THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

not lookin good for the DC Swamp Drainers

Noooooo the satellite went out

robles looked really uncomfortable in the box and i cannot blame him

Oh! I got a couple Urquell in the fridge!

was that Tom Friedman?

yer the man TT

that would be awfully good acting if it got no flesh

I *think* it hit he knob first, but it was so close can’t be bothered by him getting first.

Uh oh

Hader throwing way too many high fastballs here

Wow

God damnit

omg soto

Under the fucking glove

and the crotch grab

Yikes, that was bad.

what a Grisham thriller in RF

the beers went flying

Who is this Buckner dude in RF anyways? I’ve honestly not noticed him before.

Time to open my Pilsner.

And Buckner died this year...resurrected!

No regrets going with Hader there obviously but his location was awful. Sliders not even close and high fastballs like a foot off.

and just like buckner, the game had already busted wide open by the time it happened. feel bad for grisham

Again: wow.

sorry frogbs and all Brewers fans, that musta hurt

Idk about “wide open”. Hader needed one more out to get to the 9th with a 2 run lead.

i was waiting for soto running into that third out to matter

I'm just shocked. How could you miss that ball?

But yeah that all happened so fast. Haders been really good lately but he just didn’t have it. Oh well. Go beat the dodgers

it happens

Ron Darling thought it mighta been a weird hop

xp

Idk about “wide open”. Hader needed one more out to get to the 9th with a 2 run lead.

i mean grisham's error. without it, most likely 2 runners still would have scored, the momentum would be completely shifted, and there'd still be runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 outs. but yeah, not "wide open".

Soto is built like a brick house.

I said this in my preview but I really feel for Dave Martinez. Imagine having a one-game playoff to win and being second-guessed for starting a rested Max Scherzer.

— Michael Baumann (@MichaelBaumann) October 2, 2019

He’s been noticeably shaky. Everyone knew it.

i'll steal what I just saw:

hey, they're NOT better w/out Yelich

another dimension of the grisham error is that it reminds you that yelich should have been playing RF

yes. was my 2nd thought once i was done with "wow".

scherzer had a 5.16 ERA in september, allowing six homers in 29.2 IP. so yeah

but if there *are* any managers with the confidence to have gone with strasburg, i don't think dave martinez is among them. tbh it may not have even been up to him

Every time racist Josh Hader gets his ass handed to him an angel gets its wings.

— Peter LabuzAAAHH! (@labuzamovies) October 2, 2019

Hader threw 30 pitches last night, 14 strikes. Per MLB Network research, it was only the third appearance of his career, regular season or postseason, in which he had more balls than strikes.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 2, 2019

he gets a ton of swings & misses on that high fastball but not if you're throwing it a foot over the strike zone

for what its worth the ump seemed to be very pitcher friendly. was pretty confident going into the 8th, Hader with a wide strike zone should've been lights out

I’m still im awe of Strasburg’s 94 mph fastball to get Braun to ground out.

icymi, the A's are selling Mount Davis tix for tonight.

Strasburg was insanely good in his 3 innings. He threw a number of pitches where the batter would twist outward, thinking the pitch might hit them, only to have it dive right into the strike zone.

i need a gif of soto's reaction to hader's second (way outside) pitch, which culminated in this

https://i.imgur.com/YourTtr.jpg

gotta say its nice that basically nobody is holding a grudge against Grisham for this, which is not how it would go down in a lot of bigger markets

I’m to understand he’s normally a pretty good outfielder?

he's only played 51 games but yeah he was pretty good

Seemed like a very level-headed guy in the post-game interview clip I saw. My jokes last night aside, I felt genuinely bad for him; nice that Yelich spoke up about his role down the stretch.

look at them shadows

I've never heard of Yandy Diaz