2025 Division series

Sorry but Zing wouldn’t load the last few comments of the Wild Card series post for me so a new thread for each round I’m afraid.

STARTING TOMORROW:

CUBS- BREW CREW
(Tbd vs Freddy Peralta)

YANKEES - JAYS
(Tbd vs Gausman)

DODGERS - PHILLIES (nuclear bomb vs nuclear bomb)
(Ohtani vs Sánchez)

TIGERS - MARINERS
(TBD vs TBD, game 2 has Skubal)

Pouring one out for the ones lost on the way:

Boston Red Sox
Cincinnati Reds
Cleveland Guardians
San Diego Padres

Jays win a playoff game - TBD.

Are you going to be there?

It'd be nice, but pretty expensive, plus you have to do what Thermo's girlfriend did (I believe they're seeing two of the games), which is to treat it like a Taylor Swift concert--and I haven't got the patience to sit there hitting refresh for 30 minutes.

TOR NYY - TOR
SEA DET - SEA

MIL CHC - MIL
LAD PHI - pickem but PHI i think

Agree with that I think

Potential backstories:

1) Toronto-Seattle: the two '77 expansion franchises.
2) Toronto-Detroit: avenging 1987...
3) NY-Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwSxqnRW-8

This is the first Jays-Yankees postseason series ever; Seattle and NY have faced each other a number of times, I think, so there are a few backstories there (led by this, of course):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8SBJzOEcyU

Not that I want a Mariners-Yankees ALCS!

NY > TOR
SEA > DET
PHI > LA
MIL > CHI

I was 4/4 for the wild card. Hopefully I’m wrong about the Yanks/Jays series!

And I will be there Sunday!! Also game 5, if it happens.

nice!

Geez, I'm looking at those picks and hoping that's some kind of reverse whistling-past-the-graveyard hocus pocus.

My main issue is having watched the blue jays play baseball the last three weeks of the season.

let's go! friday night in autumn, no NBA, NFL, or NHL on -- can't wait to see what the league schedulers have prepared for us tonight

Weeks, schmeeks--I'm going solely by the last three DAYS (and especially those excellent three INNINGS in game 162).

Rooting: MIL, LAD, TOR, SEA
Expecting: MIL, not sure, not sure, SEA

as a Brewer fan this next week is gonna be stressful as hell, not just a playoff series vs. your biggest rival there's also the Craig Counsell thing and also the team has really flopped in the postseason like 4 times in a row

i shall accept nothing less than a world series featuring milwaukee vs. seattle (or, if we must, toronto)

so let it be typed, so let it be done

If the WS comes down to Seattle-Milwaukee, I'm going to rename that the Joe Schultz Invitational.

Buck Martinez hands the Yankees something for their clubhouse wall:

https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-boone-responds-to-buck-martinez-comments-about-yankees

expect toronto to take game one of the series - taxed bullpen, unreliable gil. gausman always pitches well against the yanks

If the WS comes down to Seattle-Milwaukee, I'm going to rename that the Joe Schultz Invitational.

The Seattle derby! Mariners-Pilots!

They'll need to invite Steve Hovley (still alive at 80 and sitting in an alfalfa field somewhere, contemplating existence) to throw out the first pitch...I didn't clue in to the connection until today, but absent Toronto, that's what I want, Seattle-Milwaukee.

Dream start for the Crew in the battle of Craig Counsell. Matthew Boyd pulled in the first after 33 pitches.

Boyd pulled in the first

Sorry xp

that hoerner error was brutal

Craig Counsell cam every hit is brutal

inning finally over. 6 runs!

yeeee haw

Any chance of you going frogbs?

My main issue is having watched the blue jays play baseball the last three weeks of the season.

DUDE

Not sure what you're referring to, outside of the mini-slump when they lost six of seven, they played fine. 15-10 in September, most of the losses to good teams (Boston, NY), won out on the final weekend when they had to, bullpen started showing signs of coming together. Even with the offense "crashing" after Bichette got injured, they still scored the second-most runs in the league.

are you allowed to pitch a position player in the playoffs?

BINGO

Any chance of you going frogbs?

― Marsee playground (gyac), Saturday, October 4, 2025 1:48 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm going to try to!!

Go Brewers, Jays, Dodgers, Tigers.

Following is my liveblog of the bottom of the 2nd because I was riveted by the constant CounsellCam™️, I didn’t know it would last that long. Hopefully they put someone in who can get some outs, my arm might fall off by the 5th.

