General 2022 MLB Postseason Thread

I'm sorry what was that?

All the way back, wow.

And now the lead

It's only fair after the first inning

Hey, Matt Carpenter's back.

bader is not a power hitter! he's on quite a streak now, though

i don't normally root for NYY but they have both bader and carpenter, and they're also against the astros

Hader looks unhittable

1 -1

Best of five

the Yankees struck out 17 times tonight

the Astros struck out twice

That 15-strikeout differential is the largest in a game in postseason history

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) October 20, 2022

It's starting to feel like this is the year that Dusty Baker finally wins a WS and rides off into the sunset.

Not shareable, but Posnanski has a Dusty column today (haven't read it yet):

That’s exactly what I want for Dusty. I so thoroughly and deeply loathe the “he can’t win the big one” narrative. Dusty Baker has had a remarkable and complicated managerial career. He has managed five teams — all of them broken in some way or another when he took over — and he has managed all five of them into the postseason at one point or another.

I’m pretty sure I could manage my way into the playoffs with some of those “broken” teams too

I thought the Astros job was challenging after the scandal, and they were sub-.500 in the COVID season. I didn't expect them to be so good in 2021/22, although a lot of personnel is the same, true.

Just tuning in, of course its tied.

All these check swings are becoming bullshit. MLB needs to fix this with being able to challenge in my opinion.

Pedro’s orange tie + Costas’ purple jacket= Joker

NYY gonna bring the muthafuckin’ ruckus

Slow motion Altuve thinking = vomit

Wow. Judge’s misplay just cost them 2 runs

That is a disputable out

was it a judge misplay? he should’ve called bader off but there was no need for bader to range so far into right

CF usually has the green light to get anything

i.e. other fielders should defer if there’s any question

Yankees' season starting the decent into the bowl. Shame.

v. sad

I know it’s kind of passé to complain about the astros cheating but maybe that penalty from a few years ago wasn’t harsh enough

I can't even remember what their penalty was...monetary, I assume, or did they lose draft picks?

i love christian vasquez so much. that throwout was magnificent, pin-perfect. and with his ribbies this feels like his game as much as javier’s, who has been a pleasure to watch. i feel like it’s unusual days to see a pitcher just get guys out over and over again with his fastball - and while he throws it hard it’s not like he’s throwing 99

As someone who had both Javier and Cole on his fantasy team, I can attest to Javier being a pleasure to watch and also Cole being an inconsistent dope.

i like cole -- and props for absolutely hating trevor bauer first -- but i liked him better when he wasn't a yankee

xp

As a result, Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and field manager A. J. Hinch were suspended for the entire 2020 season for failing to prevent the rule violations. The Astros were fined the maximum allowable $5 million and forfeited their first- and second-round picks in the 2020 and 2021 drafts. No players were punished because they had been given immunity by MLB in exchange for their cooperation.[1] The Astros subsequently fired both Luhnow and Hinch on the day their suspensions were announced.[2] MLB's investigation also determined that Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora helped mastermind the Astros' sign stealing while serving as Hinch's bench coach in 2017. The Red Sox and Cora mutually parted ways the following day and MLB suspended him through the 2020 postseason, although the Red Sox rehired Cora after his suspension ended. Carlos Beltrán was the only Astros player from 2017 who was specifically named in the report; he had been hired to manage the New York Mets in November 2019 but parted ways with the team after the results of MLB's investigation were announced.

biggest consequence related to on-field performance is losing the first and second round picks for 2 straight years. that is a significant blow, i guess, but it's also one that by definition doesn't damage the MLB club for at least a few years into the future. and...i guess i get that? one could argue that, as a penalty, you also wouldn't want to impose a penalize that would significantly damage the astros team in the immediately following year, because then what do you have in august? a team that should have been good that sucks and low attendance, low revenue etc etc. i don't know.

as wikipedia mentions, beltran was the only player named, and conveniently he was 40 years old and retiring anyway. maybe one approach mlb could have went with was penalizing other players a bit more, or at all

Dusty Baker, Olympic toothpick gymnast

Are the Yankees losing in 2022 cos the Astros stole signs 4 years ago? That’s one for my thread.

the yankees are losing because their fans aren't rooting hard enough

To me, that seems reasonably harsh (the draft picks especially) at a team level. They could have been harsher with individual players, but at least a couple--Altuve and Correa--will possibly pay the penalty down the road of not getting into the HOF.

Padres off to a great start

Well fuck, this is going to be a good game

has to be some sort of record for both starters combining for two outs

Yeah, really. Don't remember seeing a playoff first inning like that before. What can you say, baseball

today's yankees lineup in this series. i mean barrison hader can only do so much

https://i.imgur.com/IkAp9pI.jpeg

This game is nuts

Great Philly crowd.

Philly doin a lot of cool things out there

seriously what the fuck is going on with these ads???

KYLE SCHWARBER CAN'T STOP HITTING HOMERS 💪

(via @MLB)pic.twitter.com/Sr4NiX6Ec4

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 23, 2022

It was all set up for the Padres, score four in the first and took the crowd out of it.

apparently this ties the largest comeback in postseason history which doesn't seem right to say given it was 4-3 after 1

maybe one approach mlb could have went with was penalizing other players a bit more, or at all

That’s really interesting. I didn’t know that.
The only guy going unpunished I’m annoyed about is Altuve, since it sounds like he really pushed the whole thing further than anyone else with the, if you believe it, electronic buzzer, allegedly, under his shirt.

just fwiw the astros cheating scandal had nothing to do with the yankees managing three hits in their home ballpark tonight