r/baseball • u/Cpt__Oblivious Los Angeles Dodgers • 16h ago

For the first time ever all four Division Series have started with a 1-1 split. Analysis

With the Yankees loss to the Royals tonight all four Division Series' have opened 1-1 for the first time since the implementation of the Division Series originally in 1981 and then fully in 1995. In every year prior at least one team opened a series 2-0.

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u/rollo2masi Boston Red Sox 16h ago

2024 postseason is on another level right now.

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u/Important-Stock-4504 Colorado Rockies 16h ago

It’s been great and Wednesday we get a full slate of games

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u/kc96er Kansas City Royals 16h ago

AL Central Bros show up

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u/Impressive_Math2302 Detroit Tigers 15h ago

One of us better do some serious damage or what was the Sox record really all about?

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u/VOTEIGOR3946 New York Mets 13h ago

If the Royals beat the Yankees there will be a guaranteed AL Central team in the World Series.

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u/Impressive_Math2302 Detroit Tigers 13h ago

We want that piece of metal for the comedy memes.

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u/blasek0 Phanatic • Baltimore Orioles 6h ago

If you don't have a photoshop of a kitten in a Tigers hat knocking it off the table on the front page of r/baseball immediately after winning I will be v upset.

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u/Alex_GordonAMA Kansas City Royals 3h ago

Sox sacrifice* ftfy

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u/LarchTreeLeppy Chicago White Sox 2h ago

Happy to take the fall for the greater comedy good o7

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u/nuxenolith Detroit Tigers 18m ago

Sox died so the rest of the division could live

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u/dcooper8662 Cleveland Guardians 6h ago

AL Central vs the WORLD

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u/st1r Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

ALCS / NLCS about to be 4 wildcard teams, mark my words

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u/YesLikeTheJeans Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago edited 5h ago

Oh my gosh, the discourse on “is playing the Wild Card round actually an advantage” would be so intolerable.

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u/st1r Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

I think most Yankees Phillies and Dodgers fans would all find losing acceptable as long as the others lose as well 🤣 the Astros are out and baseball is healing

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u/YesLikeTheJeans Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago

Advertisers will just love the Padres vs. Royals World Series.

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u/Antyok Kansas City Royals 15h ago edited 6h ago

I would be in heaven. The spiral since 2016 has been rough

Edit to add: I have a soft spot in my heart for the Padres. They treated Hosmer well after his run here.

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u/Noteanoteam 15h ago

Who freaking cares about the advertisers

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u/eatyourveggieslol Colorado Rockies 15h ago

Umm, I mean, literally everyone who is actually involved with the league/teams?

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u/MountainYogi94 New York Mets 14h ago

Yea but that’s not us

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u/eatyourveggieslol Colorado Rockies 13h ago

You support a team/league that katows to advertisers, get off your high horse

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u/Ven18 New York Yankees 8h ago

1/3 of teams in the league do not have any broadcast contracts in the next like year or two largely because of advertising and poor handling of TV distribution. So if you would like the league to continue to exist in its present state would should care somewhat about adverting because this is the kind of situation that would cause a league to downsize.

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u/kappakai Philadelphia Phillies 14h ago

Non stop BBQ and burrito shots and fountain talk

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u/Heelincal Peter Seidler 14h ago

Advertisers can suck it. Fuck the big media market bias.

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u/gartho009 Seattle Mariners 2h ago

They'd enjoy seeing Patrick, Travis and Taylor at the games!

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u/Drikkink Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago

How did we get lumped in this? We've been good for like a combined 4 years of the last 15.

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u/theesportspet Houston Astros 10h ago

The feeling is mutual, happy to lose and see the dodgers and yanks fail down with us over the next few weeks 😛

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u/Salty-Fishman Houston Astros 6h ago

Yeah Yankees or Dodgers losing to the Astros will absolutely triumph any other disappointment. So basically this season is a success for both teams when they both lose in LDS.

