We begin tonight with Yanks at Red Sox. (8pm ET on ESPN) The good news for all those that hate both these teams is one of their seasons end tonight.
Myself, Go Yanks.
Winner plays Tampa. (Thursday FS1, 8pm ET)
White Sox play Astros. (Thursday FS1, 4pm ET)
National League
St Louis @ LA. (Wednesday 8pm ET on ESPN)
Friday:
White Sox v. Astros, Game 2 (MLBN, 2 pm ET)
Braves v. Brewers, Game 1 (TBS, 4:30 pm ET)
Winner v. Rays, Game 2 (FS1, 7 pm ET)
Winner v. Giants, Game 1 (TBS, 9:30 pm ET)
I’ll return to the constant complaint of any league not the NFL - I wish they’d reseed after each round. It’s a bummer that the Giants and Dodgers, the two best records in MLB, will likely meet in the Division series. That game would be better as a NL championship than Division.
I was about to ask whether the Red Sox were the equivalent of the heat death of the universe, but I see you’ve fixed that.
I’m a die hard Red Sox fan, but if they don’t make it I’ll root for the White Sox from the AL
In the NL I’ll root for the Brewers, and then my Dad’s old team, the Giants.
Of course it counts. It was a weird season, and we’ll hopefully never see anything like it again. But it was a complete season with a post-season that was actually more extensive than any other we’ve seen. It will be a century before anyone will see anything with the year “2020” on it and not be aware of the circumstances surrounding it.
One thing that makes baseball different from any other team sport that I can think of is the unique stadium layouts. Stantons single in the first would have been a HR anywhere else and would have changed the tone of the game.
On one hand, you can’t blame Stanton for thinking the ball was gone. On the other, it’s a freaking do or die game, if he had ran from the start it’s a double. You can’t give bases away.