# MLB: 2025 Postseason **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 29, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478 "2025-09-29T12:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/181 "2025-10-08T01:27:31Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Revisiting this, FS1 has other issues. Their commentators kind of suck Not a fan of Joe Davis. I won’t comment on the current M’s game lest I jinx it, but I can comment on the Yanks/Jays game in progress: LOL ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/182 "2025-10-08T01:51:13Z")
Mariners’ dream looking good again. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/183 "2025-10-08T01:54:27Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I won’t comment on the current M’s game lest I jinx it, but I can comment on the Yanks/Jays game in progress: LOL Bless you. Seriously. Blessings upon you. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/184 "2025-10-08T02:06:22Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I won’t comment on the current M’s game lest I jinx it, but I can comment on the Yanks/Jays game in progress: LOL I just tuned in to discover the rout had suddenly turned into a tie game. OTOH it’s only half over. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/185 "2025-10-08T02:16:40Z")
Bronx Cheer in full effect right now! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/186 "2025-10-08T02:18:03Z")
I turned on the game just in time to see Cal Raleigh hit a home run… right to a Mariners fan wearing a shirt with “DUMP HERE” above and below a big 61. Said fan proceeded to whip out and put on a duplicate shirt but numbered 62. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/187 "2025-10-08T02:22:24Z")
That. Was. Awesome! What are the chances that the guy that comes prepared with the two shirts actually catches it? If Vegas had odds on that, they would be astronomical. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/188 "2025-10-08T02:25:56Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > What are the chances that the guy that comes prepared with the two shirts actually catches it? It was a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/189 "2025-10-08T03:40:04Z")
Big comeback for the Yanks tonight. Hopefully we can win tomorrow and take this back to Toronto. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/190 "2025-10-08T03:45:28Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I won’t comment on the current M’s game lest I jinx it, but I can comment on the Yanks/Jays game in progress: LOL See how I avoided jinxing the M’s, but I totally jinxed the Jays. Soar-ee. I didn’t know my powers were so powerful. ---
**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 8, 2025, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/191 "2025-10-08T03:47:13Z")
I almost went to bed down 6-1 (it’s now almost 5AM, local time.) Man, Yankee starters have gotten hammered in the series. Winning the ALDS is long, long shot, but at least losing now wouldn’t feel like a massacre. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/192 "2025-10-08T04:18:05Z")
A question for the baseball brains here; have the Mariners ever won game 1 of a post-season series? They haven’t played in all that many. In that great divisional series against the Yankees in '95; the M’s lost the first two games in NY, then won three at home. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/193 "2025-10-08T04:30:31Z")
Yes, 2000 ALDS against the White Sox. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/194 "2025-10-08T04:32:24Z")
And 1995 ALCS against Cleveland. And 2000 ALCS against the Yankees. And 2022 Wild Card against Toronto. They won game one of rather a few post-game series. ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/195 "2025-10-08T04:41:11Z")
They’ve never won Game 1 of a postseason series at home, though. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/196 "2025-10-08T04:42:38Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > And 1995 ALCS against Cleveland. That surprises me. I remember Randy Johnson pitching in relief in game 5 against the Yankees, so the starting pitching was a bit depleted for the ALCS. I thought they got pretty soundly defeated, though not swept, by Cleveland. You’re right, though; the M’s were up 2-1 before Cleveland won three straight. ---
**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 8, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/197 "2025-10-08T11:26:44Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Cal Raleigh hit a home run… right to a Mariners fan wearing a shirt with “DUMP HERE” above and below a big 61. > > Said fan proceeded to whip out and put on a duplicate shirt but numbered 62. I still can’t get over this. I keep thinking about the process that guy went through to get those shirts made, and what he expected to actually happen. I assume he was just hoping Raleigh would hit a HR (or two or…_three_?!), and he’d get to be excited and rip his shirt(s) off. But to actually catch the ball?! That’s insane - this guy has a story for the rest of his life. And he also got a Cal Raleigh meet and greet after the game, along with a signed bat. Insane. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/198 "2025-10-08T13:35:57Z")
There’s been a lot of unexpected and unlikely stories like that this Mariners season. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/199 "2025-10-08T13:54:51Z")
Well, the Blue Jays today will not have a starting pitcher. This was an actual choice they made, to only carry three starters. Mystifying. ---
**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 8, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/200 "2025-10-08T14:11:23Z")
I am a regular at Fangraphs but I assume there is a study out there seeing how teams do when they use an “opener” like this. For one thing it certainly will by definition dump a lot of work onto their pen (esp. since the opener in question is usually a reliever). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478.md?page=11)