2018 regular-season game chatter

This may be widely known but I have seen little mention of it: Mark Judge, everywhere in the news these days, is the grandson of the Washington Senators' longtime first baseman Joe Judge. https://t.co/HpXHkm0yrU pic.twitter.com/4m1BG0j8o4

— John Thorn (@thorn_john) September 28, 2018

Can we talk about what David Dahl is doing or is it less impressive because Kendrys already did it this season?

you should probably talk about it

not least because i don't know what you're talking about

Being a Jays fan, I got that right away--consecutive HR games. He reached 5 tonight.

I just wish there was a rule or something if the Cardinals and Dodgers end up tied, they are both eliminated from playoff contention.

I am definitely rooting for a Dodgers-Cubs WC game.

hits are more fun than walks

and more productive obviously because runners often advance two bases on singles etc ok I'm done

The 8+ pitches walk is very entertaining (but not as much as the 8+ pitches hit).

The single biggest story of the day, obviously: if Khris Davis goes 1-4, he will hit exactly .247 for the fourth season in a row. The odds on that are probably longer than Donald Trump becoming president.

Khristory repeating.

Adam Dunn 40 HRs 4 years in a row (and then 38 and 38 in the two following years) was kinda weird too

Reds hold on to win today, they will show consistency with their 3rd straight year record of 68-94.

Chaos update:

Dodgers 6, Giants 0
Rockies 2, Nats 0
Brewers 2, Tigers 0
Cardinals 2, Cubs 0

If this holds, Dodgers would host Rockies tomorrow in Game 163, winner there would win NL West, loser would go to Chicago for wild-card game and Milwaukee would face WC winner in NLDS.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) September 30, 2018

Tied up in Chicago. Normally I’d give the edge to the team fighting for a playoff position, but I’m guessing STL would very much like to help demote the cubs to a WC game.

I have the pleasure of watching Pete fucking Kozma play in Milwaukee today, for the tigers. His obp is .225 and he just slammed a double to the gap

What in the world are you supposed to make of this? On a day where he needs two HR for 50, the A's pulled Khris Davis after two hitless AB, leaving him at .247 for the season.

Is there a betting market on him hitting .247 again this year? I smell foul play

And I’m not referring to Davis’ plate discipline

what i make of that is that they're resting him for the wild card game

With a chance to hit 50 HR? Why did they even start him in the first place then?

eh, maybe if he hits one in his first couple of at-bats they leave him in

and it appears we have two NL Monday tiebreakers, at 1 and 4pm ET

The AL wild-card game isn't until Wednesday. Sorry, I must subscribe to KM's vast right-wing betting-market conspiracy.

so yelich basically needs a two-run homer to win the triple crown

when did we last have multiple games 163?

he needs that, plus baez and arenado not adding on to their respective RBI and HR stats
there have never been multiple games 163 before

curious what these teams would do if someone jumped out to a big lead early

i am very worried about the brewers jumping out to a big lead early, given their bullpen. the cubs bullpen has been unreliable lately so they'd need to get a pretty big lead before i felt like i could relax. quintana starting for the cubs is not giving me much hope, though he's had success against the brewers

Keeping Hamels for the potential WC game or Game 1 is smart.

i appreciate the fact that the NL playoff team to miss the division series will have to lose two in a row rather than one. but it's kind of weird that all four teams have a better record than the braves

teams with positive run differentials that missed the playoffs: rays, cardinals, d-backs, nationals

xp do u mean lester

Yeah the Rays, 7 games behind the Wild Card, has the same record as the Braves.

yeah i know why they're using quintana today, it just makes me nervous.

i think i have more confidence in hendricks than in lester or hamels right now but that might be insane. presumably they'd all be available to pitch parts of a potential wild card game.

Home/Away splits don't favor Quintana.

In any case go Bru Cru.

i presumed this game was on ESPN Radio, but the NY OUTLET HAS SOME JERK YOWLING ABOUT FOOTBALL

Quintana's been pretty great this year vs. Milwaukee though

been pretty hot over the last month as well, no?

man Baez is fun

no Cub hits thru 4

if he can get through 6 I'll feel a lot better. Hader hasn't pitched in a couple of days, could potentially go 2 here

ESPN’s sound dude has lost control.

wow Rizzo murdered that one

yelich

Project wolverine going great.

can anyone tell me which broadcast team is the least bad here? i'm switching between the two feeds and I'm leaning towards the Brewers guys.

Yelich on deck for a good spot.

Rooting for the beyond epic three run homer from Yelich.

darn.

but then Braun hitting a homer now would be hilarious.

why on earth was braun running there

It was supposed to be a delayed steal of home?

Why risk running yourself out of a big inning like that? Brutal overmanaging there.

i knew things were going to go bad when brandon kintzler came in to pitch