Divisional Round game thread

[duewizard]

I think it will be the Dodgers (3-2), Mariners (3-1), and Yankees (3-2).

Yankees-Jays and Dodgers-Phillies feel like toss ups imo

[StearnsFTW]

Dodgers Brewers Mariners Blue Jays imo

[Team Canada]

Feels like Toronto is going to expose NY's pitching, but hey, if Schlittler's going to throw another couple gems, anything could happen. He looked pretty electric.

[owbc]

I was 3/4 in the WC round…thought the Padres would advance but no luck. 
 

Phi/LA: Dodgers in 5. LA is firing on all cylinders but their pitching depth will cost them a few games. A must watch series. 

Chc/Mil: Brewers in 4. Please.

NYY/Tor: Yankees in 4. Im torn on this one. Likely going to be an offense heavy series, in the end I think the Yankees steal a game in Toronto and close it out at home.

Det/Sea: Mariners in 4. The Mariners fit the formula of a team built for postseason success with their power hitting lineup and rotation depth. With Skubal not available in game 1 it feels like Detroit will be playing from behind from the start and won’t recover the momentum. 

[Samurai Bucky]

3 hours ago, owbc said:

NYY/Tor: Yankees in 4. Im torn on this one. Likely going to be an offense heavy series, in the end I think the Yankees steal a game in Toronto and close it out at home.

I think the Bichette injury is going to hurt the Jays a lot more than people think.

[pitchleague]

I still don’t understand why they play with one set of extra inning rules during the season and then a completely different set in the post-season.

[Frisbee Slider]

5 hours ago, pitchleague said:

I still don’t understand why they play with one set of extra inning rules during the season and then a completely different set in the post-season.

To avoid 13 inning games during regular season.

[Frisbee Slider]

Phillies looked very good until they didn’t. Cristopher Sanchez is very tough. Teoscar with an opposite field HR was the difference. 

[pitchleague]

4 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

To avoid 13 inning games during regular season.

Well, yes, I already know that.  But why is it suddenly okay to have 13 inning games in the post-season?

[duewizard]

17 minutes ago, pitchleague said:

Well, yes, I already know that.  But why is it suddenly okay to have 13 inning games in the post-season?

Because in the post-season having longer games is not a hindrance to retention rates. Manfred is obsessed with reducing game lengths. No one wants to watch the Pirates and Angels go 15 in mid-April. The logic changes in the playoffs. Having 2:30 hour games stops being the priority because these are nationally televised games woth very real and very immediate implications. 

 

[Brian]

29 minutes ago, pitchleague said:

Well, yes, I already know that.  But why is it suddenly okay to have 13 inning games in the post-season?

Probably because we don't have to play 17 games in a row in the playoffs, during the regular season we go threw way more pitchers per week playing every single day. 

[Fear The Chorizo]

39 minutes ago, pitchleague said:

Well, yes, I already know that.  But why is it suddenly okay to have 13 inning games in the post-season?

Because playoff wins need to be determined by actual baseball rules, not by adjustments to regular season games to limit player wear and tear over a 162 game marathon.

 

The NHL and NFL do the same thing, its not unique to baseball.  Soccer deciding world cups with penalty kicks is a travesty

[young guns]

And yet a lot of the speed up the game rules were implemented because the length of playoff games were getting out of hand.  I'm not ok with marathon games in the regular season and still not ok with them on the playoffs.  Though, if Mondays game goes 17 innings it won't effect me because I'm going to have to be in bed likely before 9 innings are done anyway.

[HarryDoyle]

Maybe New York City should've been represented by the Mets after all.

[Brian]

1 minute ago, HarryDoyle said:

Maybe New York City should've been represented by the Mets after all.

Yanks handing out runs to the Jays like Murphy's pocket pancakes. 

[Underachiever]

9 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Phillies looked very good until they didn’t. Cristopher Sanchez is very tough. Teoscar with an opposite field HR was the difference. 

I don’t know if anyone on the Dodgers scares me more than Teoscar. Dude just seems clutch.

[Underachiever]

4 hours ago, young guns said:

I'm going to have to be in bed likely before 9 innings are done anyway.

Young gun, indeed!

 

[duewizard]

The Jays are just dragging the Yankees through the floor. Its ugly (but beautiful)

[yfinn6]

10 minutes ago, duewizard said:

The Jays are just dragging the Yankees through the floor. Its ugly (but beautiful)

You hate to see it. 

[Frisbee Slider]

1 hour ago, duewizard said:

The Jays are just dragging the Yankees through the floor. Its ugly (but beautiful)

Unrelated note: Devin Williams with two scoreless innings this postseason.

[torts]

That vladdy granny was epic

[AKCheesehead]

re: the extra innings rules.  I realize I'm in the minority, but I wish they'd have just left it alone.  Yeah sometimes extra innings games go long.  Oh well, the way she goes, boys. 

[Team Canada]

4 hours ago, duewizard said:

The Jays are just dragging the Yankees through the floor. Its ugly (but beautiful)

On the other hand, this Detroit/Seattle series has been fantastic.

[BuckyBrewer61]

12 hours ago, AKCheesehead said:

re: the extra innings rules.  I realize I'm in the minority, but I wish they'd have just left it alone.  Yeah sometimes extra innings games go long.  Oh well, the way she goes, boys. 

Hot take -  I'd be ok with regular season games ending in ties.

 

**ducks for cover**

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

30 minutes ago, BuckyBrewer61 said:

Hot take -  I'd be ok with regular season games ending in ties.

 

**ducks for cover**

American sports are so unnaturally averse to ties, it's weird. I wish the NHL had kept them too. Giving 3 pts total in some games and 2 in others is weird, but this isn't the Stanley Cup thread :(

Anyway, I supposed the ties would get a little complicated in the standings, but if you let games go 11 innings, I doubt there'd be too many. You'd just have to figure out if you wanted to bluntly value win pct or do something more mathematically nuanced. I mean, it works fine in the NFL.