Wait Till This Year: 2024 World Series

Mine has cool photos...

Should we start a poll for which poll to keep?

I will defer to No Time's seniority around here--mods can lock this one when you get a minute.

2024 World Series: New York Yankees vs Los Angeles Dodgers

I wasn't going to actually, I would have just let it ride

This thread has a cool title and pictures. We can lock the other thread.

Too late. I already voted multiple times in both, a great Chicago tradition that nobody better take away from me.

those are, in fact, cool photos

Voted Yankees in 7 in both. I made an early prediction in the playoff thread that Cole would win MVP, but I realized that's much harder now for a starting pitcher. I saw that starting pitchers used to dominate, winning about half the time--you won two starts, sometimes even three, you were MVP.

I voted Dodgers in 6 in one poll, and Yankees in 6 in the other. Whatever happens, I picked a winner.

I'm heavily leaning Dodgers though, because a) their relief corps is on a magic carpet ride, belying the fact that their starting pitching is a big question mark in October yet again, b) Betts and Ohtani are too good, Muncy and Kike morph into superstars in the playoffs, c) I will always hate the Yankees more than any other team.

I'm verrrry curious to see what the Soto/Judge/Mike Stanton stack will unleash on Flaherty/Buehler/Knack/Yamamoto/whomever else LAD has who couldn't hold SD/NYM under 6+ ERA.

These are gonna be some high scoring affairs if I were a gambling man prone to taking the over... #freeippei #draftkings

I voted quickly, so I didn't really consciously think it through--probably expecting Cole's two starts to be Yankee wins. I'm hoping it goes seven and that Judge, Stanton, and Ohtani hit 10+ HR between them, and that Soto has an OPS of 1.500.

Where is the option for it getting canceled outright and we forget this World Series ever happened?

The number of future Hall of Famers in this World Series is...?

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) October 21, 2024

judge, ohtani, kershaw (inactive?), betts, freeman, soto, cole at minimum

For sure: Judge, Ohtani, Betts, Freeman.
Three or four seasons away: Cole.
Well on his way: Soto (can't say more than that, though, at 25).
Back on track: Stanton, but he has to stay healthy enough for 500.

The two managers are barely 50 and have both done a lot already--career winning percentages of .627 for Roberts and .584 for Boone to start. They'll have two WS wins after this year. I bet one of them ends up there.

Really hard to come up with anyone else. ("In this WS"--not counting Kershaw.) So I'd say a good chance at seven, maybe eight.

Boone hasn't won a WS (at least as a manager).

Where is the option for it getting canceled outright and we forget this World Series ever happened?

― octobeard, Tuesday, October 22, 2024 12:59 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

not sure where but i know to get there you have to take the wahmbulance

You would think Yankees fans 27 championships would give them a thick skin about just about anything, but no, they are literally the biggest man-cry-babies on the earth.

(xpost) I know, but if Boone wins one this year, he'll have a .584 career winning pct., two 100-win seasons, and a WS title, and no losing seasons over seven years. That'd be a pretty great start for a guy who's 51 (obviously he'll have to win a couple of WS at some point).

WFAN call-in line: (888) 808-1019

For Yankees fans to call for someone to be fired if they lose.

that line is basically used nowadays to heckle mike francesa about jason giambi

feel like if yankees have one guy who can pitch like yu darvish then it's the yankees to lose. will cole come through?

dodgers bullpen is showing its seams imo. a better hitting lineup than the mets will expose them

curious to see how often freeman will play. i think roberts pulled him after game 5 for his defense on that bum ankle - the mets were pounding balls into the right field corner over/through freeman in game 5

mets are probably a deeper lineup than the yankees but the yanks’ big guns are inevitable. they’ve hit something like .200 with risp so far this postseason so there is still potential to unlock.

for example, gleyber torres has reached base on the game’s first at bat in 8 of 9 games and soto joining him in 7 of 9. grand total of first inning runs so far for the yankees: 4.

saw that taylor trammell played five games for the dodgers and one game for the yankees this year and so is guaranteed a world series ring

oh five games for each team but only one at-bat for the yankees

Rooting Dodgers but worried about their pitching mojo running out. A bunch of 10-9 games will be great for ratings, anyway.

Saturday's G2 is the one game I'll have to miss, so you can bank on that one being your 10-9, walk-off grand-slam-in-the-10th game.

i agree on paper this reads like a slugfest, the dodgers bullpen magic could run out but i don't know if i trust any of the yankees pitchers 100% either, beyond possibly cole. i do think the dodgers hitters after their big three have more potential to contribute in major ways than the yankees hitters beyond their big three.

Trusting Jameson's research:

This is the first time since 1976 that the two MVPs and top two records in the AL and NL will face off in the #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/ur6UlQHKKP

— Jameson Grugan (@JamoeGrugan) October 21, 2024

a match made in Clemenza heaven ;)

True enough, but I've adopted your rule: don't care who wins, just want great games.

