Got the numbers right … (As of the 6th inning)
With Bumgarner pitching exactly the sort of game the Giants were hoping he would pitch, I am feeling cautiously optimistic about the outcome at this point.
I repeat that I expect our teams will meet again…
According to MLB.com, Crawford’s grand slam is the first time a shortstop has ever hit a grand slam in a postseason game.
I find that astounding.
The big blow comes from the worst hitter in the lineup (including the pitcher).
SuburbanPlankton: shhh!! You’ll jinx it!
Well, I must officially hope that you never win another game…but that matchup would be “in the best interests of baseball”.
If the Giants can’t hold a 7 run lead at this point, they don’t deserve to move on,and I’ll gladly root for the Pirates to go all the way.
Well…I must say that I certainly didn’t expect that.
I thought the Giants could win, but 8 runs and a complete game shutout? Nu-uh.
All right, now that I have a keyboard instead of my phone, and more time than a meal break between lessons and rehearsal entails, I am ready to CONTRIBUTE. (Sorry, it’s been a long week. I’m a little punchy. Please don’t hit me, RickJay).
I’m a Red Sox fan. We’ll leave that one alone.
I’m a transplant to St. Louis, so the Cards are my national league team. They’ve been uneven this year (by far the lowest run differential of any first place team), and did their damnedest to blow the division lead in the last week (to Pittsburgh’s credit, they refused to go away).
That said, they have a solid postseason record in the last decade. 6-1 in the NLDS, 4-2 in the NLCS. The two losses in the LCS went to at least 6 games (one to seven), so at the very least, they should be competitive.
On the other hand, I’m a Red Sox fan. I’m constitutionally incapable of optimism.
Fach: How did you root in '04? Were you alive for the Impossible Dream?
Sox will always be my primary team. Rooted for them in both '04 and '13. Happy when the Cards won in '06 and '11 (1982 was way before I even had an inkling of ever living here.
Born in 1976, so no Impossible Dream for me. The first World Series I watched was '86.
Buckner was 1st WS too.
You guys can’t play the long suffering fan card any more, not with 3 championships in the last 10 years. If you’d like to wait another 86 years, though, I’m sure the rest of the league would be happy to accommodate you.
Who’s doing that? I’m quite happy with the last decade. Especially given that I follow the Cardinals too. That gives me five in the last ten years.
Just got tickets to my first ever baseball playoff game! 
Game 2 in Washington. Go Nats!
Slate: I wasn’t “playing that card”, merely saying that was the 1st Series I remember watching.
What about 2007? We won that year too.
Not long now until the first ALDS game.
Scherzer (3.15) against Tillman (3.34).
The Tigers have averaged 4.67 runs per game this year, while the Orioles are at 4.35.
Defensively, the Tigers have given up exactly the same as the Orioles have scored: 4.35 per game. Baltimore had the third-best runs-against number in the AL this year, at 3.66 per game, with the bullpen being a huge factor in their run prevention.
Let’s Go O’s!
So now that I officially have the tickets in hand, I can brag that by the grace of the baseball gods, I managed to win tickets to all 3 (potential) home games for the Dodgers-Cardinals series. And I was only in the running for this because of being lucky earlier this season when I got to throw out the first pitch.
In 2014, beisbol been berry berry good to me.
Go Os!
I don’t really mind the Tigers, aside from Miguel Cabrera. He can just go away.
Chris Tillman had the adrenaline going in the first. Three strikeouts, and his fastball in the mid-90s, which is about as fast as he gets.
He’ll probably need to settle down a bit if he wants to put in six or seven innings without blowing up his arm.