NL Wild Card: St. Louis Cardinals vs Los Angeles Dodgers

honestly i think this season ends with alex reyes on the mound for the cardinals in the 10th, and i say that as a reyes fan

or even reyes in the 9th, who knows

Lol, fuck the Manfred rule

"the great molina", drink 4

Who is this scrub catching?!?!

oohhhh

unnggghhhh

ohhhhh

oh man

ooooooooooooof
OOOOOOOFFF

FUCK!
FUCK!

Aaaaaaand the season ends with Reyes on the mound

unnnnngh

Reyes making a habit of doing this

dodgers are pretty good!

good luck giants

go brewers

Sorry Karl.

I love the cards fwiw

Would love to see the brewers win it all.

matt carpenter never got to hit again

but he sucked extremely badly the last few years so

cardinals didn't deserve to be in the playoffs this year, overall. really though, the team they were over the last month could have won the WS - they're excellent, i'm excited about next year

I sort of don't understand. Like, in hockey, the tea.the wins the president's cup usually does not win the Stanley's. It's about not peaking too soon and staying healthy

Was a reference to "didn't deserve to be. . ."

yeah, it's different for sure. i think in hockey they don't start "really playing" until the playoffs, right?

baseball is tilted toward luck a lot more. it's not a total crapshoot, but the best team against the worst team will win maybe 70% of the time. two decent teams against each other will usually be 60/40%. the variability is high with baseball, that's what keeps it fun

the Cards could have easily won this game but they are just not that good

realize that with all those short stop miscues

lol ok

That variability (or parity) in baseball is why it's good to keep the playoffs small and make the division titles mean something. It's not about just getting a spot in the tournament like the NHL.

That was a really good and tense game. Dodgers-Giants NLDS felt kind of inevitable but the Cards couldn't have been much closer to pulling off the upset.

all the shortstop miscues cost them 0 runs (this game), and over the season they came out ahead!

dodgers came out ahead and were the better team for sure, but they'll be the "better" team through this postseason (including against the giants)

looking at the video, reyes barely even flinched after taylor's swing -- just started walking toward the dugout

only thing i have to say about this game is that it was cute and good that juan soto was there cheering on scherzer and trea turner

ya – seeing Soto there was great.