# MLB. And here comes the Post Season! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171 "2016-09-29T00:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**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, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/301 "2016-10-12T01:09:38Z")
Gonna kiss Utley right on the lips! ---
**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 12, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/302 "2016-10-12T01:26:22Z")
The Dodgers may have won but I think the damage may have been done, forcing Kershaw to move a game up. Now it’s Rich Hill (good pitcher) against Scherzer (a great pitcher). ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/303 "2016-10-12T01:34:01Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > The Dodgers may have won but I think the damage may have been done, forcing Kershaw to move a game up. Now it’s Rich Hill (good pitcher) against Scherzer (a great pitcher). I should be more worried about that than I am. For the first time in this series, the Dodgers cashed in on a few run-scoring opportunities. Rich Hill will be OK. We’ll see if the Dodgers can score again on Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/304 "2016-10-12T02:46:28Z")
Man, Bumgarner and Kershaw getting no decisions on consecutive days. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/305 "2016-10-12T03:33:00Z")
Cubbies… a word. Ahem! WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE FUCKING BATS?? WHY IS LACKEY STARTING? WHERE IS THE FUCKING CONFIDENCE??!?! Had to yelltype that. Thank you, love Locrian. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/306 "2016-10-12T04:07:23Z")
Cubs win! Go Cubbies. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/307 "2016-10-12T04:07:37Z")
Cubs out-Giant the Giants by coming back from a 5-2 deficit in the 9th inning! These playoffs aren’t boring! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/308 "2016-10-12T04:09:53Z")
Well, the Giants season ended in the most fitting way - with a bullpen meltdown for the ages. Go Nationals/Cubs/Indians/Blue Jays/Zombie Invasion! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/309 "2016-10-12T04:13:57Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > BELI **EVEN** > > _YES_\*! **YES**! **YES**!!!\* > > _ **Go Giants!!!** _ _ **Bye, Giants!** _ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/310 "2016-10-12T04:15:42Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Cubbies… a word. Ahem! > > WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE FUCKING BATS?? WHY IS LACKEY STARTING? WHERE IS THE FUCKING CONFIDENCE??!?! > > Had to yelltype that. Thank you, love Locrian. :rolleyes: Well, methinks they found it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/311 "2016-10-12T04:23:36Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Well, the Giants season ended in the most fitting way - with a bullpen meltdown for the ages. > > Go Nationals/Cubs/Indians/Blue Jays/Zombie Invasion! It’s a miracle that a team that led the majors in blown saves got this far. And of course, thats how the season ends. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/312 "2016-10-12T04:42:14Z")
That was fucking awesome! I was so pissed off earlier in the game, I couldn’t even watch or listen to the Giants’ halves of the innings, automatically expecting their lead to get bigger and bigger. Then their bullpen goes and micturates away a 3-run lead in the 9th inning! ---
**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 12, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/313 "2016-10-12T05:51:23Z")
Wow, a great come-from-behind win for the Cubs. Amazing, and congrats to the Cubs! ---
**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 12, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/314 "2016-10-12T10:28:02Z")
As a Cardinals fan, I’ve repeatedly been forced to concede that the Giants have out-cardinaled the Cardinals over the past few years. Now we can say that the Cubs out-gianted the Giants. Congrats Cubs fans. Now it’s on to the NLCS. 8 more wins to go. ---
**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 12, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/315 "2016-10-12T10:31:09Z")
Just to add something, it seems like Bochy may have actually for once made a managerial move that backfired. Taking Moore out of the game. I didn’t see it so I can’t comment but Boach is known for leaving starters in for the CG if they’re strong (MadBum in particular comes to mind). I didn’t see it last night but was it Romo who blew the save initially? He had been fairly effective in save opportunities so if that’s the case I guess it’s just a move that didn’t work out. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/316 "2016-10-12T13:05:26Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Go Nationals/Cubs/Indians/Blue Jays/Zombie Invasion! I choose to read this as “Go…Blue…!” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/317 "2016-10-12T13:37:58Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Just to add something, it seems like Bochy may have actually for once made a managerial move that backfired. Taking Moore out of the game. I didn’t see it so I can’t comment but Boach is known for leaving starters in for the CG if they’re strong (MadBum in particular comes to mind). I didn’t see it last night but was it Romo who blew the save initially? He had been fairly effective in save opportunities so if that’s the case I guess it’s just a move that didn’t work out. At the very least, Boch is open to second-guessing. Moore was brilliant for 8 innings. I can’t stomach looking at the box score, so I don’t know who got the BS and who got the loss. I think the Giants used 5 relievers in the 9th (Romo may have been #3 out of the bullpen) and they all contributed in their own nauseating 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:** [October 12, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/318 "2016-10-12T13:53:27Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Just to add something, it seems like Bochy may have actually for once made a managerial move that backfired. Taking Moore out of the game. I didn’t see it so I can’t comment but Boach is known for leaving starters in for the CG if they’re strong (MadBum in particular comes to mind). I didn’t see it last night but was it Romo who blew the save initially? He had been fairly effective in save opportunities so if that’s the case I guess it’s just a move that didn’t work out. This made me think of game 4 of the 2010 World Series. Bumgarner, the then-untested rookie kid, was _ **dealing** _. But Brian Wilson pitched the 9th there to go up 3-1. Bum should’ve gone 9. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/319 "2016-10-12T14:07:28Z")
Alright so I’m not a baseball fan. I was when I was a kid through my teens but lost interest. But as someone whose life has been negatively impacted by Clevrland sports all my life I feel I get to be a casual fan in this instance. Can someone give me a general idea about what’s good about this Indians team? Strengths, weaknesses, things to watch, personalities, etc? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/320 "2016-10-12T14:13:16Z")
That’s a horrible way to lose, but the Giants put up a solid fight against the best team in the major leagues and lost. There is no shame in that. I cannot blame Bochy for pulling Moore. I don’t think that was a mistake at all. Moore had thrown 120 pitches, and we have to assume Bochy knows how much gas the guy had left better than we do. Where I think Bochy erred was not in pulling Moore, but in not simply putting in one reliever he could trust and giving the guy a chance to save it. Instead he brings in Law, who gives up a single, and Bochy panicks and brings in Lopez, who walks Rizzo, and Bocjy continues panicking and bring in Romo, who gives up a double, and Bocky panicks and brings in Smith. I don’t understand why Bochy doesn’t start the inning with the man he wants to finish the inning. If Law is good enough to come in in a save situation in an elimination game surely to God you can’t lose faith in him when he gives up one stupid single? Bringing in four pitchers to face four guys just seems stupid to me. So we now have three of the final four. Just have to decide between LA and Washington. As a Blue Jays fan, I feel hard done by, but actually of the five surviving teams the Blue Jays are the franchise that’d had the SHORTEST wait since they won a World Series: Toronto: 1993, beat Philadelphia Los Angeles: 1988, beat Oakland Cleveland: 1948, beat Boston Braves Chicago: 1908, beat the Knickerbockers or the Louisville Colonels or whatever Washington: Franchise has never even been in a World Series [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171.md?page=17)