Congratulations to the Rays. Charlie Morton was awesome tonight, and I feel happy for him. Rays were the best team in the AL and are deserving to be going to the WS. I hope they win it all! ASTROS did much better in the playoffs than I expected given our regular season. I thought we'd lose to the Twins and that would be it. It was especially satisfying to beat the A's and make it to the ALCS and then to take it to the 7th game was pretty damn impressive.
With all due respect to all our Dodger fans I have to root for Atlanta and an all south World Series.
You old farts (West Coast excluded) that are in the rack already, are missing a great game 7. You young air biscuits that think baseball isn't the greatest game ever, are missing it also.
The Dodgers won the best seven game series I've seen in a long time to head for the World Series. LA and Tampa have the best records this year and it should be a great series. If you didn't see Game #7, you missed Cody Bellinger hitting the game winning HR in the bottom of the 7th inning; the Dodgers coming from behind twice; Turner saving the day with an improbable double play involving outs at home and 3b; pinch-hit HR by Kike Hernandez; and ANOTHER wonderful pitching performance by Julio Urias...
Congratulations to the Dodgers. This should be a very interesting World Series. I like both these teams but have to root for my roots, the team from Florida.
Feel sorry for the fans in Atlanta. After the double play caused by poor base running and Betts great catch, the Falcons Super Bowl debacle and a foreshadowing of doom surely came to mind. Their teams seem to lose on the title stage in a brutally painful way.
Teams with the 2 best records are in the WS, but they both had to fight their way to get their. I'll be rooting for WS hero from 2017, Charlie Morton, to have a great series and get another ring!
re: Atlanta Braves Never forget what Mr. Applegate told Lola: "Never feel sorry for anybody" "Never feel sorry for anybody" "Never feel sorry for anybody"
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That screen is just bigger than my 82 inch Vizio I just hung up in the Husker Cave....I only charge 6 pack of Pacifico for admittance!
Greatest Pitcher in World Series History...not the greatest pitcher in history, but soley based on his WS performance. JO'Co's favorite!! Bruce Bochy managed Bumgarner in all of the left-hander's World Series appearances, and in a conversation the other day, Bochy recalled a news-conference response from Bumgarner that encapsulated the left-hander's perspective about postseason pressure. Bumgarner was asked about the magnitude of the 2014 wild-card game, the extraordinary win-or-go-home stakes. "Does the other guy know?" Bumgarner asked, referring to the Pirates' Edinson Volquez. To Bumgarner, pressure is something that affects other players. Not him. And his World Series results are absurd: A 0.25 ERA in five games spread over the Giants' championships in 2010, 2012 and 2014. Thirty-six innings, one run allowed. One. Four starts and his remarkable five-inning scoreless relief performance in Kansas City just three days after he shut out the Royals with 117 pitches in Game 5. Bumgarner made his first World Series appearance in Game 4 of the 2010 World Series, shutting out the Texas Rangers for eight innings at age 21, and as he compiled postseason accomplishments, Bochy believes, Bumgarner constructed an indestructible belief in his own ability to handle anything. "The postseason just put him in a maniacal focus that was unreal," Bochy said. "The bigger the game, the better the good players are, and that was certainly the case with him."
Unbelievable finish to last nights game. Dodgers blow it in the bottom of the 9th. Series tied at 2-2. Don't think I've ever seen a WS game end like that before, multiple errors on the same hit.
Ugh... I was worried about Roberts defense before the inning started. On a team that has THREE All-Star centerfielders, (Pollock, Bellinger, and Betts) why would you move your utility man (Taylor) to CF? He's almost never played there. Add that to a rookie catcher and a washed up closer and you have a disaster waiting to happen. This was the Dodger version of Buckner's blooper and it's on Roberts.