Worst Kind of Losses
This is a general question to all baseball fans. It's supposed to pretty light-hearted - all teams go through them though this season the Giants have had more than their share.
What is the worst way to watch your team lose? I'm looking for which is the most frustrating, gut-wrenching, fist-through-the-wall type of loss and why.
The candidates:
A. Complete blowout. A never-ending parade of opposing baserunners knocks our starter out early and it goes downhill from there. The opposing box score is full of lines like 4-for-6 with a walk. Meanwhile, the Giants are three-hit. Lots of 1-2-3 innings then running back out to the field to get shelled.
B. Pitch well and lose. The Matt Cain 2007 special. Starter throws an eight-inning complete game loss, allowing only an unearned run. The Giants never manage to punch through for some run support.
C. Hit well and lose. The Giants' bats come alive for 9 runs on 15 hits, but the pitching staff can't hold a lead. All our crooked numbers seem to have a bigger crooked number under them and in the end we lose 11-9.
D. Bullpen blows late lead. Plenty familiar with these. Giants enter the ninth with a two-run lead and the guy we put out there gives up a couple of walks and a walk-off dong and they celebrate like they won the World Series.
E. Late comeback falls short. We get down big early, but the offense and bullpen keep it together. The Giants claw almost all the way back only to leave them loaded in the ninth.
My personal vote is for E. Your head fills with all these images of a walkoff win then you get yanked back to reality by a couple horrible at-bats. Is there a worse feeling in baseball than taking off your rally cap and turning it back rightside-out?
Alternative: what is the most satisfying kind of victory?
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Re: Worst Kind of Losses
I hope for your sake and ours this doesn't end up being that loss.
Which means we have to win. Any losing that happens today, it's the loss diary's fault. I hereby defer fault from myself and all others to Mr. Jinxy over here.
Interesting question, though.
by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 6:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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For me, the best answer available is D, the blown save. But I think there are several variations within this kind of loss. One of the worst is a game where your team leads from the get-go, and although they blow several opportunities to pad the lead, the starter pitches so well you get lulled into overconfidence before the rug is pulled out from under you at the end. Another - the worst in my opinion - is a combination of D and E, where the team rallies back from a big deficit to take an unlikely late lead only to then blow it.
by English Professor on Jul 3, 2007 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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It is an interesting question, but it's just tempting some punk ass baseball diety looking to give somebody a hard time.
by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by Natto on Jul 3, 2007 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by sfmaynard on Jul 3, 2007 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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I can no more mention a pitcher who hasn't given up a hit than I can step on the 50 yard line... and so on. It's all in the George Siefert Teaches Sports Handbook.
by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by victor frankenstein on Jul 4, 2007 6:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
D.
by wilriv21 on Jul 3, 2007 6:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
D
by groug on Jul 3, 2007 6:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Re: D
Oh... wait...
by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by PacBellBoozer on Jul 3, 2007 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by Tajiri on Jul 3, 2007 6:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by NearestNorwich on Jul 3, 2007 7:39 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory is the most demoralizing feeling. Complete blowouts are like executions - quick and painless. The other 3 are frustrating but at least have positives to take from them. The negative of a bullpen implosion completely erases all the positives of the previous innings so all you can take from the game is how Kevin Correia gave up another game winning homer, not that Barry Bonds hit #751 and we were leading for more than half the game.
by joebirdie3 on Jul 3, 2007 7:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 8:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by allfrank on Jul 3, 2007 9:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by Natto on Jul 3, 2007 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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I always feel crushed when everyone battles so hard and gets your hopes up and then falls one hit short of winning.
by sfmaynard on Jul 3, 2007 10:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by Natto on Jul 3, 2007 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by howtheyscored on Jul 3, 2007 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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Castrated - offense losses underwrite my dentist's Porsche.
Armandolike Maxipad surrenders lead to picking glass out of the carpet.
by victor frankenstein on Jul 4, 2007 6:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by rxmeister on Jul 4, 2007 7:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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I didn't understand your last question. Please explain the term "satisfying win."
by Lyle on Jul 4, 2007 7:42 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by positiveuphemism on Jul 4, 2007 7:51 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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In the bottom of the twelfth, Bob Dernier hits an inside the park home run to win it. For the Phillies. At Veterans.
That's the worst kind of loss.
by Vardibidian on Jul 4, 2007 5:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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