2026 MLB Postseason Thread

[hanton]

I f'n love the chisox fans!

[hanton]

don't care that much who wins I just want to see some good baseball.  Gavin Williams in relief, Gavin Williams starting.

[hanton]

was just curious, whatever happened to Hoglund?

[John_Havok]

42 minutes ago, hanton said:

was just curious, whatever happened to Hoglund?

He was traded to Oakland in the Chapman deal, was pretty meh in the minors until the last few years and got to the majors last year. He proceeded to suck in his short 6-start look, then a parade of injuries and hip surgery kept him out all of this season

[hanton]

That ball has to be caught

[hanton]

20 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

He was traded to Oakland in the Chapman deal, was pretty meh in the minors until the last few years and got to the majors last year. He proceeded to suck in his short 6-start look, then a parade of injuries and hip surgery kept him out all of this season

wow hip surgery at such a young age, too bad

[Pinkfloid]

Best outcome. Anyone but LA, but rooting for Milwaukee, Cleveland and Tampa in that order. 

[jaysblue]

[Stangstag]

Embarrassing effort by the Chisox tonight.

21 strikeouts. With the 3 hits, that makes it only 9 balls put in play the entire game? Atrocious.

[Brownie19]

I love seeing Gavin Williams going beast mode tonight.  That'll leave a last imprint with Guardians fans.

After coming in to close Game 4?  Incredible stuff.

Would Game 4 have been Williams' throw day?  Did the Guardians copy the Marlins approach?

[jaysblue]

1 minute ago, Brownie19 said:

I love seeing Gavin Williams going beast mode tonight.  That'll leave a last imprint with Guardians fans.

After coming in to close Game 4?  Incredible stuff.

Would Game 4 have been Williams' throw day?  Did the Guardians copy the Marlins approach?

I wonder if we see more of that next season by some teams. Interesting. 

[hanton]

Cade Smith's splitter/FB combination is down right filthy

[Spanky__99]

15 hours ago, Stangstag said:

Huh?

Self explanatory?

 

[Spanky__99]

6 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

I love seeing Gavin Williams going beast mode tonight.  That'll leave a last imprint with Guardians fans.

After coming in to close Game 4?  Incredible stuff.

Would Game 4 have been Williams' throw day?  Did the Guardians copy the Marlins approach?

Yeah, they mentioned it after game 4 at the presser.

[BTS]

I really don't like the Dodgers

[Stangstag]

1 minute ago, BTS said:

I really don't like the Dodgers

Lucky hit for the first RBI

[BTS]

18 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Lucky hit for the first RBI

Yeah. But they're grinding Miz down. He's going to have a hard time going 5 at this rate 

[Stangstag]

5 minutes ago, BTS said:

Yeah. But they're grinding Miz down. He's going to have a hard time going 5 at this rate 

Almost seems to me like they have a tip on him or something? They are having no problems with the fastball and just spitting on the slider pretty much

[glory]

The playoff wRC+ for the 4 teams remaining: 95, 93, 79, 65 (MIL, CLE, LAD, and TAM in that order). The Jays had a 128 wRC+ in last season’s playoffs (sad face).

This hasn’t been a fun playoffs to watch so far from an offensive standpoint.

[hanton]

He stepped off with the back foot - not a balk

[BTS]

Yeah, that balk call is tough

[BTS]

I kind of still have no idea what a balk actually is after 30 years watching baseball though 

[Stangstag]

27 minutes ago, BTS said:

I kind of still have no idea what a balk actually is after 30 years watching baseball though 

If you’re a Lefty, no such thing as a balk.

If you’re a Righty, dont you dare even flinch before you step off the rubber

[SpencerBateman]

Well looks like the brewers finally are the ones to dethrone the dodgers and a very weak dodgers team at that 

congrats milwoaukee on the ring 

[Stangstag]

Oh and look at that, lefty gets a pickoff on a questionable move

[Brownie19]

12 hours ago, BTS said:

Yeah, that balk call is tough

Did they call it a ball because he didn't break his hands when he stepped off?  That's my only guess as to why that's a balk?

[jaysblue]

Nice to see Brewers take Game 1. 

[hanton]

2 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

Did they call it a ball because he didn't break his hands when he stepped off?  That's my only guess as to why that's a balk?

He twitched - ever so slightly (no idea how the ump saw that) - right before he disengaged from the rubber.  Not a balk IMO.  Hands can be anywhere as long as he disengages - 

[L54]

5 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

Did they call it a ball because he didn't break his hands when he stepped off?  That's my only guess as to why that's a balk?

It’s the front knee breaking first before he steps off. It’s so subtle that it’s hard to see at first glance but if you watch for it it’s obvious 

[L54]

2 hours ago, hanton said:

He twitched - ever so slightly (no idea how the ump saw that) - right before he disengaged from the rubber.  Not a balk IMO.  Hands can be anywhere as long as he disengages - 

Definitely a balk by definition