Contreras base hit.
Yelich base hit.
Craig Counsell cam. Displeasure.
Andrew Vaughn at plate; Counsell cam. Vaughn base hit. Bases loaded no outs.
Sal Frelick at plate. “His former manager Craig Counsell once called him the hit collector”.
Frelick f7. Shot of Civale warming up in bullpen. “You know they (Brew crew) traded Civale to get Andrew Vaughn.”
Durbin bloop scores two.
Shot of Counsell going down the steps of the dugout taking his cap off and scratching his head.
Cut to Pat Murphy looking pink and pleased. Counsell in the dugout staring into space.
“The break doesn’t seem to have hurt the Brewers. Maybe the Cubs needed more time.”
Perkins grounds out to first.
Shot of Counsell leaning up at the bottom of the dugout with one knee up on the steps. Hat still off.
Joey Ortiz walks. Bases loaded again.
Counsell comes out to the mound to finally pull Soroka. Boos ring around him, falling like a barrel of upended cheese curds.

Civale in game. Churio up. Bases loaded two outs. Churio grounds to third, runs out the infield single from Matt Shaw’s noodle arm. Another run scores.

Wait, is Churio injured? They’re pulling him, presumably as a preventative. They don’t need his bat to win this one. Isaac Collins in.

“Churio has driven in three of the Milwaukee nine.”

Message from my friend in our baseball chat group. “You could be having the worst day of your life and Craig Counsell is having a worse one.”

Turang up. Bases loaded two outs. Civale finally strikes him out. This inning has lasted ten years. Children have reached the age of majority. Craig Counsell’s soul left the building years ago.

Lol gotta say this has been fun so far

Unclear what happened to Churio, he seemed to be walking okay though

They said he had a sore hammy and were worried he might have reaggravated it. Struck me as precautionary but we’ll see.

he was out a month last time with that, the look on his face seemed like maybe he knew it was bad, but that's just reading between the lines. we def need him so I really hope he's not out long.

nice outing for Civale at least, if the Cubs are looking for a silver lining :)

To what extent does your life revolve around Alejandro Kirk?

Watching the game here with my old high-school friend Stev...Vlad: it's alive! And Kirk is on a tear. Wish they weren't taking out the starter here.

Uh, Steve--not from Denmark.

someone tell Darryl Strawberry to stop putting that 40 year old chewing gum in his mouth, it's giving me the fear

Every pitcher's nightmare.

This game unraveled in a hurry. Judge with the bases loaded ...

Did nothing.

A veritable miracle.

luke weaver is not having a good postseason

He was closing then got bumped down to like sixth inning?

Blackburn coming in, Boone is firmly punting

We call this OtHZ: outside the Hoffman Zone.

Can't punt anything with the Blue Jays' bullpen being what it is, but right now they're looking like the team with a lights out relief corps, and the Yankees are looking like the team with a collection of failed closers.

weaver in the playoffs: 2 G, 0.0 IP, 5 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 6 BF, 25 pitches, 15 strikes, ERA ∞

that is *rough*

KIRK KIRK KIRK

Say the line, gyac.

YANKEES SUCK

Even Giminez is a hitting star today 2-4, 2 RBI.

Time to start saving some of this offense for the rest of the series.

Say the line, gyac.

To what extent does your life revolve around Alejandro Kirk?

Yes!

Sad to have missed a second stint of his little legs circling the bases. User Sharivari simply does not believe he’s 5’8” and neither do I. He must have been standing on a box when they came to measure him for ABS.

what other catcher is capable of legging out a triple?

Dodgers fans are bellyaching about "cheap hits and shitty defense" but both Schwarbs & Bader narrowly missed homeruns, deep warning track flies. Will be interesting if he can regroup after this, esp knowing how garbage the pen is and how reticent Roberts is to use them. They'll probably burn a starter instead.

Dodgers' trainer 1000% also runs a tantric pilates studio in los feliz.

broadcast mentioned glasnow might be available to piggyback

what other catcher is capable of legging out a triple?

Dillon Dingler

ilb legend willians 'la tortuga' astudillo had one (1) career triple

shoheibrero

Xp i miss him

Ohtani Glasnow back to back is disgusting

Vesiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Strut your stuff!

Hmm, maybe don’t keep in Kirby against a guy who now has 5 home runs against him.

Phillies vs Dodgers was some game. Sasaki closing games is actually going to work!

Tigers win, surprise.

Only two Mariners got hits? Rough. Idk how they’ll do it against Skubal tomorrow.

That's the one thing anyone will have to face against Detroit if they advance: you'll get Skubal twice in a 7-game series. So if he's on his game--he did have one poor start down the stretch--you've got to win four out of the other five.

Pulled a Morbs and fell asleep in the bottom of the 10th.

Yesavage strikes out the side!

I've watched all his starts and still can't quite anticipate his release point.

What a start.

