Posted on 10/03/2021 8:03:00 AM PDT by be-baw
Need pitching. Baseball is about pitching.
Today is the 70th anniversary of Bobby Thompson's "shot heard 'round the world"--a three-run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning that sent the New York Giants to the 1951 World Series. They were playing the Brooklyn Dodgers. If the Dodgers had intentionally walked Thompson, the next batter would have been Willie Mays, so he could have been the hero of the game instead of Bobby Thompson.
The Giants went on to lose the Series in 6 games to the Yankees.
None so blind....
Toronto isn’t messing around, aren’t they?
Go, George, go!
Looks like it will be Dodgers vs Cardinals, SF winning 9-1.
Yesss! Washington 5 Boston 1 - Bottom of the 5th.
Tampa - New York 0-0 Bottom of the 7th, Yankees have been 1-hit, so far.
Not looking good for the Mariners, down 7-2 in the 6th.
Dammit, Boston ties it up 5-5.
Yankees Win, Nuts!
Looks like Boston is going to win too, up 7-5 in the Ninth, sorry Toronto.
1978 AL East Division had 4 teams with 90+ wins.
And at the end of the regular season we have:
Division Winners:
AL East: Tampa Bay 100-62
AL Central: Chicago White Sox 93-68 (note: they only played 161 games)
AL West: Houston 95-67
NL East: Atlanta: 88-73 (note: they only played 161 games)
NL Central: Milwaukee 95-67
NL West: San Francisco 107-65
Wild Cards:
AL: New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox
NL: St Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers (the Dodgers won 106 games, and they get stuck with a Wild Card...unbelievable)
yep, it’s crazy that a team can win 106 games and be stuck in a wild card, one game playoff.
I wish baseball would have the wild cards play a series rather than a 1 game playoff.
Then again, it’s also frustrating to me that the playoffs already go for an entire month, and game 7 of the World Series will be November 3rd. Depending on the teams involved, we could see some bad baseball weather.
A World Series of White Sox vs. Brewers, Red Sox vs. Brewers, Yankees vs. Brewers, Yanks vs. Cards etc. could feature some cold games. You hate to see the most important games of the season played in bad baseball weather.
I stand corrected, as Milwaukee has a retractable roof. So games there will not be affected by bad baseball weather.
Bobby Thompson’s “shot heard ‘round the world” three-run homer 70 years ago today (walk-off homer ending the game) was in game 3 of a three-game playoff between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers to determine the NL pennant race. At least the two teams did not have to travel very far to get to their opponent’s ballpark. The Giants went on to lose to the Yankees in the World Series.
Keep us pinged!
Go, Stros!
Rooting for the Cardinals all the way.
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