# MLB Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 5, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791 "2012-10-05T11:22:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/181 "2012-10-11T20:49:18Z")
I think I’ve seen this movie before. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/182 "2012-10-11T20:54:51Z")
Certainly feeling like it… Bruce fouling off tons of pitches here… ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/183 "2012-10-11T21:02:04Z")
Wooohooo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/184 "2012-10-11T21:03:28Z")
Reds come up short. Cards tie it up with the Nats. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/185 "2012-10-11T21:05:44Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Ack. The Giants are doing their torture/particles thing again. Yeah! Just like 2010! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/186 "2012-10-11T21:06:14Z")
I snuck out of work to watch the last innings at the sports bar patio next door (with my boss). Now my hand hurts from high-fiving so many people. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/187 "2012-10-11T21:07:09Z")
Fuck. Fuckety fuck fuck fuck. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/188 "2012-10-11T21:08:19Z")
I tip my hat to the Reds fans here. Your team is absolutely relentless. You didn’t lose that game; you just ran out of innings. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/189 "2012-10-11T21:12:33Z")
Am I misremembering, or did the road team go 5-for-5 in that series - in addition to the road teams winning all four games of the Oakland-Detroit series and the first three games of St. Louis-Washington? ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/190 "2012-10-11T21:14:14Z")
The Cardinals won Game 2 of their series at home. I think the rest is correct. ---
**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 11, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/191 "2012-10-11T21:18:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Am I misremembering, or did the road team go 5-for-5 in that series - in addition to the road teams winning all four games of the Oakland-Detroit series and the first three games of St. Louis-Washington? Definitely not correct on the Oakland-Detroit series. Home teams have won all four games in that one. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/192 "2012-10-11T21:23:13Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Definitely not correct on the Oakland-Detroit series. Home teams have won all four games in that one. And that should’ve been obvious since I watched the game last night and saw the A’s win in the bottom of the ninth. So nevermind. Still, I am surprised that the road team won all the games in one series (Giants-Reds). I thought it’d take years before that happened. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/193 "2012-10-11T21:24:58Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And that should’ve been obvious since I watched the game last night and saw the A’s win in the bottom of the ninth. So nevermind. Still, I am surprised that the road team won all the games in one series (Giants-Reds). I thought it’d take years before that happened. It’s probably a first – no team has ever lost 2 at home and then won 3 on the road. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/194 "2012-10-11T21:39:15Z")
Looks like we have a pitcher’s duel going in DC. 1-1 through 5 with 2 hits apiece. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/195 "2012-10-11T21:49:25Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I tip my hat to the Reds fans here. Your team is absolutely relentless. You didn’t lose that game; you just ran out of innings. Thanks, and congrats to the Giants. I will be rooting for your beards, mohawks, marilyn manson haircuts and Prince Fielder body doubles the rest of the way. 😃 The Reds really should have won that game 3 that Bailey pitched. Damn that one got away from us on a passed ball and an error. This was probably Scott Rolen’s last season and I say good riddance. Dusty Baker had one of his weird man-crushes on him (like Corey Patterson) and kept putting him out there when Todd Frazier was clearly the better option. Losing Cueto when we did really, really sucked. I am sure he feels terrible, like he let the team down. But today was another winnable game and you can’t win when you leave 234 runners on base. Very frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/196 "2012-10-11T22:15:13Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > It’s probably a first – no team has ever lost 2 at home and then won 3 on the road. That specific order of events has happened at least once that I can think of,min the 1996 World Series. Of course, there was then a sixth game, but the first five went the same way, with the Yankees losing the first two at home and then winning three in a row in Atlanta. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/197 "2012-10-11T22:28:04Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Looks like we have a pitcher’s duel going in DC. 1-1 through 5 with 2 hits apiece. Now it’s 1-1 in the top of the 8th. Lohse has some incredibly low pitch count after 7; first Jordan Zimmerman and now Clippard is looking incredibly sharp in relief of Detwiler, who did unusually well both by completing 6 and by giving up just 1 run. Go Nats! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/198 "2012-10-11T23:03:24Z")
Another game-winning homer in the bottom of the 9th. Man, this is becoming so tiresome. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/199 "2012-10-11T23:29:43Z")
Playoff baseball is so awesome. ---
**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, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/200 "2012-10-12T00:15:02Z")
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