TWiB Notes: September 27–October 3

[Edgy MD]

Records falling at Dodger Stadium



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[Frayed Knot]

Braves win 2-1 !!

Galvis K's with runners 1st & 3rd to end game.

[bmfc1]

Excellent set-up reliever for MIL now lost for the playoffs because he is an idiot. Walls remain undefeated.

[Frayed Knot]

Good lord what a dope!!



Who knew that Josh Hader would turn out to be the smarter of the top two Brewer relievers?

[Edgy MD]

He had a terrific season.



The wall, though, maintains its undefeated record.

[Frayed Knot]

It occurs to me that we need to be rooting for the Braves tonight and tomorrow or else we'll face the almost certain case of seeing a division clicking of the week.

[G-Fafif]

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Walls remain undefeated.

[Edgy MD]

Pretty curious, considering that a younger Petty also crushed his hand trying to beat up a wall.

[Frayed Knot]

Jays win!!

BoSox up big.



So this put the WC race mostly back to where it was as the week started ... except that Seattle may be closer depending on late results from the west coast and that the status quo favors the teams on the inside.

[G-Fafif]

Cardinals lose. World keeps spinning.



Braves win, can clinch tomorrow and leave us the fuck out of their celebration.

[Fman99]

I really don't like to generalize, but I'm gonna throw this out there. Feel free to dispute this.



Anyone who's ever broken their hand punching a wall is a fucking dumbass.

[Frayed Knot]

Dodgers score five times in the 8th to beat the (now sub-.500) Padres 11-9

Giants go the other way by winning 1-0 vs Arizona on a 7th inning Kris Bryant Sac Fly



Giants lead the race to stay out of the one-game death trap by 2.0 games

[Benjamin Grimm]

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I really don't like to generalize, but I'm gonna throw this out there. Feel free to dispute this.



Anyone who's ever broken their hand punching a wall is a fucking dumbass.

[Fman99]

Those guys are all total retards.

[Edgy MD]

I hope you have a link on that Newton/Einstein/Hawking commonality.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't know. Among those who have broken their hand punching a wall are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. You could look it up!

Now I have something else in common with those guys.

A Raiders QB threw a 57 yard "Hail Mary" pass with less than a minute to go. It bounced off three Jets defenders and fell into the hands of Warren Wells, who was lying on his back in the end zone, for the winning touchdown. I punched a concrete wall and shouted a loud obscenity. It chipped the stone on my college ring, too. I still wear the ring, as a reminder about self control.



Later

[Frayed Knot]

Houston, with a chance to clinch the West, took a 3-0 lead into the 9th but a now holding onto a 3-2 lead w/the tying run on 3rd ... and they win it on a 5-3 GO!

[Frayed Knot]

And now it's the Phils down to their final out.





oe: and the Braves clinch

[Frayed Knot]

=Fman99 post_id=78904 time=1632998957 user_id=86]
I really don't like to generalize, but I'm gonna throw this out there. Feel free to dispute this.



Anyone who's ever broken their hand punching a wall is a fucking dumbass.

[Frayed Knot]

Giants gave up three in the 1st on Thursday night ... and came back to win anyway on a walk-off infield single in the 9th.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Wilmer doubled in the 9th and scored the winning run ... well, actually his pinch-runner did. Wilmer can't be trusted in those sort of scenarios.



Dodgers romped over everyone's favorite NL West punching bag these days, the Padres.





So SFG goes into the final weekend up by two games with a chance both to clinch the division (magic number = 2) and to reach 108 wins.

They'd be the first NL team to win that many games in a season since ... well, you know.



Dodgers, meanwhile, need a sweep/swept situation in order to win the west. Or they'll take one where they play two games better than SFG and force a Play-off game to avoid the Play-in game.

LAD could conceivably win 106 games this season and get sent home after Game #163. They went 19-7 during September ... and lost 1.5 games to the Giants.



LAD hosts Milwaukee this weekend in what must be an odd series for the Brews trying not to show too many of their hole cards.

Giants get the reeling Pads, also at home.





