The Brewers just one win away from their first NL pennant and second overall in franchise history.

If they can wrap this series up, that'll guarantee that the WS winner will either be winning for the first time or be breaking a 78-year championship drought. Amazing to think the Guardians drought is now only 10 years short of the White Sox 88-year drought of 1917-2005.

2 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

The Brewers just one win away from their first NL pennant and second overall in franchise history.

If they can wrap this series up, that'll guarantee that the WS winner will either be winning for the first time or be breaking a 78-year championship drought. Amazing to think the Guardians drought is now only 10 years short of the White Sox 88-year drought of 1917-2005.

Their only other title was 1920.

One year after the Black Sox scandal.

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Airing immediately following NFL coverage, Sunday’s Dodgers-Brewers National League Championship Series Game 1 averaged 10.72 million viewers across FOX (10.6M) and Fox Deportes — marking the most-watched Game 1 of an LCS since Angels-White Sox in 2005 (15.01M) and most-watched Game 1 of an NLCS since Marlins-Cubs in 2003 (15.57M). (That excludes games that aired in regional windows; FOX aired Game 1 of one LCS and Game 2 of the other in regionalized primetime windows from 2002-06.)

sportsmediawatch.com

I don't remember the 05 playoffs getting great ratings. That's interesting.

7 minutes ago, wegner said:

I don't remember the 05 playoffs getting great ratings. That's interesting.

I thought the same thing

8 minutes ago, wegner said:

I don't remember the 05 playoffs getting great ratings. That's interesting.

maybe not that great compared to previous decade ???

or 2004 Red Sox / Yankees?

https://www.si.com/mlb/brewers/2026-nlcs-game-3-big-bad-dodgers-pushed-to-brink-by-journeyman-and-rookie

"Bauers had been a journeyman for most of his career. He debuted in 2018 with the Rays and bounced around the league for the next few years, spending time with the Guardians, Mariners and Yankees before landing with the Brewers in ‘24. He nearly retired after his first season in Milwaukee. He’d never found any semblance of stability in MLB, moving from organization to organization and struggling at the plate. But after deciding he was ready to call it quits on baseball, his wife found out she was pregnant, which caused Bauers to reconsider his stance on walking away from the game. Instead of retiring, Bauers decided to continue his career, because, in his own words, “We needed health insurance.”

On August 1, 2022, the Padres traded Robert Gasser, Dinelson Lamet, Taylor Rogers, and Esteury Ruiz to the Milwaukee Brewers for Josh Hader.

HEAVY

Jake Bauers Wasn't Wanted by Yankees or Cleveland, but No...

Jake Bauers has traveled a wandering baseball journey, but he has finally found a home with the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Bauers is only two years younger than Snell, and was in the Tampa Bay Rays system from 2015-18. Bauers played 96 games in his first major league season for the Rays in 2018, the year his teammate Snell won his first Cy Young Award. Now in his seventh organization, Bauers had his best season this year with the Brewers and just turned 31 last week. He turned around Games 2 and 3 in this NLCS with long battles, including a 12-pitch walk by Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Monday in Milwaukee.

“I’ve seen all the ups and downs he’s been through, and it’s been a lot of downs. For him to go through this right now, he’s earned it. Hats off to him, what an at-bat,” Snell said of Bauers. “I threw everything I had, and then a fastball down the middle. If I could locate that better, who knows what would have happened? This is the best I’ve ever seen him play. It’s a good at-bat. Hats off to him, but the walk’s what really frustrated me, with Vaughn.”

Truebluela.com

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by caulfield12

Twenty-six days before Snell penned his five-year, $182 million contract with the Dodgers in November 2024, Bauers was outrighted, effectively released, by the team he has since pushed within a game of the Fall Classic. But the Brewers, ahead of 2025, brought Bauers back on a minor-league deal. And through circumstance, faith, confidence, obstinance and determination, the 31-year-old SoCal kid finally turned himself into an impact major leaguer. This season, he was the best hitter on baseball's best team.

Over the past few days, he has taken things to a whole new level, looking as dialed in as a ballplayer can be.

"Hats off to him," a conciliatory Snell shared after the game.

yahoo.com/sports

8 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

maybe not that great compared to previous decade ???

or 2004 Red Sox / Yankees?

Ah, true

9 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Just the 2004 Red Sox.

Maybe its just because I was a kid. Maybe its just because the Sox won the World Series.

But does it feel like peak modern baseball was that 2003-2005 era?

For some reason the games just felt massive. Bartman game. Red Sox Yankees go 7 games in consecutive ALCS. That rivalry was at an absolute peak. And then of course the magical 2005.

Those 3 years will always be peak nostalgic baseball for me.

Playoff attendance issues have resurfaced at Tropicana Field. The Yankees probably boosted the attendance in the ALDS, but part of the problem in the ALCS games is that the Rays were charging $185 per ticket for seats in the 3rd deck.

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2 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

Playoff attendance issues have resurfaced at Tropicana Field. The Yankees probably boosted the attendance in the ALDS, but part of the problem in the ALCS games is that the Rays were charging $185 per ticket for seats in the 3rd deck.

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Why empty playoff seats at Tropicana Field are sparking b...

Low playoff attendance and falling ticket prices at Tropicana Field during the Tampa Bay Rays' American League Championship Series matchup against the Cleveland Guardians are sparking widespread backl

I thought MLB controlled playoff pricing?

8 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

I thought MLB controlled playoff pricing?

I don't know. At any rate, someone was charging that much for tickets at a place that has had a history of not selling out in the playoffs.

13 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

I don't know. At any rate, someone was charging that much for tickets at a place that has had a history of not selling out in the playoffs.

I mean the sentiment is fair. A $1000 ticket in NYC probably doesn't go for $100 in Tampa

Why are they playing an ALCS game at 1 PM local time on a weekday?

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

Why are they playing an ALCS game at 1 PM local time on a weekday?

weather forecast

2 minutes ago, chw42 said:

Why are they playing an ALCS game at 1 PM local time on a weekday?

Game moved up because of heavy rains due tonight, tomorrow might be iffy.

Guardians score first...

TB has their work cut out for them today against the Big Rig.

Rays striking out just as much as the Sox did against Williams.

Williams was dealing until that triple,

Simpson with a huge triple with 2 strikes.

Williams fastball taking a big dip? Hes 96-97 with it today mostly, with some being 98.

8ks thru 4ip against one of the lowest K prone lineups in baseball

His fastball is at 95 now

Petey Halpin having a great postseason

Guardians are a pretty darn good team if they get offensive contributions from people not named Ramirez.