of Larry David (i.e. A joke). Anyone who has ever played a sport has experienced the noise of a crowd, whether its cheers or jeers.

@KT28818 he was dead serious he said they should be in the upper decks and the second level and not near the field

@KT28818 either way he can't beat the Phillies in the playoffs he's a great regular-season pitcher with a horrible porn mustache

@@joebsniffs Lol. Reminds me of Luigi.

Fellow Phils fan, and I completely agree. Strider pitched great in both outings, but his bats only gave him 1 RUN of support between both of his starts. His slider was letting him down in game 4 but with how young he is he has massive potential to go down among the best to ever do it.

Absolutely! Think about it. Ranger and the pen held the most powerful offense in baseball to one run in two games.💪

Meh. Don’t get too excited. Could just become another Matt Harvey or Alek Manoh. Never know.

@@larry2281no he’s got pretty prolific stuff, he only gets better without injury

Braves need to score runs!!! Strider did his part!!

@lisapate306 Oh yea. Of course. No blame on Strider here. I'm just saying 3 superstars were able to lock in against him. 3rd pitch makes him unhittable.

Well hes now 0-3 in the playoffs with like an 8.00 era. All against the Phillies. So he has plenty more years to keep making those abysmal postseason numbers even worse.

It's definitely a foreign feeling for us to be able to have faith in literally every guy that could come running out of the gate. Idk what Hoffman did to tap in to what he's been doing but he went from being a "I hope we don't have to go to him" guy to one of our biggest arms in the pen. Striking gold with Orion. Every single guy back there has pitched in high leverage situations so far in the playoffs and has delivered. This is how we beat the Astros. Because the difference last year was the pitching depth. Now Dare I say ours is better? The last piece of the puzzle was Seranthony getting back to the stuff he was dealing last season and it's happening at the right time. I threw more F bombs at my TV in the name of Matt Strahm than any other Player this season. Little did anyone know he was Toppers secret weapon. He's playing grandmaster level chess with these other managers with what he's been doing with the bullpen in the playoffs. If you think you were confused after that gate opened and Matt Strahm came out, imagine how confused the Braves must've been. Hoffman and Soto were warming up when Kimbrell got in trouble in the 7th. Did they even warm up Strahm at all? Not enough credit has gone to Philly Rob.

Yeah when the bats don't bring their game it puts too much pressure on the pitchers. We can only rely on Strider for so long before things go bad.

Both of his starts in this series should have been wins, but Phillies rotation and pitching staff came through.

Not good enuf.

Phillies fan here..yes he did, but I will say this..even tho he gave up some hits, you knew getting a string of hits together off of Strider was gonna be HARD AF (not impossible but REALLY HARD).he always has a good chance retiring batters with his pitches..he's a good/great enough pitcher to always have a chance to get himself out of trouble

needs to add a change up next season.

@@dsmith377I believe he does have one but doesn’t throw it often

He does he just has comfort issues with it, gonna be a big part of how he develops is adding that pitch, hopefully by next season.

@@chrismarston4266he threw it early in the game and missed high by like a foot. After that the Phillies knew that was a pitch they didn’t have to worry about at all.

Trea’s swing has always been one of the prettiest in baseball, especially when he hits taters.

Thats what i think about the Phillies but Strider needs anorher pitch too many fastballs go over the wall as every pitcher like that but no offense by Braves dont help

He may be the starter for game 4 of the NLCS even if its just an opener type role

If any Braves fan thinks he didn’t pitch his heart out doesn’t know baseball. I’m a Phillies fan and Braves just didn’t execute batting in this series and that’s all on the batters and management fault.

@@lscales6131 As a braves fan I'll say you are completely correct. Our offense this post season has been a disgrace.

@@DJShire_ATL As a Braves fan, I agree with this also.

Well 3 ER's in 5 -2/3rd innings is an almost 5 ERA so it's not like he did great. He had a very mediocre start when guys hope for their ace to have a great start.

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 he got no run support at all from a historically good batting team. You can’t blame the pitcher for that.

The Phillies are a great team, they are also managed with a different philosophy. You don’t play to win the most games in the regular season you play to win the most games in the post season. A manager, a good manager, will put a team in position to make the playoffs while making sure everyone on the roster can hit the ground running for the post season.

​@@MikeHart72This guy gets it.

