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2 Brewers losses at home. Crap.

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Toronto found its bats, 13-4. Seattle leads 2-1. I'm glad that it's not a sweep.

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Blue Jays pull even vs. Mariners in ALCS behind Max Scherzer

It's a visitors' series so far.

... In getting the win, Scherzer became just the fourth starting pitcher 41 or older to win a playoff game, joining Roger Clemens, Kenny Rogers and Dennis Martinez. He became the first pitcher to make a postseason start for six organizations....

6:08 PM FS1
Toronto @Seattle
Trouble for Seattle?

Dodgers defeat Brewers, 1 win away from another World Series

I'm lowering my expectations. C'mon Brewers, just don't get swept.

8:38 PM TBS
Go Milwaukee > @Los Angeles

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Blue Jays pull even vs. Mariners in ALCS behind Max Scherzer



I'm lowering my expectations. C'mon Brewers, just don't get swept.

8:38 PM TBS
Go Milwaukee > @Los Angeles

Fuck 'em.






Ouch.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bre ... 31967.html

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Fuck 'em.

https://x.com/realcubsinsider/status/19 ... 1437000076

https://x.com/AJManaseer/status/1978991535346667742


Ouch.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bre ... 31967.html

I'm glad that ICE Karen is paying such a heavy price.

I'm not really pro-Brewers. Nor am I anti-LAD. I'm just tired of the Dynasty. GO AL!

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I'm not really pro-Brewers. Nor am I anti-LAD. I'm just tired of the Dynasty. GO AL!

Yup.

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Blue Jays pull even vs. Mariners in ALCS behind Max Scherzer

It's a visitors' series so far.


6:08 PM FS1
Toronto @Seattle
Trouble for Seattle?
2-6, home team wins one! 3-2 Seattle and back to a foreign country.

Dodgers defeat Brewers, 1 win away from another World Series

I'm lowering my expectations. C'mon Brewers, just don't get swept.

8:38 PM TBS
Go Milwaukee > @Los Angeles

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Shohei Fucking Ohtani!

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What is that crap music they play in Dodgers Stadium?

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What is that crap music they play in Dodgers Stadium?

We'll be hearing more of it, though, at least for 2 games . LAD pitching is peaking at the right time.

https://x.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/19 ... 5988809993

6 IP, 0 ER, 3 HR, 1 BB. I wondered if it had been done before, perhaps Babe Ruth?
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/466 ... -dominance

... Ohtani threw six shutout innings and struck out 10 in between hitting three home runs that traveled a combined 1,342 feet, including one that left Dodger Stadium entirely....

It was, at very least, one of the finest displays of baseball since the game's inception, up there with Tony Cloninger hitting two grand slams and throwing a complete game in 1966 or Rick Wise socking two home runs amid his no-hitter on the mound in 1971. And unlike those, this came in the postseason, and in a game to clinch Los Angeles the opportunity to become the first team in a quarter-century to win back-to-back championships.

It wasn't quite Don Larsen throwing a perfect game -- but Larsen went 0-for-2 in that game and needed a Mickey Mantle home run to account for his scoring. It wasn't Reggie Jackson hammering three home runs, either -- because Reggie needed Mike Torrez to throw a complete game that night to make his blasts stand up....

He followed by obliterating a slurve from Jose Quintana in the bottom of the inning for a home run, the first time a pitcher ever hit a leadoff homer in the game's history, regular season or playoffs.

The strikeouts continued -- one in the third inning, two more in the fourth, preceding Ohtani's second home run, which left 50,000 mouths agape. In the stands, they cheered, and in the dugout, they whooped, and in the bullpen, they screamed: "The ball went out of the stadium!" Alex Vesia, the reliever who would come in after Ohtani struck out two more in the fifth and sixth innings, could not conceive that a person could hit a baseball in a game that far. Officially, it went 469 feet. It felt like 1,000....

In the next inning, Ohtani's third home run of the night, and this one was just showing off: a shot to dead center off a 99 mph Trevor Megill fastball, a proper complement to the second off an 89 mph Chad Patrick cutter and the first off a 79 mph Quintana slurve). If it sounds impressive to hit three different pitches off three different pitchers for home runs in one night, it is. To do so throwing six innings, allowing two hits, walking three and striking out 10 is otherworldly.

"We were so focused on just winning the game, doing what needed to be done, I'm not sure we realized how good it really was," Dodgers catcher Will Smith said. "I didn't really appreciate it until after. Like, he actually did that?"

Yes. Yes he did. In baseball history, 503 players have hit three home runs in a game, and 1,550 have struck out 10 or more in a game. None, until Friday, had done both.

There it is, "None", let alone an LCS.

... Milwaukee won more games during the regular season than anyone. Regardless of how impotent the Brewers' offense was this series, they were a very good team, and the Dodgers flayed them. The final game was an exclamation point -- and a warning for the Seattle Mariners or Toronto Blue Jays, whichever survives the back-and-forth American League Championship Series.

Shohei Ohtani awaits. Good luck.

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There it is, "None", let alone an LCS.


Shohei Ohtani awaits. Good luck.

Lost in that was he threw five no hit innings and only gave up two hits.