Playoff Talk

[soccer10k]

Suck it, Yankees.

[soccer10k]

Playoff Kershaw in the house tonight.

[Irrelevant Dude]

The broadcasters really wanted Kershaw to be a good story, but he has nothing left.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Brutal last game for Kershaw 

[mk49]

10 hours ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Brutal last game for Kershaw 

I hate the Dodgers, but I like Kershaw.  It's kinda sad to see him giving up many runs last night.  At least, Yamamoto gave up 6 hits/ 3 runs in 3 outs.  That made me happy.  

[Bertz]

10 hours ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Brutal last game for Kershaw 

His career postseason ERA is now more than two runs higher than his regular season one.  Not small sample either, nearly 200 innings.  Crazy.

[Brian707]

2 hours ago, Bertz said:

His career postseason ERA is now more than two runs higher than his regular season one.  Not small sample either, nearly 200 innings.  Crazy.

[We Got The Whole 9]

They wouldn't dare leave him off the NLCS roster though, would they? Hes likely not done pitching.

[We Got The Whole 9]

2 hours ago, Bertz said:

His career postseason ERA is now more than two runs higher than his regular season one.  Not small sample either, nearly 200 innings.  Crazy.

He now has the best ERA- career with pitchers over 2000 IP and he has the worst postseason ERA- with 150+ IP. 

 

Lol that's some horsefeathers

[Hortonhearsawho]

Whoops 

Edited October 10, 2025 by Hortonhearsawho

[profisme]

Wtf. Dumb phone..

 

Edited October 10, 2025 by profisme

[soccer10k]

They showed in the postgame that the runner missed home plate initially in that Phillies game. So even if the guy goes home but makes a good throw, the catcher could have tagged him out.

EDIT: Or just touched the plate since it was a force.

Edited October 10, 2025 by soccer10k

[mk49]

If the Phillies didn't intentionally walk Ohtani in the 7th, they could have won the game.  The Cubs should have better chance against the Dodgers, if the Cubs win the Game5 on Sat, so it was a good thing, I guess.

Edited October 10, 2025 by mk49

[Bertz]

Philly is in an interesting spot, this was sort of supposed to be their year.  As the proto Preller there's no way Dombrowski folds his hands for the second offseason in a row and coming off of *that* exit.

[CubinNY]

I'd love for the Cubs to win this next game, but for me, the season has officially become a success. 

[UMFan83]

18 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

I'd love for the Cubs to win this next game, but for me, the season has officially become a success. 

Regardless of what happens, the Cubs will be one of the last 5 MLB teams playing this year

[I owned a Suzuki]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

Philly is in an interesting spot, this was sort of supposed to be their year.  As the proto Preller there's no way Dombrowski folds his hands for the second offseason in a row and coming off of *that* exit.

My wife is a Phillies fan, so I get to watch plenty of them. I actually think they would be better served letting Schwarber go and putting those resources into a power hitting corner OFer who can at least play average defense. Castellanos can be a DH.  And yeah if the can get better defense at SS and move Turner to 3rd. I know Bohm is a well loved teammate, but not enough power to justify that defense. 

They probably have to resign Realmutto. Also, need a backup catcher badly

[We Got The Whole 9]

horsefeathers, we've had a malady of brutal errors over time but I cant imagine the whole season abruptly ending on a play like that. 

[Outshined_One]

1 hour ago, I owned a Suzuki said:

My wife is a Phillies fan, so I get to watch plenty of them. I actually think they would be better served letting Schwarber go and putting those resources into a power hitting corner OFer who can at least play average defense. Castellanos can be a DH.  And yeah if the can get better defense at SS and move Turner to 3rd. I know Bohm is a well loved teammate, but not enough power to justify that defense. 

They probably have to resign Realmutto. Also, need a backup catcher badly

Don't know their salary situation, but Tucker would be a really good fit for them.

[I owned a Suzuki]

2 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

Don't know their salary situation, but Tucker would be a really good fit for them.

Yeah, even Belli. They won't replaces Schwarbers pop, but the run prevention over Castellanos would be significant. Bader/Marsh platoon in CF and the rookie in left. If Wheeler comes back its a rotation of Sanchez, Wheeler, Nola, Luzardo and Walker?  Thats going to be an easy playoff team. 

If they do resign Schwarber, I think they will need to find a RH bat to play right. They cannot send Castellanos out there another year

[Bertz]

 

[squally1313]

48 minutes ago, Bertz said:

 

Man, I have no idea what an ‘up-down’ bullpen session is but I skimmed that tweet earlier, read it as ‘up and down’ and just assumed that was coach speak for ‘we sent him home until next year’ 

[Bobson Dugnutt]

11 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Man, I have no idea what an ‘up-down’ bullpen session is but I skimmed that tweet earlier, read it as ‘up and down’ and just assumed that was coach speak for ‘we sent him home until next year’ 

I figured it meant they were simulating rest between innings.

[soccer10k]

 

This is insane. I would have for sure guessed someone had 2 13+K games in a postseason or more than two in a career. Randy Johnson in 2001 came to mind. We had enough years where there were 3 playoff rounds and managers still rode their SP hard.

[squally1313]

Going to need the cubs to score 13 in the first tomorrow to avoid anything close to the tension in this game