I’m not convinced Jazz needed to take so long to throw to first, but then I saw Kirk had barely left the box by the time he got thrown out

It's been bugging me who Yesavage reminded me of delivery-wise, and the Jays' announcers just supplied the answer: Juan Guzman. The big difference being Guzman used to take a day-and-half to complete five innngs. Yesavage works quite quickly, even quicker than required by the clock.

Fried looks like he wants to die

woop

frankly Fried is another one of these guys in the haunted gas station attendant mold

Fried is very attractive, that’s unfair. He’d be the best looking pitcher in the league if he shaved that attempt at facial hair off

For those not in Toronto, Ernie Clement had a fabulous and totally anonymous season: 4.3 WAR, played three or four different positions.

I love when these guys give the "what-was-that?" look back at the mound as they walk away after each strikeout.

Yesavage is filthy.

Hoping that Schneider doesn't try to get smart and "Barrios" his start with a too-quick hook.

His middle name is Max Dorian Fried!!!

Most memorable middle names revealed in the playoffs to date:

Max Dorian Fried
Ben Kimball Rice
Ceddanne Chipper Nicasio Marte Rafaela (I knew this already tbf)
Spencer Enochs Torkelson
Abner Brismaury Uribe

don't forget Mike Giancarlo Stanton

Ted Fucking Williams will always be my favourite...pile on these runs. Avoid pitching to Judge. Avoid Hoffman. Pile them on.

Fried looks like he wants to kill everyone

Toronto fans celebrating local booty-bass legends Tag Team (back again) with a rousing edition of "whoomp there it is"

Only two of the Jays seven hits have been hard contact

Dodgers WS odds tripled in the past hour

Fried has been reduced to wandering around the pitching mound, muttering to himself.

#freeippei #draftkings #fanduel

See... that's not an MVP. Dumper would annhilate this 21Savage guy.

Thought Bellinger was going to snap the bat over his knee

Yesavage set the team record for K's in a postseason game. IM THE FOURTH INNING.

I think we might be witnessing some kind oif history here.

Am in the 200 level CF standing area and this place is going nuts

See... that's not an MVP. Dumper would annhilate this 21Savage guy.

Raleigh has an OPS of 1.016 with 10 hr in 24 games against Toronto

wow

is it too early to post *that* thread?

you know the one

CRUSH. THE. YANKEES.

I didn't know what that "wow" meant because of the delay.

WOW!

@NickTurturro1 5m
WHERE FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALDS stats:

VladJr: 6/7
NYY: 6/44

stophesalreadydead.jpg

Don't know how many pitchers the Yankees are carrying right now, but wouldn't be surprised to see a position player on the mound at some point today.

you know the one

I don’t!

lmao

I never want to hear the excuse that the bye is bad for teams again

WHERE FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol, everywhere, buddy, everywhere

God forbid, but if the Jays were to go on and lose the series, I wonder if that Yankees broadcaster who was wining about run differential this year will credit the Jays as the better team...I'm giddy right now.

"whining"

aaron judge do something in the postseason challenge

but maybe save it up for tuesday

WFAN is going to be lit tomorrow. Cashman is going to have to get smuggled into the stadium in a steamer trunk.

Legit never seen a team throw away any momentum they had quite like Russ

This!

Doesn't matter, it's not like Yesavage is going pitch beyond the 6th or so, but that should be an error.

https://i.postimg.cc/NMnq0gKv/IMG-2282.jpg

Remember when Yankees fans were laughing at Soto’s Mets collapsing and saying they didn’t need him? Surely the guy with the career OPS over 900 in the postseason didn’t carry them last year!

Judge is having a rough series for sure, but usually he comes to Canada and does very well (1.084 OPS for his career).

Mark my words: Dumper is gonna own 21Savage

Cal Raleigh famously owns Toronto, he must have had a shit holiday there as a child or something

ruh roh, pulling rook after 5IP no-no ...

Toronto hasn't won yet. And I think Seattle's down a game, and going against Skubal today.

so it begins...

the evil empire has awoken...

That would have been funnier if it was Judge homering

Hoping that Schneider doesn't try to get smart and "Barrios" his start with a too-quick hook.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, October 5, 2025 4:47 PM (one hour ago)

does he have a "garbage time" stigma?

The Hoffman Zone dictates that Toronto needs a 5-run lead to feel safe; so a 12-0 game is really like a 7-0 game. It's 12-2 now, but it's really 7-2.

does he have a "garbage time" stigma?

https://i.postimg.cc/HWZSyZsC/IMG-2289.jpg

I think it was 3-0 when I wrote that, clem. Anyway, pulling him was totally defensible -- third time through the order, and you've got to think about using Trey in a potential G5.

