# 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:** 18
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/341 "2025-10-12T00:06:37Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I think the idea - wrong though it was - back at the time - was that violent collisions just show good hustle and drive to win and fiery competitive spirit. Who cares about a few concussions, fans want to see passionate gameplay. Baseball was quite a violent game in its very early days, much more so than in the 70s. Part of the problem was just that the rules were vague. There were always rules against interference and obstruction but they weren’t really well defined in respect to collision plays. To my mind, the sort of just flat out football hit plays Hal McRae used to pull WERE illegal by the letter of the rules, but it wasn’t super clear, and so it just wasn’t well enforced. ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/342 "2025-10-12T02:26:11Z")
I hate the TBS score bug so much. You cannot tell me that having the name of the pitcher _and_ the batter takes up too much real estate. I’m watching in a loud bar, and I can’t hear the announcer. Just keep the batter name up there, and stop hiding it 80% of the time! ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/343 "2025-10-12T02:47:05Z")
Bye-bye Cubs! ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/344 "2025-10-12T02:55:06Z")
Congratulations to the Brewers. I’d like to watch the Mariners play them in the World Series. ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/345 "2025-10-12T02:58:19Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’d like to watch the Mariners play them in the World Series. It’d be the Seattle Pilots Memorial Series. 😉 (Go, Brew Crew!!!) ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/346 "2025-10-12T05:45:20Z")
Brewers: never Mariners: never Blue Jays: 1993 Dodgers: 2024 Sounds safe to say that nearly the entire MLB world will be rooting against Los Angeles from here on out. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/347 "2025-10-12T06:31:09Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Sounds safe to say that nearly the entire MLB world will be rooting against Los Angeles from here on out. All the more reason for them to repeat. ---
**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 12, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/348 "2025-10-12T06:50:23Z")
Everybody hates them; they’re too popular. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/349 "2025-10-12T06:59:17Z")
Thank you, Yogi. ---
**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 12, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/350 "2025-10-12T20:02:21Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Mariners: never They’ve never even won a pennant. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/351 "2025-10-12T23:33:51Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Velocity](#): > > > > Mariners: never > > They’ve never even won a pennant Velocity’s point was that they’ve never even been in the Series, much less won it. Although how they managed to avoid the Series in 2001 is a mystery that will bemuse sports fans for ages. ---
**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 12, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/352 "2025-10-12T23:51:55Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Velocity’s point was that they’ve never even been in the Series, much less won it. Then Velocity is wrong because the Brewers were in the World Series in 1982. The Mariners are the only current MLB team to never win a pennant (as I said) and therefore never be in the World Series. The Mariners have been in the ALCS a number of times but never won. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/353 "2025-10-12T23:58:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Then Velocity is wrong because the Brewers were in the World Series in 1982. Well, perhaps I mistook what Velocity meant and it was never having won the Series. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/354 "2025-10-13T02:50:36Z")
Another half inning and the Mariners steal a huge Game 1. ETA: YES! They did it. ---
**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, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/355 "2025-10-13T02:55:09Z")
Like I said - the Mariners needed their starter to go deep and he did. Way to go, Seattle! ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/356 "2025-10-13T02:55:46Z")
I love that it’s now possible for the Mariners to win the series at home. 🙂 Nice 4-1 win! (Or it would be if Dan had challenged the Cal run home in the first where you can see he tagged the plate before getting tagged himself.) ---
**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 13, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/357 "2025-10-13T03:06:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > all the Big Dumper talk has got me annoyed with the Mariners. Someone is mad the Yank’s and their dreamboat Judge are done. 😉 Good win for the M’s. Guess who was a Big Dumping assist? ---
**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 13, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/358 "2025-10-13T03:07:44Z")
Toronto beats the snot out of Max Fried (2.86 ERA) and Carlos Rodon (3.09 ERA) and then get suffocated by Bryce Miller (5.86 ERA.) Baseball is a funny game. This has the makings of an excellent series, unless Yesavage chokes, then maybe not. I always pull for the full seven games. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/359 "2025-10-13T03:14:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > where you can see he tagged the plate before getting tagged himself I couldn’t tell from the replay if his foot actually touched the plate before he was tagged. I don’t think it would have been overturned, but it certainly should have been challenged. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/360 "2025-10-13T16:38:03Z")
Why is it considered stealing a win. One of the announcers said the same thing. Winning a game on the road is not theft. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478.md?page=19)