September 2018 MLB Game thread

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I wasn't sure where to put this, but I'll post it here. I've been thinking about it for a while, but just dug up the numbers to make sure I was on the right track.

Seattle was:
22-17 (.564) before Cano's suspension
47-34 (.580) during Cano's suspension
15-17 (.469) since his return

Cano has put up 2.6 WAR according to bbref, but they played very well without him for half the season and were in contention.
Is this just a Seattle thing, as mentioned in the Manager's thread? Or is Cano hurting this team with his presence? Earlier this month there was a reported brawl too.
 

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Lourdes and Yuli Gurriel both with 2 homers so far tonight, first brothers ever to have multiple homer games on the same day.
 

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Khris Davis with a walkoff HR in the 10th, his second of the game and 45th of the year.
 

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Verlander has pitched 33 more innings than Snell, and has made 33 starts total.

What I'd love to see is what would happen if you lopped off the last IP out of each of Verlander's starts. What would his SP stats look like then? And if those 33 IP were attributed to his alter ego Vustin Jerlander, how would those stats compared to other RPs?

That's really the only good way to quantify the value of those extra 33 IP.
 

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MIL goes ahead of STL 3-1 with 2 in the top of the sixth, and they go for the jugular by bringing in Josh Hader to start the sixth...

who promptly gives away a 3-1 lead, homers to Martinez and Ozuna, 4-3 STL now. That STL lineup is fun.
 

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It was scoreless until his final inning of work, but Corey Kluber pitched 7 shutout innings against the White Sox, striking out 11, to become a 20-game winner for the first time in his career. The Indians first 20-game winner since Cliff Lee's Cy Young season in 2008. The Indians arrived in Chicago in the middle of the night due to Sunday's extra-inning night game, so Kluber needed to dominate with only 4 starters in the lineup tonight to help him out.

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NL Central

Cubs 91-66 (2 vs Pirates, 3 vs Cardinals)
Brewers 91-67 (1 @ Cardinals, 3 vs Tigers)

NL West

Dodgers 88-70 (1 @ Diamondbacks, 3 @ Giants)
Rockies 87-70 (2 vs Phillies, 3 vs Nationals)

Wild Card

Brewers 91-67
Rockies 87-70
Cardinals 87-71 (1 vs Brewers, 3 @ Cubs)

Badly need Cubs and Brewers to tie. Dodgers, Rockies and Cardinals to tie.
 

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A's were up 8-7 on SEA with two outs in the ninth and a runner on first, two bouncer to Chapman in the hole and he couldn't decide whether to go to second or first, then he dropped the ball and the game went on and the next batter tied it with a single, 8-8 in the 11th now.
 

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A’s kicked away an easy win with their bullpen and the great Matt Chapman failing and blowing an 8-5 lead. F. Rodney walked 2 batters in the 8th and Denard Span, who has discovered Just for Men for his beard, drove them both in. Chapman booted a 3rd out grounder in the ninth.

Top 11 now, 8-8.
 

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Former International League MVP as a Yankee prospect Ben Gamel scores the tying run in the 9th and the winning run in the 11th, thank you Ben!
 

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Pagan tried to go down and away, one too many times. Best case, that's an easy take from how predictable the sequence was. Instead, Chris Herrmann, the last LHH on the bench for Seattle gets a hubcap-sized cookie and exits the building.

I guess you are. I remembered this game and started watching just at the right time.
Same here! Didn't expect that going in. Something about dopedom makes us night owl East coasters though.
 

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Ha, and Bumgarner just had a pinch-hit walkoff single in the 12th.
 

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Ha, and Bumgarner just had a pinch-hit walkoff single in the 12th.
Only the 19th walkoff hit for a P as a PH since 1908, of extra-inning games. Last was Yovani Gallardo against the Brewers, 5/27/14. First Giant to ever do so, although they were victimized once in 1988 by LA's Tim Leary.
 

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Scherzer got his 300th strikeout of the season last night, which is the first time in his career and makes him the oldest 300 K pitcher in MLB history at 34 years old (and 61 days)

Then I read this little nugget from ESPN that made me laugh
Scherzer now has 2,449 strikeouts in his career, so that leaves him just 3,265 strikeouts behind Nolan Ryan. He needs to average only 326.5 strikeouts over the next 10 seasons to tie the record!
 

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If Scherzer pitches on Sunday, he could finish 19-7, 227 IP (more than any AL Cy Young contendent), 310 K, 2.50 ERA.

Jacob DeGrom goes tonight, but even if does pitch well and finishes 10-9, 265 K, 215 IP, 1.80 ERA, is that going to be enough?
 

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If Scherzer pitches on Sunday, he could finish 19-7, 227 IP (more than any AL Cy Young contendent), 310 K, 2.50 ERA.

Jacob DeGrom goes tonight, but even if does pitch well and finishes 10-9, 265 K, 215 IP, 1.80 ERA, is that going to be enough?
Looking at potential difference of only 12 innings, I think the ERA is what wins it for deGrom, but who knows, voters may want to help make history again, with Scherzer winning a 3rd straight Cy (and maybe the final one given his age?)
 

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I may have spoke too soon. deGrom goes 8 shutout innings, 2 H, 0 BB, 10 K. Finished the year at 1.70 ERA. Now that's one hell of a closing argument.
 

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German Marquez with 10ks through 4 innings so far. He’s been awesome in the second half for Colorado.
 

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I may have spoke too soon. deGrom goes 8 shutout innings, 2 H, 0 BB, 10 K. Finished the year at 1.70 ERA. Now that's one hell of a closing argument.


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Jacob deGrom's season is officially in the books. There's no longer reason to bring him back on short rest. His final start: 8 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 10 K. His season: 217 IP, 1.70 ERA, 269 K. It was, by any stretch, one of the best seasons by a pitcher in modern MLB history.
 

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I'd put it a bit under 2000 Pedro, but it was a still a very impressive year. Pedro had 7 complete games that year, deGrom had 1 this year.
 

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Cardinals swept at home by Milwaukee at a critical time. Lost 2-1 tonight, only 1 hit for the Cards, and they had the tying run coming around 3rd on an error but the guy slipped.

Milwaukee has clinched a playoff spot. A home WC is almost guaranteed... the Cubs are still in control of their destiny for the Central but it's obviously very close at half a game.

Since the Phillies have really packed it in, the Rockies have had no trouble winning, so the Cards are going to be 1.5 back of the 2nd WC with only 3 to play (Colorado 4 to play) and have to travel to Wrigley, where the Cubs will have to likely keep winning too.

Overall I give the Cards a lot of credit for turning it around after some wholesale changes in July, but it seems they've flamed out in this final week.
 

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In the last 50 seasons, I only found four other pitchers with a lower ERA than deGrom:

Greinke 2015 (1.66)
Maddux 1994 (1.56) and 1995 (1.63)
Dwight Gooden 1985 (1.53)
Nolan Ryan 1981 (1.69, but only 21 starts due to the strike)

Maddux (both times) and Gooden won the Cy Young those years; Greinke and Ryan did not.
 

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deGrom should be the clear-cut NL Cy Young winner but I heard some pundits talking about Scherzer and his win total. Its 2018 and some people still think pitcher wins are a thing. Meanwhile, deGrom was clearly the more dominant pitcher and its not even close. But wins...
 
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Awww, too bad the Bucs didn't pull that game out — that had Steve Bartman redux potential.

I don't dislike the Cubs or Dodgers, but find myself rooting pretty hard for the Rockies and Brewers just out of underdog affection. Plus, a play-in game between the mighty Dodgers and Cubs — a distinct possibility at this point — would be epic.