Obviously the meme is outdated

They’re playing Sergio Romo’s music!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Torontobluejays/comments/124c6mo/today_i_learned_el_mech%C3%B3n_was_originally_sergio/

The Hoffman Zone dictates that Toronto needs a 5-run lead to feel safe; so a 12-0 game is really like a 7-0 game. It's 12-2 now, but it's really 7-2.

Varsho heard you

Varsho pre-emptively bailing out Hoffman.

Ernie Clement grew up a Yankees fan in upstate NY

@NickTurturro1 44m
I NEVER SEEN SUCH COMPLETE EMOTIONALLY EMBARASSING PERFORMANCE LIKE THIS IN MY LIFETIME BACK TO BACK DAYS AS A YANKEE FAN I HAVE NO MOTHERFUCKING WORDS TO SAY!!!!!!!

More words to say:

@NickTurturro1 43m
AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORDS I GITTA LISTEN TO THIS YANKEE HATER SMOLTZ LICKING HIS CHOPS!!!!

@NickTurturro1 7m
TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE WHEN IT WAS 5 ZIP YOU BRING IN THIS WARREN DUDE WHOSE LIKE BATTING PRACTICE JUST UNBELIEVABLE NOTHING FUCKING CHANGES!!!!!

@NickTurturro1 3m
THE QUESTION IS WHAT THE HELL DO THEY SEE IN WILL WARREN I DONT FUCKING GET IT FOR THE LIFE OF ME!!!!

Lmao?

What the shit is happening here.

That G4 bullpen game is looking dicier by the minute.

Should I start venting now, or save it...It's almost like Schneider decided he'd do an experiment: let's take out the guy pitching a no-hitter after 78 pitches, and we'll throw out the back end of our bullpen and see what happens.

question for someone who didn't see it:

when scheider took out yungyeezysavage, did he hand him the game ball?

To be fair, you, me, and a drunk Tyler Heineman should be able to house a twelve run lead in the sixth.

True enough, I just think he could've let him finish the sixth and at least have a shot at the rookie strikeout record. But I agree, it they were to blow this, it wouldn't fall on Schneider.

love a good russ ortiz reference

Should have been *hold* a twelve run lead ...

But I agree, making the pitching change mid-inning with nobody on was strange.

LUKE WEAVER GOT AN OUT

Varsho missed a record there by a few feet--no one's ever had 5 XBH in a postseason game.

It was quite satisying routing--decimating--the Yankees there for a while, but assuming the Jays hang on, not sure those late runs against our mop-up crew will necessarily put NY in a better frame of mind for G3.

Only the mariners can pull that one off

Stuff of nightmares: if Stanton had homered in the ninth, they could have brought in Hoffman to pitch in a save situation.

All credit to Hazel Mae for that post-game interview: she had Yesavage tearing up and both his parents crying, and I didn't even have to look away.

LUKE WEAVER GOT AN OUT

― mookieproof, Sunday, October 5, 2025 7:00 PM (two hours ago)

luke weaver multi-game yes hitter finally over?

polanco... O_O

Andres Muñoz said that when he leaves home to go to work he and his wife leave the TV on so their cat Matilda can watch the game 🥺

Time to start saving some of this offense for the rest of the series.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, October 4, 2025 6:57 PM (two days ago)

I can't be the only Jays fan who, mixed in with all the amazement and whooping, is just a little queasy about the fact that we just scored 36 runs in three games. The Jays scored 798 runs this year, fourth most in baseball (helped by that ridiculous Colorado series where we scored 45/3), so they do have some punch, but the '27 Yankees or '75 Reds we're not. And when this team goes cold, they go ice cold and stay there for a week. So hoping this doesn't set the stage for that, either in this series or, potentially, the next one.

We can't complain, but sometimes we still do.

Super rare diving race to 3rd to get out of the jam. Pitching has been fire today

Leaving your starter in with traffic vs. Not leaving your starter in with traffic

Phils in danger of an 0-2 hole really quickly.

Teo's bat vs. Teo's everything else.

He's out

Yeah the right call

I'm on the train, which $$$$$$$$$$ dodger starter is warming up in the pen?

lol fuck blake treinen

Agreed

Vesia thinks he still wears the same size he wore in high school despite having a dad bod.

"Trust me, I'm a size 31 waist, always have been"

terrible baserunning by Castellanos, that's the game right there

Amazing bit of hitting possibly wasted.

The blunt wasn’t so great tho, need to go up the 1b line

Get Betts a put-out at first to finish.

Never in doubt.

like clem said, what a waste

DombrowskiPout.jpg

Definitely wasn’t expecting LA to be going home up two.

The blunt wasn’t so great

It's been a few decades, but I don't remember ever having a bad blunt.