:)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I mentioned that I'll have to miss all or most of Saturday night's game--Halloween party. I will, however, be dressed up as Charles O. Finley, which, even if 50 people show up, I'm confident will be the night's most baffling costume.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

8 for the Yankees, only 3 for the Dodgers.

Potential HOF'ers:

The World Series that begins Friday night at Dodger Stadium will not break the record for most Hall of Famers on the field -- 13, set in the 1932 battle between the Yankees and Cubs (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Earle Combs, Bill Dickey, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Red Ruffing, Joe Sewell, Kiki Cuyler, Burleigh Grimes, Gabby Hartnett and Billy Herman, not to mention managers Joe McCarthy and Rogers Hornsby, the latter of whom was elected for his playing career).

But could Dodgers-Yankees reach the Divisional Era record of eight, which was set in the 1996 Series between the Yankees and Braves (Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Wade Boggs, Tim Raines, Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, Tom Glavine and Chipper Jones, not to mention managers Joe Torre and Bobby Cox)?

13 in one Series! Pretty sure a handful of them were gift VC picks, though.

https://www.mlb.com/news/potential-future-hall-of-famers-in-2024-world-series

That '96 Series is 100% legit; 10 counting managers.

They forgot about Fred McGriff, so that's nine.

Not to mention a few other borderline HOFers (Pettitte, Strawberry, Cone, Andruw Jones) that probably put the 1996 series well over the 1932 series.

Fred, yes--and last I looked, Andruw Jones was right on track (but maybe running out of time).

61.6%, three more years on the ballot--Andruw seems fairly certain.

Notice that G7 will be Friday, Nov. 1, making it the last good thing that ever happens.

Player intros, 1981, G1 (including Fernando, who gets a nice hand in Yankee Stadium):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_dmVzGDRQ

Finishes with the ceremonial first pitch, which would be pretty much impossible to top, but I think they could maybe match it with Koufax.

Just watched the clip. That is one incredible collection of people, all the way to Charley Lau and Aurelio Rodriguez.

So great, thank you for that

Combining both polls (lots of duplicate votes, for sure):

Yankees in 6 - 6
Yankees in 7 - 5
Yankees in 4 - 4
Dodgers in 6 - 4
Dodgers in 4 - 2
Dodgers in 5 - 1
Yankees in 5 - 0
Dodgers in 7 - 0

Yankees - 15
Dodgers - 7

Old Man Soto turns 26 today.

World Series first pitches:

Game 1: Orel Hershiser and Steve Yeager
Game 2: Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) October 24, 2024

Geez...Orel's good, and Kemp lost an MVP vote to a PED user, but that's the best they can do? Lot of hallowed names still out there.

(Lighten up, pal, enjoy the games.)

did not have max down as a yankees fan

Fat Clemenza like that lone fourth of your golf group who gives advice and then says just relax and enjoy the game

Love seeing Teoscar bat cleanup in G1 of the WS. (Hate seeing Teoscar bat cleanup in G1 of the WS for somebody else...) Very nice tribute to Fernando. If you don't remember Steve Yeager, he is indeed Chuck Yeager's cousin.

Did vergudo just blow a bubble while he was fielding that? Wtf

https://i.imgur.com/pI3Fg3D.jpeg

Look at how beautiful LA is. It’s like some AI generated shit

Freeman looks perfectly mobile out there tonight.

Can't believe he made that close.

Soto staring the ump down

Justin Bateman go home and eat a banana and don’t bother anyone

Nice play, Ratso.

Fantastic play.

Shit

Aesthetically, that was kind of satisfying: 0-0 game, clean triple, SF that gave a great arm in right field a chance.

kiké’s glasses make him look like jesse chavez, nagl
rizzo’s hair looks weird, he needs some sideburns

hard to believe soto was a gold glove finalist

He could have dived and made the catch

(xpost) Not sure which of the two feeds you're watching--the non-Smoltz guys said it was because of his arm, which did look good there. (His defensive numbers through his career have not been good.)

Here we go

YEAH

Massive

That was rather awesome.

That was so clutch

Knocked out the pitcher that was dealing. Stunning.

Good play

Defense has been great tonight after the early error (I didn't think Soto had much of a chance on the triple, have to look at it again).

I would really appreciate it if Giancarlo Stanton could cool off a little geez louise

stanton's homers are something else. just towering no doubters that even the opposing fielders admire

I was trying to calculate on the risk/reward of leaving Flaherty in for that inning just before Stanton hit his bomb. Imagine Roberts was doing the same and is kicking himself.

I don't think he did either, he should have just held him to a double

Xxxpost

Desperately need some Tommy Gun magic at the plate to compliment his defensive play

JUST AS I POST IT

Who the hell is this guy?

Wow

Ugh

Cole is dealing, why you do and should value the starting pitchers, especially the best ones.

lots of warning track shots against cole but those are still outs

80 pitches, expect he'll be out there for the 7th...barehanded--nervy!

where the hell did “brusbar graterol” come from

From the billion dollar collection of injured dodgers pitchers. They were due for at least one of them to come back for the mlb postseason

Massive strikeout pitch

I'd take him out--lot of pitches in that AB.

