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Devers with a 2 run bomb in the top of the 9th. Looks like we get no baseball tomorrow.

OK, just score any number of runs other than 3.

Rays didn't want to pitch any more innings in a game that doesn't mean anything to them.

Yankees pitched to Judge and he got a grounder to 2nd that the runner beat home. Yankees clinch wild card.

Yankees 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. Judge up and I'm assuming they walk him so it will be bases loaded with Stanton up.

Red Sox have tied it up in Washington. Our bonus baseball tomorrow may be taken away from us.

When is the last time someone clinched a playoff spot on the last day of the season on a walkoff? Yankees have a chance to do that.

Tepera looked good.

What the hell was that?

Rays had a runner at 3rd with 1 out and didn't get him in. Sox killer Nelson Cruz apparently is not a Yankee killer.

I'm not looking at head to head. Tampa has only had one guy throw over 100 innings with an ERA under 5. In a shorter series I'd rather face the Yankees but in a longer series, I think Tampa has trouble covering enough innings with their bullpen.

Tampa

Well, fuck, Montgomery hurt.

Blue Jays have scored in the 1st vs Orioles Angels have scored 2 in the 1st at Seattle and still batting

I'm not super close to the stadium (20 miles) but I just heard thunder. Might see delays in both games.

If he gets to 0-14, just bench him.

If Detroit's defense is bad enough to get pushed around by the Bears OL like that, it doesn't matter who is QB.

MLBN will probably do something like this.

I'd like to see them all start, and then get replaced on the field one each inning, so each can get a standing ovation from the fans.

You can't play a schedule as imbalanced as they do in baseball and then compare win totals like that. Baltimore and Arizona are far worse than anybody else. You don't get better seeding by virtue of having played them 19 times when someone else only got to play them 6-7 times.

10/3: We've made it to the final day of the season, and six teams still have something to play for. Teams who are locked into spots and do not, are Tampa Bay, Houston, and the Sox as division winners in the AL and 1, 2, and 3 seeds respectively. Milwaukee and Atlanta as division winners in the NL and 2 and 3 seeds respectively. Saint Louis as the second wild card. San Francisco and the LA Dodgers have been locked into the postseason for a long time, but their positions are yet to be settled. A Dodgers win + a Giants loss gives us a Monday tiebreaker with the winner being NL west champs and #1 seed, and the loser being the first wild card. Any other pair of outcomes today gives the Giants the NL West title. Now to the AL wild card which has lived up to the "wild" to the fullest extent. As we enter play today, Boston and the NY Yankees are tied for the two WC positions with Toronto and Seattle one game back. Any combination of those four teams could ultimately fill the two wild card slots. In any scenario, Boston and the Yankees are both guaranteed to play at least one more game today, whether that be in the wild card game or a tiebreaker game. All games start between 2:00 and 2:30 today so that no team gets the advantage of knowing an outcome before playing. All the possible outcomes [TLDR version: 9 of the 16 possible outcomes have tiebreaker game(s)]: Boston and Yankees both win, regardless of Toronto or Seattle outcomes - Boston is the first WC and the Yankees are the second WC All four teams lose - Boston is the first WC and Yankees are the second WC Boston wins, other three lose - Boston is first WC and Yankees are second WC Yankees win, other three lose - Yankees are first WC and Boston is second WC Boston and Toronto win, other two lose - Boston is first WC and Toronto and Yankees are tied for second WC Boston and Seattle win, other two lose - Boston is first WC and Seattle and Yankees are tied for second WC Yankees and Toronto win, other two lose - Yankees are first WC and Toronto and Boston are tied for second WC Yankees and Seattle win, other two lose - Yankees are first WC and Seattle and Boston are tied for second WC All but Boston win - Yankees are the first WC and the other three are tied for the second WC All but Yankees win - Boston is the first WC and the other three are tied for the second WC Seattle wins, other three lose - Boston, Yankees and Seattle tie for both WC spots Toronto wins, other three lose - Boston, Yankees and Toronto tie for both WC spots Seattle and Toronto win, Boston and Yankees lose - All four are tied for both WC spots

You need one guy on your playoff roster that you would never use in a high leverage situation who can eat innings in case of a blowout to save the guys you would use in a high leverage situation. That will be Keuchel's role.

My weather app says storms between 3 and 6. Maybe Cease gets 2-3 innings of work in and then they just call it and the Sox go into the playoffs on a 6 game winning streak.

It's official--the Astros have clinched the #2 seed and will have home field advantage in the ALDS vs the Sox. Seattle leads the Angels 3-1 after 5 Dodgers lead Milwaukee 7-1 in the 6th If those results hold we have 4 teams for 2 wild card spots in the AL and the NL West on the line in the final day.

Big win for Matt as well. https://twitter.com/BagoDonuts3/status/1444487014926229506?s=19 Edit: I keep getting error messages when I try to imbed tweets.