Phillies vs. Braves NLDS Thread
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I live in Philly, and have watched a fair number of their games, so it's not over. (Do you remember Game 1?)
The Braves have only one non-HR hit today and 0 walks. The Phils have 10 such hits and 3 walks.
If both series end today, I will wonder if both the Braves and Dodgers would have been better off facing each other's opponent. Maybe facing a non-divisional foe would have gotten them into playoff mode more easily.
The whole team seems hot at the right time…. Taking down two 100+-game winners is pretty damn good, has to give them confidence against whoever else they might run into.
EDIT: Lol, I am an idiot. I forgot that the Padres beat the Mets…
EDIT: Lol, I am an idiot. I forgot that the Padres beat the Mets…
Have they co-opted Dancing On My Own? They should have stuck with the Rocky soundtrack. Too bad they couldn't take it back, doo doo doo doo, take it back like before.
As someone pointed out on one of the post games, they think those 100 win teams had too much rest.
I was reminded a bit of last year's Sox. Team with only 87 regular season wins but plenty of talent everywhere on the roster, susceptible to looking awful for prolonged stretches. Sweat it out majorly at the end of September but clinch in the final series of the season. Come in playing really well just in time for October. Will it hold up now that the series length goes to 7?
That a mediocre regular season from the Braves ended up with a World Series championship last year, but their best season in 20 years ends in early defeat highlights both the randomness of the playoffs and the increasing irrelevance of the regular season. The individual games are still entertaining and the short series have some drama, sometimes, but the outcomes seem increasingly meaningless.
Meaningless to who?
Do the Braves not count their World Series last year because their regular season wasn't spectacular? Every team in every sport has to finish the job in the playoffs. In the NFL last year, Tennessee had the 1 seed and lost in the first round. So Cinncy's run to the SB is meaningless?
I don't get this take. Baseball playoffs have always had a level of randomness. 2022 isn't different.
Or it could be that the Phillies just mashed the shit out of the ball over and over.
That's kind of the point. Give me a team of mashers with iron gloves and I'll happily take on your team of Tommy Edmans, no matter what WAR says.
I remember people posting on message boards, not necessarily this one, that, that was nice, the Red Sox finally won the World Series, but they really need to go about it the right way by starting off with a division title. OK, so 2007, 2013, and 2018. Done, done and done, you fucks.
They have eight wins to go - I'm sort of pulling for the Phils (son currently lives in SE PA), but it's still a little early to conclude that their defense (or lack thereof) doesn't matter.
One of their worst defenders made a game saving defensive play in a key moment in the series. Such is baseball.
Times like theses remind me why I love Philly so much, because it becomes like a college town when its teams are doing well. Like yesterday, they put a mobile Jumbotron at the Head House Square end of South Street so fans could have a street party and watch the game together. Pretty cool.