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  1. Frayed Knot
    End of 7 innings, 1 - 0 Rays, TBR starter Drew Rasmussen: 7 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 2 BB, 94 pitches. Is coming out for the 8th
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    And after all that, Mullins is Not starting tonight. Oooooh, help me Aranda!!!
  3. Frayed Knot
    Rays are 8th in MLB in OPS and 12 in RS/G, both above average obviously but also not like they couldn't use an improvement in CF. I mean, it's not so much that he's on a team so much as it's that he started 3/4 of the time on a good club, played a CG in most of those and was switched into a game late in another 15, amassing 500+ PAs for the season.
  4. Frayed Knot
    Yeah, it's not like Mullins 'found it' since leaving the Mets: .205/.284/.344 // 628 in 2026 And you can partially get away with that kind of line (the slug rate is decent) if you're also a dominant defensive CF but, even IF he was that at one time, those days are pretty much behind him now.
  5. Frayed Knot
    Regular season 2026: CLE vs NYY: 2 - 4 CHW vs NYY: 3 - 4
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    The final entry in the four game slate scheduled for Saturday October 3rd will be on not FOX but FS1 at 8:30 EDT (7:30 local) Padres will throw (not literally) lefty Robbie Ray at the Brewers who was a deadline pickup from SFG. The 35 (yesterday) y/o has had some nice seasons in his 13 year career but a 5.02 ERA/1.53 WHIP in his 9 games since the trade to Sandy Eggo Brewers counter with 'Les Mis', aka: Jacob Misiorowki and his consistent 100+ heat, his likely CY award, and his 1.80 ERA which is just a statistical rounding error from being half what Ray is sporting (3.59) this season. Regular season: Brewers (103 wins) 2 - Padres (91) 4
  7. Frayed Knot
    Game 1 tees off on Saturday 10/3 at 6:30 EDT on TBS Certainly now a bad year for the recently-turned 36 y/o Gerritt Cole -- 22 starts, 3.61 ERA, 1.10 WHIP coming off UCL surgery which killed all of 2025 and the early part of '26 for him even if below his last full season in '24 when he won the AL CY -- so he'll toe the slab for NYY Rays counter with 31 y/o righty Drew Rasmussen who's now turned in back-to-back terrific seasons for TBR including leading the AL this year in both WHIP (0.913) and K/BB ratio (5.44) with 174 to 32 over 30 starts/172 IP Regular season record: TBR (98 wins) 7 -- NYY (93) 6
  8. Frayed Knot
    Little rest for the (sort of) weary as the Braves jet it to the left coast to start their next round less than 48 hours after needing three consecutive games to dispose of the Phillies. Game 1 - Saturday 4PM EDT (1 PM local time), FOX The Braves will throw the always popular TBD to kick things off while the Dodgers counter with newcomer Tarik Skubal Regular season: LAD (100 wins) 1 -- 5 vs Braves (94)
  9. Frayed Knot
    Saturday 10/3 [1 PM EDT on TBS] in a best-of-five to determine the best of the weak half of the AL bracket. For the White Sox, Hagen Smith -- a 22 y/o (LH) rookie with 18 G / 1 start under his belt -- gets the game one start. Somebody to follow quickly afterward most likely. vs Parker Messick, also a lefty, for the Guardians -- a 25 y/o statistical rookie (7 games in '25) and serious RoY candidate [32 GS, 186 IP, 2.56 ERA, 1.06 WHIP] Cleveland spends 162 games proving that they were (one game) better than the White Sox ... and now they get to do it all over again in a three-of-five matchup. Regular season: CLE (85 wins) 6 -- CHW 7 (84)
  10. Frayed Knot
    Plus the 6, 7, 8, and 9 PM start times you suggest would require not two but four different channels so multiple networks with at least two options each. In this case that would mean no NBC exclusive for Round 1. I agree that they could stick the starting times closer together to where there's a bit of overlap from Game 1 to 2, and then from 2 to 3 etc. But they're also trying to keep the late-afternoon/early evening time unclogged as possible since national, and particularly local, news programs are solid money making slots for affiliates. That's why the early afternoon game was on the network but the 5 PM slot was Peacock only. Meanwhile, with the Padres also winning last night, that's now 14 series out of 20 best-of-three series that were two game sweeps and either 18 or 19 of the 20 where the winner of game one went on to win the series depending on the outcome of today's Braves/Phillies.
