# Major League Baseball: The 2010 Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 6, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197 "2010-10-06T00:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/461 "2010-10-23T16:28:54Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > This, but replace “Cubs” with “Mariners”. Are my Mariners now the one-and-only remaining team to never see a World Series? The Expos/Nationals have never been either. ---
**Author:** ![bleibtreu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bleibtreu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleibtreu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/462 "2010-10-23T16:29:29Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I think the guys at Baseball Prospectus say that every spot higher in the lineup is worth about 18 extra at-bats over the course of a season. I’ll have to try to track that down. I love BP. I’d think also that there must be a significant difference in that number between the two leagues because of the designated hitter rule. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/463 "2010-10-23T16:41:47Z")
> [@bleibtreu](#): > > I’ll have to try to track that down. I love BP. I’d think also that there must be a significant difference in that number between the two leagues because of the designated hitter rule. It’s just math. There are 162 games in the regular season. Every game has to end with SOME batter. At whatever point in the lineup the last batter comes up, he and every batter above him gets 1 more plate appearance than every batter below him. If you assume that the game is equally likely to end at any point in the order - which is not precisely the case, but it’s pretty close - then the game will end 1/9th of the time at the #1 batter (1/9\*162 = 18 times) 1/9th of the time at the #2 batter (18 times) and so on. So every spot gets 18 more times up than the next one. It’s probably slightly higher near the top because those batters are likelier to have high on base percentages and thus to keep the game going but it won’t make a really huge difference. The DH rule would probably not make a difference worth mentioning. Obviously, pitchers are much likelier to end innings, but it is extraordinarily rare indeed that pitchers would be asked to hit towards the end of the game. It really only happens if the pitcher’s throwing a masterpeice. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/464 "2010-10-23T16:43:32Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > And Vladimir Guerrero is not a man who can’t hit. I mean, people say he’s old, but he hit .300 this year with 29 home runs. He drove in 115. He’s not Ray Oyler. This is a guy who himself has led his league in intentional walks five times; he is still a hideously dangerous hitter, especially since there is no particular pitching approach you can use to minimize what he can do. Yeah, I think Vlad in particular is a tough hitter to have come up for exactly that reason. The man is completely unpredictable. Now, I’m not certain that his strategy for hitting was the best idea in the first place, but it has to give pitchers fits. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/465 "2010-10-23T16:46:16Z")
> [@bleibtreu](#): > > I’ll have to try to track that down. I love BP. I’d think also that there must be a significant difference in that number between the two leagues because of the designated hitter rule. Why would that be? There are still 9 spots in the lineup. The fact that one league has a DH and the other has the pitcher in the lineup doesn’t change that fact. And, as **RickJay** notes, the number itself is not some incredibly esoteric figure; it’s the product of fairly simple mathematics. You can find the discussion of batting order and the 18-plate-appearance-per-spot figure in the BP book _Baseball Between the Numbers_. It’s in chapter 1-3, “Was Billy Martin Crazy?” ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/466 "2010-10-23T16:58:31Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Thanks. I’m sure you’re very happy today, knowing how much better your team has been in the distant past than other teams. It would make me sad to think of you as bitter or depressed or disgruntled or pissed-off today. I want you to have a nice day–I know I will. If by “distant past” you mean last year, sure, you got me. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/467 "2010-10-23T17:18:03Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Except when it doesn’t. At which point the Gonzo’s of the world gleefully state, “But the pitching wasn’t good. They lost because the other teams pitching was better.” It’s a brilliantly naive argument that people fall for because it seems so easily verifiable: The team who’s pitchers give up the fewest runs win the game 99% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/468 "2010-10-23T18:33:16Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Yeah, I think Vlad in particular is a tough hitter to have come up for exactly that reason. The man is completely unpredictable. Now, I’m not certain that his strategy for hitting was the best idea in the first place, but it has to give pitchers fits. It’s certainly _the best strategy for him_. You can’t deny it has worked; he’s had a hell of a career. I’ve heard it said that Guerrero would be an even better hitter if he was more