# 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:** 26
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/501 "2012-10-25T01:47:41Z")
Oh Mandy Did Tim McCarver really say that the Giant crowd know how to yell “Barry” because of Barry Manilow? #IWritetheSongs ---
**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 25, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/502 "2012-10-25T01:51:37Z")
It would greatly please me if Buck and McCarver would stop talking about Justin Verlander sometime soon… ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/503 "2012-10-25T01:58:07Z")
OMG!!! Three home runs for Pablo Sandoval!!! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/504 "2012-10-25T01:59:37Z")
History! A rare feat indeed - congrats Pablo!! ---
**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 25, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/505 "2012-10-25T02:00:10Z")
And that, America, is why Giants fans wear silly panda hats to games. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/506 "2012-10-25T02:03:10Z")
Do the Tigers still think they’re scrimmaging? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/507 "2012-10-25T02:11:37Z")
Anyone wanna lay odds on Pablo getting a fourth? 😉 ---
**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 25, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/508 "2012-10-25T02:13:53Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Anyone wanna lay odds on Pablo getting a fourth? > 😉 I’ll be surprised if he sees another pitch anywhere near the strike zone. Not that it would stop him, of course 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/509 "2012-10-25T02:30:19Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > History! > A rare feat indeed - congrats Pablo!! Rare feat? It’s been two whole years since this _hasn’t_ happened. This should have a smilie, but I think they’re silly. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/510 "2012-10-25T03:01:28Z")
Well other than pitching,hitting,fielding,managing and dumb luck the Tigers are looking good. ---
**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 25, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/511 "2012-10-25T03:35:15Z")
Ballgame! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/512 "2012-10-25T03:40:28Z")
Well I think we found Valverde’s niche: Pitching to pitchers. ---
**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 25, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/513 "2012-10-25T05:37:14Z")
A great game tonight by Zito, Lincecum and the Giants. But tomorrow night, Bumgarner needs to bring his A game. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/514 "2012-10-25T13:22:28Z")
What a surprising and weird game that was. Verlander didn’t look terrible but he just didn’t have it, Pagan and Scutaro worked some really good at-bats and Sandoval just killed it. Verlander looked stunned that second homer left the park. I think the cameras showed him saying “wow” afterward, like he thought it was just a fly to left and it kept carrying. I’m not sure where all of that leaves things for tonight’s game. The Giants got to Verlander and they have to feel like everything is going their way and Detroit looked almost totally hapless, but on the other hand, it’s also just one home win for the Giants and some of those breaks can’t happen again, can they? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/515 "2012-10-25T13:33:31Z")
This was widely quoted last night, but in case anyone didn’t see it, the only other person to hit three home runs at AT&T/PacBell/whatever was 35-year-old shortstop Kevin Elster in the park’s first game in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/516 "2012-10-25T13:43:30Z")
Tonight, it’s all about Madison Bumgarner’s mechanics. He started the season well (at one point, his W-L was something like 13-7). And then something went wrong. He completely lost command, and has been getting lit up. He’s had one post-season start and got shelled by Cincinnati; Zito took his spot in the rotation since then. He says he’s found the problem in bullpen sessions and fixed it. If he has; if he’s effective tonight and the Giants win, then the Giants are in extremely good shape, with their 2 best starters yet to take the mound. If he hasn’t, then it’s a best-of-5, Detroit will have home field advantage and the Giants will only have 3 reliable starters. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/517 "2012-10-25T13:44:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > What a surprising and weird game that was. Verlander didn’t look terrible but he just didn’t have it, Pagan and Scutaro worked some really good at-bats and Sandoval just killed it. Verlander looked stunned that second homer left the park. I think the cameras showed him saying “wow” afterward, like he thought it was just a fly to left and it kept carrying. > > I’m not sure where all of that leaves things for tonight’s game. The Giants got to Verlander and they have to feel like everything is going their way and Detroit looked almost totally hapless, but on the other hand, it’s also just one home win for the Giants and some of those breaks can’t happen again, can they? That’s waht really got to me too; Verlander didn’t pitch a bad game. His pitches were good and controled and I think he had a good mix of strikes and balls. The Giants just crushed him. ---
**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 25, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/518 "2012-10-25T13:45:15Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This was widely quoted last night, but in case anyone didn’t see it, the only other person to hit three home runs at AT&T/PacBell/whatever was 35-year-old shortstop Kevin Elster in the park’s first game in 2000. I was there for that opener. Not pretty. As for the Giants luck and Pagan’s grounder off the third base bag, many have already mentioned the 2010 World Series when Texas’ Ian Kinsler led off the fifth against Matt Cain and missed a home run by one inch as his ball hit the top-front edge of the wall ([picture; that’s Giants CF Andres Torres looking at the ball bounce)](http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/578543/kinslerhr.jpg) in game 2. This is starting to remind me of the old Boston Garden and the Celtics’ luck there - there must’ve been a leprechaun perched on the rims. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/519 "2012-10-25T18:46:41Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Tonight, it’s all about Madison Bumgarner’s mechanics. > > He started the season well (at one point, his W-L was something like 13-7). And then something went wrong. He completely lost command, and has been getting lit up. He’s had one post-season start and got shelled by Cincinnati; Zito took his spot in the rotation since then. Are you forgetting Game 1 of the NLCS? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791/520 "2012-10-25T19:19:55Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Are you forgetting Game 1 of the NLCS? Yeah, I did. But in my defense it was pretty much a clone of Game 2 of the NLDS. Ugly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-playoffs/636791.md?page=27)