Hahahaa whoops

was anybody available to pinch run for casty??

wow thrillwaukee!

you cant just pitch to Andrew Vaughn like that

Hmmmm dunno how long they should stick with Miz here

Hell yeah

also never mind I guess Miz was fine just saying he seemed a bit too amped up

Miz has been a low-key mess for more than a few games. His command is shaky at best.

Uribe on the other hand is filthy.

yea it does concern me a bit with Miz that he's getting all this attention as a flamethrower because I think he needs to take a little off, the threat of the 105 mph fastball ought to be enough

Abner Brismaury Uribe getting it done

11 appearances
8 innings
12 hits
11 runs (9 earned)
8 walks
7 strikeouts
1-4, 1 blown save
10.13 ERA
since Treinen's hat nonsense.

I don't even want to see that trumper dork unless LA is up by at least 10 runs

freeman almost couldn't handle that throw at the end cause of that ankle heh

i'm assuming the hat nonsense is related to trump/kirk or some other vile trash human?

yeah i'm not gonna display the image in this thread but you can see for yourself

Charlie Kirk – the 10.13 ERA of humans.

nominating Riley Greene for the Tin Glove award for his... indescribable defensive prowess.

Jarren Duran is worse

logan gilbert has one of the worst windups i’ve ever seen

It's vlads world

I don’t know why they didn’t walk him there (Judge)

nah I hate IBBs when you're up by more than 1

Ya, but judge

Not second-guessing, but I don't think walking Judge there would have made sense...Disappointed Bieber couldn't have taken that lead to five innings at least.

Ya. The jays def need to win today pulling Beiber this early. Tomorrow is set to be a bullpen day, but there’s no way we don’t use Varland and a bunch of other guys now.

these playoffs have had some of the sloppiest relief pitching in years...

Caleb Ferguson perhaps not a dependable arm with a 7-run lead.

:/

We've turned a series win into a long slog of attrition between two mediocre bullpens.

(I'd be marvelling at Judge if this weren't Toronto.)

What a disaster.

https://✧✧✧.tik✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@hitc✧✧✧.✧/video/7538376073512291597

very cool code d00dz lol

https://shorturl.at/tOeZQ

Santander got a big hit tonight, but was just a matter of time till that happened--he has no business playing the field, outfield defense being one the Jays' biggest strengths.

I was in transit for five minutes earlier, so I missed that play Barger flubbed before the Judge HR--yuck...I'd be very surprised if the Jays won tomorrow. I am deeply relieved that, if all else fails, we'll have home field for a G5. I still remember the Jays basically conceding that in 2015 when they gave Buehrle game 162 to try to get his 200 innings. They ended up going down 2-0 on the road in the ALCS, then they lost G6 on the road. So that may--may--save them in the end this time. But tonight will be hard to shake off.

No. No clue why he was in right instead of springer.

And after burning through our pen today and having no 4th SP the jays are boned tmrw.
On the bright side, I have seats to game 5

The Jays hadn't lost a game all year that they led by four or more runs? Somehow I was unaware of that bit of trivia. Time up update the Hoffman rule? Or time to count to count down the hours until Hoffman coughs up six runs? He didn't pitch in games 2 and 3, clearly he'll be pitching multiple innings tonight. Twice the chances for a blow-up outing, I guess...

Time *to* update the rule, that is

Jays are going with Varland tonight: 4-3, 2.97 vs. (Schlittler) 4-3, 2.96.

starting guys on 12 hours rest is the new moneyball.

i am not happy with how the jays – the pen especially - look for today.

guess they should have kept scherzer on the roster eh?

was wondering what happened to bowden francis who almost no hit the mets last year - turns out he's injured

If you're pulling your starter in the third then it's pretty much a bullpen game anyway. I don't think Scherzer with the way he pitched toward the end of the season, would have done better than Bieber.

Jays are going with Varland tonight: 4-3, 2.97 vs. (Schlittler) 4-3, 2.96.

― clemenza, Wednesday, October 8, 2025 6:38 AM (thirty-five minutes ago)

wow that's an interesting take, i'd frame it more like:

Schlittler is pitching on 5 days rest, following one of the most impressive starts we've seen this postseason.

Varland will be pitching on 12 hours rest, after being charged with the loss last night allowing a 3 run HR to Judge and a solo HR to Jazz during the epic BJs bullpen collapse.

"you lost the game last night, therefore your punishment is to go back out there and try to redeem yourself!"

-some 1910s manager probably

Obviously I'm aware that those numbers were arrived at very differently; the coincidence is still interesting.

Lots of second-guessing on the radio about pulling Bieber too early. I was okay with that--he wasn't pitching well at all--but one guy framed it in a way that has me second-guessing too: you have a better chance of Bieber "navigating" his way through a rough start than handing it over to Toronto's bullpen for the next 15 innings.

the main issue is that Schnider's been managing the team like he has a 4th starter. i get that he didn't want to over use Yesavage and the Bieber didn't look great and that Fluharty gave up some baserunners and so on... but man. the pen has been shaky enough as it is, we can't lean on them to pitch 15 innings in two days. i'd imagine Varland will open and Lauer will throw the bulk (maybe 4 if we're lucky) and then it's back into the churn.
also was annoyed from the onset Santander was in the field and not at DH. unless Springer has a malade we're not aware of, he should have been in right last night.

xopst - exactly. i was saying (possibly shouting) it last night as it was happening.

(xposts) Reality caught up to Bowden Francis this year: he was pretty good through his first five starts, then for the next nine he gave up 47 hits and 18 walks in 36 innings and carried a 7.93 ERA. And that was the end of his season.

Completely agree about Bieber, he was OK in the first two innings but they got to him in the third. They pulled him with the tying run coming to the plate and that's usually a good time to pull your starter in a playoff game. But when you know that the next day is a bullpen game, you have to look at the bigger picture. Bieber had only thrown 56 pitches, he could have pulled it together and pitched, say, into the fifth with a 6-3 lead. The game might have turned out differently.

I'm assuming Schneider didn't do that because he didn't want Bieber struggling through 90-100 pitches, which would make him unavailable (most likely) for a potential Game 5. This way, the Game 5 plan could be Gausman for five innings, Bieber for two, and some combination of relievers that don't implode tonight for two. That's a plan I can live with.

More positive thoughts:

1) The Jays have obliterated every Yankee SP.
2) I have no idea how Judge homered off an 100 MPH pitch in on his hands, other than the fact that he's Aaron Freaking Judge. That can't possibly happen again.

As they said last night, since the advent of Statcast, no one--not once--has hit a pitch that fast (99 mph) and that inside for a HR.

If it goes to a G5, the Jays will also have the it's-impossible-to-figure-out-sports rule going for them. Everything at the point would strongly suggest the Yankees winning; that's when the complete opposite happens.

All in all, I still think I'd prefer to somehow win G4.

They still put up six runs and knocked out the opposing SP in a losing effort.

You would think that if they can score 6-7 runs again, that should be enough even for the parade of clowns we call a bullpen, with nobody throwing more than one inning other than Lauer and Hoffman.

You would think.

TIL: Ohtani's interpreter (Will Ireton)'s father is the former CEO and President of Warner Bros Japan:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3

what do you think about this hat?

https://i.postimg.cc/5tsNcdXY/Screenshot-2025-10-08-at-3-35-04-PM.png

User Sharivari has made me aware of the unusual number of serial killers that come from Washington State and so I’m on Wikipedia and

Linda Laura Hazzard (née Burfield; December 18, 1867 – June 24, 1938), nicknamed the "Starvation Doctor", was an American quack, swindler, and convicted serial killer noted for her promotion of fasting, pummeling and hours-long enemas as treatments. In 1911, Hazzard was found guilty of manslaughter in the state of Washington and was sentenced to 2 to 20 years of hard labor for killing at least 15 people for financial gain at a sanitarium she operated near Seattle in the early 20th century. She was released on parole after only serving two years and later, on the condition that she move to New Zealand, received a full pardon from Governor Ernest Lister in 1916. Hazzard died at 70 after subjecting herself to her treatment methods

What is going on up there

Why did they pull Mize? He didn’t look bad!

Mize is on the bench going “I could have done that”

Naylor making it incredibly obvious he’s trying to steal sons

Signs!!

xp to DY

lollllll

now that's a mistake

it's like hmmm.....

ヤンキー風 would be better it's got more of a "way of the gangster" vibe in Japanese (as a homonym).

Guarantee there's gonna be a huge run on these and you can net a fortune selling to bored suburban kids in exurbia Japan.

Unwritten rules: stealing signs.
Written laws: stealing sons.

https://i.postimg.cc/4dL0TZRC/b76779ac-e779-4951-859c-f5e8895721ae.jpg

There once was a man named Kyle Ed Finnegan,
Throws his pitches and then he spins them again
Up came Cal and drove in runs again
Poor old Kyle Finnegan!

what's going on?

Nothing much just Raleigh drove a run in

Dillon Dingler coming up big

AJ Pierzynski (talking about the Bryce Miller mound visit just before this) WELL WHATEVER THAT MEETING WAS ABOUT, IT DIDN’T WORK

AJ Hinch pinch hitting masterclass

AJ Pierzynski (talking about the Bryce Miller mound visit just before this) WELL WHATEVER THAT MEETING WAS ABOUT, IT DIDN’T WORK

― Marsee playground (gyac), Wednesday, October 8, 2025 1:44 PM (four minutes ago)

yes, this was the mid-AB pitcher's conference which nearly ever leads to a positive outcome (for the pitcher) that i referred to!

