2018-09-19: Other MLB Games

[homer]

Please use this thread to discuss other games with playoff implications:

 

Chicago @ Arizona 8:40PM

Colorado @ Los Angeles 9:10PM

St Louis @ Atlanta (oops, day game. Cards already lost so discuss their failure.)

[wibadgers23]

I think we want LA to win at this point and I feel pretty good about their chances tonight against the Rockies with Walker Buehler going. Another Rockies loss and our magic # goes down another game at the minimum.

[jerichoholicninja]

I guess it depends if you would prefer to play the Rockies in the wild card game. If you do, then you want the Rockies to win.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

- Nice of the Braves to at least salvage one from the Cardinals. I was hoping the Braves would do better, but a game is better than nothing. Gonna be pulling hard for the Giants this weekend. They have actually been ok lately.

 

- Gonna be pulling for the DBacks tonight as well, but it appears that they have pretty much checked out for the season. Totally uninspired performance from a team that had long odds, but was still technically alive heading into Monday. Cubs still have the White Sox this weekend, four against the Pirates, and three with the Cards to end the year, so if they manage to clinch the division before that Card series, they earned it.

 

- At this point, we probably want the Rockies to lose as much as possible, simply as a stress relief. Dodgers end the year with the Padres, DBacks and Giants, so on paper that is pretty easy. Rockies end with the DBacks, four against the Phillies, who are playing pretty well, and three against the Nationals.

[KeithStone53151]

- At this point, we probably want the Rockies to lose as much as possible, simply as a stress relief. Dodgers end the year with the Padres, DBacks and Giants, so on paper that is pretty easy. Rockies end with the DBacks, four against the Phillies, who are playing pretty well, and three against the Nationals.

 

I agree the most with this part. At this point, I just wouldn't mind the Dodgers beating up the Rockies and knocking them out of the race for the NL West. We wouldn't face the Dodgers until the NLCS, and I personally will just be happy if we get there.

 

Dbacks, Pirates, Nationals, Phillies...at this point I don't think any will make the playoffs even if they win out. It's a 6 team race. The Cubs and Braves are basically locked in. The Brewers probably have the highest odds of the other 4 teams but it's super close. Will be an interesting week and a half.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

McCalvy just posted the Dbacks' lineup....it is very ugly.

 

So we can count on hanging the L because baseball, right?

[burnzy24]

Cubs down 3-0 in the 1st!

[82brewcrew82]

McCalvy just posted the Dbacks' lineup....it is very ugly.

 

So we can count on hanging the L because baseball, right?

There should be a fine for putting that lineup out there. Then again they just hung three on Hamels in the first and the "A" lineup did next to nothing in the other games.

 

The first thing I want (assuming the division is not an option) is home field for the WC play in game, but I want the Cards and Rox fighting for that spot to the last day of the season. I don't want either to have the luxury of resting players and lining up pitching. I have no issue playing the Cubs in round two. On paper they are the better team but I think they are more vulnerable than people think this year.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Maybe the 2018 Texas ranger version of hamels is still in there somewhere....just in time for the playoffs.

[josh]

I have no issue playing the Cubs in round two. On paper they are the better team but I think they are more vulnerable than people think this year.

 

I might need medical staff on hand, but it’d be a heck of a series.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Rockies up 2-0 early. Not sure who to root for. I want the Dodgers to win the division bit the Rox to stay as close to STL as possible. I guess either outcome is good.

 

If pressed, I think I would say Dodgers. Get the magic number down one more...

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I know he's settled down since the 1st inning, but I gotta admit I kinda love seeing Cole Hamels getting smacked around by a lineup of scrubs after he rode into Chicago on his magic unicorn and sprinkled pixie dust on the Cubs' junk rotation.

[brewmann04]

I don;t want the Cards

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Hamels getting full-on shelled now, with 7 ERs through 6 innings. Why they are leaving him in to get shellacked is anyone's guess. Seems odd to let a guy you will be depending on in the playoffs in a couple weeks get brow-beaten.

[homer]

At this point I feel like the Brewers can beat anyone or be beaten by anyone. Let's just get into the playoffs and see what happens. I guess I'd love the Cards to miss the playoffs and the Brewers play the Cubs in round 2 simply because it would be a great series

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

DBacks blank the Cubs 9-0 in a one-hitter. This makes me quite happy. If the Brewers laid a turkey egg yesterday, the one the Cubs laid tonight is the size of a brontosaurus.

[AKCheesehead]

Gotta hand it to JMB, you were not too far off when you called 8-1 DBacks with their who'dathunk lineup.