Just got home from the game. Unreal. Still can’t believe it. So happy for this team. Also great to see Werth celebrating with his old teammates. I was happy just to get to the post season but now I’m getting greedy and want 4 more wins!
Just got home from the game. Unreal. Still can’t believe it. So happy for this team. Also great to see Werth celebrating with his old teammates. I was happy just to get to the post season but now I’m getting greedy and want 4 more wins!
Congrats to the Expo ex-pats.
"Amazing what a minute can do."
Congrats to Nats. And I think if Yankees win tonight, ALCS is going 7. Nats will have their staff lined up and AL champ will have some fatigued bullpens.
That said, Astros, if they get by, will have their rotation right, too. I think Astros want Greinke game 1 to ensure Cole and Verlander games 6 and 7. And you get Greinke in one NL home game (game 5) so he can hit.
Tonight’s game is going to be 5 hours with all the pitching changes. My lord the Yankees play the longest games.
Tonight's game isn't going to happen. I'm watching the clouds roll in from my office about five miles south of Yankee Stadium and it is forecasted to start pouring around lunch time in NY. I assume this will allow both teams to go back to their game 1 starters for game 4 but they will lose the off day so if this goes 6 or 7 it could start getting really interesting.
I for one am rooting for the Yankees' season to last as long as possible for MLS playoff purposes.
In 2007 the Colorado Rockies, my alternate favorite team to the Nats, finished the regular season winning 14 of 15 to edge into the playoffs. The Rockies then swept the Phillies and the Diamondbacks to enter the World Series having won 20 of 21.
There was a nine-day delay for the Rockies between the end of the NLCS on October 15 and the first game of the Series on October 24 because the Red Sox-Indians series took seven games. The Nats got swept by the Red Sox. I have always thought the delay was a harmful factor for the Rockies. On the other hand, teams are different, and perhaps the veteran players and pitchers of the Nats will come through this year.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Here's a MLB.com story that it's 1-8 for the last nine teams to do so:
https://www.mlb.com/news/every-sweep-in-lcs-history
According to the piece, there have been 9 teams to sweep an LCS since 1988, with the 1995 Atlanta Braves (not to be confused with the Cobb County Barves) standing as the only one to win a Series (4-0 over Cincinnati in NLCS, 4-2 over Cleveland to complete the "Take THAT, William Sherman" conquest of Ohio).
Cardinals hitting coach Jeff Albert will return in 2020.
The front office sure does love that not-panicking look.
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine
The Nationals are going to have an undesirable amount of downtime between series.
I think it's more likely both Severino and Cole are saved for a potential game 7 on regular rest. Maybe the team that's down pushes their guy up to game 6, though I think that's pretty unlikely for Severino, coming off his highest pitch count, by a decent margin, so far.
Demented and sad, but social, right?
Man the FS1 booth seemed deflated when Correa hit his home run. Don’t be so glum Joe and John!
Home plate ump is so bad tonight. None of the hitters or pitchers know what to do.
Totally agree. When the missed calls are so obvious with the electronic strike zone on TV and the calls could be made instantly by computer, it's frustrating to see a person miss so many calls in important games, even when it benefits my team and especially when it hurts my team.
(This isn't intended as a partisan comment for Andrew Yang's automation-based campaign.)