Man oh man oh man

didn't we see this game yesterday?

This is playoff baseball

lol good point, like they just said, all the Mariners good relief arms are RHP

ruh roh

Hooray for offense.

Riley Greene is very good

What on earth was that play

Wencel!!!

skubal game 5 https://www.2pass.co.uk/nervous.gif

Wow, according to FS1, that home run traveled 239 feet.

It was Javy

xp they’re so fucked, Skubal went to Seattle U and is going to want revenge for Tigers losing the game he pitched

they really do come in bunches huh

other than the fact that he's Aaron Freaking Judge. That can't possibly happen again.

dude!

unexpectedly got tix to the yankee game tonight so maybe the starter will go 5+ innings just for me

hoping for schlitt to happen

Supervillain style closeup of Skubal in the dugout wearing sunglasses

AJ Pierzynski: HE’S LOOMING

Fox sports then cuts to this
https://i.postimg.cc/0yDvZjKP/IMG-2447.jpg

Quinn Preister at 39 pitches in the 1st, nearly got out of it with 1 run but nope

Cubsback

i don't have much hope of the cubs winning this series, i never really did - their only real advantage is slugging and that's been a lot quieter as of late, while the brewers are so tough and consistent. but i hope they can win this game today at wrigley. don't want them to get swept.

Haven't been able to watch today, but I know the ideal situation for the Jays, if they can somehow manage to win, was for the Tigers to win in 5 with Skubal going twice.

george springer is such an amazing player

The athletic has a whole article about how the Brewers are a relatively short team???

The average big-league hitter in 2025 registered at 72.3 inches, just north of 6 feet, according to Elias. With the exception of Christian Yelich, the 6-3 face of the franchise, no Brewers regular exceeds that standard. Among the players, the lack of height does not go unnoticed, especially when watching Frelick, catcher William Contreras (5-10), first baseman Andrew Vaughn (5-10), shortstop Joey Ortiz (5-10), outfielder Isaac Collins (5-8) and third baseman Caleb Durbin (5-7) exit the diamond.

I'm the last guy who understands the construction of a bullpen day, but do you need to take out Varland this soon? Are you going to run every single guy out there till you find the one guy who has absolutely nothing today?

I am in full Bee OK panic mode tonight, so you'll just want to let me ramble on.

Would be so funny for the brewers to win this. A playoff sweep of 1st inning comebacks

I just assumed both Gausman and Yesavage were being held back tonight, but evidently Schneider is ready to use one of them.

Damn

The Craig Counsel cam was a bit irritating at first, but they've committed to the bit and a slice of schadenfreude after every cubs mistake is exactly what the doctor ordered.

^^jinxed it soz

On the record: I would much rather face a G5 in Toronto with both Gausman and Yesavage ready to go than take a chance on tonight by using one of them.

Good job, Lauer. But no way the Jays win this game 2-1--need three or four more runs.

Do not walk Judge--the worst he can do is tie it.

I think this is a bad move.

I liked it tbh.

It worked. It almost blew open the game, but it worked.

It let schnider not-take-out Lauer for two whole extra batters, so I liked it. Yariel can come out for the 7th, then fisher/little/Hoffman (ugh) for 8-9. Yesavage if anything goes awry?

Think I might crawl into bed right now and stay there till Saturday and see where we stand.

Ha--Santander is responsible for 25% of Schlittler pitches. A contribution of sorts.

Judge, Vladdy, and...Ernie Clement?

That could be huge.

Dunno if I'd want a last name so close to a portmanteau of Schilling and Hitler.

Damn! Lukes again!

I guess this is where you think about Gausman or Yesavage--and Hoffman's in the picture now. I honestly haven't a clue how to handle this.

I do hope Santander's not still out in the field.

No way they can risk burning Gausman now.

i don't know what was so wrong about using Yariel in the 7th

This is agonizing. I don't miss this.

Oh, god...if Grisham had walked to load the bases, I honestly think they would have considered walking Judge.

Agonizing? But Hoffman's two inning stint hasn't even started yet!

Whoah! Every Blue Jay fan must have been killing themselves earlier--that's all it takes to advance Kirk, a flyball three inches in front of the wall.

Clement: "What the fuck was that?"

Doval gave up two hits and then hits someone. He does that but he would have gotten out of it.

HUGE K!

"Just in case, Jeff Hoffman is up, but they'd like to save him for the 9th." I might word that differently.

Oh, fuck.

Triple fuck. Fuck to the ninth power.

Fuck me it’s Hoffman time

I'd treat Hoffman as a set-up guy here with the shortest leash in the world. One run, bring in one of the starters.