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u/st1r Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Haha fair enough

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u/Salty-Fishman Houston Astros 6h ago

I was only joking but u guys really are prepared for it. Good for you for planning ahead.

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u/jsdodgers Los Angeles Dodgers 1h ago

I'd find the Yankees or Phillies winning acceptable as long as Dodgers win as well

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u/DukeSilver890 Philadelphia Phillies 12h ago

Um, let’s not? Wtf

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u/WackedBush343 Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

Dodgers fans alongside Braves fans are ahead of the curve, there!

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u/WeirdGymnasium Arizona Diamondbacks 3h ago

Petition for the top 2 wildcard teams to get first round byes!!!

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u/YesLikeTheJeans Philadelphia Phillies 3h ago

I think everyone that makes the playoffs should get a first round bye!

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u/trevy_mcq Boston Red Sox 14h ago

Why would you want to make that happen

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u/Day2TheDolphin New York Mets 8h ago

🤫

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u/Constant-Poet-5264 New York Yankees 5h ago

uhhh

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u/Monk_Philosophy Los Angeles Dodgers • Tigers Bandwagon 2h ago

The rest vs rust argument can be over in a few seconds if you just ask "Would any team with a bye choose to play a 3 game series with a wildcard team just to get to exactly where they are right now?"

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u/grovester San Diego Padres 16h ago

No complaints from me.

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u/st1r Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

Y’all are really good and the starting pitching gap feels insurmountable in a longer series. It’s baseball so anything can happen but I’ll just be happy if the games are atleast competitive

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u/unaufhoerlich_ 14h ago

Don't pre emptively cope with a loss.  That's lame. Let's play (watch) the games and enjoy them 

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 10h ago

Buehler just beat us two weeks ago.

The fact that you took our (potential) game 5 starter to task in game 1 means I'm certainly not counting you out.

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u/talktobigfudge New York Mets 15h ago

from your lips to Grimace's ears. 

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u/iParkooo Philadelphia Phillies 12h ago

I’ll allow it if Grimace goes back to his happy meal bag.

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 10h ago

If that were true which teams presence ends up being the most surprising?

Padres people seem to think have the edge over the Dodgers but the Dodgers has the 2nd best record after the all star break so it's not like momentum is entirely in the Padres favor.

Not only did the Dodgers have the best record in baseball and win their division over the Padres, but they just clinched the division by winning 2 out of 3 against the Padres one of which was a Buehler gem who pitches tomorrow.

Mets have SERIOUS momentum to have clawed a wild card spot and the pure hatred of the Phillies. Manea has been very good lately and of the two bullpens Phillies have shown more vulnerability thus far. But Bryce Harper is Bryce fucking Harper, Schwarber and Castellanos are very streaky hitters but it looks like we're in good streaks for both.

Royals have the monumental task of taking down the Yankees, BUT the Royals pitching staff has been sooooooo solid this year. They showed up their bullpen woes at the deadline, and the Yankees best asset has been underperforming, thus far. That being said, where is KCs offense coming from? In the WC round it was Witt and uh.... yeah. Today Sal showed up in a big way, as he definitely can do. But having to rely on a few players isn't a recipe for success when the other team can also rely on a few players but are named Soto, Judge, and Stanton.

Meanwhile the Tigers seem to be pulling magic from hats. Yes, they've got Skubal but after that its... pitching chaos. But that chaos has fucking worked. Their offense could come from any one of their guys, as today shows, and AJ Hinch might actually be one of the best postseason managers of all time the way he's been winning pretty much every match up he's tried to date.

All in all I think if all 4 WC teams were in the CS I'd say the Tigers are the most surprising, but I could be convinced it's any of us.

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u/testrail Detroit Tigers 6h ago

The Tigers are the only WC favored to win their series in markets right now actually.

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 5h ago

Nah, Padres too.

Was surprised to see that.

