2022 MLB Postseason Results (Spoilers!) & MLB.tv

[monkeyman576]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Ummm, bottom of the 13th inning in Seattle and no score. Suddenly, I am missing the free extra-inning runner ... so are certain TV executives ...

I am literally crying right now.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Root, root, root for the underdogs! And for the opponents of teams and fans that annoy you! (And throw in the Padres, for Mets fans sake.)

Originally Posted by monkeyman576

That would be ironic if you're a Yankees fan.

[Galeg]

"But you can't win in October if you don't hit home runs..."

[Déjà Bru]

These Padres fans are something else!

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

Soto..don't you mean Juan Soto?

I was watching a Padres-Cards game when Soto just jogged after a ball he should have caught. It was awful.

Both are pretty bad in that regard. But that was Acuna, who was rightfully chopped along with the rest of his icky team.

Uh, btw...

Playoff teams by win totals and their current state:

111 - dead
106 - on to ALCS
101 - dead
101 - dead
99 - 1-2 in ALDS
93 - dead
92 - 2-1 in ALDS
92 - dead
90 - dead
89 - on to NLCS
87 - on to NLCS
86 - dead

"We want to see the best teams in the World Series" - Well, if you're lucky, you're gonna get the ******* PADRES.

Joke.

Absolute joke.

[Westheim]

A Phillies-Guardians World Series would put the regular-season wins total between the two pennant winners at 179.

There have been only four instances since the advent of the 162-game schedule, and excluding strike action seasons, where the combined regular-season wins total for the World Series contestants was even lower than that.

2014: 177 - Giants and Royals were both wild cards. Now, it didn't make for a bad World Series at all, just listing things.
2006: 178 - Cards had an abnormally low 83 wins
1997: 178 - the Marlins were a wild card but actually had a better record than Cleveland
1973: 176 - the entire NL East was basically .500 and the 82-win Mets stumbled through to the World Series

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by cephasjames

I detest both Cleveland and New York. This is tough series for me.

I guess I figured out who I was rooting for when I was ecstatic that the Yankees lost last night.

[Galeg]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Both are pretty bad in that regard. But that was Acuna, who was rightfully chopped along with the rest of his icky team.

Uh, btw...

Playoff teams by win totals and their current state:

111 - dead
106 - on to ALCS
101 - dead
101 - dead
99 - 1-2 in ALDS
93 - dead
92 - 2-1 in ALDS
92 - dead
90 - dead
89 - on to NLCS
87 - on to NLCS
86 - dead

"We want to see the best teams in the World Series" - Well, if you're lucky, you're gonna get the ******* PADRES.

Joke.

Absolute joke.

How is this a joke? This is the point of playoffs.

[pilight]

There's just something insane about playing 162 games over 6+ months and then three or four games later it all counts for absolutely sod all.

[Cod]

Agree with the post above me. IMO, the playoffs should be treated as an entirely different beast. What works in the regular season, rarely works in the playoffs from what I've seen. For example, the Dodgers have this long running analytics idea that starters shouldn't go more than 5-innings; however, in the playoffs, it "looks" like teams utilizing starters in an old school way tend to fare better. I don't have the data to back this up yet, but something I'm looking into. Another example is Moneyball versus Smallball. The teams executing small ball well (Padres, Guardians, etc.) are doing very well this post season where teams living and dying by the long ball are not (Yankees, Atlanta, etc.).

This has definitely been a fun postseason to watch thus far.

[monkeyman576]

Originally Posted by pilight

There's just something insane about playing 162 games over 6+ months and then three or four games later it all counts for absolutely sod all.

That's postseason baseball. How do you think the 2001 Mariners feel?

[Izz]

Originally Posted by Westheim

"We want to see the best teams in the World Series" - Well, if you're lucky, you're gonna get the ******* PADRES.

Go the Padres! Here's hoping Soto can make it 2-2 in postseason appearances-World Series rings

[monkeyman576]

Originally Posted by Izz

Go the Padres! Here's hoping Soto can make it 2-2 in postseason appearances-World Series rings

If the Padres face the Astros and beat the Astros I will be a very happy camper.

