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Game 1 Phillies at Padres tonight. Game 2 Wednesday afternoon.
Game 1 Yankees at Astros Wednesday night.
Who ya got?
Well, tonight we get to see the two titans of the NL face off for a ticket to the ’22 WS. I like the Phillies to win this NLCS. To steal a line from the great Nolan Ryan…”We’ll get it done in 6.”
I am predicting the Yankers over them there Astro boys. I just think the big bats of the Yankers will pound out more wangers than the Astros. I am calling this one Yanks in six.
With the exception of field manager, I think Houston has an edge over NY in every area of the game. I like the Astros chances and it wouldn’t surprise me if they dispatch the Yankees in 4 or 5 games. However, the dreaded Dusty curse may well turn out to have an impact on the outcome of this ALCS…
Phillies with the early 4-0 lead on the Padres in the top of the 2nd at Jack Murphy Stadium in Game #2. I am starting to suspect it will be the Phillies that will be the team that gets hot this post season. Unfortunately, we had to play them.
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Although they’ve only played 3, Houston has yet to lose a game. Everything seems to be going right for Philly. Lots of scratch hits finding holes. Broken bat RBI base hit by Sosa. Soto loses one in the sun in RF. Uh oh…Back to back taters for SD. Now 4-2. Things can change in a hurry…
Nola surrenders the 2 solo taters and then swithches back to autopilot. Looks like he’s cruising and back in command of this game.
While watching SD in the NLCS, I was looking at some Padre teams of the past and happened to notice that although he never had a 200 hit season while he was a Padre, during his career Steve Garvey had 6 seasons in which he collected 200 or more hits in a season. What I found to be incredibly surprising is that the great SD Padre Tony Gwynn only had 5 seasons of 200 or more hits. Garvey was pretty good.
My boy bader keeps this stuff up and he may get him some most valuable hardware if Yankees can win another round. Though I think if the big guys do anything, they will probably get it.
My boy bader keeps this stuff up and he may get him some most valuable hardware if Yankees can win another round.
Hey, watch out willie, I called it first a few days ago. Bader staking a claim to Babe Ruth Postseason MVP Award is in progress.
SD sure looked like they were in trouble being down 4-0 early in game 2. It would have been a tall order to head into Philly having to win 2 of 3 games just to survive and return to Petco. I’d say the Phillies have to be somewhat satisfied to have split the first 2 games in SD. Houston looks to be far and away the superior team of the post-season. I can’t detect a weakness anywhere on their ballclub. If the Astros win tonight, the Yankees better hope that the Dusty curse induces him to do something inane to afford them a sliver of a chance.
Bader is Arozarena v.2.0? Smh, Mo fleeced on another deal. 😉
In all seriousness, glad he’s doing well for his home town team.
Montgomery pitched extremely well for the Cards after coming over.
If Bader performs in the long run for NY about like he did for the Cardinals that’s an easy win for StL.
Cards have outfield options and a good starting pitcher is more valuable in my opinion.
The teams remaining in the MLB playoffs ranked 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 9th in payroll this year
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— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) October 19, 2022
very little offense….
Postseason batting average of remaining teams:
.233 Padres
.220 Phillies
.220 Astros
.176 YankeesThe worst postseason average for a World Series winning team in the Wild Card Era is .227 (2013 Red Sox).
— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) October 20, 2022
Thanks for posting the salary info Brian. Despite the Phillies and Padres having pedestrian regular season records they are not really cinderellas. They both have massive payrolls and aggressive front offices.
The Bader-Montgomery trade may turn out to be a win for both clubs. That is the way trades are supposed to work. I know I am glad the Cards have Monty.
very little offense….
In recent years, it seems like this is the nature of playoff baseball. This will likely continue to be true if the way to advance to the LCS is to have a 2 or 3 starters capable of dominating a game and a short series. Those teams will often advance and the dominant starters will keep dominating.
The TBS postgame panel discussion also discussed the new wrinkle to the dynamics this year. Rollins and Granderson said hitters need to be facing “real” pitching everyday this time of year since pitching machines and coaches don’t simulate very well. They felt the lack of that everyday exposure for several days contributed to the Braves, Dodgers, Astros & Yanks (bye teams) having low production in their division series.
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