Huge

Dave Roberts is having old-school bad luck tonight. Lets his starter go one last AB, home run; calls for a sacrifice bunt, beautifully executed, pop-up.

Gets out of it

John Smoltz "I give the Yankees a little bit of credit." What the hell is he talking about, its like he's not watching the game. Talking about the paper tiger.

First huge defensive lapse.

it’s the second, maybe third

Has John Smoltz always been this bad?

I'm not counting the triple past Soto--making that catch seems extremely unlikely to me. What am I forgetting?

Both LA runs could have been prevented by keeping the man at second base.

verdugo big misplay off the wall which led directly to their first run

I thought the first run was the triple + SF; the Verdugo play didn't lead to a run.

Correct

you’re right, it was the one that let hobbled freeman get to third tho

Yes

Oh no...Jeffrey Maier!

Thank you silly fan

Thats as borderline as it gets

It would not have been out

pretty clearly would’ve hit the wall

good news for the yanks as it prevents gleyber from running into an out on the bases

Yes, so second or third base

Maybe my prediction powers are off but it looked like it was hitting the edge of the top of the wall. Could have bounced in if it was more to the top edge, coulda bounced out more to the bottom edge

Xp lol

Here's a screenshot of the triple; I don't know, to me holding him at second even seems unlikely.

https://i.postimg.cc/NjbLBVkt/soso.jpg

He should have played the ball off the fence and, IMO, would have held him to a double instead of going after it. He wasn't going to catch it.

Judge “Mr September”

Jink him Joe

After the Jeffrey Maier moment, now we get Kirk Gibson.

(Although I guess you needed Freddie Freeman for that.)

Jinxed worked

both hernandezes have the residual al east juju that scares me nearly as much as the dodgers big guns

The Betts and Edman plays classic "don't show up in the boxscore" stuff (although Betts's play now rendered moot by the SB).

Again--nervy!

...

YEAH

I've really become an Edman fan the past couple of weeks--wish that hadn't been him.

Shows he's human

Who's left for the Yankees--Goose Gossage? Sparky Lyle?

What a finish here.

The Tommy Edman Dodgers

Is Nester still a starter? I haven't been keeping up to date with the yanks

he’s been hurt for a month. yes he’s still a starter

baffling decision to go to him

baffling decision to go to him

Unbelievable catch.

Yahoo

Huge out

I was thinking there was a runner on third and that Verdugo had accidentally fucked himself...

Kirk!

Lol, Yankees.

Lol

:)

fucking boone lost this game

Um, fuck yes even?

that is just unreal. I nearly hit the roof

Hell yes

A fully healthy Freeman would have got the cycle, is all I’m saying. It’s remarkable what he can do even playing through injury. Even funnier that he did it off Nestor Cortes.

Aaron Boone deciding who should pitch to Ohtani with the game on the line pic.twitter.com/797AZliWbd

— Thomas Cavanagh (@YouFoundTJ) October 26, 2024

Was Nestor really at the trump rally?

Listened to one of the calls again."Gibby meet Freddy!" is good; sounds like the title of a horror film.

Boone said he liked the matchup but while Freeman has worse splits against LHP it’s very relative; 273/.352/.452 With an OPS of .804. And he hits the studs too; one of only four LHH to homer off Skubal ever. I didn’t realise Cortes hadn’t pitched in five weeks either (!) Just an absolutely bizarre decision.

they had a different lefty who has been great so far in the postseason warming in the pen

Tim Hill and his rubber arm. I wondered if he was injured when I saw the pitching line.

yanks a victim of the three batter minimum imo

altho idk who they had in the bullpen who could have pitched better to freeman lol

They've really got to ditch that for the post-season.

I like it. It gives greater import to each bullpen decision since the manager can't just pull the pitcher right away.

hill would definitely have been a better choice to pitch to freeman. if he gets a hit, he gets a hit but at least it’s not self-inflicted

I think the French just really like saying "Freddie Freeman" cc @BySteveHolley pic.twitter.com/RTnpNbZu1o

— Griffin Smith (@BurnerGSmith) October 26, 2024

You’d think Aaron Boone might know something about putting a non reliever in in a big spot in a postseason game

i also think that torres fan interference double was more ambiguous than it looked - there was a homer in one of the mets series where the ball hit the top of the wall and bounced into the stands... could have happened here too imo

Saturday's G2 is the one game I'll have to miss, so you can bank on that one being your 10-9, walk-off grand-slam-in-the-10th game.

― clemenza, Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Wrong day, wrong score, but damn close.

i thought it was as clear as those things get. knowing torres, he probably would’ve been thrown out going to third

xp

They need a name for this move--it's like an anti-bat flip.

