2021 NL Wild Card Cardinals @ Dodgers Game Thread

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What’s the most combined wins by teams in a postseason series? Sox and Astros combined for 212. Giants and Dodgers is 213.
 

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What’s the most combined wins by teams in a postseason series? Sox and Astros combined for 212. Giants and Dodgers is 213.
2001, the year the Mariners won 116, the best team they played was the Yankees with 95 for 211
 

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2001, the year the Mariners won 116, the best team they played was the Yankees with 95 for 211
There were teams with higher combined win percentages who played under the old 154 game schedule, but in terms of combined wins for playoff opponents this will set the record.
 

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4:15 for a nine-inning, 3-1 game is way, way, waaaaaaay too fucking long.

My daughter (11) is on the verge of going from casual baseball fan to devoted-fan but there's just NFW she's going to make it through games that long. Even the Sox game at 3:13 was a stretch for me.
 

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4:15 for a nine-inning, 3-1 game is way, way, waaaaaaay too fucking long.

My daughter (11) is on the verge of going from casual baseball fan to devoted-fan but there's just NFW she's going to make it through games that long. Even the Sox game at 3:13 was a stretch for me.
Imagine if you were on the East Coast. Game ended at 12:25 AM EST.
 

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Sort of. In 1962 they played a 2 of 3 tie breaker, both teams had 101 wins, to decide the 1962 season. Giants won but lost to the mfy in the WS.
There was also the little matter of the three game series in 1951 finished off by the Shot Heard Round the World by Bobby Thompson.
 

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Pujols getting that AB last night vs. the Cardinals was an interesting moment.
 

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I was going to say that but he did say SF vs LA.
Fair point. The older I get, the more I forget that the franchises moved around.

That said, five game series between the top two teams in the majors, especially since they are bitter rivals, is nuts this early in the post-season. They should have gone the seeding by record route.
 

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4:15 for a nine-inning, 3-1 game is way, way, waaaaaaay too fucking long.

My daughter (11) is on the verge of going from casual baseball fan to devoted-fan but there's just NFW she's going to make it through games that long. Even the Sox game at 3:13 was a stretch for me.
Just amazing that the low-scoring NL game went an hour longer than Yankees-Red Sox, given their history.,
 

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My sports interest is now mostly Premier League. Which I got into when my daughter was born. From Friday night til Sunday morning I was the primary on kid duty so Mrs O could get some rest. Since I really only watch sports, what else is on at 7am on a Saturday but English footy. I started to watch with interest, then care. It didn't hurt that the prime game window was Saturday 10 am, with a few games earlier/later on Saturday, a couple on Sunday, and the odd Friday/Monday, and that they are two hours start to finish (90' on the clock plus halftime). I've heard from West Coast friends that watching the 1pm NFL start at 10am West Coast time is a lot of fun, and they're right.

OTOH the Sox, who I used to follow religiously, even as an out of towner, watching every possible game - I get home from work sometime in the first three innings of a 7pm game, first time I've seen my wife and kid since breakfast, time to eat dinner, etc. By the time I'm done I'm not going to start watching in the 5th/6th inning and keep watching till after 10:00. Just not happening.
 

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I'm fine with the one-game, but the underlying structure needs to change. I always hated interleague with its inherent inequality of competetion, but then they added the unbalanced schedule. And THEN they added the play-in game. Combined, it all absolutely punishes good teams in better divisions.

I'd move to get rid of the unbalanced schedule altogether (19 games against one team is too fucking much) and to set up interleague by prior season records a la the NFL interdivisional schedule as opposed to rotating divisional matchups.
Yes go back to 13 divisional games and more games against your league opponents.
 

jaytftwofive

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I'm fine with the one-game, but the underlying structure needs to change. I always hated interleague with its inherent inequality of competetion, but then they added the unbalanced schedule. And THEN they added the play-in game. Combined, it all absolutely punishes good teams in better divisions.

I'd move to get rid of the unbalanced schedule altogether (19 games against one team is too fucking much) and to set up interleague by prior season records a la the NFL interdivisional schedule as opposed to rotating divisional matchups.
I remember one year(I live in the Philly area) the Phillies played the White Sox as many times as they played the Cubs????? That's nuts!!