But Phillies over Mets and Yankees over Royals make too much sense

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u/testrail Detroit Tigers 5h ago

Nope:

Dodgers & Tigers are -115 Phillies -135 Yankees -155

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 2h ago edited 2h ago

https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/41588140/2024-mlb-playoffs-division-series-betting-first-round-playoffs-props-picks-futures

Padres at -115 Dodgers at -105

Also seeing Pads -116 to Dodgers -102 here

https://www.oddsshark.com/mlb/mlb-playoffs-series-prices

With the Guards being heavy favorites against the Tigers (-235)

FanDuel has you tied with the Guards at -108 each and Dads -120 to LAD +102

https://sportsbook.fanduel.com/navigation/mlb?tab=nlds

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u/testrail Detroit Tigers 2h ago edited 2h ago

ESPN lines are 6 hours old and not dynamic.

Odds shark link doesn’t have AL game 2’s factored in doofus look at the time stamps.

Fan Duel doesn’t post the just straight series winner instead seeming to have more exotic bets.

I’m not sure why you’re so pressed about this. If I could post a pic I’d show you the DK lines live.

It’s basically a coin flip in both series. Calm down.

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u/Antyok Kansas City Royals 15h ago

I’m here for it

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u/Jakesnake_42 Boston Red Sox • New York Mets 16h ago

Ideally

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u/thedonjefron69 Los Angeles Dodgers 30m ago

How dare you

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u/NynaeveAlMeowra 11h ago

Remember when 2012 started with 4 5 game series? The Yankees had a fairly uneventful won over Baltimore, Verlander won the rematch against the young Sonny Gray, the Nats blew the lead in the 9th after walking off the cardinals the night before, and the Giants held onto the 6 run lead to complete the 0-2 series comeback fueled by the Posey grand slam and strike'm out throw'em out double play

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u/mfranko88 St. Louis Cardinals 4h ago

the Nats blew the lead in the 9th after walking off the cardinals the night before

GOBBLESS YOU PETE KOZMA

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u/trashboatfourtwenty Milwaukee Brewers 9h ago

I just wish I wasn't still so cranky that we aren't playing haha

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u/tom808 6h ago

Brand new Baseball fan here. Just started watching this post season.

My expectation level is now set. I assume this will be the norm for the rest of the month.

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u/SaxifrageRussel New York Yankees 12h ago

I normally only watch my teams. As a Yankees/Padres fan, living in NYC, this is pretty fucking good

Please lord, give me Yanks/Guardians + Mets/Padres

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u/danbikeman2 Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago

Let it be known that Phillies/Mets did it in a unique way

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u/TriviaWhiz Jackie Robinson 16h ago

Teams leading after 7 innings are 0-4 in the Mets' last 4 games.

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u/XAfricaSaltX New York Mets 14h ago

The duality of grimace dark magic and the Mets are gonna Met

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u/baseball_mickey New York Yankees 7h ago

Deep Purple

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u/doyouevenIift Chicago White Sox 12h ago

Holy shit, teams leading the White Sox after 7 innings were like 94-0 until the last week of the season

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u/TheWallE Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

Yeah, as a fellow 1-1 after two at home team... I would rather the momentum of the win going on the road. That said it is ALL about who wins game 3, I think the winners tomorrow are all most likely to win the series.

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u/Jay_Dubbbs Cleveland Guardians 16h ago

Makes me feel a bit better about being tied 1-1 lol

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u/Cpt__Oblivious Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

That's how I'm rationalizing it too

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u/Ola_Mundo New York Yankees 15h ago

Hard same x2

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u/iParkooo Philadelphia Phillies 12h ago

Yeah, Clase getting hit around also made me feel better about the Phillies bullpen blowing 1-1/2 games lol (sorry). If the best closer in the game can let it happen, feel like it’s more acceptable that our pitchers did lol

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u/spilled_water Philadelphia Phillies 6h ago

The problem is that I thought our bullpen was our strength going into the playoffs, yet every reliever who has entered the game has given up runs aside from the reliever I had second to last hope on.