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9GKN2Sp/flip.jpg

Boone went with the wrong lefty. pic.twitter.com/PcCZNEEUNz

— Cody Decker (@Decker6) October 26, 2024

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/new-york-yankees/news/derek-jeter-rips-yankees-aaron-boone-gerrit-cole-game-1/e253cc544f8b60fd3808022a

Disagree there. The Yankees got out of the inning--it worked. Cole had just finished a what, seven- or eight-pitch AB with Teoscar? He wasn't going to finish the inning and end up throwing over 100 pitches.

With the exception of a game against Oakland on the 20th September where he only needed 99 pitches to go 9 innings, Cole hasn’t pitched more than 6.2 innings all season. Last year he routinely went deep into games but the way they’re handling him this year and the way he looks makes me think they are trying to protect him. I think if it’s 2023 Cole Boone sends him back out there for more, but this isn’t that guy.

Right. Last year, no hesitation. And for Jeter to bring up Al Leiter throwing 140 pitches in 2000 is not especially germane (starting with the fact the Mets weren't paying Al Leiter $300M+). I'm not a Jeter-hater or even close to that, but he's just making a lot of noise there.

what does what the pitcher is being paid matter?

Last night one of the broadcasters mentioned that Fernando threw 143 pitches in game 3 I guess of the 81 series? I could be off. But still a lot of pitches! The quantification of stats sucks

Every time I hear shit like “the Yankees have won 80 pct of the games they’ve played against left handers in the daytime against teams in other divisions” I’m like fuck off

(xpost, Kevin) That a team would--even though they'd never say as much--be inclined to be more careful with a $300M investment than whatever the Mets were paying Leiter at the time. I don't know that for sure, but I think I would be if I owned a baseball team.

Should have hired Brian de Palma to turn this into a split-screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liBkt-DuvSk

Aaron Judge has been searching his own name on Twitter and blocking people

Bro…What did I even say to get blocked??? pic.twitter.com/AwCF1dyxNA

— Freddie🫡 (@YankeesSzn99) October 26, 2024

If I were a Yankees fan, I'd want for Aaron Judge not to be busy today blocking people on social media (unless it's therapeutic, and not even then).

It’s bizarre. If it’s a social media person who runs his account and he doesn’t actually use it, why bother blocking fans and drawing further negative attention? If he doesn’t actually use the account he won’t see the comments anyway.

Hadn't thought about that--hopefully it's a misguided person employed by Judge, and he's just not aware. Like if you had a translator, etc.

It may well be but it’s a terrible look regardless. He just got voted player of the year by the Player’s Association and yet people are talking about this

Kidding around. I'm Mr. It's-All-About-the-Baseball this WS, so I saw an opening for a Shohei joke.

I love this

Let Ice Cube bat!

Someone needs to tell Soto that they are playing in the World Series.

What are they paying this man again?

2.47mil (slightly more than ohtani)

First time seeing Yamamoto pitch, kinda reminds me of Tim Hudson.

Wow

He heard you Bee

teoscar has always killed the yankees

man

rodon, what a waste of money

Ridiculous

fredward

Legit everything they were making contact with him was hard hit

Tommy Edman‘s splits against LHP are insane

they try to pitch down and away to freeman but they miss the spot and go high and he crushes it

*down and in

They’re pulling Rodón already? What is Stroman even in the pen for if Boone is running out an actual reliever in the 4th?

I guess the answer is Boone really doesn’t trust him at all?!
https://i.postimg.cc/0N6qZnhg/IMG-7083.jpg

is roberts gonna let yamamoto face the top of the order a third time?

i mean, i prob would

eek

ouch

another dodger pitcher gets injured

no one wants to see that

...

Insane

Oh god just turned this on

Pretty good ws so far

Holding serve

Dude got to be a World Series hero with one pitch

Just got home, watching some highlights. Seems like the big story of the first two games is Freddie cements what was probably a sure HOF career anyway. Definitely hope Ohtani is not out.

I'd just like to go on record that I am the Dodgers in 4 voter.

Monday night in the Bronx will be wild

Ohtani has a partially dislocated shoulder -- it sounds awful but he hasn't been ruled out for G3.

Shohei Ohtani suffered a subluxation of his left shoulder, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. He’ll undergo further testing tomorrow, but his strength and range of motion are good.

“We’re encouraged,” Roberts added.

— Alden González (@Alden_Gonzalez) October 27, 2024

This circles back to the point clemenza made about Cole - I’m sure Ohtani will want to play through anything, but if there’s a risk of further damage to his shoulder would they let him? In must win games?

Trevor Story also had a subluxation right at the beginning of the season, also on a bad landing, but he fractured a bone in his shoulder too. Hopefully Ohtani avoids the worst outcome & testing doesn’t flag anything up.

If there's a risk of further damage, I can't imagine they'd play him. They have way too much invested in him to take that kind of chance.

I don't know about this specific injury, but the swelling after a dislocation is really bad. Could he swing a bat without serious pain? If so, could he generate any power from the shoulder, enough to make it worthwhile playing?

Lousy news.

From someone who's shown a bit of baserunning facility this year, that was a pretty poor slide.

