2013 MLB postseason running thread

Agree 100 percent.

From the sixth inning on, the pace was about one pitch per minute.

The copy editor in me was repulsed; the sports fan in me scanning football scores instead of staying focused on a potential postseason no-hitter.

 

Meanwhile, the Red Sox are now down 1-0 with Scherzer and Verlander coming up.

Sunday looms pretty big for them.

 

Who cares how long it took, barring a deadline of course? It was drama the whole way through - for both games.

Football games may last three hours or slightly over every time, but there's much less action there. What are you getting, 11 minutes of action over the course of a 60-minute game? In baseball, the ball is in play much more.

 

The Wall Street Journal did a study, and figured an average baseball game has about 18 minutes of action. However, that includes the act of pitching and batters swinging. Take that out, and it's slightly less than 6 minutes of actual motion by anyone other than the pitcher and batter:

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB10001424127887323740804578597932341903720.html

So, other than watching pitchers and guys swinging, we probably saw about 6 minutes of action over 4 hours.
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Football actually has about the same number of action minutes when you remove huddles, walking to the line of scrimmage, etc.
Baseball isn't a sport of action, it's a sport of drama.

 

I don't agree with that, but over the years has it not kind of developed to where any collision play at the plate is "out" if the catcher holds onto the ball?

 

I was covering a game tonight and my twitter feed was filling up early with how many pitches the Red Sox batters were making Sanchez throw. All these star baseball writers saying how the Red Sox were having great plate appearances.

At halftime I get to the press room to see that not only do the Red Sox not have a run, they don't even have a hit.

 

I wouldn't blame the ump for calling it, that would be a hell of a tough call to make. Replay will make that interesting though

 

They drew six walks and got Sanchez out of the game after the sixth inning. They didn't win the game, but I don't think you can fault their approach as the reason why.

 

Wondering when we were transported back to 1966. Two 1-0 games in the same day. When was the last time that happened in the playoffs?

Meanwhile, today's starter have a combined W-L of 33-4. Have to figure that's up in terms of the record for best winning percentage for both starters combined.

 

I thought they said during the ALCS postgame that it had never happened before in the playoffs.