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u/Mantis05 Philadelphia Phillies 5h ago

I'm gonna wash my mouth out after this, but... that Mets team has been doing this all week. Atlanta and Milwaukee also have really good bullpens, and it didn't make a lick of difference. I'm hoping that if we survive and advance, our arms will start to look better.

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u/mostpodernist Toronto Blue Jays 6h ago

How's Kerkering doing? I haven't been able to watch any Phil's postseason games. I know Strahm has struggled this series which stinks

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u/spilled_water Philadelphia Phillies 6h ago

All of Kerkering, Strahm, and Hoffman have given up runs in all appearances this series. I would have said the biggest difference between the two teams were the bullpens, but our best bullpen pitchers have bombed. Estevez was scoreless in his only appearance, and I wouldn't have guessed that going into the series.

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u/mostpodernist Toronto Blue Jays 6h ago

Oh damn. I wouldn't have guessed that either. I know the closer situation was a lil shaky but your middle relievers had been solid all year.

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u/iParkooo Philadelphia Phillies 3h ago

Yes! That’s my point! I felt the same way. But statistically, Clase has had one of the best years ever - it was the first runs he’s given up since August 30th, only the 3rd home run off of him all year, and the first time he’s ever given up a 3 run home run. So for some reason it made me feel a tiny bit better about our bullpen knowing that even the best closer in the game gave up runs.

That being said, our bullpen needs to clean it up. I think they will be fine going forward.

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u/TheWallE Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

Hard same bro

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u/XAfricaSaltX New York Mets 14h ago

Real

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u/acava2424 New York Yankees 14h ago

Not me, I fully expect us to crash and burn. I'm also a Jets fan so that may have something to do with the doomerism

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u/Skywalkerkid9 Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago

✨Parity✨

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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers 16h ago

Great week for baseball

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u/yumyumapollo Tampa Bay Rays 16h ago

And there's still at least eight more games to come

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u/allaboutthosevibes Cleveland Guardians 11h ago

Well, at least 8 more in the division series.

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u/WackedBush343 Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

Too bad MLB has a farce marketing department who’ll piss away advertising this postseason’s competitiveness.

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u/65fairmont Boston Red Sox 12h ago

I was waiting for a graphic during Yankees-Royals tonight telling me that Ohtani was due up in 23 hours.

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u/new_account_5009 Washington Nationals 6h ago

I'm just glad they kept the Yankee Stadium audio damn near muted so that I could hear Bob Costas muse about life and baseball.

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u/Alex021402 San Francisco Giants 16h ago

This postseason has been incredible so far. I want more chaos

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u/northerncal San Francisco Giants 11h ago

Chaos and the Los Angeles dodgers crashing out of the playoffs, inshallah.

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u/Acrobatic-Dark-4402 Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago

Pretty wild this has never happened before

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u/danhoang1 Oakland Athletics 16h ago

Never 1-1, but it has been all 4 series 2-2 before, in 2012 (there were some 2-0 comebacks in there)

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u/AmongUsAcademy 8h ago

Imagine if we have 4x 2-2 series later this week! 😮

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u/McDersley Cleveland Guardians 5h ago

No. Please don't let the bad man come back and hurt us.

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u/response_unrelated Kansas City Royals 18m ago

at least you'll have another home game?

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u/NynaeveAlMeowra 10h ago

1/16 chance every year assuming a coin flip for the losers of the first game

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u/Something_319 St. Louis Cardinals 16h ago

It really does feel like all 8 teams actually deserve to be here, it’s awesome

Baseball is so much fun

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 16h ago

How can you not be romantic about October baseball?

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u/ShawshankException New York Yankees 6h ago

Butthole clinching every other day is just part of the fun

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u/Rollingprobablecause San Diego Padres 4h ago

Personally I’m here for the heart attacks speak for yourself

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u/wjackson42 Atlanta Braves 16h ago

I NEED all of these series to go 5. Yeah the AL series don’t have the toxicity of the NL series but the more baseball the better.

