# 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:** 46
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/901 "2016-11-03T03:35:07Z")
I say this in all seriousness: I have no idea what’s happening right now. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/902 "2016-11-03T03:36:22Z")
I don’t see this going past 9. Joe played too hard for his own good and is going to suffer because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/903 "2016-11-03T03:39:53Z")
I love how the announcer (Smoltz?) just went through Joe’s managing foils in these last few games ---
**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 3, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/904 "2016-11-03T03:40:34Z")
Think Chapman’s gone? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/905 "2016-11-03T03:41:20Z")
A two-strike BUNT? ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/906 "2016-11-03T03:41:34Z")
WTF? A bunt with two strikes??? By Baez? The guy with a HR today? When a sac fly scores the go ahead run? ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/907 "2016-11-03T03:41:41Z")
I can’t defend that decision. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/908 "2016-11-03T03:42:22Z")
I don’t get this messed up bunt in the top of the 9th by the Cubs player. He hit it, and the announcers said it was in fair territory, but it counts as a strike? The catcher didn’t even bother to pick it up and tag him. What’s the rule on those kinds of bunts? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/909 "2016-11-03T03:42:52Z")
And this is where the Cubs lose. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/910 "2016-11-03T03:43:06Z")
Holy shit, what a play… ---
**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:** [November 3, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/911 "2016-11-03T03:43:18Z")
Just like the Cavs comeback this is shaping up to be one of those exaggerated sports stories you see in movies. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/912 "2016-11-03T03:43:31Z")
I have never seen a more important close game played so badly. Four errors, baserunning mistakes, a wild pitch that allowed two runs, a guy getting picked off, and a failed bunt on a third strike. So far. ETA: if Chapman really is still in I think the World Series is going to end very soon and very spectacularly. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/913 "2016-11-03T03:44:26Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > I don’t get this messed up bunt in the top of the 9th by the Cubs player. He hit it, and the announcers said it was in fair territory, but it counts as a strike? The catcher didn’t even bother to pick it up and tag him. What’s the rule on those kinds of bunts? He fouled it straight back into the catcher. A bunt foul is always a strike, even with 2 strikes. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/914 "2016-11-03T03:44:55Z")
This game has been ghastly for my blood pressure. Goddamn. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/915 "2016-11-03T03:45:10Z")
Chapman is still pitching?!? I give up. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/916 "2016-11-03T03:45:26Z")
Chapman back out? For the love of God why? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/917 "2016-11-03T03:45:35Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I have never seen a more important close game played so badly. Four errors, baserunning mistakes, a wild pitch that allowed two runs, a guy getting picked off, and a failed bunt on a third strike. So far. Or managed this badly ETA: From Maddon I should say. Francona has been fine ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/918 "2016-11-03T03:46:28Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > I don’t get this messed up bunt in the top of the 9th by the Cubs player. He hit it, and the announcers said it was in fair territory, but it counts as a strike? The catcher didn’t even bother to pick it up and tag him. What’s the rule on those kinds of bunts? It struck the plate (fair territory) and went foul. Once the catcher touches it in foul territory, it is a dead ball. Fouled bunt is not treated like other foul balls on two strikes, and it’s an out. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/919 "2016-11-03T03:47:01Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > I don’t get this messed up bunt in the top of the 9th by the Cubs player. He hit it, and the announcers said it was in fair territory, but it counts as a strike? The catcher didn’t even bother to pick it up and tag him. What’s the rule on those kinds of bunts? (a) Announcers are stupid. (b) It bounced straight down and off the batter, and that is always a foul ball, no matter where the batter is standing. And a foul bunt attempt with 2 strikes is an out (listed as a strikeout). I stand by my previous contention that this has been a really boring series…up through Game 6. This game is INCREDIBLE. I’m glad I’m not a fan of either team – I’d be dying. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/920 "2016-11-03T03:49:39Z")
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