# MLB: October 2017 — Welcome to the Postseason **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 1, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735 "2017-10-01T15:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/161 "2017-10-11T20:12:55Z")
And Strasburg will be pitching for the Nationals, so apparently… something. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/162 "2017-10-11T20:14:08Z")
I live 2 blocks from Wrigley, it’s yucky and light rain, but they’re playing. In fact, i think this afternoon start was designed to give them time for a rain delay if necessary. The forecast calls for yuck, but not the steady soaking rains of yesterday which continued all night. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/163 "2017-10-11T20:18:12Z")
Here is a stat I find amazing; Jayson Werth has hit 15 playoff home runs. That’s a lot. Only ten men have hit more; obviously, most are recent players, since there are a lot more playoff games now. The only player with more than Werth from the pre-division era is Mickey Mantle, the only from the pre-Wild Card divisional era is Reggie Jackson. Every player with more postseason homers than Jayson Werth played more games (usually a great many more.) I never would have picked Werth to be that high up the list. How about that. ---
**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 11, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/164 "2017-10-11T20:57:25Z")
Still 0-0 after 2. So far, 36 pitches each for both Arrieta and Strasburg. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/165 "2017-10-11T22:54:24Z")
What is that, 12 Ks in 7 innings for Strasburg? That has to be the end of his night with him over 100 pitches right? Fantastic outing though. Can’t imagine this would have gone well for Washington with the originally scheduled starter. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/166 "2017-10-12T02:14:08Z")
I am happy. Please ignore my previous grumblings. See you tomorrow night! ---
**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 12, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/167 "2017-10-12T03:56:14Z")
Fuck Yeah! Sir Didi for the win! Man, what a nail biter. [Morpheus]He’s beginning to believe.[/Morpheus] See y’all in Houston. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/168 "2017-10-12T03:56:23Z")
Woot! ---
**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, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/169 "2017-10-12T05:11:30Z")
I’m pulling for Dusty Baker. ABD: Anyone but the Dodgers. Cleveland, what a collapse! It’s not Believeland, it’s Collapseland. Go Nats! ---
**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 12, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/170 "2017-10-12T12:05:48Z")
Yanks vs Dodgers would be fun. Its a fine old tradition. Hopefully the Yanks ca now do their part of the job and get past Houston. After an 8 2/3 inning relief win in the wildcard and an improbable comeback from an 0-2 hole vs. the best team in the AL I have hope the Yanks can make it to the World Series but completely feel like we’re playing with house money. Adding to it we overcame the worst managerial game of Joe Girardi’s career. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/171 "2017-10-12T12:18:39Z")
Yes, in-Didi! Yanks in the ALCS! Coming through in four elimination games is amazing. Doing with your big sluggers Judge and Sanchez contributing little at the plate is even more so. The Yankees have been fun to watch all year, they’ve got some heart and they play hard each and every day. Sure, Girardi should have challenged the hit batsman call, which may or may not have been successful. Sure, he tends to overmanage in the post season. All managers do. But he has been calm and composed no matter what the situation and you have to give him credit for getting it done. Maybe Cleveland helped out by being overconfident and their defensive lapses sure did them in. All in all, there was just a ton of great pitching in the series as evidenced by the amazing amount of strikeouts. This was the best ALDS I’ve seen in some time if not ever. ---
**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 12, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/172 "2017-10-12T12:58:28Z")
Meanhoo over in this quarter I am one team away (The Cubs) from lacking any rooting interests at all (Sox are my top team but I am a native Clevelander, and damn they go from looking unbeatable for most of Sept. to blowing a 2-0 lead with their Cy Young candidate looking like total shite in two games). ---
**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, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/173 "2017-10-12T14:31:16Z")
I was pulling for Cleveland, too, and they began looking near unbeatable. Tough loss. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/174 "2017-10-12T17:56:28Z")
It is perhaps most amazing that the Yankees won despiute the fact their best hitter during the season had maybe the worst playoff series a good hitter has ever had; 1 for 19 with 16 strikeouts. People drawn from the stands could have done that well. By way of comparison, in 1995, Tony Gwynn stuck out 15 times… all year. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/175 "2017-10-12T18:24:48Z")
Astros and Dodgers, for a good old fashioned NL West World Series matchup. Regarding the CLE-NYY game last night, that had to have been the worst victory celebration I ever saw. I get the “Act like you’ve been here before” attitude, but they didn’t even look like they knew what to do when they got there. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/176 "2017-10-12T18:52:05Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It is perhaps most amazing that the Yankees won despiute the fact their best hitter during the season had maybe the worst playoff series a good hitter has ever had; 1 for 19 with 16 strikeouts. Their second most important hitter did almost as bad: Sanchez was 4 for 23 with 10 strikeouts. At least he had a couple of homers and 3 RBI. If anyone had known that the 2 and 3 slots would contribute a combined 5 hits and 26 strikeouts no one would have given the Yankees a chance. ---
**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 12, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/177 "2017-10-12T19:40:30Z")
Chapman and Gregorius came up huge, but if I had to name an MVP I’d go with Tanaka. His start changed the series. The Yankees only scored one run and managed to beat the Indians. That ain’t easy. You might think that Judge and Sanchez going a combined 5 for 43 would spell doom, but maybe not in a series where Lindor, Ramirez and Santana went a combined 8 for 57. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/178 "2017-10-12T19:48:11Z")
Baseball tonight on South Capitol Street. Sweet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/179 "2017-10-12T19:56:57Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You might think that Judge and Sanchez going a combined 5 for 43 would spell doom, but maybe not in a series where Lindor, Ramirez and Santana went a combined 8 for 57. As a team, the Yankees batted .201. But the Indians batted only .171. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/180 "2017-10-12T23:16:21Z")
Watching and rooting for Cleveland all year, I came to the conclusion over a month ago that the Indians hitters don’t hit well against first tier pitchers(or pitchers who are having a great game. That’s the buzz saw they ran into against the Yanks. Can’t count the games that Kluber would give up 1-3 runs and the Indian hitters couldn’t win it for him because they were batting against a great pitcher. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735.md?page=10)