44 minutes ago, chw42 said:

Angels gotta be throwing these games with the pitch selection to Kwan and Bazana.

I just saw they lost. Thanks for the last 2 games losers.

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

https://www.mlb.com/guardians/history/postseason-results

Guardians/Indians 15 times in the post season since 1995.

15/31 years

White Sox

1906/08/17/19 Black Sox/59/83/93

2000/05/08/20/21

12 times in 120 years or whatever

Once per decade on average.

You conveniently left out the first 95 years if Cleveland existence lol

4 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

You conveniently left out the first 95 years if Cleveland existence lol

Or that Cleveland has been a bottom ten payroll for how many years now?

What next, comparing football histories?

They did have the LeBron Kyrie Draymond Green suspension title.

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goes without saying, they need to win this game tonight. don't f*** around, do your jobs, you can beat this mets team

7 minutes ago, joejoesox said:

goes without saying, they need to win this game tonight. don't f*** around, do your jobs, you can beat this mets team

Hopefully can beat the Rangers too

To live in a time where these two hitters are leading off

Burke's velo has been concerning his last 4 starts I believe

He was pumping 98 mph against the Reds.

f*** Kurt Suzuki, what the hell did we ever do to you? Asshole.

Oh well - we figured that we’d be in this spot today…

SO BRING IT THE f*** ON! WHITE SOX SERIES WINNET COMING UP NOW!!!!

Not great, Bob.

Just taking a look at the lineup - wish Will wouldn’t play matchups as much sometimes. He’s got to be aware that Colson has better splits against lefties.

Bummer because he had some encouraging at bats yesterday.

Prove me wrong Acuna!

2 minutes ago, chw42 said:

The Sox getting lucky once doesn't offset the Guardians constantly hitting bloopers in big situations.

Statistically the Sox and Rangers were BOTH lucky yesterday, in that both teams made a lot of contact and got a bit more out of that contact than expected.

The expected outcome of all the Sox BIP yesterday was 18.9 total bases, and they ended up with 21. A little lucky, but a .325 xBA producing 14 hits isn't wild.

The gap between expected and actual total bases for TEX was actually larger (and their .211 xBA producing 11 hits was the "luckier" result) so when you simulate that game repeatedly with the same contact, Sox still win more often than not.

On the other hand, the Guards "should" have won yesterday's game only 25% of the time:

https://x.com/mlb_simulator/status/2092480382037831705

Putting the ball in play a lot produces a pretty wide band of outcomes, which is some of the idea behind "creating your own luck." If you make garbage contact 10 times, odds are that a couple will fall eventually, sometimes in the right order to score on.

Guards also try to deny contact to the other team (which the Angels made very easy 🙄). LA put 7 fewer balls in play last night, which increases the impact of any one defensive play made by the Guardians. "Robbing" 1 in 23 chances is a bigger swing than robbing 1 in 30, and getting 30 BIP yourself creates more chances that one will fall. That's why they feel so "lucky".

But it's also a pretty limited approach. It can win you close games against other poor offenses (which is admittedly a big deal in this division), but you can't just count on putting 30+ balls in play and having 10 fall every game (which is why they are bottom 3 in runs/game). If they give up more/harder contact, they struggle to keep up and they'll get shutout ~10% of the time almost by default.

Got 'em!

How did the ump even miss that? He's out by a half foot.

Nobody on this fucking SP staff can miss any fucking bats lately.

Was that 2-2 pitch in there and a missed challenge opportunity to end the inning?

Too many pitches.

2 minutes ago, hi8is said:

Was that 2-2 pitch in there and a missed challenge opportunity to end the inning?

No.

DEFENSE

Rangers have been having great at bats this series

Sox are in trouble if this is the starting rotation now

Burke bailed out by his defense (and nice pickoff throw of his own doing).

can't get outs the conventional way lol

1 minute ago, joejoesox said:

Sox are in trouble if this is the starting rotation now

They are just all in the blender, it seems.

Perfect throw by Rodgers