# MLB 2021 Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 5, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930 "2021-10-05T13:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/201 "2021-10-13T15:17:34Z")
In the 4 games of the Giants - Dodgers there have been no lead changes. The team that score firsts, wins. This must make for boring viewing for those without a rooting interest (although Game 3 was a classic nail-biter down to the last pitch). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/202 "2021-10-13T15:19:46Z")
What’s with these stupid “Pennant Chase” t-shirts that division series winners are wearing? Also, TV directors who insist on shot after shot of praying fans in the stands (Fox has historically been the greatest offender) should be put in the stocks. Focus on cheering fans instead. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/203 "2021-10-13T15:21:50Z")
Fox also insists that every exciting play, with shots of jubilant teammates, must have an equal number of shots of distressed losers in the dugout. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/204 "2021-10-13T15:27:55Z")
It’s their idea of “Fair & Balanced.” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/205 "2021-10-13T16:54:54Z")
Thursday’s game will be exceptional, no matter who wins it. This 2021 season cements the great rivalry between these teams. The Dodgers dominated last night. Congratulations on that win. Thursday’s game will be one for the ages. Julio Urías and Logan Webb, they can both command and dictate from the mound, as we have recently seen. Who’s it going to be? Only one team can advance. ⚾ 💙 🤍 💙 🤍 ⚾ ⚾ 🧡 🖤 🧡 🖤 ⚾ GO GIANTS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/206 "2021-10-13T17:26:43Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Who’s it going to be? Only one team can advance. That’s easy the team with the most runs scored and least runs allowed in the series. Right now the Dodgers are ahead 16-9. That’s how it works, right? Right?!? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/207 "2021-10-13T18:35:45Z")
Everybody recalls that in the 1960 World Series, the Yankees crushed the Pirates 55-26. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/208 "2021-10-13T18:40:00Z")
I still can’t believe that the Pirates missed _two_ extra points! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/209 "2021-10-13T21:47:07Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Milwaukee had largely gotten it done with pitching, rather than hitting, during the regular season, and their not-great hitting showed during the series – today’s game was the first in the series in which they had scored more than 2 runs, and the Braves had shut them out in games 2 and 3. Milwaukee hit .233 during the regular season, which might be a live ball era record for the lowest batting average by a playoff team. The Brewers actually finished sixth in the NL in runs scored, but were eighth in OBP and eleventh in SLG, which would strongly suggest their offense was actually kind of lucky to score as many runs as they did. It is not a huge surprise they coughed out in the playoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/210 "2021-10-14T06:10:19Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > Who’s it going to be? Only one team can advance. > > That’s easy the team with the most runs scored and least runs allowed in the series. Right now the Dodgers are ahead 16-9. > > That’s how it works, right? Right?!? Uhh… no. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/211 "2021-10-14T13:57:35Z")
Damn, I guess Urias will just have to do it the old fashioned way then. Go Blue! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/212 "2021-10-15T01:08:05Z")
I guess not Urias. I’m not generally a fan of an opener so hopefully this goes well. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/213 "2021-10-15T02:05:33Z")
With Urías now in and pitching well, and Webb pitching well, this is now the tense, low-scoring game we expected. So far. ---
**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 15, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/214 "2021-10-15T02:21:26Z")
Really enjoying watching excellent postseason baseball without the stress of worrying about the outcome. I don’t see a lot of NL games, so what the hell happened to Bellinger? How did he turn into his dad? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/215 "2021-10-15T02:36:38Z")
BEAT LA. “Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/216 "2021-10-15T02:45:24Z")
These ball and strike calls are creative, to put it diplomatically. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/217 "2021-10-15T03:06:44Z")
I haven’t checked, but it feels like the Giants are batting .000 with RISP in the series. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/218 "2021-10-15T03:07:58Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > These ball and strike calls are creative, to put it diplomatically. Robot umpires now, please. ---
**Author:** ![3AxisCtrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/ecd19e/32.png) [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/219 "2021-10-15T03:40:14Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Robot umpires now, please. Seconded. Is there any realistic prospect of this happening anytime soon? ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/220 "2021-10-15T04:36:48Z")
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