2018 World Series -- Boston Red Sox vs Los Angeles Dodgers

omg steve pearce mvp!!!!!

Not sure there's another 5-game WS where I will remember the game the losers won most.

Ha, that’s true. That game will likely be the only thing I remember from this series.

Congrats Red Sox fans

price should have gotten it but fuck it, that rules

Starting aces in the bullpen, in our time, goes back to at least 2001 Arizona though.

why does he always pitch bad then

And I award the Klemenza Kup to k3vin k!

I'll always think of this as the year when Jacob deGrom was the best player in the sport. Now, back to yer precious HOF thread. G'night!

Dedicated to all Blue Jays players, now you too can dream of being traded mid-season and win the World Series MVP.

lol Morbs you not-so-lovable constricted peehole

I think he lost a few millions this post-season.

Have you seen sports lately?

I am glad for Cora, and that's about it.

Kevin Brown pitched out of the bullpen in the '98 NLCS. There may have been some before that.

Is he gone?

The best team doesn't often come out on top in baseball, but resoundingly the best team won this year.

can you guys tell me about a world series where 2 guys pitched both starter and relief innings and 2 starters from the prior series pitched only in relief or do you want to just tell me about things i already know?

The best team doesn't often come out on top in baseball, but resoundingly the best team won this year.

― clemenza, Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:47 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it's been the case over the last 3 seasons, so maybe that's a new trend.

my point was not that cora had aces pitch in relief, my point was that cora used the off days of his entire starting staff to create a whole new bullpen.

Joaquín Andújar's famous meltdown in Game 7 of the '85 Series was in relief. That's a partial answer.

Over the course of the whole season, didn't LA have a better record than the Astros last year?

Kevin Brown pitched out of the bullpen in the '98 NLCS. There may have been some before that.

I remember this series well, SD was leading the series 3-1 and tried to put the hammer down on ATL in G5 by bringing in Kevin Brown. It backfired, he blew the lead, and Atlanta brought in Greg Maddux for the first relief appearance of his career. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was some mirror universe version of baseball. Totally unprecedented for the time.

Jack McDowell relieved in G5 of the 1995 ALDS and coughed up Edgar's famous double, but the bullpen was fried and the Yankees didn't trust any of their relievers anyway.

What I'm really looking forward to is Keith Law's tweet about David Price's history of post-season mastery.

From 30k feet in the air I’m screaming congrats to my @RedSox baby!!!!!!!! World Series Champs! Turn up one time for the one time 🎉🏆

— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) October 29, 2018

Over the course of the whole season, didn't LA have a better record than the Astros last year?

― clemenza, Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:53 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah, and so did the Indians (who had the better run differential and pythWL).

cora used the off days of his entire starting staff to create a whole new bullpen.

Yeah, no doubt.

I'll always think of this as the year when Jacob deGrom was the best player in the sport.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Morbs love you but I mean did you see Mookie Betts.

def best nonpitcher this year

(except, if he'd been healthy, y'know Trout)

*health is a skill*

congratulations to successful millionaire Steve Pearce on winning a new car. the car was assembled by minor-league journeymen working a second job

— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) October 29, 2018

^^^^

The 2014 Tigers have won the World Series:

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2018/10/28/world-series-2018-detroit-tigers/1760627002/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_835w/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/14/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_dom7_spts.jpg

*health is a skill*

― call all destroyer, Monday, October 29, 2018 12:10 AM (eleven hours ago)

lol the guy hurt hist wrist sliding into 3rd base

k3v, have you bought yr Machado pinstripes yet?

as much as I enjoyed ragging on him these playoffs I'd love machado on the yanks lol

hopefully they stay away from kershaw if he hits free agency

6 straight division titles for the Dodgers, just to show you how weak the NL West is.

oh we've moved into "The Dodgers actually SUCK" mode now, huh?

The postseason actually dummies up fans somewhat. Sometimes I think it should be abolished.

champion tbd by metrics

Hey, I predicted LA would win at least two games at home!

in the recent tradition of american politics, first you lose, and then everyone wants to lock you up

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/

(discussed weeks ago, i know, but worth keeping in mind that the dodgers' real villains are worse than machado)

a number of them may be former employees -- Kapler?

champion tbd by metrics

Steve Pearce Outlasts David Freese in Battle of Former Pirate Greats

6 straight division titles for the Dodgers, just to show you how weak the NL West is.

The East has had the lowest winning percentage three of the last four years.

Just out of curiosity, I was going to look at all the five-game WS and see how many times a starting pitcher with two wins did or didn't win MVP. I stopped early on the 2008 Series:

Cole Hamels (2008) - 1-0, 13 IP, 10 H, 3 W, 8 K, 2.77 ERA
David Price (2018) - 2-0, 13.2 IP, 7 H, 6 W, 10 K, 1.98 ERA

Ryan Howard (2008) - 3 HR, 6 RBI, .286/.375/.762
Steve Pearce (2018) - 3 HR, 8 RBI, .333/.500/1.137

Pearce clearly had a better Series than Howard; but Price just as clearly had a better Series than Hamels. Hamels won MVP, Price didn't.

An explanation from one of the five voters:

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/red_sox/2018/10/inside_the_vote_for_world_series_mvp

yeah and dodgers put up a fight last year against the astros, so not sure what albert is on about

feel like a lot of you dudes get bogged down with the numbers a lot

6 straight division titles for the Dodgers, just to show you how weak the NL West is.

The East has had the lowest winning percentage three of the last four years.

― timellison, Monday, October 29, 2018 6:02 PM (two hours ago)

he meant the NL

I'll read as much of this as holds my interest, but "lack of star power" in the cut line is mystifying. For starters, you've got Betts, Sale, Kimbrel, Price, Kershaw, Machado--there are four-to-six HOF'ers right there. Then you move onto Bogarts, Jensen, Puig, etc. Exactly how many stars was whoever wrote that line (probably not the writer) hoping for?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/red-sox-world-series-2018-mlb/574162/

he meant the NL

Yes, he said the NL, so I assumed he was referring to the NL. I'm not sure the NL West is a particularly terrible division.

From the Atlantic article:

"The average baseball game stretched for three hours and four minutes this season, 10 minutes longer than it did at the beginning of the wild-card era."

Come on, ten minutes is a big deal?

it is when the game is already interminable to begin with

he meant the NL

Yes, he said the NL, so I assumed he was referring to the NL. I'm not sure the NL West is a particularly terrible division.

― timellison, Monday, October 29, 2018 10:20 PM (forty-nine minutes ago)

meaning the NL overall *oh brother*

So if I were to say "Division title for Milwaukee this year, just to show you how weak the NL Central is," it would then be clear that I was not actually referring to the NL Central, I was referring to the whole league?

it is when the game is already interminable to begin with

This is news? People who don't like baseball don't like ten minutes more of baseball?

baseball would be great with a pitch clock and multiball bonuses