2024 MLB thread

[muto]

So the Boston Cheat Sox vs the Houston Cheatstros for the AL Pennant. Well, I’ll be cheering for the National League.

[draynay]

Figures Dodgers Giants would need all 5 games.

[ProphetFlume]

Frustrating how inconsistent their bats are. When they win it’s an explosion, when they lose it’s usually a shutout.

[PhaelixWW]

Figures Dodgers Giants would need all 5 games.

Yeah, I'm not sure many people are surprised by that. Whichever team wins is likely to go on and win the World Series.

[ProphetFlume]

So the Boston Cheat Sox vs the Houston Cheatstros for the AL Pennant. Well, I’ll be cheering for the National League.

LA losing to the astros would be worse than an astros - sf match but All are nightmares. And I live in nor cal where everyone is a sf fan.

[draynay]

Sometimes the 5 game series format annoys me but not this time. Probably would've gone 7, we're just getting to the winner-take-all game a little sooner.

[ProphetFlume]

Dodgers and giants really just pulled a princess bride with their pitchers hours before starting.

Dodgers: I’ve actually been using my off hand all this time.

Giants: Me too!

[draynay]

I have to say I really hate the TBS broadcast crew.

[Rasulis]

If you are going to the game make sure to bring lots of coins to pay for parking.

[PhaelixWW]

If you are going to the game make sure to bring lots of coins to pay for parking.

The game's already in the 8th, so I doubt anyone is still heading there.

[muto]

If you are going to the game make sure to bring lots of coins to pay for parking.

That is fucking ridiculous. College World Series Parking is like 20$ to 60$ depending on distance from the Park, and I thought that was a lot.

[Vetali]

What a brutal way for that game to end.

[muto]

What a brutal way for that game to end.

Not that it would have mattered he probably still would have struck out. 0-17 against Scherzer, but yeah was definitely a check swing.

[draynay]

OOF

Been on the other end of bad missed calls like that before so that is a pretty harsh ending.


Also, if you guys could keep your gen ot/poli bullshit over there and not pollute sports threads that'd be great.

- - - Updated - - -

Rematch of the best playoff series of 2020 coming up, its ridiculous that Atlanta has home field advantage.

[Gestopft]

What a brutal way for that game to end.

Like biting your tongue on the last bite of a great meal.

[PhaelixWW]

What a brutal way for that game to end.

Umps also cost the Giants a run early in the game. In the fourth inning, Kris Bryant saw 5 balls and yet the count was 3-2 before he finally struck out swinging. If he had gotten on it would have pushed Crawford to 2nd, then Crawford and Bryant could have moved up on that passed ball instead of just Crawford taking 2nd. Then Crawford could have scored on that ground ball out by Slater.

Both those missed pitches were about 4 inches off the plate. No fucking excuse.

Fuck the umps.

[draynay]

I've been saying for a while that they just guess on check swings and it was never more clear than in these Dodgers/Giants games where things are so tight that it doesn't take much to tip things.

[PhaelixWW]

I've been saying for a while that they just guess on check swings and it was never more clear than in these Dodgers/Giants games where things are so tight that it doesn't take much to tip things.

And the stupid thing is... even if you're guessing on swings, why the hell would you ever ring someone up on the final out of an elimination game?!

Like... the default should be 1) don't call a check swing a strike for the final out of a playoff game (let alone an elimination game), and 2) don't call it a non-swing if that will walk in a run in a playoff game, unless calling it a swing would interfere with rule #1.

Unless it's blatant and it's not a guess.

[draynay]

I think the same ump had some iffy ones when he was covering 3rd, guess its a good thing he never got behind the plate.

[PhaelixWW]

I'm still fucking pissed. I'm sure Dodgers fans are thrilled right now, but those umps threw the game.

This is the Bryant at bat in the 4th.



Pitches 3 and 5 were both called strikes. If either one had been correctly called as a ball, then the Giants would have likely scored Crawford later in the inning and the game would have been tied at 2 in the 9th, rather than 2-1.

But whatever.