@@jeremydubeck4439 Those using “the playoff format” or other excuses don’t understand how to manage a team. This includes the so called experts and a few former MLB players I’ve heard complaining the 100 game winners have been eliminated.

Exactly right. They're a great team. Before the series, it was pretty obvious that they'd match up well. It's definitely not a fluke that they won. Totally deserved to win. I also think their bullpen is criminal underrated. Great arms and Kerkering is going to be a freakin' stud.

@breadandcircuses8127 The comment is pretty straightforward

Exactly. He was asked for a hot take...so intentionally gave a clearly crazy hot take that no one would agree with to be funny.

Did the Phillies players tell you that they were worried ?

He's a BEAST with that fastball

Narrator: he had a 2.84 ERA this postseason. [Kershaw had a 162 ERA this postseason...small sample size]. The Phillies as a team outpitched and out hit the Braves. Outplayed them. But the idea that Strider somehow sucks in the postseason is a bad take. The Phillies are built for this. Just a really good team all around, Wheeler, Nola and Suarez are excellent and the bullpen is deep as hell.

@@PitchingNinjaVideos Agreed.

He has a changeup. And hitters hit .122 against it this year with a 44% whiff rate. Just wasn't able to get them over yesterday. Still, you're not going to win a game if the other team shuts you down.

hes really decent w just those pitches honestly seems kinda barebone a lot of the time, he does have that changeup just that the usage is very low. if he ups that it may put him on another level with east/west movement on the breaking balls

This has been a fun season. Obviously, it wasn't fun when Harper wasn't playing and when Trea was in a slump. To see Harper return and Trea 'get his groove' back was awesome. Can't forget Rojas...he's been fun to watch as well since he joined the team. Looking forward to the next series with the Dbacks

Should've kept Freeman and traded Acuna.

good thing they got the ring in 2021 or these last two seasons would be literally unbearable

Ohtani

No, Strider threw a slider that AB. Just bounced it.

@@PitchingNinjaVideos oh ok. Must’ve missed it. Thanks

A slurve and a splitter could serve him well. Slurve to combo with his slider and a splitter to play off the fastball.

If you judge pitchers solely based on ERA and you don't look at all of the advanced analytics (SIERA, FIP, fWAR etc.) that show why he's very likely significantly better than his ERA, sure, you're right. Those advanced stats are more predictive than just taking a stat like ERA and ignoring everything else. Advanced stats would have him arguably with the best stuff in baseball, by a decent amount.

How do those advanced analytics look in playoff games? 0-3 the last two years. Without the run support he is not the shut down type. Two pitches is not enough. The type of guys you face in playoffs catch up on you no matter how hard you throw. Ranger Suarez, another .500 pitcher, beat him twice.@@PitchingNinjaVideos

@@davidnikoloff3211 2 starts this year with a 2.84 era. Last year, he came back from an oblique to try to help the team (with no tune ups). Come on man.

3 losses. Quite an ace.

So you know for next at bat to swing at pitches in the location that burned you. It can help a batter adjust to an umpire’s zone.

So if they don't make the playoffs they will make it to the WS?

Against the Phillies he does.

Thats what happens when a guy has only two pitches. Professional hitters catch up to him eventually.

@@davidnikoloff3211 yeah not only just two pitches but loses command of one of them

​@breadandcircuses8127Because his ERA during the season was almost 4.00. And he's 0-3 in the playoffs with a 5.40 ERA. Those aren't Ace/Cy Young caliber stats. He's still young and will probably get better as he goes on, but idiots need to stop acting like he's Randy Johnson and dial it back.

He came back early from an injury last year with no tune ups. This year his ERA was 2.84 in the postseason.

He really has 3 pitches, but he needs to start throwing it more which is the change up… if I were him I’d work on that pitch this offseason!

He doesnt have 3 pitches if he has no confidence in using it. The Phillies have his number as it is now and the rest of the league now know what to do with him.@@calebethebeast5254

He needs more than 3 pitches or he’ll blow his arm out. The guy’s a warrior but his pitch count is always like 55 after two innings.

The phillies are going to win it all , it's their year

Verlanders wife is 44 , he’s 40 .

Yeah, I'm surprised he doesn't have a changeup. You can't be challenging guys with fastballs all game and get away with it.

@@bobbygetsbanned6049Agree. I really feel like it’ll put him into another level if he gets another type of off speed pitch.

