2013 MLB postseason running thread

Except Teheran pitched even worse. Everything they hit off him was a rocket, even the outs.

 

Split the difference and their combined game ERA was 17.64.

 

Hanley: 4 doubles, triple, homer in 12 ABs.

Just hit the triple for a run and 7-4 lead.

 

A Braves friend of mine is off and running with this Choptober thing. More like Choketober, am I right?

(Watch the Braves come back to beat the Dodgers now)

 

Today is a day that there's a legitimate beef about the TV scheduling. A's-Tiger is 1-1, the Pirates could clinch, the Dodgers could clinch ... and the prime-time game is Red Sox-Rays, which is the least interesting game of the day by a factor of 10.

 

Rays-Red Sox is also an elimination game.

The Dodgers game is at the time it is because it's on the West Coast on a work day. You think they should start it at 3 p.m. local time when they could start it at 6:30?

If Braves-Dodgers is not the late game, you'd be playing a game in the Eastern time zone starting at 10:30 p.m. local time.

 

Dodgers-Braves is fine, yeah, the only solution there.

I would put Pirates-Cardinals in the prime-time window. I think there is tons more national interest in that one. Even A's-Tigers would be more compelling.

Rays-Red Sox is elimination only in the sense of "hopefully the Sox can dispense with this nonsense quickly and play an entirely drama-free series."

 

Steak, I do have to add that it's going to be very interesting when they have this late game (9:30 ET/6:30 PT) window and there is no West Coast team to occupy it, what they're going to do. If it had been the Rangers instead of the A's in the playoffs, or if the A's had finished behind the Tigers in the standings this season, there would have been some days with no late option.

 

They didn't have a problem making the Braves play at 8:30, so I don't see why they'd have an issue doing it to the Rangers.

 

Did the Braves play an 8:30 home game? I don't remember that, but if they did, there's my answer.

The window is actually 9:30 ET, though. If Dodgers had finished ahead of Braves, today would have had four games in the Eastern time zone. Maybe they can move one to MLB Network and play it earlier (and at the same time as another game), I don't know.

 

Yes, Game 1 was 8:37 p.m. EDT. Game 2 was 8:07 p.m. EDT.

And the difference between the Braves and Rangers is that Atlanta is in the Eastern time zone, DFW the Central.

 

Cabrera with a bad two-out error to give the A's a lead. It was a few feet to his left, but he can't move. God bless him for being out there, he is still hitting singles, but he has no power and can't do anything else. His first AB he bounced one off the wall in the left-field corner and he didn't even think about taking second.