THERE'S ONLY ONE POSTSEASON (thread for 2019)

otoh Stanton+Ellsbury+Happ = $65m :-/

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27834957/washington-nationals-adam-eaton-says-seinfeld-key-big-hit

Nothing is worse than that Italian gibberish Sterling does for Stanton home runs. I’ve actually enjoyed Stanton being out of the lineup in that I don’t have to hear it.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 13, 2019

I hate it so much

Somehow he passed on “Stanton drops the Mike”

Giancarlo Stanton is hurt.

Vaguely excited for the game

So happy Maybin is starting
Stanton can go f an uncle

At one extreme, there's letting a team go up 10-0 in the first inning; at the other, "God, no, back-to-back hits!"

i'm sure that wasn't all -- had to believe Paxton wasn't sharp

Gopherball Justin

ESPN Radio crew sees a lot of covered-mouth conferring in NYY dugout

JV pitch tipping?

The walk was the killer--he had him 0-2.

I thought Paxton looked okay. I'm hoping Boone pays for this as (if? gulp...) the series goes deeper, but they're carrying 13 pitchers, so maybe it's no big deal.

Paxton was first pitch ball to nine of the twelve batters he faced.

BIG MAY

who, Gio Urshela had a big May?

SPRINGER DINGER!

lol I almost coulda thrown that pitch

So this sounds pretty bad

might be time to net the dugout

past a diving Gregorius!

jeter woulda had that, he couldnt move left

this has got the pace of a 4.5-hour postseason klassik

dugout reaction to that looked pretty bad

ordinary 4-6-2 for the last out

Correa waves his finger, Kate Upton jumps around.

Good game!

i'm still here, and have to work tomorrow

I'm giving it one more inning--barely awake.

I am not enjoying this.

War of attrition!

Gotta respect the make up call

KABOOM

Four hits total given up by both teams' bullpens. 12 IP.

Pretty rough that Happ was the best option. I know Paxton didn’t look so sharp - but a less-sharp-Paxton > 2019 Happ.

The station here came back late from commercial last night--Correa's HR was just leaving the park...Correa's really got some Ronald Acuna in him. Three times he put on a little show, and there were more theatrics on the HR than with Bautista's bat-flip.

it occurs to me that behavior such as tampering with the ball to deliberately modify outcomes as the league begins to invest itself into legalized sports betting is fundamentally the same sort of behavior that, when done by a player, gets them banned from the game for life https://t.co/FeVagdQwDh

— Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) October 10, 2019

NYC Wednesday forecast looking thoroughly wet. Who if anyone benefits from a Game 4 postponement? No way they throw Verlander on 3 days' rest Thursday, but he gets a Friday Game 5 start surely.

security guard who was struck by the foul last night:

A statement from the Harris County Emergency Corp, who employs the gentleman struck by Michael Brantley's foul ball:

“He was immediately taken to the hospital, evaluated and is currently in stable condition.”

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) October 14, 2019

i would think that more off days makes the yankees' bullpenning more feasible. the big three astros are gonna get two starts each no matter what happens

I notice all the raves across the internet for Correa's theatrics today. I'm fine with his post-HR show--I really don't police stuff like that--but, as a Jays fan, I'm a little puzzled when set next to the reaction to Bautista's bat-flip, which was much more polarizing. Is it just the passage of four years? I used to have a whole speech defending Bautista, a list of circumstances that made it a perfect storm of a cathartic moment; Correa engaged in more for less.

having it come against the Yankees is the real difference here

4 years is a long time. like bautista isn't even in the league rn, nevermind the We Play Loud commercial, which I admittedly haven't seen on air since acuna didn't run out his double lol

#WePlayLoud now

also bautista's bat chuck is iconic now so all's well that ends well

yeah it's like the 2nd result for him on autocomplete

I'll put it down to the calendar then (and I realize Bautista already had a reputation).

538's current odds (they stuck by the Raptors the whole way last spring):

Nationals - 34%
Yankees - 32%
Astros - 30%
Cardinals - 4%

Obviously, you've-got-to-get-there-first is driving this--I'm sure they'll have Houston or NY favored over Washington, if it comes to that--but still noteworthy.

i remember people *talking* about bautista's flip, but i can't say i remember many people complaining about it (apart from the usual trolls)

man that jays-rangers 7th inning tho

If you google "bautista bat flip controversy," I think you'll find reactions on both sides. The smartest ones were defending him, but I remember a lot of negative reaction, too.

game 4 will be a bullpen game for the yankees (barring rain), suggesting that they'll need more than 2.1 from severino in game 3