Scoreboard Watching

SharoneWright · Post #1 » by **SharoneWright** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:52 am

Here’s the thread where you get to cheer against the Red Sox and the Yankees!

Boston won in extras tonight.

Austin Hays just dealt the Yanks a blow, and boosted our playoff hopes with a 2-out 2-run shot to put the Yankees behind going into the 9th!

Post #2 » by **spykelee** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:06 am

Gardener just never stops haunting us. What a fluke that garbage ass hit was.

s e n s i · Post #3 » by **s e n s i** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:06 am

spykelee wrote:Gardener just never stops haunting us. What a fluke that garbage ass hit was.

Lol garbage ass hit against a garbage ass team

Parataxis · Post #4 » by **Parataxis** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:10 am

I guess we can hope that the skies open a bit more, and they need to call the game after 8? :wink:

Randle McMurphy · Post #5 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:14 am

Boston getting to play the Orioles 6 times down the stretch is almost certainly going to be the difference.

Randle McMurphy · Post #6 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:15 am

Parataxis wrote:I guess we can hope that the skies open a bit more, and they need to call the game after 8?

That's not the way that rule works. Those runs will always count. They'll complete this game, whether it is now, an hour from now, tomorrow, or 3 weeks from now.

s e n s i · Post #7 » by **s e n s i** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:27 am

what a task it is to have to cheer for whats basically the goddamn norfolk tides.

gonna have to sweep the twins if we don't want our fate decided by these disgraceful teams.

Post #8 » by **Schad** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:35 am

s e n s i wrote:what a task it is to have to cheer for whats basically the goddamn norfolk tides.

gonna have to sweep the twins if we don't want our fate decided by these disgraceful teams.

I guess the bright side is that the Orioles would have swept us if they weren't the living embodiment of utter uselessness. They came into this game with a 'pen ERA of 5.71...that's legitimately difficult to accomplish in an era where everyone has five dudes that throw 95 with a mean slider.

Paul Fry was lights-out for a season and a half for them, to the extent that I really wanted to trade for him at the deadline. But the Orioles rot runs so deep that his August line was 7 IP, 4 Ks, 16 BB, with an ERA of 21.86 and an opponent line of .355/.574/.710, which earned him a demotion. Being an Orioles pitcher just breaks people.

LBJKB24MJ23 · Post #9 » by **LBJKB24MJ23** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:32 am

This is going to be interesting come this weekend, Yankees in Boston this weekend. Should just go and have a Jays hat on lol

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s e n s i · Post #10 » by **s e n s i** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:43 am

LBJKB24MJ23 wrote:This is going to be interesting come this weekend, Yankees in Boston this weekend. Should just go and have a Jays hat on lol

that's not until next weekend unfortunately. yankees still have 7 more games against the cleveland baseball club and the always trash texas rangers. it's trashapalooza, a 10-day event featuring the yankees and other trash teams and it couldn't come at a worse time.

Post #11 » by **Schad** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:58 am

s e n s i wrote:
LBJKB24MJ23 wrote:This is going to be interesting come this weekend, Yankees in Boston this weekend. Should just go and have a Jays hat on lol

that's not until next weekend unfortunately. yankees still have 7 more games against the cleveland baseball club and the always trash texas rangers. it's trashapalooza, a 10-day event featuring the yankees and other trash teams and it couldn't come at a worse time.

There's something so fitting about the bit where MLB expanded the playoffs, arguably in part because of division disparities freezing out very good teams, only for the AL East to pull a "hold my beer" and end up with 4 teams with 90+ wins.

Edit: for those curious, that has never happened since MLB switched to six divisions. Isn't guaranteed to happen here either, but for it even to be a possibility is absurd given that those four teams play one-third of their schedules just against the other three contenders. The Yankees are 63-35 against every team other than the Red Sox, Jays and Rays (a 104 win pace), and might miss the playoffs.

Raider917 · Post #12 » by **Raider917** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:24 am

How are playoff probabilities determined? ESPN have the jays at 64% and CBS sports have them at 73.3%.

LBJKB24MJ23 · Post #13 » by **LBJKB24MJ23** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:01 am

s e n s i wrote:
LBJKB24MJ23 wrote:This is going to be interesting come this weekend, Yankees in Boston this weekend. Should just go and have a Jays hat on lol

that's not until next weekend unfortunately. yankees still have 7 more games against the cleveland baseball club and the always trash texas rangers. it's trashapalooza, a 10-day event featuring the yankees and other trash teams and it couldn't come at a worse time.

Sorry ya confused the weekends lol good catch!

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Parataxis · Post #14 » by **Parataxis** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:36 pm

Raider917 wrote:How are playoff probabilities determined? ESPN have the jays at 64% and CBS sports have them at 73.3%.

At lest for 538, the use a Monte Carlo projection (run 100,000 computer simulated seasons for the remainder of the schedule) weighted by their team quality metrics and probable starting pitcher metrics.

Raps in 4 · Post #15 » by **Raps in 4** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:50 pm

**** the Yankees. **** the Red Sox.

Post #16 » by **spykelee** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:47 am

LMAO. Knew we could count on a Sanchez passed ball X 2 there. Was our only hope really. Still not much faith in Baltimore getting it done in extras.

The_Hater · Post #17 » by **The_Hater** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:49 am

Last night with the game on the line in with 2 out in the 9th and the winning run in scoring position, Seattle choose not to pinch hit for a player with a .550 OPS. K.

Tonight with the tying run on 3rd and 2 out Baltimore decided against pinch hitting for a player with a .538 OPS. K

It’s like these managers aren’t even trying to win games.

SharoneWright · Post #18 » by **SharoneWright** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:10 am

Go O’s!

SharoneWright · Post #19 » by **SharoneWright** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:11 am

As I’ve always said, Baltimore is clutch!

yogimvp · Post #20 » by **yogimvp** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:12 am

o's win!