Frayed Knot

Sked - FOX/FS1 (iow, FS1 since the other series will always get priority) G1 - Saturday 8:38 G2 - Sunday 8:03 G3 - Tuesday 10/7 G4 - Wednesday 10/8 G5 - Fridy 10/10

Sked - FOX/FS1 G1 - Saturday 4:08 G2 - Sunday 4:08 G3 - Tuesday 10/7 G4 - Wednesday 10/8 G5 - Friday 10/10

Sked (TBS): G1 - Saturday 6:38 G2 - Monday 6:08 G3 - Wednesday 10/8 G4 - Thursday 10/9 G5 - Saturday 10/11 Has TBS got something better to air on these off days?

Sked (games on TBS): G1 - Saturday 2:08 G2 - Monday 9:08 G3 - Wednesday (time TBD) G4 (if necessary) - Thursday (TBD) G5 - Saturday Well that's a fucked-up schedule. An NHL or NBA series can have as many back-to-backs!

Yanx @ Toronto Tigers @ Mariners

=Centerfield post_id=206379 time=1759455150 user_id=65] Yankees up 4-0 on a series of hole finding ground balls.

Cubs tried very hard to blow that one in the 9th -- HR, HBP, HBP -- but just couldn't manage. So it's Cubs @ Brews, Dodgers @ Philly

Cubs also have better speed and defense. They also now have a 3rd run on a Michael Busch HR to lead off bottom 7. They had been stuck on 2 runs since the 2nd despite 10 hits (now 12) including lots of leadoff batters on.

Still 2-0 thru five. So a total of two runs have been scored and Seven pitchers have been used!

Tigers advance.

Damage limited on a BB - K - GiDP, so 'only' 2-0 Cubs

Guardians close to 6-3 on a two-run error with two outs. Heading to the 9th

Only one run allowed (so far) but Darvish doesn't survive the 2nd inning. Leaves down 1-0 but with bases loaded and no outs. All three runners are his.

Tigers notch four in the 7th to break open what had been a pitcher's game to that point. 6 - 1 Detroit in the 8th

Dodgers romp as the Cincy pitching, which gave up just 30 runs over their final 12 games, coughs up 10 & 8 in these two. That there are only three games left shifts the start times today to 3:08 (CLE/DET - cuz the midwest teams always get the worst slot); 6:08 (CHC/SDP); 9:08 (NYY/BOS) and changes the CLE/DET game to ABC and the other two to ESPN

Albert Pujols to interview for Angels managerial job.

4-3 Yanx, top 9th, David Bednar on to ty and close it out (and save the Yanx season). 6 - 7 - 8 up for the Sawx Wilyer Abreu: K Jarren Duran: K, looking Cedanne Rafaela: FO - 9 And at least three of the first round games are going to the third game.

Tied at 3, going into the 8th.

A bit of 9th inning drama as Tigers load the bases, but Cleveland holds on and there will be at least one win-or-go-home Game 3 tomorrow.

Guardians break open the tie in the home 8th: HR - 2B - 2B for a 3-1 lead. Still batting w/runners on 2nd & 3rd Cleveland had only four hits yesterday and just two today prior to the 8th. .... and now a 3R HR by Bo Naylor ('Nail her, I barely know her!') to pretty much put this one away!

=metirish post_id=206321 time=1759320561 user_id=72] I actually watched this whole game , I did think pulling Max Fried was a dodgy move, he was great, anyway , glad it all worked out

There was at least some Crochet talk here over the winter. At the time he had just had his first season as a starter (CHW) with good results [32 GS, 3.58 / 1.07] Prior to that he had either been a reliever or injured (missed all of '22 plus most of '23) so there was a lot of caution about if/how much to give up for such a small, even if promising, track record and two years of team control. Boston took the bait and went all in by not only giving up four prospects in a trade but then, after just one start, went straight to a $170mil/six year extension (starts in '26) with clauses that kick those numbers even higher based on MVP votes. Not sure what kind of MVP votes he'll get this year but he's probably behind only Skubal in CY voting and could win it himself. So, so far, that move has paid off in spades [32 starts; 18-5; 2.32 / 1.03; led league in IP, K, batters faced, & K/9 (11.2)] and, with Crochet still just 26 y/o and signed thru 2031, if things continue along a path even slightly like this past year Hub fans won't care how well the prospects sent along do.

I tend to view Actual vs Pythag differences as more random than anything, particularly when the number isn't all that high. So two things I found looking at the league's Pythag numbers overall: 1) MLB teams as a whole had eight fewer Pythagorean wins than actual wins. That seems odd in that one would expect the positives and negatives to more or less cancel each other out. Not sure what would cause that other than an accumulation of rounding errors, although you'd think that those errors wouldn't collectively tilt in one direction enough to skew things about 1/4 of a win per team. 2) A difference of three wins (in either direction) isn't that much. Eight teams won four or more games more they were 'supposed to' [8, 7, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4] based on Pythagorean projections, and five showed a negative Pythag of more than three wins [-4, -4, -7, -9, -11]. So if the Mets Win total is different from where it 'should' have been, it's a variation of less than what nearly half of all other teams (13 of 29) saw this year.

3R HR, Teoscar Hernandez, bottom 3rd, 4-0 Dodgers. And now Tommy Edman goes deep two pitches later and it's 5-0 I think the Dodgers have already scored more runs vs the Reds just tonight than we did the entire six games we played against them.

Ohtani leads of the game with a HR off Reds ace Hunter Greene ... because of course he does. Blake Snell on the mound for LAD