selective at the plate (although he’s not absurdly free-swinging; he walks more than some hitters famous for their scientific approach, like Don Mattingly or Tony Gwynn or Ichiro) but you can’t always separate plate selection from a hitter’s other skills. A more selective Guerrero might draw 50 additional walks a year, but lose 40 hits, 15 of them homers, and so be a less effective player. Or he might not hit well at all. A player’s basic hitting approach is a product of his physical abilities and stature and the way the player learned to hit as a kid. His various attributes - pitch selection, patience, stance, swing characteristics - are all parts of a whole, and aren’t necessarily individually swappable. The Vladimir Guerrero package simply is what it is, and it works really well FOR HIM. His physical attributes - he is very tall, with very long arms, is immensely strong and had very quick wrists - not only make his hitting style work, but were part of the reason he adopted that style in the first place. It wouldn’t work at all if he wasn’t strong, or if he was 5’10". Willie Mays (who was small) couldn’t have hit like Vlad Guerrero; he had to adopt a style suitable to his size. Were he to have changed his style it might have made him even better but in all likelihood I think it would have made him worse. It is very difficult to be any better than Guerrero has already been - his career OPS+ is 143, which makes him roughly equal to the likes of A-Rod, Willie McCovey, really superior hitters. It’s hard to see him being even better than that - some have been, but not many. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/469 "2010-10-23T18:42:04Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > If by “distant past” you mean last year, sure, you got me. Good one. I think he was simply referring to the fact that, aside from the Yankees’ success since 1996, the overwhelming source of that Yankee “legendary status”, that makes even announcers for other teams talk as if their teams are entering Yankee Stadium to face near-deities, took place from the Babe Ruth era through the early 1960s. A period of time when, indeed, the Yankees won the majority (20) of their 27 World Series. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/470 "2010-10-23T18:57:22Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I’m summing up this ALCS like this: The Rangers out-Yankeed the Yankees. The symmetry of that did not escape me. The only times previously that the Rangers made the playoffs, the Yankees sent them home in short order by playing a better balanced game - better pitching, better base running, better situational hitting. I remember (it was a long time ago) thinking, “Why don’t the Rangers do that?” after the Yankees sacrificed a lead-off runner to second. but, they rarely did in those days. The radio guys always explained it away as, “You don’t want to take the bat out of the hands of a hitter like \”. This series, the Yankees lost because of some of the same reasons the Rangers lost back then - their pitching was not up to snuff and their offensive leaders had silent bats. It was like deja’ vu with the uniforms swapped. But, Rangers’ fans, enjoy it while it lasts because there may be a giant fire sale when the season is over. It remains to be seen if the new ownership will commit to keeping the quality starting pitching or if they will take the same approach as the previous owners and say, “Next year, we’re going to play within our budget.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/471 "2010-10-23T19:14:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > SI noted that Girardi ordered eight intentional walks. Batters following those walks drove in six runs. > > Given that so many of those walks happened earlier in the game, that sounds to me like a dreadful ratio. I can understand intentional walks when the walked batter doesn’t matter much or at all. Bottom 9, tie game, man at second… the batter doesn’t matter, so if walking him gives you a better matchup and sets up a double play, then it might be your best move. But early in the game, when multiple-run innings are probably going to decide the outcome, I just don’t get it, unless you’re walking an awesome batter to pitch to a pitcher or a shortstop who really can’t hit. My ongoing (read: sporadic) investigation of IBB’s seems to indicate that any given with less than 2 outs stand a very good chance of backfiring badly on the manager issuing them, but 2 out IBB’s may be a worthwhile gamble. I haven’t done the entire season, but in that year when Barry Bonds was intentionally walked like 173 times, if it was with 2 outs the guys hitting right behind him were absolutely brutal. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/472 "2010-10-23T19:43:48Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I think he was simply referring to the fact that, aside from the Yankees’ success since 1996, the overwhelming source of that Yankee “legendary status”, that makes even announcers for other teams talk as if their teams are entering Yankee Stadium to face near-deities, took place from the Babe Ruth era through the early 1960s. A period of time when, indeed, the Yankees won the majority (20) of their 27 World Series. Yeah, and also I’m happy about the fact that the blowhards, who mainly Yankee fans around me, were so hilariously wrong about both leagues’ heavy favorites this time around. I’m rooting like crazy for the Giants to upend the Phillies so that I can sneer at all the jerks who oh-so-confidently predicted, with maximum condescension, that we’d of course be seeing a NY-Philly Series again because these two masterful teams were obviously the class of their respective leagues. When I dared opine, “Well, they DO have some games to win before that point,” I was patted on the head and told, “A mere technicality.” I do hate the Yankees, with force and vigor and delight, but I think I hate condescending front-runner know-it-alls worse. Fortunately, this year I may get to have the last word to all of them. