MLB Playoffs 2024

marc45

G.O.A.T.
was always going to get them in the end...Clase might not throw a meaningful pitch in this series

Cleveland's starting pitchers this postseason:
4 2/3 innings
4 2/3 innings
3 innings
4 innings
2 innings
2 2/3 innings
1 1/3 innings
 

Nostradamus

Bionic Poster
Ohtani is GOD and we will worship him as such, he's better than Djokovic


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marc45

G.O.A.T.
maybe the greatest single game win in Cleveland history outside of Game 7 with the Cavs championship...just the sheer drama of the last three innings

should add, maybe not even the biggest, but the most remarkable...Cleveland teams are just not known for getting off the mat like that in the playoffs
 
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marc45

G.O.A.T.
@MLB

-7:49 PM ET: Aaron Judge game-tying two-run HR

-7:52 PM: Giancarlo Stanton go-ahead solo HR

-8:11 PM: Shohei Ohtani leadoff HR

-8:19 PM: Mark Vientos game-tying HR

-8:41 PM: Jhonkensy Noel game-tying two-run HR

-9:01 PM: David Fry walk-off HR

72 minutes of pure postseason magic. Baseball is Something Else.
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
and with that goes our soul...they've gotten all our pitchers now, even the invincible Smith

I'm done
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
What is wrong with major league pitching especially by the starters? It seems like there are 3 runs scored by a team in the first inning in every game in the playoffs. The NLCS has an average margin of victory of 8 runs over five games.
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
What is wrong with major league pitching especially by the starters? It seems like there are 3 runs scored by a team in the first inning in every game in the playoffs. The NLCS has an average margin of victory of 8 runs over five games.
never seen it worse, especially the starters
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
and with that goes our soul...they've gotten all our pitchers now, even the invincible Smith

I'm done
Guardians Prospective
@CleGuardPro
Smith velo only topping out at 94.4 mph. His usage I think finally caught up to him. Looked gassed. Three run shot to Stanton at 94.2 mph. He's pitched in 7 of the teams 8 games in the playoffs.
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
utterly humiliating....so small...so stupid...no way in the world to compete with these behemoths...different league, different sport...take all our women on the way out too
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
Dodgers in WS for 4th time in 8 years. They are only 1 of 3 - how will they do this time?

Two patient teams at the plate - will we see a lot of high scoring games like in the LCS series?
 

LuckyR

Legend
The Dodgers have the record for most WS losses, and lots of those were to the Yankees. I'm afraid it's in their psyche.
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
The Dodgers have the record for most WS losses, and lots of those were to the Yankees. I'm afraid it's in their psyche.
Didn’t they beat the Yanks the last time they played in the WS in 1981? The effectiveness or otherwise of the Dodgers starting pitching will determine this series and the history from pre-WW2, 1950s or 1970s won‘t have a bearing.
 

LuckyR

Legend
Didn’t they beat the Yanks the last time they played in the WS in 1981? The effectiveness or otherwise of the Dodgers starting pitching will determine this series and the history from pre-WW2, 1950s or 1970s won‘t have a bearing.
From your lips to God's ears, but I'm still traumatized by 77, 78
 

TTMR

Hall of Fame
Didn’t they beat the Yanks the last time they played in the WS in 1981? The effectiveness or otherwise of the Dodgers starting pitching will determine this series and the history from pre-WW2, 1950s or 1970s won‘t have a bearing.
I must concede, californication really bolstered the Dodgers.
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
I can't remember another playoff season with so many late inning go ahead or tying home runs....or walk-offs
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
MLB.com

'Gibby, meet Freddie!' Two hobbled Dodgers, two iconic walk-off home runs​

Brent Maguire
@bmags94

The parallels between Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in Game 1 of the 2024 World Series and Kirk Gibson’s walk-off two-run homer in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series are uncanny.

For starters, both Dodgers stars were not playing at 100% when they hit their pivotal walk-off home runs in the first game of their respective World Series at Dodger Stadium. In Freeman’s case, it’s a right ankle sprain that’s hobbled him for weeks and forced him out of the starting lineup multiple times during the NLCS. And for Gibson, he had a severely injured left hamstring and right knee that kept him out of the ‘88 Fall Classic outside of that lone pinch-hit home run.

