Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Mets vs. Dodgers Game 5 Is Not "deGrom vs. Greinke" Because Pitchers Don't Face Pitchers, Duh



Mets vs. Dodgers.

New York vs. Los Angeles.

The Big Apple vs. Hollywood.

Good vs. Evil.

deGrom vs. Greinke.

Wait. Stop. One thing NLDS Game 5 isn't is Jacob deGrom vs. Zack Greinke. That is not how baseball works. Baseball is quite literally never pitcher-vs.-pitcher because that would be two people throwing baseballs at each other, which may be amusing, but hasn't happened since Frank Drebin got caught in a rundown with the second-base ump: