# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/81 "2021-10-07T03:18:18Z")
The Dodgers have already gone through a good chink of their bullpen. If Jansan enters it will really be a nailbiter for Dodger fans. ---
**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 7, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/82 "2021-10-07T03:51:37Z")
Aaaaaand, the nail biter goes into the 9th. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/83 "2021-10-07T04:09:57Z")
Cards hitters swinging wildly. This can’t end well Shit, AP walkoff? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/84 "2021-10-07T04:17:10Z")
With Pujols up and out, I have to call it a night. Can’t do the extra innings. Morning shift ☹ ~Max ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/85 "2021-10-07T04:22:40Z")
Extra inning playoff baseball reminds me of a heavyweight championship bout. The intensity. The chance for a stunning one punch KO. Everybody on their feet. I dont understand people who say that baseball is boring. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/86 "2021-10-07T04:26:33Z")
Shit, well, it was a good game. The better team absolutely won, but we put up a fight ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/87 "2021-10-07T04:27:10Z")
Woo! CT3! Man, I hate being in the wild card game. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/88 "2021-10-07T04:29:05Z")
I’m looking forward to the NorCal-SoCal war. And you’d better believe I’m pulling for _Los Gigantes_! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/89 "2021-10-07T04:30:11Z")
Well, that was some baseball. A couple of drunk Cards fans here at a sports bar in Chicago are not happy ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/90 "2021-10-07T04:40:43Z")
I’m never happy to see the Dodgers win, but Giants vs Dodgers is the way it should be. Hopefully they tired out their bullpen a bit. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/91 "2021-10-07T04:42:23Z")
Incredible, tense game! As a Giants fan, I turned the TV off even before Taylor’s HR ball landed. This will be a great NLDS. _ **Go Giants!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/92 "2021-10-07T04:44:15Z")
I read that the teams have never met in the playoffs. The emotions will be high and the knuckleheaded contingent of fans, especially Dodger fans, will make this series even tenser. Avoid wearing Giants gear at the games at Dodger Stadium especially if the Dodgers are behind in the series. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/93 "2021-10-07T04:44:41Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I’m never happy to see the Dodgers win, but Giants vs Dodgers is the way it should be. Hopefully they tired out their bullpen a bit. Yes it is the way it should be, but since they have the two best records in all of baseball it would be better if they met in the NL_ **CS** _. Not this early. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/94 "2021-10-07T04:56:36Z")
Go dodgers!!! \*tho the giants shoulda stayed in NY … I mean I know they were rivals there too but what was alston thinking by bringing them along? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/95 "2021-10-07T05:01:33Z")
Was thinking today that this series was just wrong; it should have been ATL vs STL. My point being, maybe they could revamp the format. A division winner gets an automatic bid but not necessarily an automatic seed. The seeds should be determined by W-L record. So in my hypothetical scenario, the seeds would be as follows: 1. SF 2. LA 3. MIL 4. ATL/STL No, not sour grapes - I think SF would beat STL in a best of five, and with little trouble. I actually think it sucks that LA’s season could have ended tonight. I would have had no problem with Atlanta’s season ending tonight. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/96 "2021-10-07T06:19:29Z")
Saw on a non-reliable source that this is the first time the Giants and the Dodgers have faced each other in the post season. It kinda makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/97 "2021-10-07T06:25:13Z")
One could argue the 1951 tiebreaker NLCS was kind of a postseason. It certainly gave baseball one of its greatest moments. This was only the second wild card game to end on a homer, the other being Edwin Encarnacion’s home run in the 2016 ALWC. ---
**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 7, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/98 "2021-10-07T11:46:00Z")
For the Dodgers-Giants NLDS the pitching matchups for games 1 and 2 are: G1 — Walker Buehler and Logan Webb G2 — Julio Urias and Kevin Gausman Gausman and Webb were the starters in the only 2 games I went to this season. Both were great games. Game 053 on 30 May, SFG 5 - LAD 4 at Dodger Stadium, LP Clayton Kershaw Game 162 on 03 Oct, SFG 11 - SDP 4 at Oracle Park, LP Reiss Knehr ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/99 "2021-10-07T12:26:12Z")
Are they still starting extra innings with a man on 2nd? Even in the playoffs? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930/100 "2021-10-07T12:28:55Z")
Nope. Regular baseball rules in the post-season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2021-playoffs/951930.md?page=6)