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The Royals advance with a 2-1 win over the Orioles. The road team has now won 5 of 6 games played so far in this ’24 post-season. That’s baseabll.
Orioles delivered 1 run and 2 extra base hits in 18 innings. If that’s all you can do in 18 playoff innings, then 18 innings is all you get to play.
KC manager Matt Quatraro took over for Mike Matheny’s 97 loss ’22 team and promptly loses 106 in ’23. But the Royal’s bosses stay with him and he’s got his team in the post-season and advancing to the next round. Why can’t we find anyone like this guy?
The Braves escaped a big time jam in the last of the 1st at Jack Murphy Stadium. The Padres had the bases loaded and nobody out against Fried. Machado struck out, Merrill a ground out force at home, and Boogers grounded out.
1-0 Atlanta after one inning.
I still think it’s a flawed set-up that doesn’t give all 6 division champions a first round pass, but I guess it’s the only way they can do it with the way the post-season rounds are currently formulated.
By the way, this could be the last that we see of Front Row Amy in Milwaukee until the 2025 season begins. Always a sad day..:)
Now Merrill with a 2 out bases clearing double to make it 5-1. Fried and the Braves are in big trouble out in SD.
I was switched over to the Braves/Padres game and missed the Brewers run to cut the Mets lead to 3-2, but see on the box that it came on a SF. Whatever it takes to push runs across HP. A sac-fly is as good as a solo tater.
The Brewers escape a 6th inning bases loaded jam to keep it a 3-2 game and possibly take some home field momentum into the home half of the inning.
1td, I don’t know that I would put the turnaround on the manager of the Royals. A lot of the key players on this year’s Royals were in their first year in the majors in 2022. They only had 2 starting pitchers with an ERA below 5.00 in 2022. This is a totally different Royals team in 2 years time.
Well, he doesn’t seem to have hurt. KC suffered through 7 consecutive losing seasons before the Royals qualified for bonus baseball in ’24. Now they’ve advanced by defeating the third best team in the AL in the first round. But I get what you’re driving at, Forsch. It doesn’t hurt to have Witt Jr. and a catcher that resembles a Sherman tank situated behind HP…Haha!
Edit…And I almost have to mention one more time that KC lost 106 games in ’23. That’s a 60 game W/L pct. turnaround in a year…Haha!
All these upstart teams are showing that the postseason really is a crapshoot. That’s why Mo and Dewitt have shown that they really are ahead of the curve, once again. They’ve got postseason certainty down to a science…that’s the only way to explain all the consecutive losses.
Yeah, the home teams are beginning to even things out, jj. The law of averages seem to have more of an impact in baseball than any other major team sport.
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