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[You Play to Win the Game]

Also the momentum thing, a team winning a best of 3, then going to play a rested/rusty team. Noticing that with the offenses especially, other than Yordan Alvarez.

[mdrunning]

Also the momentum thing, a team winning a best of 3, then going to play a rested/rusty team. Noticing that with the offenses especially, other than Yordan Alvarez.

That's one reason I'm against these three-game wild miniseries. It completely disrupts the teams that have to sit and wait until their conclusion to take the field again. It simply isn't the rhythm of the summer and the regular season to which players become accustomed.

[mdrunning]

Astros and Mariners are now in the top of the 15th with still no score. I wonder if there's such a thing as a 14-inning stretch.

 

Top of the 18th beginning in Seattle. Jose Altuve, who never had more than six at-bats in any one game, is now 0-for-8. That'll damage your postseason batting average.

 

Does the winner of this game (if there ever is one) get two wins?

 

The Astros have broken the scoreless tie in the 18th on a solo homer by Jeremy Pena.

 

If anyone on Seattle hits one in the bottom of the inning, he might be the first player in history to be booed in his home park for hitting a game-tying homer.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Awesome! What a great finish. Guardians small balled their way to a W.

[mdrunning]

Oscar Gonzalez, who wasn't even on Cleveland's 40-man roster at the outset of the season, now has three game-winning hits thus far this postseason.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Oh please finish off the Yanks tomorrow. Lol

[mdrunning]

With a five-run seventh, the 89-win Padres ousted the 111-win Dodgers. An all-wildcard NLCS awaits.

 

Baseball can be very random over the short term.

[mdrunning]

Yankees force a Game 5 tomorrow back in the Bronx. Dammit.

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: A wild Division Series weekend showed off the best of October baseball

https://www.espn.com...astros-mariners

[BSLChrisStoner]

• ALDS Game 5 ppd. to Tue.; Yanks turn to Cortes

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: Who has the NLCS edge? Preview, predictions for Padres-Phillies

https://www.espn.com...padres-phillies

[BSLRoseKatz]

Wrote an NLCS preview looking at how the Phillies got Harper and the Padres got Machado and then continued to keep making external moves to improve the team https://baltimorespo...ionship-series/

[BSLChrisStoner]

FanGraphs: Yes, the Playoffs Are Still a Crapshoot

[BSLChrisStoner]

CBS Sports: Padres vs. Phillies score, takeaways: Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper and Zack Wheeler star in Game 1 victory

https://www.cbssport...1-victory/live/

[DuffMan]

Ugh, I just realized that 3 of the 4 teams left I don't want to win a WS.

[Mackus]

Ugh, I just realized that 3 of the 4 teams left I don't want to win a WS.

 

Still just the one, for me.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Still just the one, for me.

Id prefer Philly doesnt win but NY is the only one I really want to lose

[mweb08]

Go Padres.

Go NL regardless.

[BSLChrisStoner]

• Drury, Bell power Padres' outburst to even NLCS
• Verlander anchors Astros: 'Why he is a HOFer'

[BSLChrisStoner]

CBS Sports: Astros vs. Yankees score: Alex Bregman's three-run HR gives Houston 2-0 ALCS series lead

https://www.cbssport...ries-lead/live/