Wild Card IGT

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wild Card MVP: Hansel Robles

[G-Fafif]

11:30 PM yet it's sunny as hell up in here.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Maybe Plawecki

[nymr83]

Frayed Knot wrote: Gary Sanchez for late inning defense. I'll take substitutes you'd never think of for $600 Alex

At what position? DH?

[Willets Point]

The Wall that gave Bucky Dent a home run that wouldn't have gone out in any other ballpark prevented Giancarlo Stanton from hitting what would've been two home runs in any other ballpark. I guess that evens things out in Yankees/Red Sox "tiebreaker" games.

[Frayed Knot]

And then the kicker is that Stanton's actual HR went about 320'

[Willets Point]

That was a good adjustment to go the other way though.

[Fman99]

I almost made it to the 7th inning stretch before going to bed. But good things happened. So I'm all fine with it.

[Willets Point]

I hate the Cardinals and Dodgers with equal fervor, but with the possibility of back-to-back championships for Los Angeles, I'll have to hold my nose and root for St. Louis now and hope they get eliminated in the LDS. And the Cardinals score a first inning run on a wild pitch by Max Scherzer as I write this.

[Frayed Knot]

First celebrity in the stands spotting for me, the now 88 y/o music producer Lou Adler

[Fman99]

I hate them both too but I will hate the Cardinals until the Mets win their next WS and vanquish all that Wainwright/Molina garbage from my world.

[Frayed Knot]

The winner of this gets the Giants so the Dodgers advancing gives us a more hate-filled next round ... so I'm pulling for that.

[Frayed Knot]

Joe West looks like a baked potato.

[Frayed Knot]

When do you suppose the last time was that a .165 hitter got as many as 350 ABs -- as Bellinger did this year?

[Fman99]

I think it's stupid that the WC winner automatically becomes the #4 seed. They should seed the ALDS and NLDS based on regular season reacords.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: When do you suppose the last time was that a .165 hitter got as many as 350 ABs -- as Bellinger did this year?

Chris Davis?



My next guess after that would be ... Bellinger's dad, although I doubt he pulled it off.

[Frayed Knot]

Two leadoff/2nd place hitting short stops



Trea Turner: 68 (reg season) ABs w/bases loaded, 5 GS

Derek Jeter: 262 ABs w/bases loaded, 1 GS



Jus' sayin'

[Frayed Knot]

=Fman99 post_id=79431 time=1633570735 user_id=86]
I think it's stupid that the WC winner automatically becomes the #4 seed. They should seed the ALDS and NLDS based on regular season reacords.

[Frayed Knot]

This game is turning out to be going at a MUCH slower pace than last night's contest. Lots o' pitches for both aces.

[Fman99]

Frayed Knot wrote: =Fman99 post_id=79431 time=1633570735 user_id=86] I think it's stupid that the WC winner automatically becomes the #4 seed. They should seed the ALDS and NLDS based on regular season reacords.

I like that winning a division is rewarded while not winning one puts you into a harder path.

[Frayed Knot]

4 minutes 10 seconds between the last pitch Scherzer threw and the first one his replacement Kelly threw.

Good thing we figured out how to save 8 seconds by going to the automatic intentional walk because there's clearly no other ways to cut time in this game.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I turned this one off and went to bed with 1 on in the 9th. Chris Taylor homered just then and Dodgers walk off

[Fman99]

I made it barely into the 6th-7th inning range. I was long gone when that ball went out.



Glad to have both the MFYs and the MFCs be done with their respective seasons. A pox on both of their houses, I say!

[G-Fafif]

I'll always remember where I was when I woke up to check the score.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, somehow these clowns managed to turn a 1-1 (until the final pitch) game into a 4:15 affair, an hour longer than the Yanx/Sawx from the previous night.



The gap between the final pitch of top 9 and the first pitch in bottom 9 was over 5-1/2 minutes as StL decided, after their pitcher was warmed up, that they needed a new pitcher when LAD announced a PH, so now the new guy had to be given time to trot in then warm up.



I fell asleep on the couch but then happened to wake up just in time for the GW HR

[Willets Point]

And so the Dodgers and Giants will meet in the postseason for the first time ever (not counting the 1951 tie-breaker series). Will there be a shot heard 'round the world? Will there be a sign-stealing scandal? Will the TBS announcers refer to the 1951 series at least once an inning throughout the NLDS?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That's gonna be a barnburing, fanbeating mess. There literally is a few parking lot murders every time these teams play.

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: And so the Dodgers and Giants will meet in the postseason for the first time ever (not counting the 1951 tie-breaker series). Will there be a shot heard 'round the world? Will there be a sign-stealing scandal? Will the TBS announcers refer to the 1951 series at least once an inning throughout the NLDS?

There was also the 1962 tie-breaker series.

[MFS62]

A pox on both of these houses is good, but I'll be rooting for the San Andreas Fault.

I'm heavily leveraged in Seaport of Phoenix bonds.



Later

[Edgy MD]

https://www.toddradom.com/blog/the-tale-of-the-dodgers-red-uniform-numbers-and-the-shot-heard-round-the-worldThe Tale of the Dodgers' Red Numbers.

The Brooklyn Dodgers added red uniform numbers to the set of jerseys that they had made up for the 1951 World Series. Thomson's "shot" rendered them useless until the following spring.