THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

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

I have Oakland radio playing over my video feed bcz I can't take Those Guys

32-pitch first for Morton...

I'm watching the ESPN vid so I guess I have no idea who's calling it.

ouch

usual sunday night crew on the call

twilight not esp bothersome to hitters thus far

feel like manaea has a bit of sean connery about the face?

Morton looks like a composite '90s grunge hunk

was looking at Oakland as our Astros firewall

not enjoying this

rip

daaamn

is oakland the only place left with the bullpens in play?

Oracle Park still has them, no?

tropicana field

That’s some good baseball by the Rays.

Canha corn, more like.

Luzardo’s stuff is ridiculous.

I’m at @FoleysNY with Yankee writers, and they all want to know if the windows will be closed in the pressbox for Game 3.

— LaVelle E. Neal III (@LaVelleNeal) October 3, 2019

working from home so i can start yelling at my tv at 4:02 pm CST

the whole "gotta win game 1, it's important" thing is funny because every game 1 in a 5 or 7-game series is very important. but in this case, with flaherty going in games 2 and 5, a game 1 win for the cardinals would probably be enough to push them to the LCS.

area man agrees: game 1 is very important

CDT

don't want you to be off by an hour

Dodgers will start Buehler in Game 1 btw

wasn't expecting that.

one of my terrible secrets is that i never bothered looking up the difference between CST and CDT

but either way, when the clock strikes 4 in the area of the united states that 19th century railroad empires decided would be "central", i will be watching baseball

Forecast is 96˚ in ATL at gametime.

some call it hotlanta

hopefully this will cause whoever does the tomahawk chop to pass out and never be able to use their arms or mouths ever again

no argument here

of course, all the cardinals fans who have "blue lives matter" signs in the front yard can choke on a chicken bone as well

it all comes down to which racist fanbase god will favor

Sure but also being racist at home is not the same as chanting a racist chant at the ballpark.

It’s a shame because really Acuna is a ray of sunshine in my daily life.

this is the series i'm most indifferent to

tho i guess i hate the Braves a teeny bit more

pair of "evenly matched" previews (one had a hyphen in the blurb)

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/postseason-preview-st-louis-cardinals-vs-atlanta-braves/

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/postseason-preview-new-york-yankees-vs-minnesota-twins-alds/

and the "pitching series"

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/postseason-preview-los-angeles-dodgers-vs-washington-nationals/

Judging by the start of today's nightcap 2.5 hours after the opener (and same for tomorrow's 4-game marathon), MLB has embraced overlapping of the games.

ah sorry, it's 3.5 hours today

every game gets its own crazy shadows

yep, of the ten games through Sunday i count 6 w/ crazy shadows

Sabathia not on Division Series roster

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27757513/cc-sabathia-left-yankees-roster-alds-james-paxton-start-game-1

overheard in the office: 'that's the second-worst play of kolten wong's playoff career'

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Given Yordan Alvarez's size (6-5, 225) and veteran swagger, he seems much older than than 22. Maybe he's 30? "Everybody jokes about that, even our teammates joke about that a lot," Alvarez said. "But I checked with my mom and she says that I am who I am. I'm my age."

— Alyson Footer (@alysonfooter) October 3, 2019

didn't look like a swing by Cervelli to me either but hey a swing is undefined in the rulebook

I think brebbia are what you call the creatures who nest in his beard