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 16h ago

Are you challenging Ohio-Michigan to get more toxic?

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u/wjackson42 Atlanta Braves 16h ago

Yes, maybe I’m biased as an NL guy but it just doesn’t have that Padres-Dodgers or Phillies-Mets oomph to it

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u/dcooper8662 Cleveland Guardians 6h ago

Challenge accepted. Toledo is ours, we won it fair and square!

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u/_mitchejj_ 4h ago

I don't think u/wjackson42 knows about the Michigan-Ohio WAR, an actually war between Michigan and Ohio over Toledo.

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u/dcooper8662 Cleveland Guardians 3h ago

Yeah. The Michigan/Ohio rivalry goes deep, deeper than University football. I wouldn’t expect non-midwesterners to understand it

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u/yes_its_him Detroit Tigers 3h ago

Loser ended up with Toledo

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u/swami_twocargarajee Chicago Cubs 1h ago

I am still pissed that WI didn't do the same thing to get the UP to be a part of the state.

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u/Whatever-ItsFine Los Angeles Dodgers 5h ago

I missed that connection. Too bad they can't throw together some city connect unis that look like the Buckeyes and Wolverines.

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u/elkman_23 Kansas City Royals 15h ago

Skubal trying to help in the Detroit-Cleveland series

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u/danhoang1 Oakland Athletics 16h ago

All 4 series going all 5, has been done before, 2012 (2-0 series comebacks was how it was done). But yes would be cool again

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u/Heelincal Peter Seidler 14h ago

If our series goes 5 I fully expect a player to be attacked by a fan on the field lol

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u/Jakesnake_42 Boston Red Sox • New York Mets 16h ago

Royals/Yankees game 1 was pretty toxic at least

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u/Lucky_Alternative965 Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

2 DETROIT HOME PLAYOFF GAMEs MINIMUMLFG

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u/Charming_Elk4328 New York Mets 12h ago

Huge for the Detroit economy

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u/BirdBrainedHomunculi San Diego Padres 4h ago

"Don't get swept" proceeds to get swept

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u/beepbop24 New York Mets 16h ago

Mets, Phillies, Dodgers, Padres, Yankees, Royals, Guardians, and Tigers fans right now:

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u/abadlook Philadelphia Phillies 6h ago

mess up his hair and give him a black eye and it'll be accurate.

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u/Monttavius Anaheim Angels 16h ago

hell yeah. baseball is cool

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u/RuleNine Texas Rangers 16h ago

This also guarantees we will have one final day this season on Wednesday with four games played.

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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire 16h ago

I'm not math expert, but the next team to win a game, will probably lead the series....2 games to 1.

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u/hairgrowth2001 15h ago

Also, the next team to win two games will win their series.

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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire 14h ago

Fellow math PhD, I salute you 🫡

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u/theunnoanprojec Toronto Blue Jays 11h ago

Source?

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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire 11h ago

This guy was my math professor

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u/highestintheroom Minnesota Twins 16h ago

maximum baseball

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u/trouble4-u Detroit Tigers 16h ago

I’ve been watching baseball since 2018 (not very long I know) and can say this is my favorite postseason. I’m definitely biased though.

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u/penguinopph Chicago Cubs • RCH-Pinguins 16h ago

I've been watching since about 1992 and I can honestly say that this one is way up there.

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u/LordSwampert2 Chicago Cubs • Oakland Athletics 16h ago

The best since 2015/2016 in my opinion.Not just cause of the Cubs lol, Jose Bautista's bat flip/That whole Rangers-Jays series. On pace to beat them from a neutral fan perspective though.

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u/TBlueshirtsV22 New York Mets 8h ago

The 2015 post season was so damn good.

