# MLB Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 2, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374 "2024-10-02T10:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**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 31, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/543 "2024-10-31T01:02:49Z")
True. I’m not a huge fan of the rule, but I gotta say I don’t mind not having any guys looking like Blackmon or that guy in Philly. ---
**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 31, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/544 "2024-10-31T01:03:44Z")
Wouldn’t everyone love if the Yankees can hold on and make this a real series? ---
**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 31, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/545 "2024-10-31T01:06:38Z")
Not really. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/546 "2024-10-31T01:07:26Z")
Eh, it’s been pretty real so far, though sure, I appreciate having games be whole-game contests as opposed to everything major happening in the 9th. And to see the teams behaving like themselves. Stanton is of course contributing to trying to achieve that. > [@Disinfectus](#): > > Not really. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/547 "2024-10-31T01:09:04Z")
One yes here. If my team isn’t in the series, I always want it to go seven. It’s a bummer once the season is over. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/548 "2024-10-31T01:15:39Z")
Judge tries to knock down a wall chasing a ball, again, this time at home. Careful, dude. (Meanwhile on non-game broadcast notes: _noticeably_ more presidential-election spots, where I’m sitting.) ---
**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 31, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/549 "2024-10-31T01:43:37Z")
Wow, just 3 [edit] boneheaded defensive plays by the Yanks there. Dodgers doing the Yanks favors by swinging at atrocious pitches tho. And Freddie makes them pay. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/550 "2024-10-31T01:45:00Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Tonight, for goodness sake Boone, when Freeman comes up to bat hold up four fingers. … Well… Look on the bright side, he didn’t slam it this time. But in the end, well, it was as if he had anyway – mistakes have consequences. There’s reasons these two teams are playing in the World Series. ---
**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 31, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/551 "2024-10-31T01:47:29Z")
Wowza. ---
**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 31, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/552 "2024-10-31T02:01:56Z")
At this point, you got to wonder if it’s not Judge, but Ohtani, that is having a “slump.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/553 "2024-10-31T02:17:44Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > And Freddie makes them pay. Freeman now has twelve (!!!) RBI in the World Series, tying the World Series record. ---
**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 31, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/554 "2024-10-31T02:45:46Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > At this point, you got to wonder if it’s not Judge, but Ohtani, that is having a “slump.” To be fair, he’s playing with a shoulder injury. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/555 "2024-10-31T03:01:44Z")
2 on for this inning, and FF virtually guaranteed to bat in the 9th now. Loaded. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/556 "2024-10-31T03:11:09Z")
Pitching is about to hit critical mass for both teams, but especially the Dodgers. We may see Ohtani. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/557 "2024-10-31T03:11:46Z")
Tie game. Wow, catcher’s interference of all things now. 7-6. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/558 "2024-10-31T03:13:31Z")
Announcer: “They have made it 7-6 in the most preposterous way”. No, not preposterous. You make mistakes, you pay a price, as mentioned earlier. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/559 "2024-10-31T03:15:06Z")
Everything about the Dodgers scoring in this game has been preposterous. A five run inning with no earned runs? The Yankees should be running away with this. They got Freddie Freeman out, for once. That was Freeman’s first strikeout of the series. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/560 "2024-10-31T03:21:36Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The Yankees should be running away with this. For half the game, they were well in command. Then something went very wrong. Judge trying to get it back going. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/561 "2024-10-31T03:31:16Z")
Clutch pitching by Treinen. Although he was helped by Stanton swinging at the first pitch after the previous batter walked on five pitches. And then Rizzo strikes out on a pitch that wasn’t really close. Great game to watch. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/1008374/562 "2024-10-31T03:47:20Z")
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