2020 MLB postseason thread

I'm shocked, shocked I say, that the "this kind of crushing loss scars teams for years..." takes proved worthless 24 hours later.

 

Yeah, it's baseball. Teams suffer "crushing losses" like that 5 or 6 times during the season, then move on. Probably about 10 years ago Boston destroyed the Indians like 24-2 or something like that. "Crushing loss." Indians won the next day.

 

How about 1 and 3 zero outs, just put the ball in play?

 

My favorite example of this is Brad Lidge - in 2005, he gave up a three-run homer in Game 5 to Albert Pujols. The Astros won the next clinching game anyway.

 

Every time they say his name, I think of "Battlestar Galactica."

 

And Lidge wasn't right for two years after that. He tried that slider a second time, and the ball Pujols hit might still be rising.

 

Lidge's entire career is a rollercoaster of highs and lows... like most "closers."

 

Meanwhile us Expos fans are still stuck on Blue Monday, except for when we talk about 1994 like the girl that got away.

To borrow from JJW, after forty years we still grieve.

 

lol Brad Lidge.

 

Testify, my man

 

Jim Misiuda‎ "THE DUGOUT" A FORUM FOR THE LOVE OF BASEBALL
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Thirty eight years ago today, October 26TH, 1982, Steve Carlton-

 

J.K. Simmons plays Groat the movie?

‎Andrew Linker‎ to The Baseball Reliquary

The St. Louis Cardinals do a little housekeeping 55 years ago today as they send catcher Bob Uecker -- yes, that Bob Uecker -- to the Philadelphia Phillies in a six-player trade that ships outfielder Alex Johnson, pitcher Art Mahaffey and catcher Pat Corrales to the Cardinals.

Philadelphia does OK on the deal, though, as the Phillies also acquire first baseman Bill White and shortstop Dick Groat from St. Louis.

Uecker spends a season-plus playing for Philadelphia, where he hits seven of the 14 homers he accumulates during his six seasons in the majors.

He also hits just .202 in 96 games for the Phillies, who flip him to the Atlanta Braves midway through the 1967 season for utility player Gene Oliver.

Thanks for looking ... Andy Linker @ www.harrisburgbaseball.com