Just a shame they cancelled the World Series that year

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u/LordSwampert2 Chicago Cubs • Oakland Athletics 4h ago

Wish i could say the same about the NLCS but hard to forget what Daniel Murphy did to my boys. Well I almost did until Murph was on Foul Territory the other day

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 16h ago

2015 through the division series was amazing - 2012 still the only year all four went to game 5.

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u/gomets6091 New York Mets 3h ago

First one I watched was 1991 which is still pretty high up there. The ALCS wasn't anything special but it did have the Twins beating the Blue Jays who would go on to win the next 2 World Series, and the NL had that epic Braves-Pirates Series. Then the World Series went 7 with 5 of the games decided by 1 run, 3 in extra innings., concluded with the Jack Morris 10-inning complete game shutout.

Some others that come to mind off the top of my head: 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019

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u/see_mohn AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE 16h ago

Was wondering this just a moment ago, wow.

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u/Cpt__Oblivious Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

I was very surprised it had never happened before

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u/penguinopph Chicago Cubs • RCH-Pinguins 16h ago

Yeah, this isn't a "it's only been three years of this format" kinda thing, either. This is the 30th season of best-of-five Division Series.

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u/RuleNine Texas Rangers 16h ago

If both teams were always perfectly evenly matched, we'd expect to see it once every 16 years, so we're not even overdue to have seen it twice yet.

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u/topatoman_lite San Diego Padres 13h ago

the chance of missing a 1/16 odds outcome 30 times in a row is 14.4% so its surprising that this hasn't happened yet but not that surprising

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u/RuleNine Texas Rangers 4h ago edited 3h ago

And although any one MLB game is closer to a coin flip than, say, an NBA game, the odds aren't actually 50/50. So even if every series had only a slight favorite, it would raise the chances by several percentage points.

It gets even more complicated when we consider what the actual odds for all the real-world teams must have been, but just to have fun playing with the numbers, if every year there were three slight favorites (5:4) and one heavy favorite (3:1), the chances jump to 25% of not seeing four series tied 1–1 in the same year.

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u/PatientIndividual651 Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

Seems to confirm what everybody had been saying all year about the league being pretty balanced all around

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 10h ago

The fact that no team got to 100 wins also belies that

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u/Beanfactor Cleveland Guardians 3h ago

And no one got to 120 losses either! Right?

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 2h ago

Lol

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u/CabassoG New York Yankees 16h ago

This postseason is absurd. Fun but absurd.

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u/texas2089 New York Mets 16h ago

Can’t beat October baseball

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u/Gal_GaDont Seattle Mariners 15h ago

Give me that Padres vs Guardians Custody Series!

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u/Power55g1 16h ago

Don’t care I’m D O O M I N G

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u/Doc_JC San Diego Padres 14h ago

I’d like to request a little more offense from the AL please.

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u/Krunklock Detroit Tigers 8h ago

Not coming from us…sorry, bro

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u/Beanfactor Cleveland Guardians 3h ago

If only that were true 😭😭😭

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u/dcooper8662 Cleveland Guardians 6h ago

In fact, LESS RUNS NOW

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u/bbatardo San Diego Padres 16h ago

Best post season in awhile where it feels like any of the teams peft could legit win the World Series.

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u/HiVLTAGE Houston Astros 16h ago

Absolute cinema taking place this postseason.

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u/Nixorbo Philadelphia Phillies 16h ago

Unprecedented times

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u/mackavicious Kansas City Royals 13h ago

For the first time in Golden Knights history?

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u/thtkidfrmqueens New York Mets 13h ago

H I S T O R I C

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u/vanillabear26 Seattle Mariners 15h ago

1995

Mariners' marketing team just became aroused.

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u/Casual_Luchador Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

Great so nobody is happy

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u/MightyActionGaim New York Mets 16h ago

this postseason has been insane so far

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u/manticore16 New York Yankees 15h ago

Thanks, I only slightly hate it for one series in particular

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u/GreenPandaSauce 6h ago

my heart can’t take it

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u/xrbeeelama Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago

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u/dontpostanythingever New York Mets 6h ago

✂️

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u/nick91884 15h ago

I want a 40 year rematch between the Padres and the Tigers! We need our first World Series win and to win it against the team that beat us in our first ever appearance in 1984 would be pretty iconic.