StL has already announced that 64 y/o Adam Wainwright will start the WC game

[Edgy MD]

The best player in the league surprises everyone by getting back on the field for the last seven weeks, and the Padres follow the Mets right into the tank.



Baseball is weird.

[Frayed Knot]

The Padres collapse this year was even worse than ours.

The Mets peaked at 11 Games over.500 back in mid-June.

They fell to a low of 9-under and now sit at -7

5.5 up on the Braves as of 6/16, 10.5 behind now



The Pads also fell 20 games to .500 but that's all just since August 10th!!

They peaked at +17 on that date and are currently at 3-under

From 2.5 & 6.5 behind LAD & SFG to now 25.0 & 27.0

67-49 (.578) thru Aug 10, 23-46 (.333) since

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: LAD could conceivably win 106 games this season and get sent home after Game #163. They went 19-7 during September ... and lost 1.5 games to the Giants.

Early in the season, I forget if it was here or not, I was coming up with reasoning for the permanent closures of the external eateries at Citi Field (McFadden's and the Mikkeller taproom). So I commented about needing to be staffed for at least 81 days from April through September and at most 12 postseason dates as being the only times of getting heavy foot traffic.



With the obvious caveat that getting all 12 would be under very extraordinary circumstances besides being taken to the limit with the home field advantage in the WS, LCS and DS.



You'd pretty much get the home field in the WC game on the strength a 95+ win season, win that game, and hope the winner of your division gets knocked off in the Division Series.



Eerie that it could actually happen this October!



FWIW, here is the list of Wild Card winners/game participants with 95 (IDK just a win total I thought of that would mean a solid division winning season at a .586 clip) and more wins



1997 Yankees 96

1999 Mets 97

2001 Athletics 102 (well that record fell)

2002 Angels 99

2002 Giants 95

2003 Red Sox 95

2004 Red Sox 98

2005 Red Sox 95

2006 Tigers 95

2008 Red Sox 95

2009 Red Sox 95

2010 Yankees 95

2015 Cubs 97

2015 Pirates 98 (lost WC game)

2018 Yankees 100

2018 Athletics 97 (lost WC game)

2019 Rays 96 (lost WC game)

2018 Cubs 95 (lost WC Game)

2021 either Giants or Dodgers…most likely Dodgers



Neither the Cardinals, nor the eventual AL WC teams this year are in line to join the group

[Ceetar]

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Early in the season, I forget if it was here or not, I was coming up with reasoning for the permanent closures of the external eateries at Citi Field (McFadden's and the Mikkeller taproom). So I commented about needing to be staffed for at least 81 days from April through September and at most 12 postseason dates as being the only times of getting heavy foot traffic.

[Frayed Knot]

Two 100+ game winners, same year/same division (in the division era)





1980: NYY - 103 (Lost in ALCS); BALT - 100 (No Playoff Soup for You!)



1993: Braves - 104 (L NLCS); SFG - 103 (No Playoffs)



2001: Mariners 116 (L ALCS); A's - 102 (L ALDS) ... both to the same team



2018: Boston - 108 (W WS); Yanx - 100 (L WC)



2021: SFG - 105 and counting (?); LAD - 103 and counting (?)

[Frayed Knot]

Giants & Dodgers both win on Friday.

SFG clinches at least a tie for the division and needs to sweep the weekend to reach 108 wins.



It's one thing when the 98 win '85 Mets jumped up to 108 wins, but I believe several pre-season predictions had the Giants' O/U number below .500 (and they were sub-.500 in 2020)



Safe to say that few if any saw this coming.

[Frayed Knot]

Giants lose in extras today



Can no longer win 108 and still haven't sewn up the division.

LAD needs two wins and a SFG loss on Sunday to force a one-game face-off to determine division winner/WC team

[bmfc1]

I like the idea of all MLB games starting at the same time on the last day of the season. Too bad that MLB screws it up by allowing local TV to dictate the exact times. As a result, the first pitch of all of the games won't be thrown simultaneously at 3:10 PM ET, because that would be a cool optic and MLB can't have that, so the games start between 3:05 PM and 3:20 PM (the Mets game). This is a minor distinction but MLB could have done this better and, of course, did not.