2016 MLB Postseason Thread

I think I speak for the Royals posse on here. Never walk to get to Zobrist in the postseason. Pitch to 1967 Yaz if you have to. Don't walk to get to Z.

 

It was a huge hit obviously. But Zobrist postseason is .257 .730 in 53 games.

 

We've never been one for numbers and, ya know, actual data and facts.

Yost runs our team, after all.

 

1st woman president AND the Cubs winning the World Series in the same year ...

All that's left on the bingo card is Clippers winning the title and the first transgender Hispanic Jew winning POTUS in the same year.

Mazel tov to all the SJ Cubbies!

 

Seems like a 6-RBI game, when your team is facing elimination, and 9 RBIs overall, is MVP-worthy.

 

I had a bad feeling once the heart of the Indians went down in the ninth, which turned out to be founded. But what a tremendous night of baseball. I can't imagine what it would be like to be truly emotionally invested in the result.

I let my 7-year-old stay up until the end. Baseball made a fan for life. It was so awesome to see him begin to understand things like intentional walks, smart base-running, etc. So many little things that win and lose games all wrapped up into 10 innings for all the marbles.

 

Fun to look back.

 

Reading through the first few weeks of the regular season thread, it turns out conventional sabr wisdom was right about pretty much everything.

 

About the only thing nobody foresaw this postseason was Francona's ability to overcome the injuries to Cleveland's starters -- until last night, that is.

 

Certainly one of them, but there are so many ways in baseball to have a great game. The Twins 1-0 Jack Morris win in 1991 was great austere pitching duel baseball. This game reminded me most of game seven of the 2003 ALCS, one of those pizzas loaded with every topping the game has to offer. To me, the most amazing part was watching two of the top five or maybe three (Bochy the other) managers in the game just go paralyzed in the frontal lobes, and having their players bail them out time and again. Sending Chapman back out for the ninth was insane. He had nothing, and he got the Indians out with pure nerve after what had to be the most depressing experience of his career. As I said earlier in the series, reprehensible human, but beyond reproach as a ballplayer.