So the World Series is all set / IWST

[Centerfield]

And immediately gets good luck as a scorcher is right to the 2B. 

[Frayed Knot]

Just settling in for an old fashioned pitcher's duel, eh?  (4 - 2 TBR, end of 1)

[Centerfield]

Two best teams in baseball. 
 

Catching the ball is hard. 

[Centerfield]

What a terrible send by the 3B coach. 
 

Tim Lieper breathes a little easier. 

[Centerfield]

Wow. Milwaukee is relentless. Kinda feels like this is their year. 

[Centerfield]

I dunno. That did not seem like a swing. 

[Frayed Knot]

No, looked like a bad call to me. But I'm still leery about video replay for swings. Unlike ABS there's not a clear Yes/No line to be drawn.

 

Tamps simply forgot to score after the 1st inning.

[ashie62]

This world series is starting to feel obscure

[Centerfield]

If Milwaukee sweeps or wins in 5 it may become one of those forgettable series. Tampa just needs to win Monday. 
 

You wonder if Milwaukee relying heavily on the strong end of their bullpen will end up hurting them if the series makes it back to Milwaukee. 

[Frayed Knot]

So far there have been two one-run games which could have gone either way on any one of a dozen or more plays within each game. Even the game ending plays in each were controversial: one, a game-ending call overturned (wrongly IMO) allowing the game to continue with tying and go-ahead runners on; the other a call which probably shouldn't have been made which ended a game with tying and go-ahead runners on.

Crisply played? No, not always. But not boring, and I don't even know how to address 'obscure'.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The games have been close but not impressed with the crispness of the play. Outs on the bases, errors and misplays. I dunno. I want teams to stand taller in the World Serious

[whippoorwill]

Getting tired maybe

[smg58]

So Peralta is coming in to tonight's game with a 1.08 ERA and a 5.73 xFIP for the postseason.  His 3.4% HR/flyball rate, and even more so his 96.8% strand rate, are ludicrously unsustainable.  But if he sustains it for one more game, he gets called clutch and somebody gives him five years and $200M.

[seawolf17]

Hey, if you told me in March that Freddy would be starting Game 3 of the World Series, well, I'd be all over that.

[Frayed Knot]

3 hours ago, seawolf17 said:

Hey, if you told me in March that Freddy would be starting Game 3 of the World Series, well, I'd be all over that.

So Freddy will be starting WS Game 3? ... Great!!!

Right after he's the MVP of the ALCS? -- Wow, that's even bet ... 

Wait a minute ... did you say ALCS?

 

Uh oh!  Something didn't go right.

[Frayed Knot]

He's so fine (Turang, Turang, Turang)

[Centerfield]

Congratulations Brewers. The crown seems inevitable now. But not before the obligatory references to the 2004 ALCS. 
 

Did you know the Yankees are the only team to blow a 3-0 lead in a playoff series?

Like seriously. I knew then that this was forever. But I didn’t realize how much how much I’d still enjoy it this many years later. 

[Frayed Knot]

I've figured out the Brewers strategy: wait until you get two outs and then get eleven-teen hits in a row.

[Frayed Knot]

Top 5th: LO-5; Single; FO-7; SB; BB; IF-Single (overturn of what would have been the end of a scoreless inning) -- pitching change -- 2 RBI Single (off SS glove); 2-RBI Single; 2-RBI Double; RBI Double -- pitching change -- RBI Single; 2-RBI Double; FO-7

Jake Bauer made the 1st & 3rd outs in the inning, both on FO to LF. I'm surprised the Brewers didn't release him between innings.

[The Hot Corner]

Brewers putting a serious beat down on the Ray's.  The bullpen arms they rode hard to this point should have an additional night off after a travel day.

[The Hot Corner]

5 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

Top 5th: LO-5; Single; FO-7; SB; BB; IF-Single (overturn of what would have been the end of a scoreless inning) -- pitching change -- 2 RBI Single (off SS glove); 2-RBI Single; 2-RBI Double; RBI Double -- pitching change -- RBI Single; 2-RBI Double; FO-7

Jake Bauer made the 1st & 3rd outs in the inning, both on FO to LF. I'm surprised the Brewers didn't release him between innings.

The Brewers had as many 2 out hits & RBI's in the 5th inning as the Mets seemed to have in a week or two.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice of the Rays to finally get on the board with two outs in the 9th. Prior to that, Milwaukee pitching had faced the minimum numbers of batters thru 8.  So 24 PAs for the Rays thru 8; the Brewers sent half that many to the plate just in the 4th inning alone. including nine after two were already out.

That's about as one-sided as one night can get.

[MFS62]

Hits (many to the opposite field) with runners on base. What a novel idea.

Later

[ashie62]

You could put this Brewers team in conversations about the best teams of all time ilk

And yet I believe this World Series is barely watched or "under watched" anyway. It's a 3-0 lead after an 11-1 thrashing of the Rays. Game 3 sent alot of Game 4 potential watchers to the showers, or the Knicks game. Maybe Tampa Bay can win a couple 

 

[seawolf17]

I would love to at least see Tampa send this back to Milwaukee. Make it interesting. The more baseball, the better!

[Centerfield]

It occurs to me I’m good with whatever happens. If Tampa wins great, I’m rooting for them. If Milwaukee wins, then whatever. It’s the offseason and we move forward with improving this team. 

[Gwreck]

This was already the best possible World Series matchup, and the easily the best matchup since 2016.  I too would prefer a 7 game epic series but I’ll take a Brewers sweep every single time over watching one of the objectionable teams (ATL, PHI, LAD, NYY, WAS).

[ashie62]

16 minutes ago, Gwreck said:

This was already the best possible World Series matchup, and the easily the best matchup since 2016.  I too would prefer a 7 game epic series but I’ll take a Brewers sweep every single time over watching one of the objectionable teams (ATL, PHI, LAD, NYY, WAS).

No it was not the best to me

I didn't realize I was a big market Ho

Washington Nationals?

[Centerfield]

Shameful showing by the Rays fans.  How do you let your stadium get taken over by fans traveling in from Milwaukee?  This isn’t like a Philly-NY thing. 

[Centerfield]

Let’s see how the Rays respond.