2019 MLB Playoffs

[FredJacket]

You know Buzz, it drives home the point of staying relevant in the long 162 game season ... and getting hot in the short post season, Wild Card-NLDS-NLCS-WS.
I'll naturally pull for the NL team in the World Series ...

Trying to understand exactly what you mean by staying relevant? You mean having meaningful games thru #162 (so no downtime where you have to flip switch come postseason)? Or simply making playoffs? Just curious what you meant.

The key is really how do you peak/get hot at right time...Gm1 of postseason. I am beginning to believe there really is no roadmap or recipe to ensure that happens. A lot has to be luck. The Nationals would have only been tie (best case) in final inning of WC card game were it not for a misplay by the Brewers RF. Without that break... perhaps nothing that followed ever happens.

There is already a ton of "worry" here that Nationals clinched too early & will come out slow when WS begins. I'll take what we've got today. And count on the veterans to have the team ready in WS. Also... the biggest factor is the other outstanding, professional team in the other dugout.

 

[Buzzbomb]

I’m sure Houston or NY will provide as a formidable foe for Washington.
However, there is something to be said being destiny’s darlings. Naturally there had to be breaks along the way. It’s baseball, which might be the most difficult game to figure out in all of sports. Hall of Fame, if you fail 7 out of every 10 times, while playing 6 month seasons with days off. 14 years like McCann played is equivalent to 7 full years of a pressurized working life.

There is no true formula, or it would be in the book of saber metrics. Teams try to have 3 or even 4 hot starters, a couple of stud relievers and table setters around the power-middle of a lineup. Good defense helps, although not guaranteed to be a difference maker in the outcome of it all.

 

[Buzzbomb]

Astros-Yankees postponed.

 

[FredJacket]

Astros-Yankees postponed.

One more postponement... & Game 7 will be Monday... day before Game 1 of WS.

 

[Buzzbomb]

One more postponement... & Game 7 will be Monday... day before Game 1 of WS.

What if there are two cancelled? Can we have a DH in the series, like 2 on Monday?

 

[Buzzbomb]

Angels hired Joe Maddon.
Didn’t want to start a new thread or put it under the Braves thread.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

1-0 Yankees over the Astros in the 2nd inning

 

[Buzzbomb]

3-1 Astros, still early on.

 

[Buzzbomb]

7-3 Houston, top 8th.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

7-3 Houston, top 8th.

The Yankees are finished and they're showing that they're chokers

 

[Buzzbomb]

The Yankees are finished and they're showing that they're chokers

I agree.
Houston won 8-3. The tall order for the Bronx Bombers: 1)Win tonight at home, 2)Take two in Minute Maid Park on road, 3)Defeating multiple Cy Young candidates, along with taking three in a row.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

I agree.
Houston won 8-3. The tall order for the Bronx Bombers: 1)Win tonight at home, 2)Take two in Minute Maid Park on road, 3)Defeating multiple Cy Young candidates, along with taking three in a row.

I think Houston will win tonight and advance to the World Series against Washington

 

[GTJake]

Trying to understand exactly what you mean by staying relevant? You mean having meaningful games thru #162 (so no downtime where you have to flip switch come postseason)? Or simply making playoffs? Just curious what you meant.

The key is really how do you peak/get hot at right time...Gm1 of postseason. I am beginning to believe there really is no roadmap or recipe to ensure that happens. A lot has to be luck. The Nationals would have only been tie (best case) in final inning of WC card game were it not for a misplay by the Brewers RF. Without that break... perhaps nothing that followed ever happens.

There is already a ton of "worry" here that Nationals clinched too early & will come out slow when WS begins. I'll take what we've got today. And count on the veterans to have the team ready in WS. Also... the biggest factor is the other outstanding, professional team in the other dugout.

Basically by relevant, I meant staying in contention for the post season, then get hot at the end ... but you also bring up a good point about clinching early as the Dodgers (and Braves somewhat) did and coming out flat at the end.
Agree as far as a "little luck" as well, or you could call it timely baseball ... the 9th inning for the Nats vs. Brewers and the 1st inning for the Cards vs. the Braves. I'm willing to bet the Cards didn't score 10 runs in one inning the whole year.

 

[Buzzbomb]

Yanks force game 6 w/ a 4-1 win. All the runs scored in the first inning.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

Yanks force game 6 w/ a 4-1 win. All the runs scored in the first inning.

I think the Yankees will win game 6 forcing a game 7

 

[FredJacket]

This is going swimmingly.... hopefully, there are 20+ innings of baseball left in this ALCS.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

This is going swimmingly.... hopefully, there are 20+ innings of baseball left in this ALCS.

Things are working out well for the Nationals Washington hasn't had a World Series winner since 1924

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_World_Series

 

[Buzzbomb]

Minute Maid Park has a retractable roof which only takes 12-20 minutes to close, therefore no chance for a Monday game or DH then. Therefore, let’s hope for a couple of long extra inning games. Record setting in length, draining both staffs.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

Minute Maid Park has a retractable roof which only takes 12-20 minutes to close, therefore no chance for a Monday game or DH then. Therefore, let’s hope for a couple of long extra inning games. Record setting in length, draining both staffs.

I think the Yankees if they win the ALCS will win the WS but their pitching staff will be worn out

 

[FredJacket]

Cool graphic. Check out those dudes (Brown & White) who threw complete games after finishing previous game.