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2018 National League Wild Card Game: Colorado Rockies vs. Chicago Cubs
It begins.
Hope you got your Predictions in.
2018 MLB Postseason Predictions
Another season, another postseason prediction contest. Spoiler your predictions below. They are due by first pitch of today's game.
ALWC: OAK at NYY
NLWC: COL at CHC
ALDS: CLE at HOU
ALDS: OAK/NYY at BOS
NLDS: ATL at LAD
NLDS: COL/CHC at MIL
ALCS:
NLCS:
World Series:
2018 Games 163: MIL vs. CHC / COL vs. LAD
We've got some unfinished business heading into the postseason. One side note: this is still considered regular season baseball, so all teams still have the expanded 40-man rosters.
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Maximum Times Scoring Some Runs
Inspired by Rhu_Ru's question in Saturday's game, I decided to look it up. An hour later and I have something to check every game from 1901 through 2017. I split up the analysis into two groups, one team and combined teams, and categorized that based on length of game: fewer than nine innings, nine innings, and extra innings. The nine inning games can be either the full nine innings or nine for the visitor and eight for the home team. Fewer than nine innings required both teams to play no more than eight innings while extra innings requires both teams to play at least ten.
Nine Innings
Eight or Fewer Innings
Extra Innings
I went above ten runs scored in an inning but it gets uninteresting quickly. While searching through games with higher number of runs scored in an inning I came across two games I found interesting in some way.
First, I believe this game has the most runs scored in a single inning in modern baseball.
Second, the start of this game must have been extremely depressing for any Reds fans following the game.
Game 91: Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay at Minnesota
A Brief History of Twins Radio Broadcasting
With this being the birthday of John Gordon, Dan Gladden, and Cory Provus, it seemed like an appropriate time to write a short essay about the Twins radio broadcasters.
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Game 77 – Minnes_ta @ Chicago
Odorizzi v. Giolito
Getaway Day Recently-regular lineup.
Play ball.
2018 Game 71 – Boston at Minnesota
!Day Game Alert!
The Twins haven't scored a ton of runs, but their differential is not as jaw-dropping as I'd expected to see. Competent-to-Good pitching helps I guess. If this team can stay within a half-dozen games of first, I'd love to see them add some offense before the deadline. I'd even be happy with the return of second-half-2017 Dozier, Morrison, Buxton & Polanco with a little Santana (and eventually Sano ... hopefully sometime later this summer?) sprinkled in.
Anyway, Boston's legit, and no matter the outcome of today's game (Good Gibson v. Porcello ... yeah), I'm encouraged by the Twins' play against 'em. Add some offense and a continued mediocre run by Cleveland and this team may still be competing in late August.
2018 Game 59 – White Sox at Twins
What a goofy club. Win series' against the teams ahead of you in the standings: took 2/3 against Detroit and 3/4 against Cleveland, but lose to those chasing you: only 1/3 against KC and in danger of losing 3/4 against Chicago.
In an attempt to salvage a split with the South Siders, the Twins give Jose Berríos the ball whose lone loss in the past four starts was a no-show by the Twins offense in Seattle - 1 run on 4 hits. Jose scattered 8 hits over 7 1/3 innings, allowing only 2 earned runs (the 2nd the result of walking his last batter faced and Duke & Reed combining to untie the 8th inning tie ... in Seattle's favor) while striking out 8 and walking 1.
White Sox counter with 36-year-old RHP James Shields, owner of a 1-6 record on the year with a 91 ERA+, 4.27 FIP & 1.258 WHIP. In his last outing against Minnesota (May 6), Shields left in the 7th with one out, a one-run Chicago lead and runners at the corners. His replacement, Luis Avilan, promptly gave up a 2-run double to Logan Morrison.
Let's see what these two mediocre teams have to offer today.