THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

Remember when Kershaw giving up a homer to a LHB was a big deal?

Taking one for the team, respect

I think it happens in the playoffs every year now in the late innings.

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Can we please Poll the Champion Series

Joe Kelly in the 9th ????

^^^^

Fuck me it worked

i’m sorry i doubted you joe kelly

lol i’m not

I think at some point we need to just accept that the kershaw playoff thing is real

Yeah no manager has done well with Kershaw in the post-season

it’s all fun and games until kelly throws a straight fastball

Can someone remind me where is Kenley Jansen in all this?

I know he kind of sucked this year but still ... Kelly for two innings vs the heart of the Nats order instead of Jansen?

Dang, Rendon

OH!

Woh

Goddamn

why was kelly still in

god almighty

After all the talk of superteams, it's starting to feel like this is the year that the Astros blow it too.

Insane

he’s *still* in!

And Kelly stays in for mop up duty?

Can someone remind me where is Kenley Jansen in all this?

On the bench where Kersh should've been?

Joe Kelly is still pitching. The story now is the poisoning of every other Dodgers pitcher that led to this.

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 10, 2019

Roberts getting boo’d?!

Oh - here’s Jansen!

just in time, dave

That was thrilling.

I think at some point we need to just accept that the kershaw playoff thing is real

I think you and I concluded that it was real last year. You're well past a small sample size by now. (The realness of it wouldn't be so evident if he didn't play for a team that was always in the playoffs.)

Fuck

I'm so happy right now

Via baseball savant, there were 3 balls hit during the regular season to right field with approximately the same exit velo and launch angle at dodgers stadium and they all stayed in the park.

— Adam (@schwabera) October 10, 2019

I was going to ask if Scherzer was available for an inning if the Nationals scored one, but it's kind of moot now.

that’s the smith flyout? xp

Why baseball is the best sport.

I have had so much fun tonight

That's the HR, surely

Whatever the shipping costs to the antipode of Chavez Ravine, it would have been money well spent https://t.co/OKauSK7EpG

— Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) October 10, 2019

The Nats/Expos have never appeared in a best-of-seven postseason series in 50 combined seasons.

— Cliff Corcoran (@CliffCorcoran) October 10, 2019

Dreading the notion that the Yankees might be the last super team left.

Uh, the Rays are still very much in this!

Might!

Hitchin my bandwagon on the Rays. That being said I wouldn’t mind seeing Scherzer winning a ring.

Rays' prospects after tomorrow (uh, today) do not fill me with confidence

meanwhile back in the St Louis clubhouse

Here’s what Jack Flaherty had to say about the pitch that hit Ronald Acuña Jr. in the bottom of the fifth: #stlcards pic.twitter.com/lw6C0i3JIw

— Jeff Jones (@jmjones) October 10, 2019

so, go Nats

I'm rooting for the Nats against Cards for sure. Their big three SP's won't be able to pull double duty for the entire series, but on paper the Nats look like a much more talented team than the Cards.

I like the Nats' radio guy - Curly W is in the books!

+ the idea that they would go to the WS after ~not signing Harper is **kisses fingers**

re Kershaw

Except for the many, many times he hasn’t. https://t.co/YDzUwN6rbm

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 10, 2019

btw I recommend Sciambi & Mendoza on ESPN Radio for the NLCS. Clearly beat other options.

Joe buck is back, the bonus
it's on FOX Saturday night.

I loved Ernie this round!