MLB Playoff Thread

• sportchampps

  Let's Go Royals
• sportchampps

  Hell Yeah
• HitsRus

  

  ANOTHER extra innings win for KC.
• HitsRus

  

  KC scores 2 in the 9th and takes game #2 of the ALCS......and they're heading home up in the series 2-0
• gerb131

  

  Panda is good in the playoffs.
• Ironman92

  

  gerb131;1662655 wrote:Panda is good in the playoffs.

  Madison is ok also.
• Ironman92

  

  Svelte Adams SMH
• Ironman92

  

  Tie game on a passed ball....scored from 2nd! Atrocious 3-2 pitch
• Ironman92

  

  Going to be a hell of a series....no Molina for Cards and no Pagan for Giants
• mhs95_06

  Ironman92;1662996 wrote:Tie game on a passed ball....scored from 2nd! Atrocious 3-2 pitch

  Yet another hazard of letting it go to a 3-2 count! These Missouri teams keep overcoming their own mistakes!
• Classyposter58

  

  Lots of talk on lower the mound possibly. What do you guys think about it? It would get scoring back up and save pitchers arms a bit, but more runs may lengthen games even more which I think is the real problem
• thavoice

  Classyposter58;1663060 wrote:Lots of talk on lower the mound possibly. What do you guys think about it? It would get scoring back up and save pitchers arms a bit, but more runs may lengthen games even more which I think is the real problem

  Heard some people bring that up. Not sure if there is real discussion about it. I wouldnt do it quite yet. Baseball is always slow to move, and right now we are seeing the full effect of the drug testing. I think we may see a little different approach going forward from hitting coaches as not everyone can jerk it outta the park anymore.
• HitsRus

  

  thavoice;1663064 wrote:Heard some people bring that up. Not sure if there is real discussion about it. I wouldnt do it quite yet. Baseball is always slow to move, and right now we are seeing the full effect of the drug testing. I think we may see a little different approach going forward from hitting coaches as not everyone can jerk it outta the park anymore.

  
  Yeah...might have to play fundamental baseball again.
• Ironman92

  

  Damn Cardinals
• mhs95_06

  Choate failed that inning!
• Ironman92

  

  Too bad
• wghfan

  The Giants are an easy team to dislike. Fuck them
• mhs95_06

  Choate reminds me of Bill Bray. Bring him in to face the lefties and he tries to pitch too fine and walks his lefty(actually thought the 3-2 pitch that was 6" outside was a strike). He failed on each of the three batter, maybe breaking even on his pitching to the 3rd, but making the final fail on the throw after fielding the bunt.
• Ironman92

  

  Holy Moose.....fucking outstanding
• HitsRus

  

  Royals have pushed Baltimore to the edge of elimination...winning 2-1 last night.
• BR1986FB

  HitsRus;1663670 wrote:Royals have pushed Baltimore to the edge of elimination...winning 2-1 last night.

  Nice to watch a young team that isn't a bunch of choke artists.
• TBone14

  

  Fucking Royals, man. Unreal. Clutch hitting. Lights out bully. Lights out might be an understatement. Herrera, Davis and Holland are ridiculous right now and have been for most the year. Moving Davis to the pen has been a great move for them. Hopefully, the try him back as a starter and it totally messes him up. The Rangers did that with Neftali Feliz after he was a dominate closer. It lead to injury and took him 2 years to regain any semblance of his old form.
  
  Not rooting for an injury to Davis but I don't like the Tribe's chances vs the Royals if these guys carry this postseason over into next year and get even better.
• thavoice

  Are the royals the new model on how to win the MLB with the power numbers way down? Defense, speed and small ball? They ahve more Sac flies this post season than all other teams combined.
• HitsRus

  

  thavoice;1663766 wrote:Are the royals the new model on how to win the MLB with the power numbers way down? Defense, speed and small ball? They ahve more Sac flies this post season than all other teams combined.

  
  Yes ...I think they are. They are constructed to win the World Series, which is always about pitching and defense. Baltimore(and Detroit) are constructed to get to the postseason....by a powerful offense that bludgeons the weak teams and racks up season wins....but when they get to the playoffs and face tough pitching start to finish, the power numbers evaporate. KC scraps for runs....its HR total as a team was the lowest in the league, but in a playoff pitcher's duel...they know how to score the winning run .
• thavoice

  HitsRus;1663906 wrote:Yes ...I think they are. They are constructed to win the World Series, which is always about pitching and defense. Baltimore(and Detroit) are constructed to get to the postseason....by a powerful offense that bludgeons the weak teams and racks up season wins....but when they get to the playoffs and face tough pitching start to finish, the power numbers evaporate. KC scraps for runs....its HR total as a team was the lowest in the league, but in a playoff pitcher's duel...they know how to score the winning run .

  Someone mentioned about the talk of moving the mound down because runs are down, and heard it on sportstalk as well at times.
  
  It will take a little bit of time to evolve. High school and college started to use these BBCOR (batted ball coefficient of restitution) and the act more like wood bats as the ball just dont jump off the bat like they used to. Scoring is way down in college as well. CWS games used to be slugfests no matter how good the pitching seemed to be before this. The new bats have helped pitchers get a more even playing field (and drug testing in MLB as well). Pitchers in college can now pitch more aggressively now with less fear of every tom, footwedge and harry hitting the ball outta the yard and that is translating to more K's as pitching is more aggressive.
  It will take time for the generation of players who were not relying on the long ball to get all the way through the systems and start learing more contact at a level before they get to the minors and the wood bats.