September 2017 Game Thread

jon abbey

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Man oh man, those Houston Astros can score some runs. Springer blows it open with a Grand Slam. You know that thing where a batter hits a home run with the bases loaded? Yeah, that thing the Red Sox are the ONLY team not to do this year.
Pretty good road series, 11-2, 14-3 and 11-2 in the sixth inning, 36 runs in 24 innings.
 

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Maybe the Twins should opt for a bullpen game in the Gimmick Game on Tuesday.

J.D. Martinez hit a grand slam tonight. In 58 games with the D-Backs, he has 28 HR, 64 RBI and is slugging .756. Going to be fun to see where he lands in the NL MVP voting.
Added a solo shot tonight.
59 games, 29 HR, 65RBIs.

Stanton leads the NL with 57 HRs. In 95 more games played.
Daylight second then Bellinger on 39 in 128 games played.
 

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Every seed is locked in, making all of tomorrow's games meaningless. can't remember the last time that happened.
 

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Every AL team missing the playoffs finished below .500
Only 12 teams finished with a winning record. None finished at .500. Sandoval's walk off homer cost the Giants the number 1 pick.
 

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Weird stats from this season: http://mlb.com/r/article?ymd=20171001&content_id=257110018&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlbhttp://mlb.com/r/article?ymd=20171001&content_id=257110018&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

Including:

--Just 5 triples for the Blue Jays all season, but SD PITCHER Luis Perdomo had 4.

--Sale struck out 267 RHH. That's 99 more than anyone else.

--Judge led AL in all 3 True Outcomes, first player since Dale Murphy in 1985.
Great stuff. Joey Gallo- 41 home runs, 32 singles. Bizarre. .869 OPS with a .209 batting average. Dave Kingman would be proud.
 

jon abbey

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I did start with a caveat, but they should go into the postseason as the most overwhelming AL favorites in a while, and I will be very very surprised if they don't at least make the World Series, assuming they have no crucial injuries before then. They have way more weapons than last year, and they rolled through the AL playoffs last year.

I don't know how that's even a mildly odd statement, unless you truly think that postseason baseball results are random, which I never have. I think the gap between them and the rest of the league this year is pretty big, plus they are peaking at the right time. They have the best personnel, no apparent holes, and the best manager.
Never been so happy to be wrong about something, you guys were right to call me on this at the time.
 

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Ramirez now has 50 doubles.
It's even more than that.

We all know about Playoff Tito and his abilities. He manged a team that was short 2 starting pitchers and his best hitting OF (and had to lose one in the 1st or 2nd inning because he couldn't stop his finger from bleeding after slicing it with a drone) and almost took home the WS against a stacked team.

I'm pretty sure that Tito will manage them well in the playoffs.
If there's anything to peaking early, the Indians and Dodgers may be guilty of doing such. The Rockies were pretty unbeatable in 2007 too.

edit: 2007 Rockies finished the year winning 14/15 and then winning their first 7 playoff games. We all know what happened next.
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