[Reed]

Am I the only one looking forward to the Padres/Phillies? I also hope the Yankees lose. And I hope the Astros don’t make it to the WS. Never thought I would be rooting for Cleveland. Guardians/Padres WS? That would be interesting IMO.

I haven’t watched much baseball in the past 5 years or so (not even the WS) because I find the current game boring and it is usually the same teams but I still read about it some. This year I have been watching/following the playoffs. College football like the Tennessee/Alabama game last night is much more exciting IMO. And for years I would listen or watch almost every Cardinal game.

[Westheim]

I've been rooting for the Padres ever since they slayered the Mets, which is borderline schizophrenic and if they actually won the damn rings it would be the best and the worst thing at the same time.

Then again there's Andres Gimenez on the Guardians, who deserved better than the Mets anyway, so...

I think I'll need an emotional support pet before the World Series begins......

[thehef]

With the Dodgers being bounced, I just became a Cleveland fan. Can't, obviously, root for the Yankees. Even more obviously, can't root for the BlackStros. No real feelings on the Phillies, since I can't name a player beyond Harper and Realmuto. The styles of Sota and especially Machado really grate, so no way can I root for the Padres... Would actually be kind of funny to see a Phillies/Padres vs Cleveland series, with their 87/89 and 92 win teams, with five other 99+win teams not making it... Either an endorsement or indictment of the new playoff format, depending upon one's perspective

[Amazin69]

Unless the Yankees show up tonight, the only 99+ win teams to have even forced a deciding game will be the Buzzstros and…the Mets. Huh.

Oh, sure, my bitter prediction that "even if the Braves gift us the division, [the Mets] aren't going to win 3 post-season series; we might not even win 3 games!" came completely true. But I hadn't counted on how forcing a Game 3 would end up a (relative) achievement. Bizarre.

And yes, the point of the playoffs is that the best have to play the best, that you can't just beat up on the Marlins all year and expect that to mean much in the short season. But the Dodgers had demonstrated their superiority to the Padres repeatedly, and ditto the Braves over the Phils. (As demonstrated by their going 5-2 against Philly in September when some observers [coughs discretely] were rather hoping for a bit more help…)

So the reversals here are still rather shocking, I'd say.

[Amazin69]

With Cal Quantrill on the bump for the 'dians and Bob Costas and Ron Darling talking about his father, Paul, I did some wandering and found the game of May 5, 1993, where the elder Quantrill got the win for the Red Sox in relief of John Dopson, because Oakland manager Tony LaRussa decided to hook his starter after 4 innings and have Edwin Nuñez go the rest of the way. A bit premature, I would think, given that the SP had only thrown 67 pitches and allowed 1 run to that point.

That Oakland starter? Ronald Maurice Darling Jr, of course. #17 in your program, #1 in your heart.

Ronnie had just pitched out of a jam after allowing two hits to start the Fenway 4th, the only run scoring when Carlos Quintana and Mo Vaughn (!) pulled off a double-steal. Seems a bit harsh to yank RJ just because Oakland catcher Terry Steinbach could neither look Quintana back to 3B nor nail Mo at 2nd.

Maybe Ronnie would have done better to have had the Boston catcher on his team. Fella named "Bob Melvin". Hmm.

(Maybe LaRussa thought Darling should have cut off Steinbach's throw?)

[kq76]

I don't think we should draw any conclusions from the results of 1 year of 5-game series. Now if they were 7-game series and we saw more lower seeds win than higher seeds over a 10-year period, then yeah, maybe there really is an issue with the extra rest. But this? No.

I can't even get that upset at my teams losing. It's, "oh well, the coin just came up wrong, maybe next year". And I think that apathy is far more of a problem than maybe too much rest.

[Westheim]

I just had the most graphic nightmare in a while and am too afraid to go back to sleep (or flick the lights on, giving that might reveal the hockey-masked axe murderer in the corner), so what's goin' on in here...?

(opens MLB.tv as expertly as he'd open a bag of cookies)

I see. Another nightmare.