How do you hurt your shoulder sliding

Maybe he’s got money on the series going to NY

It’s not out of the question

Breaking: Shohei Ohtani has been cleared to play in Game 3 of the World Series after he suffered a shoulder injury late in the Dodgers' Game 2 win.

"He's in a great spot. He's playing tomorrow," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told ESPN's Karl Ravech via text.

Go LA

Sounds like it popped out and in again

It happens

The Yankees Payroll: $306,000,000
The Dodgers Payroll: $320,900,000
The MLB League Average: $150,000,000
The teams with payrolls twice the league average are facing off in the World Series.
The MLB needs a salary cap & salary floor

although some say-- the Yankees haven’t been in the Ws since 2009 and the dodgers only 3 times since 1988

The MLB needs a salary cap & salary floor

Owners won’t agree to a salary floor and players won’t agree to a cap.

Why did NFL players agree to a cap I wonder?

It was an outcome of a lawsuit that created free agency for the players.

(iirc)

This is also why basically every other North American pro league but MLB has one - free agency plus floors & caps are a defense against antitrust suits

one of the most famous antitrust cases in scotus history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Baseball_Club_v._National_League

Old man shakes fist at the ghost of Howard Taft

I'm still expecting the Yankees to win at least two at home and a six- or seven-game series. They could easily have won one or both of the first two games, even with Judge doing one of his periodic Joe Shlabotnik imitations.

That’s right

Also, there's no way MLB and the networks and the two ownership groups will let their dream match-up close down in a week--the powers that be will intervene if necessary.

Kidding.

The NFL players didn't agree to a cap, it was forced on them by the owners. After the 1987 strike, when the owners used replacement players and basically crushed the players union, the players didn't have much leverage.

The MLB players union has always been stronger, and has refused to even entertain the thought of a cap. In response, the owners say screw you, you can't have it both ways (i.e. a floor but no cap) so we refuse to consider having a floor.

free agency plus floors & caps are a defense against antitrust suits

And since MLB has the one and only antitrust exemption in North American sports, they don't have to play by the business rules that other leagues do.

Wasn't the anti-trust exemption essentially the reserve clause that was ended with free agency in the mid-'70s? Or does it still exist in some other form?

Nope, they're different things. Curt Flood challenged the reserve clause by trying to overturn the antitrust exemption in his case before the SCOTUS, but he lost. The antitrust exemption is still very much in effect.

Does that apply to things like (for instance) somebody trying to start a second team in Toronto? Or a rival league trying to get off the ground? I know Flood lost, but McNally and Messersmith got the reserve clause overturned, right?

(Just noticed: would have been Bowie Kuhn's birthday today!)

i think the antitrust exemption effectively means nobody can start a league that can attempt to compete with major league baseball. but i think that also means indy ball can exists and in fact does exist since indy ball is minor league at best. i don't think mlb would care too much about a second team in toronto so long as that team didn't market itself as a competitor to the jays. i'm betting felicity knows a lot more about this than i do.

the reserve clause is separate and the overturning of that led to free agency.

Thanks. I think baseball is the only one of the four major sports that wasn't threatened by an upstart league at one point.

what about that whippersnapper american league??

yeah otm. not an expert but feel like there's a reason it's called major league baseball and not national league baseball

or maybe that's the joke... hard to tell

If you go back that far, true--Federal League, too, I think.

"This resulted in a landmark federal lawsuit, Federal Baseball Club v. National League, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply to Major League Baseball."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_League

if you look back 10 or so posts...

I know--just giving a specific example (and posting at work...).

Does that apply to things like (for instance) somebody trying to start a second team in Toronto? Or a rival league trying to get off the ground? I know Flood lost, but McNally and Messersmith got the reserve clause overturned, right?

Yes to all of this. In the real world, if you want to move your business into a new market, you can do it -- you're the business owner and can do what you like. But in baseball you can't. The Giants blocked the A's from moving to a better location, the Orioles blocked a team in Washington for years, and the Mets and Yankees completely control a huge NY market that could easily support additional teams (there were three NY teams until the 50's, the Metropolitan population is much larger now).

And the Federal League lawsuit that led to the antitrust exemption made it essentially impossible for anyone to start up a rival league.

The structure of the minor leagues is also a direct consequence of the antitrust exemption. This is what allows MLB to engage in blatantly anti-competitive practices such as unilaterally dropping a bunch of minor league affiliates during the pandemic, and retaining the rights to players through what is essentially a reserve clause. Other sports don't have minor leagues -- this is no accident.

Shohei is apparently playing tonight. I know even less about human anatomy than I thought I did; how do you hit with a dislocated shoulder?

well you have to locate the shoulder first, presumably he’s found it again

I'm laughing...Three most important things in baseball: location, location, location.

If worst comes to worst and aggravates the injury further he’ll get surgery ASAP to repair it, I can’t imagine he isn’t playing through significant pain. How does he take batting practice with that?

