The ghost of the Seattle Pilots lives! 
The rest of the Brewers’ schedule:
- One more today at home against the Cardinals
- Three at home against the Angels
- Three at the Cardinals
- Three at the Padres
- Three at home against the Reds
Cal Raleigh gets #55 and 56 HRs today. So far. It’s still just the 4th inning.
That means he has passed Mickey Mantle’s record for switch-hitters, and tied Griffey’s HR record for the Mariners franchise.
Ohtani has set a record with a new kind of “50-50” season: Only player in history to hit 50 home runs and throw 50 strikeouts in the same season.
He is going to be talked about for a long, long time. He’ll be one of those names people bring up generations from now.
The Cubs clinched a playoff berth this afternoon, with their win over the Pirates.
The Brewers only got 6 hits against the Angels tonight, but also got 6 walks, and beat Los Angeles for the second straight night, with the same score (9-2) both nights. Milwaukee maintains their five-game lead over the Cubs in the NL Central, and a 2-game lead over the Phillies for the best record in the NL, with 10 games remaining for all three teams.
Since August 11th the Yankees have gone 23-11 which is the best in the MLB over that time period. Unfortunately for them the Blue Jays went 20-13 over the same period so no real chance to catch up. They are doing what’s needed to get in the playoffs but remain uneven. They follow up great wins with blow out losses. It’s hard to have faith in anyone in their bullpen.
Also the Yanks have tended to beat bad teams and lose to the good ones. Not what you want to see for October.
I looked at the standings this morning and was somewhat surprised to see that the Diamondbacks are just 1.5 games behind the Mets for the last NL wild-card spot. And the Reds & Giants (both .500 teams) are just a 1/2 game behind the D-backs.
Arizona has the toughest remaining schedule in the majors: 3 each against the Phillies, Dodgers, and Padres.
In August and September the Mets have been 15-27. It’s more surprising that the Mets are still in it.
Yep, tomorrow is his last regular season start, and fittingly, it is against the Giants.
What a class act.
Cleveland beat the Tigers today to complete a 3 game sweep in Detroit. Guardians now trail Detroit by 3.5 games, the closest the AL Central race has been for months. The two teams have another 3 game series next week in Cleveland.
Cleveland has won 7 in a row and is just 1.5 games behind Boston for the final wild-card spot.
Toronto has to play Tampa 7 times in the last two weeks, and the Rays, despite being under .500 in the standings, always play the Blue Jays tough with the Rays ahead 7-3 in the season series so far.
He should have retired 4 years ago.
The Brewers won tonight, completing a three-game sweep over the Angels, while the Cubs were one-hit by Reds pitcher Hunter Greene, and lost.
Milwaukee now has a 6-game lead over the Cubs for the NL Central, and their magic number is down to 4. They also have a 3-game lead over the Phillies for the #1 seed in the NL playoffs; their magic number for that is, I think, 6 – if the two teams wind up with the same record, the Brewers would get the #1 seed, as they won the head-to-head season series against the Phillies.
Kershaw certainly hasn’t been anywhere close to what he had once been, since around 2018, when he started experiencing injury after injury. But, up through 2023, he was still a good pitcher, despite the injuries: he was posting ERAs between 2.50 and 3.50, WHIP right around 1.000, and bWAR scores around 3.5. He wasn’t really All-Star caliber anymore, but he was absolutely a solid contributor to the Dodgers’ rotation when he could go. In 2022, he was the eighth-ranked player on the Dodgers based on bWAR; in 2023, he was ranked #4 on the team.
But, he missed most of 2024 (and wasn’t good when he did play; he was playing with toe and knee injuries); he’s been better this year than last, but at age 37, I think he realized that he just doesn’t have much left in the tank anymore; spending the better part of a decade rehabbing injuries undoubtedly got tiresome, as well.
Interesting ruling, I wasn’t sure how this worked.
Tonight the 76-77 Royals hosted the Blue Jays, who have the best record in the AL. George Springer led off the game with a home run, but the Royals answered with 7 in the bottom of the first. Carter Jensen, playing in his 12th major league game, hit two doubles in the inning, becoming the first player in franchise history to achieve that feat. KC scored 3 more in the 3rd and then added 4 in the 7th and 6 in the 8th, the latter ten runs all coming off Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman. The Royals set a franchise record with 27 hits in the 20-1 victory.
The Dodgers beat the Giants tonight. The head to head record of these two teams going back to New York is now 1287-1287-17. This is the first time that the Dodgers have been tied since since August 10th, 1896. (The record is 616-565 Dodgers in California).
Update: With the 19-run margin of victory, KC now sits at .500 on the year, having scored exactly as many runs as they have allowed.
This is the definition of average.