2025 MLB Thread

[chasfh]

21 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Wow! Gausman with five strikeouts in the first two innings against the Dodgers. 

Jinx 😉

[lordstanley]

25 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

So I guess I’m the only loser on Halloween night watching the World Series.  All of the rest of you are getting drunk or high at adult themed Halloween parties or taking your children trick-or-treating because you’re wholesome types.

I’m watching. Most people on this side of the border are. 

[IdahoBert]

15 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Jinx 😉

Blame Moose and Squirrel! Not me…

[lordstanley]

Yamamoto pulled after 6. Surprising. Maybe that bullpen throwing during game 3 was just enough to shorten this a bit. 

[gehringer_2]

Jays run the bases really badly.

[lordstanley]

Dodgers have a 3-1 run lead heading to the 9th. 3 outs away from a Game 7. Or exactly the situation in 1993 until in came Mitch Williams and up came Joe Carter. 

[IdahoBert]

That was a hopeful, but in the end, disappointing, bottom of the eighth thinning for the Jay’s. Even the ump calling balls on low strikes wasn’t enough to push them over the edge and score some runs.

[lordstanley]

2nd and 3rd none out, wow. Homer will win it. 

[lordstanley]

Double play!! Game 7 

[IdahoBert]

So we’re going to get a god-awful game seven. Well, you can’t say this isn’t dramatic.

[Biff Mayhem]

Wow. Just wow. Well, we get one more game before the long winter. 

[lordstanley]

I will arrive Toronto Pearson airport tomorrow a bit after 8pm. Flight departs10:35. Which if timing is like tonight would be in the 8th inning for takeoff. 

[Sports_Freak]

Toronto pulled a Tiger finish. Threaten but Do Not Score. 9th inning..2nd and 3rd with no outs. Pop-up and a flyball double play. Toronto loses 3-1.

[Sports_Freak]

33 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Jays run the bases really badly.

And pretty bad situational hitting.

[Hongbit]

I assume that Ohtani will do crazy things tomorrow and win it for LA.  

[lordstanley]

39 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Toronto pulled a Tiger finish. Threaten but Do Not Score. 9th inning..2nd and 3rd with no outs. Pop-up and a flyball double play. Toronto loses 3-1.

1st and 2nd in the 6th. On 2nd in the 7th. 1st and 2nd one out in the 8th. 2nd and 3rd none outs in the 9th. But no runs since the 3rd. 

[lordstanley]

27 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

I assume that Ohtani will do crazy things tomorrow and win it for LA.  

And Kershaw may not have thrown his final pitch after all. And Glasnow only pitched 3 pitches today. 

[AlaskanTigersFan]

MLB prolly happy as all get out. I wonder how much money they make for each playoff game...... Let alone a game 7 in the World Series. We probably just added at least $150 million to MLB's coffers by goin to game 7..... Sheeeeeeesh.

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, Hongbit said:

I assume that Ohtani will do crazy things tomorrow and win it for LA.  

My hypothesis here on Saturday morning is that Ohtani will start the game for the Dodgers, go one time through the order, then they bring Glasnow back in for what they hope is the rest of the game. And if Glasnow gets in trouble late, maybe they bring in Snell for the ninth. Point being, Dodgers will want to avoid bringing in their bullpen as much as possible.

And then, win or lose, the main thing we’re going to hear all winter is, how are the mighty Dodgers going to fix their bullpen?

EDIT: And then I find an article filed overnight contemplating that very thing:

https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-world-series-game-7-2025-pitching-role

Looks like everybody was thinking the same thing.

So much for clairvoyance. 🤡

Edited November 1 by chasfh

[casimir]

8 hours ago, Hongbit said:

I assume that Ohtani will do crazy things tomorrow and win it for LA.  

I am intrigued at Scherzer starting game 7.  Towards the end of his career.  A true empty the tank game.  The way he gently asked his manager why the 67 he came out to his mound earlier this postseason.  Give me that.

Oh, and yeah, the first batter of the game will be Ohtani?

[lordstanley]

 

[guy incognito]

I feel fully confident in saying that this will go down as one of the Game 7s of all time.

[casimir]

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

 

That picture shouldn't be that grainy.

Edited November 1 by casimir

[casimir]

4 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

I feel fully confident in saying that this will go down as one of the Game 7s of all time.

Saturday night.  Flip the clocks back an hour.  I got time for 19 innings.

[oblong]

I’m hanging with friends in Pittsburgh and someone made dinner reservations for 8.  Ugh.