Oh, yes. I guess you have the version from your cable company. I’ve got the online version, I watch on my Roku, iPad or MacBook.
Looks like it will be SF v LAD in the first round but…SL has had the Dodgers number over the years in the playoffs. Its going to be fun.
Spectrum. I will investigate further. It would be really cool to catch some games over the winter.
I think the Dodgers beat the Cards, but the Cards could end up messing up their rotation a bit. The Cards score runs; the Dodgers have the big studs to shutdown the best offenses. The Cards pitching is good but not great. The Dodgers lineup is, well, pretty loaded. So, Dodgers. But who knows…
Keeping my eye on AL wildcard. I thought Seattle was dead, but they’re not.
Scherzer was bombed today and blew a 4-0 1st inning lead.
Looks like the Cards are 4-1 against the Dodgers in the playoffs since 1985.
History’s all good and shit but it’s 2021 and the Dodgers are the defending world champs. I’m also trying not to jinx my team, lol. Whenever the Cards win 100 games and lead their division by 10 games, they’ll flop in the postseason - guaranteed. They usually do better when they stumble into the WS.
The flexibility the Dodgers have with pitching is what worries me.
The Dodgers and Cardinals split the six games they played against each other this season. They split a four-game series just three weeks ago.
But they’re behind the Mariners
Sea has a game in hand so todays game for the Jays is a must win. Im really hoping it ends in a four-way tie and it causes the MLB computer to overheat and explode.
Absolutely correct. Yankees finish with three against Tampa Bay, who has absolutely nothing to play for anymore. Jays host Baltimore for their final three, Boston goes to Washington, and Seattle hosts the Angels. Should the Jays and BoSox win today, the Yanks and Sox would be tied, with Toronto and Seattle one game back.
Wonder if that scenario would result in a four-team ‘tournament’ with the winner earning the right to play the Rays?
If Toronto wins today - no guarantee, as Kluber usually kills them - they’re still one behind New York. They would therefore have to beat New York by two over the weekend, and New York is not playing the Tampa Bay Rays. They’re playing the Tampa Bay Rays Resting Their Best Players And Taking It Super Easy With Their Pitchers. Tampa Bay has nothing to play for except keeping warm.
Realistically, Toronto would do very well to tie for the second wild card, and that would likely require sweeping Baltimore in addition to winning tonight.
If Toronto wins today they’re tied (Seattle’s off.) If Toronto loses it doesn’t matter, they’re dead; they’d end up behind New York and Boston anyway.
Seattle’s staying in the race is kind of amazing - I don’t know how they’ve done in - but close though they are their situation is also quite dire, because not only do they kind of need Toronto to lose today, but they’d still have to pass Boston. They need Boston AND Toronto to play badly the rest of the way (or one of them to play badly and New York to go 0-4.) Of the four teams remaining in contention, basically none of them are safe going 2-2 and Toronto and Seattle are dead meat if they go 2-2.
Tonight’s Toronto-New York game is the only two-game-difference game left. Over the weekend all the teams play either poor teams or the coasting Rays.
Obviously, the most interesting outcome tonight would be if Toronto beats New York and Boston somehow loses again to Baltimore, which would place the Jays, Red Sox and Mariners in a three way tie for the second sport with the Yankees only a game ahead, raising the bizarre possibility of a three way tie for a wild card sport or even a four ways tie for both spots.
The best thing that can happen to Seattle is for Boston to lose and Toronto to lose. New York losing doesn’t help them as much, because the Yankees would still be ahead.
Actually, the best thing that could happen to Seattle would be a weekend sweep of the Angels with the Astros losing to Tampa Bay today and then the Astros getting swept by the A’s… which would place Seattle tied with Houston for the NL West, forcing a Game 163 between them, which would put one of them in the ALDS and possibly drop the other into the Wild Card game UNLESS two AL East teams finish with 93 wins, in which case the loser of the AL West tiebreaker would be eliminated. (The A’s are eliminated already.)
In case anyone is wondering, I suppose it’s obvious how a four way tie is settled for two spots, they have two playoff games. Three way ties are weirder, and it depends whether it’s a 3-way tie for one spot or two, and honestly I am not sure I have this straight, but let me see if I can explain:
In the case of a three way tie for both Wild Cards:
- There are teams designated A, B, and C.
- The A and B teams play one game. The WINNER of that game gets a wild card.
- The LOSER of the game plays team C. The winner of that game gets other other wild card.
- The designations are chosen. Whatever team has the best collective record against the other two teams can choose A, B or C. If head to head is itself tied, it’s record against all one’s divisional opponents. The second ranking team then picks.
In the case of a three way tie for one spot, the loser of the A-B game is eliminated and the WINNER, instead of the loser, plays team C for the spot.
I had the same thought, but then I remembered the new roster limit. Sure, they’re not going to stretch any of their best starters or relievers, but they can’t field a AAA team like the old days, either.
I’d like to feel confident about this weekend, but the 2021 Yankees have taught me that they have endlessly creative ways to screw things up. Fingers crossed.
Yankees win tonight, which just about eliminates the Jays from the WC race and gives the Yanks a 2 game lead in the WC with 3 games to go.
BoSox lose, so they are now tied with Seattle for the second WC. Jays are a game behind.
3 teams vying for one WC spot in the last series of the season. Gotta love it.
Why would the Rays be happy to tank against the Yanks when they could well play them next week? It seems to me that they wouldnt want them on a hot streak and it would be icing on the cake to eliminate them from the playoffs.
Ive been watching all the Giant games and they somehow squeak out win after win. Its amazing. They seem to be a team of destiny.
If it werent for the press coverage of the era people might not believe that things like this actually happened.
I guess Gabe Kapler wasn’t the problem in Philadelphia, then. lol
Imo the Giants are just having one of those seasons where everything comes together at the right time. I wouldnt be surprised if they have an 85 win 2022 if there is a 2022.
Momentum is tomorrow’s starting pitcher. Being hot in the regular season doesn’t mean squat.
I 100% agree with this statement. The playoffs are just a different animal. The real momentum is from one game to the next, particularly in a short series, where each decision, each pitch, each squandered opportunity is magnified. IMO the value of “experience” in the MLB postseason is just having been through the stress of a playoff series and knowing how to process it. The psychology of baseball is similar to other team sports, but it’s also similar to sports like golf and tennis: the battle isn’t just against the other guy; it’s against yourself.