# MLB: Post-season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860 "2014-09-29T14:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**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 5, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/441 "2014-10-05T23:37:15Z")
Tigers eliminated - wow, hard to fathom, they have such a good team. Go Royals! Go Orioles! Go Cardinals! _ **GO GIANTS!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/442 "2014-10-05T23:40:47Z")
Well, Trout has woken up. 1-0 Angels. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/443 "2014-10-05T23:42:09Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Well, Trout has woken up. > > 1-0 Angels. “It’s just a flesh wound.” ---
**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 5, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/444 "2014-10-05T23:50:40Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Well, Trout has woken up. > > 1-0 Angels. Sorry, after 2002 I can’t cheer for the Angels. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/445 "2014-10-05T23:54:32Z")
No need to apologize. I don’t like them either. I can’t cheer for anything connected with Orange County, for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/446 "2014-10-05T23:58:33Z")
Bases-clearing triple. Go Royals! And Wilson given the hook by Scoscia. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/447 "2014-10-06T00:00:05Z")
2/3rds of an inning. That’s about as quick a hook as you’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/448 "2014-10-06T00:02:42Z")
And a first-inning pitching change–something you don’t see very often these days. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/449 "2014-10-06T00:07:20Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > And a first-inning pitching change–something you don’t see very often these days. I think you’d see it more often these days than ever. Which is still pretty darned rare. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/450 "2014-10-06T00:18:57Z")
And now a second-inning pitching change. Hector Santiago. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/451 "2014-10-06T00:36:08Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I think you’d see it more often these days than ever. > > Which is still pretty darned rare. It’s an admittedly small sample size, but I was looking through my old scorecards from the seventies a few months back and noticed a number of pitchers being pulled in the first, because of ineffectiveness not because of injury. It struck me I hadn’t seen that in a while, and while I’m sure it happened later in the 2014 season I didn’t notice it. I attributed it to the existence of long relievers on the staff–I saw a number of guys pitch 4, 5, or even 6 innings in relief in a nine-inning game back then, too, and that’s pretty rare these days. But it’s quite possible that I’m wrong. The plural of anecdote and all… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/452 "2014-10-06T00:43:28Z")
Two-run homer for Hosmer. 5-1 KC. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/453 "2014-10-06T00:49:55Z")
Third inning, third pitching change for the Angels. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/454 "2014-10-06T00:49:59Z")
I’ve lost count. Is this the Angels’ fourth pitcher? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/455 "2014-10-06T00:54:09Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I’ve lost count. Is this the Angels’ fourth pitcher? Yep. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/456 "2014-10-06T00:54:36Z")
I guess there’s no point in Scioscia holding back anything, because there’s no tomorrow if they don’t stop bleeding now. ETA: Angels deploy Pitcher #5 in the fourth inning as KC piles more on. At this rate the Royals are going to win the series five games to nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/457 "2014-10-06T01:26:47Z")
Fifth pitcher now. This is getting ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/458 "2014-10-06T01:43:32Z")
Lorenzo Cain is pretty damn good out there in center field. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/459 "2014-10-06T01:43:48Z")
That was two great back to back plays in center. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860/460 "2014-10-06T01:47:25Z")
Pitcher number 6 for the Angels. We’ve just started the bottom of the 5th, and the game is already over two hours old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-post-season/699860.md?page=24)