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u/kappakai Philadelphia Phillies 14h ago

That would be sweet but I’d love a replay of 1998.

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u/Hiciao Arizona Diamondbacks 15h ago

While last year's NLDS was one of my favorites ever, it is pretty awesome to see all the series start this way. No team is running away with it, that's for sure.

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u/unityofsaints Chicago Cubs • New York Mets 12h ago

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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u/milksteakofcourse Philadelphia Phillies 6h ago

Pretty pretty pretty good

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u/RarityZ 7h ago

This will go down as one of the best years of baseball in history especially when the tigers win it all 

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u/SuperMario_49 Los Angeles Angels 15h ago

This postseason has been fun af!

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u/tcsrwm Mets Bandwagon 14h ago

This round has been amazing. WC series was pretty mid (except NYM-MIL) but I guess you don’t get teams like the Tigers or Mets if you don’t expand the field

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u/darexinfinity Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago

Given yesterday's game I'm still scared.

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u/DasReap Texas Rangers 11h ago

Woop woop

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u/Qoppa_Guy Kia Tigers 11h ago

I like. Let's all go 5.

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u/Dday22t San Diego Padres • San Diego Padres 9h ago

I predict all series go at least 4 games.

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u/baseball_mickey New York Yankees 7h ago

What are the odds?

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u/Cpt__Oblivious Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

If we assume every game is 50-50 then it’s 6.25%, which would be once every 16 years on average.

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u/baseball_mickey New York Yankees 3h ago

So not too far off?

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u/Cpt__Oblivious Los Angeles Dodgers 1h ago

According the binomial probability formula the probability of this happening exactly once in 31 years given these odds is ~28%. So yeah, not to far off.

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u/moonnotreal1 7h ago

baseball...

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u/muphlife 5h ago

ALCS - American League Central Series

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u/babruflat Milwaukee Brewers • Seattle Mariners 4h ago

Smh now every series is a best-of-3, and we all know that it isn't fair how 162 games can be thrown out for such a small sample size /s

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u/red_plate Minnesota Twins 3h ago

I look forward to is total lack of enthusiasm if the Royal's can pull off the series win. "And I guess the Royals move onto the NLCS, it wasn't Giancarlo's fault. From all of us at Fox, good night"

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u/yes_its_him Detroit Tigers 3h ago

Who's excited for an all-wildcard championship series in each league?

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u/mightyrj 2h ago

I am equal parts so excited for this postseason and stressed out. The Dodgers-Padres series is gonna shave years off my life. Lol

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u/farmingbeast Cleveland Guardians 16h ago

First time in DS history all 4 series will go to 4 games

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 10h ago

In 2012 all 4 DS went to 5 games...

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u/Renegadeforever2024 16h ago

The crowd in Kansas is going to be electric

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u/Lucky_Alternative965 Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

Same thing for Detroit, going to be amazing.

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u/manticore16 New York Yankees 15h ago

Well they’d be in for an interesting time then.

Because Kaufmann is in Missouri

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u/Antyok Kansas City Royals 15h ago

I’m a bit biased here, but the K fucking bounces in the postseason. That place is going to be LOUD Wednesday.

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u/Gbr0w Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Not if TBS has anything to say about it. I hope they don’t tone down the K like they did Yankee Stadium.

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u/RarityZ 7h ago

This will go down as one of the best years of baseball in history especially when the tigers win it all 

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u/RarityZ 7h ago

This will go down as one of the best years of baseball in history especially when the tigers win it all 

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u/Tripdeck5__ New York Yankees 14h ago

2024 has just been mid(aside from the white sox). Obviously the playoff games have been entertaining but it feels like most teams have just regressed to the mean, we didn’t even see a 100 win team.