Pittsburgh - St Louis noon start on MLB Network
Tampa - Boston 2pm start TBS
LA Dodgers - Atlanta 5pm TBS
Detroit - Oakland 8:35 TBS
Storylines
Two former Cy Young award winners will get starts tonight (Greinke for the Dodgers, Colon for the A's)
Can Pittsburgh bounce back from a blowout?
Weather may be a factor in Boston.
Will the Oakland Coliseum's plumbing be able to handle a crowd of more than 10,000?
IBB in the second inning?
backfires! as the pitcher gets a hit
Vote For Pedro
Yadi's no sissy singles hitter
I posted a comment to KMOX that Mike Shannon needs to be pronouncing it MORE-no, not more-NO. For all the good it will do
TBS announcer guys said that this is Delmon's 5th consecutive year in the postseason.
mind. blown.
He knows how to win. Actually, he knows how to get traded midseason to a playoff team by making his original team suck so bad that they trade him to a playoff team.
Pirates in the driver's seat with Frankie going Sunday in Pittsburgh.
bandbox!
Tampa announcer: "...Dustin Pedroia, who is the heart, the soul, the guts of this team..."
me: "...the @ss..."
here is my impression of Wil Myers playing defense
'I got it I got it I got it' ground rule double
It was a master fake out.
Im sure it was in Joe Maddon's playbook binder. Somewhere in the back.
TB handing the game to the Sawks.
this is all happening while Delmon Young is not playing in the field.
The Dodgers-Braves game can't start soon enough.
Juan Uribe, still collecting paychecks.
b-r has Uribe was a 4 WAR player this year. huh.
There's something that just seems right about hearing Vin Scully call postseason games.
I understand Ayala hasn't been as terrible as he was with the Twins, but he's not nearly good enough to bring into high leverage situations.
my reaction to that inning
Vin tells me that B. J. Upton's given name is Melvin Emanuel Upton. I did not know that.
BJ is short for "Bossman Jr", as his dad was known as "Bossman"
Brian Wilson's beard has its own beard.
way to run yourself out of an inning Dodgers
I'm sure the Dodgers have a chance here against Kimbrel.
Oh, wait. It's Craig Kimbrel, not Greg Kimbrel.
Craig is awesome and the Dodgers stood no chance.
Should have just had there pitchers PH for the whole inning.
The scary part is that he doesn't even look like he is throwing hard.
Bartolo Colon is so old, John Smiley was teammate
Crafty though.
Not many young players would be thinking to keep their pitch count to a manageable 18 while giving up 3 runs in the first.
At that rate, he could give up 18 runs while eating six innings on only 108 pitches!
Well now 36 pitches through two and no more runs given up.
Wasting a bunch of pitches I guess.
Did you see Colon's season, though? Honestly, one of the best of his career.
Colon4Cy
I did not see it. Nor did I see any of this game. (Thanks Bud/TBS!)
And I wasn't being that facetious either.
I've noticed plenty of Twins pitchers these last few years throw 30+ pitches in a single multi-run inning.
Cespedes is fast
Liidership!
YDNROJR.
CESPEDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cespedes absolutely crushed that ball.
It's a good thing Brian McCann wasn't the opposing catcher, he might've watched that one a little too long.
Delmonesque
Gotta swing the bat.
A lot of hard cheese from Doolittle.