I might have been inaccurate above: "partially dislocated shoulder," now that I think about it, which is probably a significant difference?

Speaking of guys out of position

did arod take that route from Chinatown Station that metro recommended? lol pic.twitter.com/dC2DwhR42R

— clueless joe jackson ⚾️ (@illliterate_) October 28, 2024

If the Yankees go down in four, Michael Gill, I will never again be a you're-all-winners, I'm-just-rooting-for-good-games guy.

Why didn't the Phillies invite Schoolly D to do this?

Fat joe not even fat anymore

Slightly chubby joe

Thought that was “pitbull”

Shohei Ohtani came onto the field for introductions with a black sling on his left shoulder that was covered with his jacket.

— Alden González (@Alden_Gonzalez) October 28, 2024

I hope he doesn't partially endanger the rest of his career.

If the Yankees go down in four, Michael Gill, I will never again be a you're-all-winners, I'm-just-rooting-for-good-games guy.

the short porch

You can’t pitch to him!

Ohtani coming out in a sling and then holding his jersey to immobilize his arm on the bases is absolutely bat shit

— Tipping Pitches (@tipping_pitches) October 29, 2024

C'est incroyable

George Springer looking out of place on that list...Wow, Freddie Freeman.

george springer surely asterisk right? the cheating years?

Freddie is locked the fuck in

Springer was, numerically, the worst trash-can offender, so maybe.

yankees should have pitched to ohtani, make him prove he can actually swing the bat

What we didn’t realise, is that the Dodgers are actually powered by their injuries. Shoulda put Kershaw and Glasnow in the rotation!

homered in Games 1+2+3 of the same WS:

2024 Freddie Freeman
2002 Barry Bonds
1958 Hank Bauer https://t.co/Bo59pdU7Bx

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) October 29, 2024

Fingers crossed Buehler is still on. Most fascinating starter on this WS roster imo

Wow! Thanks google cloud!

For the record… that’s a heating pad. I’m sure he definitely has some sort brace under the jersey. Something you normally see on football players who deal with subluxation/dislocation issues. But, what you see here, is just to keep it warm and loose. https://t.co/AYpORgSPUT

— Will Middlebrooks (@middlebrooks) October 29, 2024

Damn Aaron absolutely tilted

Say what you will about yankee fans, but they’re undoubtedly the funniest in baseball

They’re definitely something. I did enjoy the atmosphere at the old stadium tho

I catch way more games at citi

Anthony Volpe and Anthony Rizzo (both Italian, I checked) back-to-back need a good Sopranos/Goodfellas-type nickname.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Tonys

jimmy two times? tony two times?

Volpe is also half-Filipino!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_two_Tonys

how the fuck did I not see your link, sorry clemenza

is ohtani headed to the training room after that weak contact?

Right now, Tony Two Times will suffice: "I'm gonna make out, make out."

Looking grim.

gold glove finalist juan soto

Edman with a bonkers baseball iq

Have to see it again, but a lot of hang time there for Soto.

I dont mean to be rude.....but how did this yankee team get to the world series?

With two outs and an empty base, was kind of rooting for a walk to get someone else in there.

Ump gives the yanks a sympathy out there instead of a run

Kevin Pillar is the between-innings guest commentator for the Jays' flagship station tonight. I know he's got some baggage, but he's good--engaging, easy on the ears.

As much as I hate to say it, I think he's safe.

wrong

Whoah. Yankees are just barely hanging on to the ledge here. Coming out the bullpen, though...

Fantastic. Disaster averted yet again.

Why would you send Stanton

the third base coach has made some truly awful calls this season and postseason

Stanton's not even at third base when Hernández gets the ball. On top of not having enough good players, this team is very stupid. pic.twitter.com/9E344wD7Aa

— River Ave. Blues (@RiverAveBlues) October 29, 2024

lol

"It is so quiet in here."

stanton’s last 11 injuries have all been leg related

Estimated Prophet. Who chooses this end of inning music

With the big three struggling, Yankees need a Bucky Dent for 2024 here.

Smoltz REALLY selling these google cloud advertisements is killing me

ouch............

They used Terrapin Station last year!

Not much, but the only sliver of good news for the Yankees is that this isn't a blowout. It should be.

Just realized where I’ve seen Sotos haircut before. Guile from street fighter

wow home plate ump hasn’t been calling the low strike all game… hell of a time to start calling it

Does anyone know who the official AI sponsor is?

Yup just heard terrapin. Bizarre

Terrapin!

Fox Sports has been using "Althea" for years, and I've heard "Saint of Circumstance" a few times going to commercials. For a while I thought they just had some exclusive deal to use Go to Heaven songs.

Sad Yankee fan with oversized fake gold chain is heartwarming for me.

wow

wouldn’t want to be Robert’s here

bit late for that don't ya think Yanks

embarrassing offensive showing. only question is if they have enough heart to make it a gentleman’s sweep (4-1 series loss) ir if they’re jus totally hopeless

One classic game, one I didn't see, one big bore.

