I’m sorry, I didn’t have anything to take notes with… is your claim here that scoring runs causes your score to accumulate, and that the objective is to have a higher score than the opposing team?
The vaunted American League East, one of the strongest divisions since they invented divisions, sent three teams to the playoffs. Not one of them won even a single game. They went 0-7.
In those seven games, they scored two or fewer runs six times.
To be honest, I am not surprised at all the Rangers beat the Orioles. The Orioles’ 101 wins were a bit flukey, while the Rangers were a bit unlucky. The Orioles didn’t have a front line starting rotation I really liked, either. Texas has a VERY difficult lineup to deal with.
I’m a lifelong Orioles fan and I’m not even mad. They were near-universally expected to regress this season and they won 101 games. Best record in the American League. Have a lock on Rookie of the Year. Extremely strong candidate for Manager of the Year. It was a successful season by just about any measure.
They were a very good but fatally flawed team this year, in the starting pitcher arena, but they no doubt put the entire league on notice they’re going to be a huge problem for at least the next decade.
(Of course the Angeloses are an entire family of cheap shitheads and who knows if they will open up the checkbook to even hold onto the stars they already have, let alone to bring in some high-priced free agent starting pitching which is really all they need to put them over the top and EVERYONE can see it.)
I mean, it’s progress, which is what counts.
I’d be surprised if Brandon Hyde doesn’t win Manager of the Year; the only other candidate, really, is Kevin Cash, but Cash has won the award twice in the last three years (he is the only manager to win it two years in a row in the AL.)
There really isn’t a lot of that available this offseason anyway.
Joe Posnanski had a stat in his newsletter that Mitch Garver, the part-time catcher/DH who didn’t even play against the Rays or in the first game against the Orioles, slugged .500 this year. Which is something that exactly zero of the Orioles starting lineup managed this season.
The Rangers were just a better team than the Orioles this year, especially in a short-series format where their weak back-end of the bullpen doesn’t really matter.
Arizona has taken a slight lead, 1-0 in the bottom of the 3rd.
Not so slight…
Three…
Four.
Jeez Louise.
Man, tough times in LA. Imagine starting guy with a FIP over 6 in an elimination game.
A Lone Star ALCS. Twins go down to the Astros.
Did Roberts fall asleep in the dugout? The mind boggles.
Jeez Louise is right.
The “getting a bye is actually a disadvantage because of the layoff” excuse doesn’t really fly by Game 3, surely? And yet here we are, with Atlanta being destroyed 10-2 and the Dodgers peering into the abyss. Sometimes you just gotta play good.
It’s an easy game. See the ball, hit the ball. Easy peasy. 
Nitpick: This is a simple game: You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. You got it?!
Disappointment. I was hoping with all my being that the Astros would not go to a 7th straight ALCS.
Oh well, guess we better show them who’s boss of Texas.
The game is simple. The quote is not. 
OK, I’m now rooting for a Rangers-Diamondbacks World Series. And the Rangers to win it all.
New thread where I ask the question, MLB 2023 postseason: harmful byes?
It’s always a good day when the Dodgers lose.