The comparisons don’t stop there. Both of them were hit into a very similar part of the right-field stands, both came with two outs in the inning, and in both cases the rally got started with a walk. There have been only three World Series walk-off home runs for a team that was trailing: Freeman’s, Gibson’s and Joe Carter’s for the Blue Jays in 1993.

As Freeman’s ball left the yard at Chavez Ravine on Friday, FOX Sports MLB and Dodgers’ lead play-by-play broadcaster Joe Davis paid homage to another legendary announcer and the longtime Dodgers voice he succeeded in 2017.

“She is gone,” Davis said, a call back to Vin Scully’s same exclamation for Gibson’s home run in ‘88. “Gibby, meet Freddie!”

You might remember the rest of Scully's iconic call: "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened."

Well, the impossible just happened again, 36 years later. How can you not be romantic about baseball?
 

AgassiSuperSlam11

Hall of Fame
Brooklyn Dodgers vs NY Yankees 1-6 in WS
Los Angeles Dodgers vs NY Yankees 2-2 in WS

Don't remind me of 1988 and Bobby Ojeda chopping his fingers with an electric hedge trimmer and missing the playoffs. Mets were 10-1 vs Dodgers that year and then lost in 7 games.
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
Ohtani hurts his shoulder trying to steal second...if he's out, and if Flaherty is injured, the Yanks may be able to get back into this
 

Federer and Del Potro

Bionic Poster
Blake Treinen trying to gag this. As an Athletics fan this is a very familiar scene with him

Didn't matter. Yankees can't hit the meatballs given to them
 
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AgassiSuperSlam11

Hall of Fame
I'm not a Yankees fan but I think Boone gets fired if they lose this series. Those who remember George Steinbrenner know he had a short leash with managers if they failed. His son Hal has been more than patient with Boone and 15 years no WS is a major drought for the Yankees similar to that 1979-1995 period.
 

LOBALOT

Legend
I'm not a Yankees fan but I think Boone gets fired if they lose this series. Those who remember George Steinbrenner know he had a short leash with managers if they failed. His son Hal has been more than patient with Boone and 15 years no WS is a major drought for the Yankees similar to that 1979-1995 period.

I agree! There is nothing more fun than watching the Yanks all in disarray with fans questioning why they can't win when they simply don't understand how to develop and manage a baseball team and simply think all they need to do is throw $$$$ at a team. But nope, they do it year after year and the next offseason the hype begins with how they are the best team in baseball and their fans have amnesia and get all sucked in and then the next playoff season begins and again they lose.

From a small market town we all love watching it happen again and again.
 

AgassiSuperSlam11

Hall of Fame
I agree! There is nothing more fun than watching the Yanks all in disarray with fans questioning why they can't win when they simply don't understand how to develop and manage a baseball team and simply think all they need to do is throw $$$$ at a team. But nope, they do it year after year and the next offseason the hype begins with how they are the best team in baseball and their fans have amnesia and get all sucked in and then the next playoff season begins and again they lose.

From a small market town we all love watching it happen again and again.
I always felt bad for Don Mattingly as he was only one year away from when the Yankees won in 1996. He was originally from a small midwestern Indiana town and along with Gooden, Strawberry, Winfield, and Guidry became a big star in NYC in the 1980's.

I haven't really followed the sport since 2004, but I think their farm system was good in the 1990's as people like Jeter, Petite, and M. Rivera came up. I remember buying everyone free drinks at a store when they lost to the Marlins in the 2003 WS. The Mets-Yankees rivalry is almost as bad the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry. As a kid I remember the Yankee fans doing a standing ovation when the Mets were eliminated from the 1987 playoffs when the Cards clinched the division. Even when the 1996 Yanks had all these former Mets as Cone, Strawberry, Gooden, and pitching coach Stottlemyre it was still hard to support them.
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
Dodgers up 3-0 with better hitting, baserunning, defense, starting and relief pitching so far in the series. One more game needed.
 
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