Estimated Prophet. Who chooses this end of inning music

― calstars, Monday, October 28, 2024 10:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

they played it during one of the NFL playoff games last season.

Was there some jackoff in blackface during one of the early ins from commercial break

Gerrit Cole is not available out of the bullpen tonight, Aaron Boone said.

— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) October 29, 2024

Here we go!

I know they have to win tonight, but I'd do the same. The Yankees only hope is win tonight, Cole tomorrow, then take it back to L.A. With no Cole tomorrow, I think a win tonight would be moot.

mooooooooooooook

omg....

what????????????

that short porch

Wonder who WS MVP will be

MLB.TV must have the game3 re-run on

legendary stuff

Weeeee!!!

will always be bummed the braves didn't make him a lifer but really happy for him right now.

Wasn’t that his agent’s fuckup

It was comedy of errors all round

It takes A LOT to get a reaction like that from mookie

HAHAHAHA okay, knowing mookie is fine, hillarious yankeedom right there

wow NY fans as classy as ever, fuck those meatheads

Uh

This is messed up pic.twitter.com/ntL6J6On5i

— nugget chef (@jayhaykid) October 30, 2024

yea not a fan of that, mookie coulda got injured

dude just spent thousands of dollars to get his ass banned for life

he'll make a podcast out of it

yankees 3b coach so shook

Has Juan Soto's hair always resembled that of James Earl Jones (RIP) in Meteor Man?

so freddie has homered in *his* last six world series games

:\

volpe is so locked in you can see it in his face

yanks motivated by the injustice of the fan interference guys getting ejected. NIMBY.

I was keeping an eye on the game while bowling, I live five minutes away, so of course the slam happened on the way home...anyway, a flicker of hope. (Incredible interference play.)

da short porch

Just saw the clip of those two jabronis in rf grabbing Mookie’s glove & wrist - that is some messed up shit.
I’m enraged on his behalf. What if they had actually injured his wrist?!

honeywell - the human white flag

volpe is so locked in you can see it in his face

― 龜, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 11:15 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

da short porch

your did it, Yankees

kinda feel bad for honeywell - roberts makes him wear it every time

be funny if honeywell is what gets judge going

Three to go

Am I the only one who thinks Ohtani's swing looks (understandably, of course) messed up? He's swinging too much from his arms, the rotation in his upper body doesn't look smooth.

yep

i noticed that too - his upper body looked stiff when he was swinging. maybe a day off will help his joint feel better. but i feel like he'd probably need a few days to recoup.

feels like the first 1-2-3 inning from the top of the dodgers order ever

cole looks like he’s gonna kill someone

Whoah, and whoah again.

this is gonna be a short outing for flaherty

Gotta believe the ground shook on Judge's.

Cole striking out guys with a vengeance now, definitely a leave-it-all-out-there game for him

I don't get to see him often, but I love watching Cole--amazing stuff, but also knows how to pitch. (He'll leave it all out there for sure, but I want to see him back there closing out G7, Johnson/Bumgarner-style.)

It wasn't supposed to be like this.......

Flaherty out before 2 innings pitched, ouch

Brief pause from my new Mr. Positivity persona to say that I find the Yankees' pointing-at-their-eyes gesture a little annoying. What does it mean? "Watch me and do what I just did"? Not sure I get it. (The Jays in 2015 did this mixing-it-up-gesture that also got to be a little much after a while.)

more annoying than the dodgers wave?

Generally in favour of on base celebrations, I have no idea what the Yankees one means and Google didn’t help at all. The Dodgers one is just the fusion dance from Dragonball Z.

Must say Dave Roberts must be regretting his bullpen choices in game 4 now.

feels like both teams are reverting to the mean but from opposite directions

Wonder who WS MVP will be

― gyac, Tuesday, October 29, 2024 5:15 PM bookmarkflaglink

Short Porch

Pretty sure that’s the first bit of hard contact Cole’s given up

multiple kinds of hard contact on that play, glad judge is ok

Please make the most of this.

suddenly the yanks have forgotten how to play baseball

HIT THE BALL

Otani looks like a guy who maybe shouldn't be playing.

......

lol

Well, thanks I guess!

Cmon Freddie Freddie Freddie freddie

aahhhahahaha this yankee D is entertaining, even if they win tonight

What is going on?

LETS GO

Lol @ Yankees

Incredible

Jesus Christ

Well, ya did it to yourselves yanks

Cole must be screaming internally

Unbelievable

Maybe Cole should have covered first a few batters ago.

ohhhh my god

turns out you can score a lot of runs with six outs in an inning

I need a photoshop of that shot of Cole pointing at first base pointing back at Cole, Spiderman style.

