September MLB Thread
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The Pirates were 0-819 in their franchise history after trailing by 9 runs. Now they are 1-819.
Boston's season has felt cursed, but if I were a Padres fan this year might have me giving up on baseball entirely and going on a pilgrimage to the desert to find myself or something. What an excruciating club.
I'd have to look it up, but I believe they have only scored 3 runs in extra innings all season. You're not going to win a lot if you can't get the Manfred Man across.
I'm a long time Padres fan and a longer time Red Sox fan. The pilgrimage is actually going to be to the Alps for skiing in a couple of months.
The Braves have lost Charlie Morton for the NLDS after placing him on the 15 day IL. Fried is eligible to come off the IL the day before the NLDS. So right now it's Fried, Strider, and Elder. But that's only if Fried's blister responds to treatment.
Yandy Diaz just came away limping after an infield single in his first at bat. Staying in the game, but appears to be very uncomfortable.
I think with this being the final day of the AAA season, Cleveland should have left Dr Sticks down there for one more rehab start. He can't locate anything today and the Orioles aren't going to do him any favors. McKenzie still could have made his return to Cleveland later this week.
The Astros are extremely fortunate that the Mariners are also collapsing. Should be an interesting series this week!
The Cubs come from down 3-1 again to take a 4-3 lead in the 6th.
Cincinnati took a 3-2 lead in their game, and Arizona is currently up 2-0 on the Yankees.
Cincinnati took a 3-2 lead in their game, and Arizona is currently up 2-0 on the Yankees.
Meanwhile, the Blue Jays make three really nice defensive plays in the 9th inning to close out the Rays. (6-3, 1 unassisted, 2-1)
The Rays made numerous boneheaded plays in this series, getting picked off first by the catcher, terrible baserunning at times, and their pen was not good. They need to clean things up if they want to go anywhere in the playoffs. (I know half the team is hurt...)
With the O’s holding the tiebreaker and a 2.5 game lead, the AL East race is all but over now.
Rays will pay the ridiculous AL East penalty and go play the wildcard round while a team they are 8 games ahead of and played an easier schedule will get a bye. Said 8 game back team will then get an easier draw than the O’s by playing the winner of the 2 worst record teams. So AL East screwed all around.
Rays will pay the ridiculous AL East penalty and go play the wildcard round while a team they are 8 games ahead of and played an easier schedule will get a bye. Said 8 game back team will then get an easier draw than the O’s by playing the winner of the 2 worst record teams. So AL East screwed all around.
All the more reason to just seed by record. If you want to keep divisions and let division winners in so a crappy AL Central team can bump a more deserving team from the last wildcard spot every year, fine. But the seeding is too much.At least it's not as much of a schedule difference this year?
Padres at +91 runs are all but out. Meanwhile, the Dbacks, Marlins or Reds will get in with a negative run differential. Seattle on on the bubble at +99.
Boston is the only other team that theoretically could have a positive run differential and not get in, though they probably will finish in the negative numbers.
Boston is the only other team that theoretically could have a positive run differential and not get in, though they probably will finish in the negative numbers.
Saw this on Fangraphs... I thought NL MVP was locked up for Acuna, but advanced stats have it extremely close atm:
It's really the incremental value of Acuna's steals against that of Mookie's defense. I think Acuna wins in the end with the tiebreaker for a lot of voters being the 70 steals.
I think Mookie was the better player this year, but Acuna will win MVP thanks to the historic nature of his steal total combined with his power, and the Braves are clearly the best regular season team.
Ohtani seems like a lock to win the AL MVP, but it's crazy to think that Corey Seager would win it most years, despite playing in under 120 games. A 7.1 WAR season, with 150 hits and 33 homers, he's been absurd since he debuted after recovering from injury.
Ohtani seems like a lock to win the AL MVP, but it's crazy to think that Corey Seager would win it most years, despite playing in under 120 games. A 7.1 WAR season, with 150 hits and 33 homers, he's been absurd since he debuted after recovering from injury.
I may need to take a break from the internet that week to avoid all the "but what about the word 'valuable'" whinging.
I don’t know that this will go down as one of the great collapses of all time, but falling behind three teams over the course of September is remarkable. I’d be enjoying it quite a bit if it happened to a different team, but the Mariners’ history is filled with enough disappointment as it is.
Houston is only 9-13 in September, with win #9 being last night. The next two games are huge because Texas might get far enough ahead that they start resting players... and they play Seattle to end the season while Houston plays Arizona.
Good lord Suzuki just whiffed a routine fly ball to quite possibly wreck the Cubs season.
2 on 2 out, 1 run lead for the Cubs in the 8th. Routine fly to RF should be inning over with the Cubs winning. But Suzuki just misses it and 2 runs come in and Braves are up 1 now in the 8th.
2 on 2 out, 1 run lead for the Cubs in the 8th. Routine fly to RF should be inning over with the Cubs winning. But Suzuki just misses it and 2 runs come in and Braves are up 1 now in the 8th.