MLB 2014 season thread

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The Pirates played the scrap heap well. No doubt about that. Of course they are willing to be patient with guys like that. They come relatively cheap.

 

I'm an expert at Pin the Tail on the Donkey. That really impressed the women.

 

I could understand it when KC won, or if Pittsburgh had won, but SF has won 2 titles in the last 5 years.

 

I think it's no more complicated than they're a bunch of bros who enjoy spraying alcoholic beverages all over each other.

 

I almost understand celebrating a wild card win more than an LDS win, the thinking being that if you win the wild card game, now you're in the real playoffs.

 

He ended the magical season of the Pittsburgh Pirates with an 8-0, four-hit, 10-whiff shutout in the National League wild-card game. And now, in your all-time ranks of pitchers who have spun a shutout, with double-digit strikeouts, in a winner-take-all postseason baseball game, the list looks like this:

Sandy Koufax in 1965.
Justin Verlander in 2012.
Madison Bumgarner on an unforgettable Wednesday night in Pittsburgh.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/11626019/bumgarner-new-october-masterpiece

 

Crawford: 1st SS ever to hit playoff grand slam.

 

That's a stat like Bernie Williams as greatest statistical post-season player ever. There is little in common between what Bumgarner did and what Koufax did.

 

But Jim Thome has more postseason home runs than Mickey Mantle!

 

Except Jetes has 200 playoff hits -- 72 more than anyone! The best.

 

I've had the Nationals penciled into the World Series for weeks, but now I'm thinking San Francisco is going to take them out. The Nats went 5-2 against the Giants, but I read this morning four of the wins came against pitchers who probably aren't going to make the postseason rotation. The Nats didn't face Peavy and Hudson pretty much owned them in the regular season.