# 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:** 47
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/921 "2025-11-01T01:09:00Z")
“When you make contact, it’s a lot better than swing-and-miss.” –Baseball Guru John Smoltz ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/922 "2025-11-01T01:18:00Z")
Yamamoto seems almost as good as he usually is. The bats aren’t sucking quite as much as they have been. But a two-run lead means absolutely nothing. Fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/923 "2025-11-01T01:59:41Z")
The Jay’s 50/50 is over $12 million… ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/924 "2025-11-01T02:14:08Z")
On to the bullpen. Jaya have 3 innings to make something happen. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/925 "2025-11-01T03:08:04Z")
Well, Jays have their chance. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/926 "2025-11-01T03:12:56Z")
Wow, what a way to end the game. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/927 "2025-11-01T03:13:14Z")
What a baserunning blunder! ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/928 "2025-11-01T03:13:32Z")
Well, that rally ended quickly. On to Game 7. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/929 "2025-11-01T03:14:25Z")
Damn. Hell of a rally. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/930 "2025-11-01T03:27:44Z")
Jays gotta be tired. Back-to-back 7-game 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:** [November 1, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/931 "2025-11-01T04:43:09Z")
> [@Jaycat.again](#): > > “When you make contact, it’s a lot better than swing-and-miss.” > > –Baseball Guru John Smoltz You shouldn’t quote him out of context. What he said, when he said it, and why he said it makes perfect sense. Go back and watch it again. You might get it. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/932 "2025-11-01T04:43:32Z")
> [@Zoobi](#): > > What a baserunning blunder! Barger’s boneheaded baserunning blunder. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/933 "2025-11-01T08:31:02Z")
Interestingly, Ohtani is going to be the starting pitcher for Game 7. Not sure why the Dodgers are doing this when they have Glasnow who has had an extra day of rest since his last start (and threw only three pitches last night,) but they must have their reasons. Ohtani will be doing this with only about 94 hours of rest. > **[Shohei Ohtani expected to be Dodgers' starting pitcher for World Series Game 7](https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/shohei-ohtani-expected-to-start-world-series-game-7-dodgers-blue-jays)** > > Shohei Ohtani is expected to be the Dodgers' starting pitcher for Game 7 of the World Series against Toronto just four days removed from throwing in Game 4. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/934 "2025-11-01T09:25:24Z")
Edit: Never mind. Apparently it has to do with the designated-hitter rule. The Dodgers wouldn’t be able to use him as a relief pitcher or batter or something if they didn’t start him this way. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/935 "2025-11-01T09:36:21Z")
And Glasnow pitched in relief last night, game 6. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/936 "2025-11-01T11:32:04Z")
From [The Sporting News](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/toronto-blue-jays/news/addison-barger-ground-rule-double-world-series-game-6/01cf46556d1aa55debdcd282) > By rule, if a fair ball becomes “unplayable,” the umpires can rule a ground-rule double, which advances each runner two bases. In this case, because the ball got stuck under the outfield wall, the umpires deemed it unplayable. > The situation is similar to a ball that bounces in fair territory before going out of play. The ruling may be similar, yet this is neither a ball bouncing over the wall or getting stuck in Wrigley’s hedges. It wouldn’t take a shovel to grab that ball, yet the outfielders had nothing to lose by calling for a GRD - same outcome if they lose the appeal or ruling. (ETA: By “the same” I mean if they grabbed the ball both runners would have scored. Throwing their hands up and hoping for the GRD ruling was all they could do) I’m sure I recall a ball getting stuck in Shea’s vertical padding about five feet up and think it was played. I think in that case the runner only got a double anyways. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/937 "2025-11-01T11:55:29Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > By “the same” I mean if they grabbed the ball both runners would have scored. I don’t think you meant to say this. Had the outfielder grabbed the ball, the lead runner would have certainly scored, but the batter probably still ends up at second. I don’t think the ruling changed the outcome, although a runner at second with no outs is different than runners at second and third with no outs, as a sacrifice bunt is definitely a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/938 "2025-11-01T12:21:53Z")
It’s hard to say what would have happened if the LFer went and grabbed the ball and hit the cutoff. Likely a triple. I’m not sure - and the OFer has more experience with the rulings of stuck balls than I do - if he had touched the ball if a GRD could still be called. Leave it be and perhaps it’s always going to be a GRD. Yet at some point both runners had crossed the plate as they should have. Neither team seemed too upset with the ruling so I guess that’s the usual thing. Getting doubled off on a short fly to left-center is unforgivable. It was a risky play so he’d be on 3rd if (the ball was) not caught (probably) yet no way do you take off to third on a liner to OF. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/939 "2025-11-01T13:13:50Z")
Man, the Jays had some chances in that game. The Dodgers bullpen did just enough, by only using one actual reliever. I thought when the Jays chased Yamamoto after 6 they had a great chance to come back. The IBB came back to bite them, finally. Not sure why you do that so early when Ohtani hasn’t been swing well at all since his thermonuclear game. Also I’m not entirely sure why Schneider seems so confident in Giminez at the plate. I would have definitely pinch hit for him in the ninth, and possibly earlier than that. I feel like starting Ohtani is a bit of a risk, to be honest. I would have let him focus on hitting and had Glasnow start Game 7. We’ll find out tonight! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478/940 "2025-11-01T13:36:03Z")
Ohtani may only pitch two or three innings. He will have a short hook. He’ll stay in as long as he’s doing well. Then if they get Glassnow for five or six they don’t need the pen at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2025-postseason/1023478.md?page=48)