Aaron Boone just gonna let Cole die I guess

This is like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Cole has no help and has to pitch and play all the positions too

https://i.redd.it/qcg5ky8569z41.jpg

voodoo otm

This inning is still going on?

platinum glove play by volpe to finish it, relative to the inning

Can you imagine how bad that would have been if Ohtani’s arm wasn’t hanging off

jfc. cole fucked that up by not covering first base

Did Cole really not cover first? I remember he didn’t cover home in some game a while back and they got absolutely cooked alive then too iirc

I didn't expect Cole to cover on that play. The ball spun on Rizzo on the last bounce and then he's like "I need help." Yes, Judge dropped the ball but Volpe had nowhere to throw on that play at third.

Go Yanks.

cover first. basic stuff

One error by the mvp batter finally turning it back on, one by their ace throwing a no-hitter, one by the hottest youngster who kept the series alive. Nightmare situation.

This is a GAME!

Feels wrong that all 5 of those runs are unearned.

I lost my TV and checked out of watching but now I have a new one. Came back on a good game.

ouch

does it feel wrong? inning should’ve ended with the ohtani strikeout

god i hope austin wells wrist is ok

Of course

xxp none of those runs score if the pitcher fields his position

At least they gave Cole a breather

Is Cole coming back out?!

apparently

Was that a strike?

What the fuck

He could have been out

to quote john, yankees are running the bases like drunks

Cole coming out for the 7th?

Hard to believe

it is an elimination game after all

dude i was joking lmao

Saw all that in a local pub--I haven't seen a defensive meltdown like that since Elvis Andrus and the Rangers in 2015. Felt bad for Cole. Glad Boone stuck with him--if they can hold on, he should be available for an inning in a possible G7.

Shakedown St!

Great pitch

xxp none of those runs score if the pitcher fields his position

― H.P, Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:05 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

how is Cole not charged for some of those runs? if he's on the hook for the betts, freeman and hernandez hits, shouldn't he have been charged for 2 of them?

think roberts is gonna ask treinen to finish this game

I think they figure if you could be "out" of the inning then none of the runs are ER...like if there's an error on out 3 you can give up 10 straight HRs and still have a clean sheet

Any run scored after what should have been the third out is unearned. Over the course of a season, there can be a real difference among starters in the number of unearned runs they give up--sometimes it's better to just look at runs per game instead of ERA. (Tonight, though, I think Cole should legitimately be spared any earned runs.)

Oh no

well here we go lads

Forgetting the "error on the third out"? errors on the pitcher still result in unearned runs. Weird anomaly, still don't think i like it.

Should clarify: fielding errors by the pitchers still result in unearned runs

Oh yeah, here we go!

should've let Cole go 8

Lol

Can not believe this guy is 31 years old. Michael A. Taylore-esque

Luxxxxxxxyyyyyy

Better than a walk

You're kidding me

WTF

inventing new ways to screw up

Just play like a normal team yankees, good lord

If dodgers win this game it's going to be another mickey mouse ring cause they beat a mickey mouse team

i don't have the volume on what exactly happened there

Catchers interference

Unbelievable

yankees got use all 6 of those outs now

yeah that's what I thought but from the back view it didn't look to me like he interfered. well maybe just a little but come on

What a game

The bat hit the gloves. Didn't really interrupt the swing but it was legit

Walker Buehler closing it out!!!! Drama!!!!

This is so sick 🤒

everyone’s arm is pulled pork except Marcus Stroman who didn’t throw a single pitch this postseason

will be very funny if the yankees end up winning and beuhler gets burned in the process

that decisive first swing by mookie was a beauty

14 walks in this game btw

god damnit Rob Lowe wear the MLB hat

If Treinen can just keep humming...

this game NEEDS to go into extras

Nice job covering the bag treinen.

Kind of a mixed bag of celebrities there.

5 more outs!

baldwin is easy to blame for this whole yankees situation

Shoulda never let Judge get hot

Surprisingly close by muncy

hey he can jump higher than i thought he could

😬

Geez 37 pitches by treinen. Man has been a work horse this series. LEAVING HIM IN???????

FOR STANTON?????

🫣🫣🫣🫣

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawg

ice ice baby

Badass

Magic Johnson really must have loved that strikeout to get the Dodgers into the 9th inning!

expecting neighborhood fireworks soon

i admit its pretty cool for the Dodgers to break the hearts of both sides of New York in one postseason

YANKEES! PLAY. NORMAL!

Well they are *really* from Brooklyn

Dodgers really showing who is the best new York team

yanks doing a good job of teaching the lesser known baseball rules

for all the kids watching

You have to pull Weaver here Boone

16 walks

i admit its pretty cool for the Dodgers to break the hearts of both sides of New York in one postseason

not sure i’ve seen a third disengagement all year

The padres were the next best team this post season

True, that's why we say the road to the Series goes through the 5

That's a beautiful curve

Through the 5?

Interstate 5!

In SoCal we refer to the freeways by number preceded by "the." In NorCal it's just the number.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qk8QYWvvhVhH5hZv8

Ah of course. I've had a lot of fun driving the 5, just didn't have the nomenclature in mind

(we definitely don't say that)

Hah.

Kind of emotional having Buehler at the end of his contract finishing this out

congrats HP

Congratulations Dodgers fans

that's a shame