@@sillyz9578 So apparently he already has a changeup but doesn't use it much. Idk why.

phillies scored three runs. this is only the 10th time this season the braves have lost a game where their opponent scored less than 3 runs (game 1 was number 9) not to mention the bases loaded situation in the 7th. strider isnt to blame for the loss, even if he let up three homers. braves are built around homers (they had 3 to philly's 11) and high contact rates (they bat .186 to philly's .275), strider cant control his teammates not showing up on offense for a team that was looking to win a world series off of its offense

No they wouldn’t, theyed piss their pants .

and? talent is talent

Xenophobic Female Horse fan.

@@jeremiah_12 sorry ass whining Braves fan

@jackdavis5255 homegrown Talent more impressive than bought Talent out of country

Bill Burr’s rant against Philly was funnier….especially about the Phillies being named after a female horse…should be selling cotton candy in the instructional leagues. The Dodgers were always our rivals, I guess now we have to turn our attention to Philadelphia now. Braves been in Boston longer than ATL but Boston fans are better than Philly. The female horses were never the team of the blue collar Philadelphian, that was the Athletics.

He gave up 1 earned run in the first game he pitched. 3 yesterday. That's not not showing up. The Phillies were just better and their pitching (starters and deep bullpen) shut the Braves down.

@@PitchingNinjaVideos I agree with your statement. Strider always shows up no matter what game it is.

needs a legit 3rd pitch....the K's speak for themselves but so does the 3.8 ERA

@@ma14rchis change up looks like a prime candidate for that third pitch. He made some Phillies look foolish last night with it, and it didn’t even move! Just by being 10 mph slower than his fastball he was getting strikes, imagine if he gets downward or arm side movement on it. (Phillies fan btw)

Dude was throwing gas!! We have an extremely dangerous lineup in Philly…and he gave up 3 solo shots. He’s only on the hook because the Braves offense never showed up for the series, they were to busy going around telling people that they are the best offense ever!!

lmao

Strider is a bum! 😂😂

Wrong. In the last 2 years, there have been 2 total hits (yes, 2 hits) in all of the Major Leagues on middle-middle fastballs of 102+. The idea that MLB hitters can hit middle-middle high velo is vastly overstated. It's not luck. The game is hard. And velo matters.

​@@PitchingNinjaVideosYou're intentionally using a misleading stat. 102+ compared to 98+ is a huge difference, and total hits doesn't tell us much when so few guys can even throw 102+. To be able to tell if it's an effective pitch it's gotta be compared to other pitches, not just say it's gotten 2 hits in 2 years, for all I know there's only been 8 MM 102+ FBs in those 2 years. Of course velo is important, but number of hits off a specific pitch is a pretty useless number on it's own.

I gave three stats. 1. Strider had never given up an extra base hit on a 100 mph fastball in any location. 2. Strider hadn't given up an extra base hit the entire season off of 98+ mph middle middle. 3. High velo from any pitcher doesn't get hit even if it's middle middle...as shown by the 102 mph stat which is contrary to what most folks think. People think it's easy to hit fastballs down the middle. See this from Brent Rooker taking it down to even 97 mph: "Just chiming in here, 97+ down the middle is significantly harder to hit than like 92 on the corners. Significantly." x.com/Brent_Rooker12/status/1708920458479858063?s=20

​@@PitchingNinjaVideos If he uses these stats to evaluate his performance he will keep being "Mr 5.40 ERA in the playoffs" guy. Unless you compare it to other pitches it's a waste of time trying to determine if it's good or not. The wiff% on his FB is only 28.7% compared to 55.6% on his slider his BA on the FB is .258 compared to .151 on his slider his average exit velo is 90mph on his FB and 87.2 on his slider and his SLG is .434 on his FB compared to .246 on his slider That's for his FB that averages 97.3 MPH, so I'm sure his FB is better at 101, but I cant find those stats. Overall his slider is significantly better than his FB, so if he doesn't have his slider going, he's going to have a bad time.

Was Zack Wheeler a bum when he gave up 3 runs in game 2? No. He's a stud and was my pitcher of the day, even though his team lost that game. Strider gave up 3 runs last night and 1 earned run in 7 innings in the first game. The Phillies just outplayed the Braves overall.

The playoff format is nothing but an excuse. The Braves lost because they couldn’t win when the games mattered most.