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/473 "2010-10-23T19:57:28Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > My ongoing (read: sporadic) investigation of IBB’s seems to indicate that any given with less than 2 outs stand a very good chance of backfiring badly on the manager issuing them, but 2 out IBB’s may be a worthwhile gamble. I haven’t done the entire season, but in that year when Barry Bonds was intentionally walked like 173 times, if it was with 2 outs the guys hitting right behind him were absolutely brutal. The guys at BP deal with this issue in the same chapter i cited above. They note that Bonds’ protection was bad that year, but they go on to say that the whole issue of batter protection is over-rated. Looking at Run expectancy tables, they look at a couple of different situations: no-one out, no-one on base; and two out, men on 2nd and 3rd. In the first situation (0 outs, bases empty) they conclude that, even if an awesome player like Bonds (2004: .362/.609/.812 !!!) is followed by a brutally bad hitter like Chad Moeller (2004: .208/.261/.303), the run expectancy for the hitting team is still higher if you intentionally walk Bonds than if you pitch to him. They say: > [@](#): > > It’s unlikely that teams would pitch to Bonds in that situation, but the numbers say they should. In the case of 2 outs, men on 2nd and 3rd, things obviously change, and they find an overlap in the run expectancy before and after a walk, a small area of intersection where, in some cases, an IBB is a better move than pitching to the guy at the plate. But, in order for this to be the case, the guy on deck needs to be about 60 points worse in AVG, 95 points worse in OBP, and 175 points worse in SLG than the guy being walked to make the IBB worthwhile. This was definitely the case for Bonds in 2004, but most teams don’t have that sort of discrepancy between consecutive hitters in their lineups. And the 2-out, men on 2nd and 3rd situation is at the far edge of the curve here. That is the situation where an IBB is most likely to be worthwhile. For the vast majority of situations, the run expectancy changes make it a bad idea to give an intentional walk, even if you’re giving it to a very good hitter. They conclude: > [@](#): > > Protection is overrated. There’s no evidence that having a superior batter behind another batter provides the initial batter with better pitches to hit; if it does, those batters see no improvement in performance as a result. Additionally, it’s very rare that a situation arises in which run expectation drops after the pitching team walks the batter at the plate. Therefore, if the pitching team does walk a batter because it would rather pitch to the following man, it is _almost always making a mistake_ by opening the door for a big inning. The situation changes late in close games as the importance of a single run begins to trump that of many runs, but even in those situations, the difference between the two batters would have to be extreme. Emphasis in original. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/474 "2010-10-23T20:15:52Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > My ongoing (read: sporadic) investigation of IBB’s seems to indicate that any given with less than 2 outs stand a very good chance of backfiring badly on the manager issuing them, but 2 out IBB’s may be a worthwhile gamble. I haven’t done the entire season, but in that year when Barry Bonds was intentionally walked like 173 times, if it was with 2 outs the guys hitting right behind him were absolutely brutal. mhendo has pointed out some of the research, but I think we’re all in agreement that Girardi’s use of the IBB was… well, it was puzzling. Stupid, even. Girardi was doing precisely the opposite of what almost anyone would think the ideal IBB usage would be; he was using it early in the game in an effort to pitch to a proven elite major league power hitter. He wasn 't walking Bonds to pitch to Doofus late in the game; he was walking Josh Hamilton to pitch to VLADIMIR GUERRERO (with Nelson Cruz following, by the way) in the middle of the game. The pitching in this postseason has often been excellent but the managing has left something to be desired on many occasions. I also return to my criticism of Girardi in that early in the series the Yankees were caught a few times letting the Rangers pull a few baserunning stunts of the sort they’d pulled against the Rays. You would think he would have had his team prepared for that exact thing. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/475 "2010-10-23T20:54:11Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Yeah, and also I’m happy about the fact that the blowhards, who mainly Yankee fans around me, were so hilariously wrong about both leagues’ heavy favorites this time around. I’m rooting like crazy for the Giants to upend the Phillies so that I can sneer at all the jerks who oh-so-confidently predicted, with maximum condescension, that we’d of course be seeing a NY-Philly Series again because these two masterful teams were obviously the class of their respective leagues. When I dared opine, “Well, they DO have some games to win before that point,” I was patted on the head and told, “A mere technicality.” > > I do hate the Yankees, with force and vigor and delight, but I think I hate condescending front-runner know-it-alls worse. Fortunately, this year I may get to have the last word to all of them. Of course, that’s MUCH better than your team actually winning something. Did you type that with one hand forming a “L” on your forehead? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/476 "2010-10-23T20:58:23Z")
Congrats to the Rangers. The more teams that reach the postseason, the better it is for baseball. I lived in San Francisco for 7 years so I’m rooting for them but it wouldn’t bother me if the Rangers win it all. What will the Yanks do now? Man, they looked old up against the younger and more athletic Rangers. Perfect managing wouldn’t have saved this series but I’m completely unimpressed with Girardi. Here’s a fun, cathartic poll that lets you play Yanks GM: [http://espn.go.com/new-york/polls?id=5706685](http://espn.go.com/new-york/polls?id=5706685) Can anyone explain the popularity of Nick Swisher? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/477 "2010-10-23T21:01:54Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Except when it doesn’t. Like when? ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/478 "2010-10-23T21:02:57Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Congrats to the Rangers. The more teams that reach the postseason, the better it is for baseball. I lived in San Francisco for 7 years so I’m rooting for them but it wouldn’t bother me if the Rangers win it all. > > What will the Yanks do now? Man, they looked old up against the younger and more athletic Rangers. Perfect managing wouldn’t have saved this series but I’m completely unimpressed with Girardi. > > Here’s a fun, cathartic poll that lets you play Yanks GM: [http://espn.go.com/new-york/polls?id=5706685](http://espn.go.com/new-york/polls?id=5706685) > > Can anyone explain the popularity of Nick Swisher? I don’t disagree about the age and about Girardi. I’d throw A-Rod in there as another player I’ve never been impressed with (even though he has a good post season last year.) A-Rod is all compilation and rarely carries the team like someone of his stature would be expected to. As for Swisher, I do like him. He really played well this year when a lot of the bigger names were struggling. By all accounts he’s also a great clubhouse guy. Keeps everyone loose, and the Yankees are not a loose group in general. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/479 "2010-10-23T21:12:08Z")
> [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > The symmetry of that did not escape me. The only times previously that the Rangers made the playoffs, the Yankees sent them home in short order by playing a better balanced game - better pitching, better base running, better situational hitting. I remember (it was a long time ago) thinking, “Why don’t the Rangers do that?” after the Yankees sacrificed a lead-off runner to second. but, they rarely did in those days. The radio guys always explained it away as, “You don’t want to take the bat out of the hands of a hitter like \”. > > This series, the Yankees lost because of some of the same reasons the Rangers lost back then - their pitching was not up to snuff and their offensive leaders had silent bats. It was like deja’ vu with the uniforms swapped. Heh. I was thinking more along the lines of the way very good teams so often completely and inexplicably fall apart late in games during the postseason when playing against the Yankees. Like what happened to the Yankees in the 9th inning of Game 3. Somebody must have swiped the Yank’s voodoo chicken and sacrificed it on the Rangers’ behalf this year 😛 > [@](#): > > But, Rangers’ fans, enjoy it while it lasts because there may be a giant fire sale when the season is over. It remains to be seen if the new ownership will commit to keeping the quality starting pitching or if they will take the same approach as the previous owners and say, “Next year, we’re going to play within our budget.” Isn’t Nolan Ryan one of those owners? I can’t see him letting that happen. Oh, I should modify my earlier comment about a “West Coast World Series” to “Western Division World Series”. Cuz Texas ain’t exactly “West Coast”. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/480 "2010-10-23T21:12:14Z")
Everybody takes pleasure in something. I take pleasure in the Yankees losing, the Yankees suffering, the Yankees’ plane crashing into the side of a mountain. But mainly I enjoying discoursing with Yankees’ fans on the days following such events. There’s nothing quite like listening to smug, self-satisfied blowhards being forced to admit that, even with more more money than God, their team is not destined to win every single year. That’s just the sweetest thing… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197.md?page=25)