# MLB: Post-Season 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 30, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046 "2019-09-30T14:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/561 "2019-10-31T03:51:09Z")
Hudson fans Brantley, and the Nats have won it all!!! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/562 "2019-10-31T03:52:33Z")
Folks are shooting off fireworks in my neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/563 "2019-10-31T03:52:57Z")
I feel bad for Cole and Greinke, but if Houston won I’d be feeling for Zimm, Scherzer, and Cabrera. It’s the Nats’ time. I can’t recall a team that just came outta nowhere the way the Nats did. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/564 "2019-10-31T03:56:58Z")
I love watching history. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/565 "2019-10-31T03:57:01Z")
Baby shark de doo de doo de doo! ---
**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 31, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/566 "2019-10-31T04:00:45Z")
Whoo-hoo! As a Washington resident for 5 years (though not when they had a team) this is fantastic. First championship for the city in 95 years! I was glad I was able to see a game in DC a couple of years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/567 "2019-10-31T04:01:05Z")
Well, that was disappointing. Best team I will ever see in Houston, and it ends like that. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/568 "2019-10-31T04:08:36Z")
Congratulations, Washington! That was a great game, and a great Series. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/569 "2019-10-31T04:08:36Z")
Back in another lifetime, I was a fan of the Nats v. 2.0, the team that got moved to Texas and became the Rangers after the 1971 season. (Not to be confused with v.1.0 which became the Minnesota Twins.) So yeah, this is pretty damn cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/570 "2019-10-31T04:08:57Z")
Utterly amazing. One of the Nats fan groups on Facebook was full of fire Martinez posts earlier this year. Not so much now. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/571 "2019-10-31T04:26:25Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Well, that was disappointing. Best team I will ever see in Houston, and it ends like that. Condolences, but that was an insane series. Fun on a bun. ---
**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 31, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/572 "2019-10-31T04:29:00Z")
How many come-from-behind victories does that make for the Nats in the postseason? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/573 "2019-10-31T04:32:21Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Whoo-hoo! As a Washington resident for 5 years (though not when they had a team) this is fantastic. First championship for the city in 95 years! > > I was glad I was able to see a game in DC a couple of years ago. Nitpick: The Redskins won 3: 83, 88, and 92 and the Bullits/Wizards won in 78. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/574 "2019-10-31T04:34:02Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Well, that was disappointing. Best team I will ever see in Houston, and it ends like that. It could be worse, you could be a Dodger fan. Despite all their money and prospects they havent won one since 1988. ---
**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 31, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/575 "2019-10-31T04:36:23Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Nitpick: The Redskins won 3: 83, 88, and 92 and the Bullits/Wizards won in 78. Of course I was talking about baseball. Y’know, the subject of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/576 "2019-10-31T04:44:42Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Back in another lifetime, I was a fan of the Nats v. 2.0, the team that got moved to Texas and became the Rangers after the 1971 season. (Not to be confused with v.1.0 which became the Minnesota Twins.) > > So yeah, this is pretty damn cool. 🙂 Yeah, I was born a new Senators fan too. Never thought the series would ever return to Washington in my lifetime, much less winning it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/577 "2019-10-31T04:49:31Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > How many come-from-behind victories does that make for the Nats in the postseason? 5, they said. Fight finished. ---
**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 31, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/578 "2019-10-31T04:53:45Z")
_ **i love it!!!”** _ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/579 "2019-10-31T06:03:10Z")
What a great World Series week this was for me. Game 1 coincided with the day our cruise ship landed in Nassau, marking my first trip to a foreign country. My best friend and I started dating that day, too. And it ended with the Nats winning the championship! ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046/580 "2019-10-31T09:03:33Z")
Huh. So that happened. All right, I am absolutely not a betting man, but after catching an incredible break in the wild card game and catching a few more breaks against the Dodgers (particularly that near-home run in game 5 which would have been a walk-off) I had…a _premonition_, if you will, that this was their year. They were The Team That Absolutely Would Not Die. You know what I’m talking about. The franchise that, while usually a solid contender, you wouldn’t peg to win it all in a thousand years, either because they’re perennial chokers, small-market, haunted, lacking in some critical aspect, or just always-good-but-never-great. And then, completely out of the blue, they have that _one_ miracle year where they claimed the crown. When you look at these One Shining Moments, the thing they all have in common was that they were vulnerable time and again but **no freaking one** could close the deal against them. The first opponent would get the job 98% done and then turn into the Washington Generals, and you think the next one’s going to take them out, and they fail, and the next, and the next, and the next, flop after choke after bungle after faceplant after meltdown after collapse after crash, and all of a sudden there’s no one left. And in many cases these were adversaries that utterly _owned_ them in the past. I’ve seen it happen so many times. Just going from memory, zero research: Houston Rockets. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Anaheim something-something Angels (they emasculated Barry Bonds at the height of his cream ‘n clear dominance, for crying out loud). Indianapolis Colts. Arizona Diamondbacks. Dallas Mavericks. Philadelphia Eagles. Washington Capitals. Baltimore Ravens (both times!). Cleveland Cavaliers. Saint Louis Blues (sheesh, I wouldn’t want to be the hockey historian who has to explain _that_ one to future generations). Atlanta Braves. Heck, before Tom Brady and Bill Belichick went into Tiger Woods Mode, I’d argue that the New England Patriots’ first Super Bowl qualified. And while it admittedly can be incredibly dismaying if you’re a fan of one of their opponents…to see your superior, possibly considerably superior, squad get helplessly swallowed up by the tides of destiny and watch helplessly as the unworthy upstarts raise the trophy that was rightfully YOURS, dammit!!..it’s ultimately a good thing for sport to remind us that it’s not predictable, and when the chips fall just right, a mouse can beat not only a tiger, but the whole pack. No one franchise is likely to get blessed this way more than once in your lifetime, perhaps ever, but flukes and miracles and jaw-droppers happen all the time, and if you follow sports long enough, you’ll see enough to the point where they’re almost expected. Anyway, history made with 7 road wins in the World Series, and that’s always cool. 😃 Little trivia aside: What’s the shortest time it took for a team that moved to a new city to win a title in its new home? I’m pretty sure this is the shortest time for a baseball team, but as I recall the Baltimore Ravens didn’t take very long to make Cleveland even more miserable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season-2019/841046.md?page=30)