  11. Frayed Knot
    But the networks are going to lose viewers from the overlap. They're the ones who don't want it and they're not going to pay MLB as much if they insist on structuring things that way. From a fan p.o.v., sure I'll watch my team to the exclusion of others. But that doesn't mean I don't want to watch one or more other games as well and it's tough to do that if the starting times are so close together. Bottom line is: with a potential 12 games in three days with this current opening round format, somebody's going to be upset no matter what you do. I remember many years ago, back when WC rounds were semi-new (so '90s some time), Francesa throwing an on-the-air fit over early playoff games even partially overlapping. 'Baseball is so stupid, he ranted, you wouldn't see the NFL doing things this way!!!' Yes, Mike, the NFL is so fucking brilliant that they somehow managed to figure out a way to schedule 11 playoff games over a five week span without having two or more conflict. Such genius in that league you wonder why MLB can't learn from it.
  12. Frayed Knot
    It's like Boston's entire season was that 32 - 5 stretch from June 25 thru August 7th Prior to that they were 32 - 46 and they went 23 - 24 after that point [55 - 70]. And that before & after team is the one they've been looking like these last two days.
  13. Frayed Knot
    Nice of Boston to finally contribute to the scoring before this series is out.
  14. Frayed Knot
    At least we've advanced from the day when coaches and announcers (particularly in football) used to say, 'It's not an injury, it's just a concussion'. And then there was the always popular, 'Oh he just got his bell rung'. In fairness, we didn't know as much then as we do now (and those who did know tended to keep their mouths shut). Now of course we know that a concussion IS an injury, it's a brain injury and at least they're taking them more seriously as compared to back in the day.
  15. Frayed Knot
    Not content with a three man booth, networks now routinely go to three-man, and now they've set up a permanent guy on the sidelines so it's essentially a four man booth even if one of them isn't physically in the booth. So you've got the p-b-p man, Joe Girardi, Lou Merloni, plus Anthony Rizzo somewhere in the expensive seats. I almost always prefer just a two-man team but TV never subscribes to the less-is-more theory. Their mantra is too often, bigger-is-better, and really big is better still.
  16. Frayed Knot
    They certainly don't want too much overlap with each game robbing/being robbed of eyeballs from the game just before and just after it. Anyway, ChiSox take care of business in two games. It only belatedly occurred to me that this matchup is a replay of the 2005 World Series. So Houston still hasn't won a playoff game vs CHW
  17. Frayed Knot
    https://www.mlb.com/news/jared-young-resting-at-home-getting-treatment-after-concussion
  18. Frayed Knot
    'And we'll see you in Game Three' OK, so that doesn't have quite the ring as Jack Buck's call back in '91, but no sweep in this series anyway. Game ended on a K/ABS challenge with two on. Realmuto had about an 80% successful challenge rate over the season and this one justnipped the zone. Francisco Alvarez, of course, would have run out of challenges six innings earlier.
  19. Frayed Knot
    Alex Bohm HRs w/2 out in top 10, 4 - 3 Phils But can their pen hold on?!? Andrew Painter (mostly a starter) who pitched a scoreless 9th will give the 10th a try.
  20. Frayed Knot
    And they're going to extras .... without the Clown Car rules!!!!
  21. Frayed Knot
    Game 2: Bottom 7th w/one out/runner on 1st, 1B Alex Bohm makes a bad decision for the lead runner on a Sac Bunt attempt putting runners on 1st & 2nd. Next AB saw Harper misplaying a fly to RF turning it into an RBI 2B. An IW loads the bases which was followed by a Sac Fly and the end of C. Sanchez's day. 3 - 1 Braves, end of 7 But then while I was typing the above, Schwarber leads off the 8th with a HR, followed by Harper doing the same (both were rockets!!) and suddenly it's 3 - 3. Lefty Dylan Lee -- no HRs to a LHB this season prior to today -- was the victim.
  22. Frayed Knot
    From the Braves/Phillies thread: A bunch of unsold seats in Houston also, about 7,000 or so. Even the players noticed/commented on this; they also noticed/commented on the intermittent booing they got but I'll write that off to a meh/.500 season plus the lousy results in Game 1. Be nice if MLB takes notice of this if and when they contemplate expanding playoffs.
  23. Frayed Knot
    I fell asleep with the Yanx up 2 - 0 Woke up to the Grand Slam making it 9 - 0 ... then immediately wen to bed. In the four years / 16 playoffs that these best-of-three matchups have existed, the team winning the first game went on the win the series 15 times with 11 of those series being 2 - 0 sweeps. Only the BoSox last year won game one (vs the Yanx) but then lost the next two. Ranger Suarez vs Gerritt Cole Sonny Gray & Max Fried in game two. Same bat time, same bat channel as last night.
  24. Frayed Knot
    The good news is that I found a linnk on 'Bet MGM' where I can bet on from which section the fan who assaults the first opposing player comes from.
  25. Frayed Knot
    White Sox 6 - Astros 3
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