According to clem's Hoffman rule, we're not leading 5-1, we're already losing 6-5. So it's not even a save situation. No pressure!

Or one base runner.

Seriously, get him out of there.

Jeff, I'm sorry. You're the guy. Unbelievable.

Lukes seems aware of the danger zone rule

One more, please.

Judge due up fourth--perfect. One more, please.

Doomsday strategy: I'd get the two starters loose, and Hoffman's job is to get at least one of the first three out before Judge comes up.

Don't worry, Hoffman will strike out Judge with the bases loaded, just to prove that he can.

That double was hit off a pitch worthy of the HR Derby...anyway, one out.

Good play, but brilliant toss.

This is all Hoffman, right? No one warming up?

congrats to the jays!

cannot imagine being a fan of a team employing hoffman but he got it done

Oh, it's a joy, trust us...Heroes: Lukes, Clement, Straw, and the bullpen.

Wow. They did it. With a bullpen day.

[camera zooms in on michael kay]

They really don't like to bleep people anymore, do they?

Congrats Jays. Bee OK, please leave clemenza's body now.

Kershaw looking fresh as a wood paneled Pinto hatchback.

Bee Clemenza is just getting started--I have wrung hands, and I will wring hands again.

oh no

just tuned in, has this ump's zone been huge, or was that just for old man Kershaw's benefit?

answering myself: homer ump

i'm willing to accept that there are certain issues, but . . . where on this doll did the umpire hurt you?

kershaw can't hit the side of a barn and he's giving anything within 6"s of the zone a strike.

come at me tommorow when the ump scorecards are published.

more like boo jays :(

how embarrassing, yet fitting his career ends getting absolutely raked at home.

wow vintage playoff performance from Kershaw here

more like ladies love cool jays

playoff kershaw coming through tonight

haha, let's leave him in as if something magical is gonna happen.

i hope he gets booed.

all right, he got his one out lol

c'mon marsh you greasy sleezebag, please don't swing at pitches above your head

and so it ends... we can all say we watched HOFer Kershaw throw his final pitches and what a legendary performance it was.

Nice to wake up randomly in the middle of the night and see that playoff Kershaw has appeared

as long as he's not standing over your bed cursing your neighbors by accident

He’s welcome to do so as they had furniture delivered yesterday and it’s still in our house despite user Sharivari making multiple attempts to contact them to get them to take it!

I've been watching this on a loop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAgVNodiE0Y

Not sure why the timestamp link didn't work. Go to 19:30.

Yankees left in disbelief: 'Didn't finish the goal'

YOU GOT OUTSCORED 34-19 IN FOUR GAMES; SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF

'oh no, we're actually a championship team; michael kay says so!'

ya if you want to win, how bout you don’t go down 12-0 in a crucial game 2

feel like maybe the yankees should have done more to re-sign soto? :)

i know that analytics shifted heavily in favor of three true outcomes ball in the 2010s, home runs uber alles, but i hear the stat about the jays as being the best contact hitting team in baseball with lowest strikeout rate and wondering if there's an analytics way to quantify what offensive advantage that might convey

Contact hitting teams have occasionally done very well (2014-5 Royals, post-2017 Astros) but those teams hit HR's too (the Royals did in the postseason, less so in the regular season).

The Jays outhomered the Yankees 9 to 4, which was just as important as their contact hitting. They're not a small ball team.

Yeah I’m already sick of that myth. The Brew Crew might be the only true small ball team still in there and they still have Yelich and Churio who are slugger types (Churio is still very young and will grow into his power).

feel like maybe the yankees should have done more to re-sign soto? :)

I was told they didn’t need him to win?

I think the Jays are "small ball" more in the sense that they strike out so little--yesterday against Schlittler (who still pitched really well), all season long--and maybe also that 5-10 HR guys like Clement and Lukes and Straw contribute so much. But they have decent power with Springer, Vlad, Varsho, and Barger.

Schlittler was just passable- he got by enough to give the yankee bats a chance to hold up their end of the bargain.

He was let down by the lineup and the infield

Tanner Scott is on the Dodgers playoffs roster but wasn’t even at Dodger Stadium last night...

What is even going on in 2025?

Nic Lentz
NLDS G3
Overall bias
+0.08 runs for LAD
-0.16 runs for PHI

Scott has a 4.74 ERA with a league leading 10 blown saves. He can stay gone

Out and about today--in Toronto, no less, for a dental appointment--but one follow-up on the Jays and small ball. I was thinking that that's a concept that evolves over time. We're certainly not a small-ball team like the '81 A's, and not even like the '87 Cardinals, who finished second in the NL in runs with only one guy (Jack Clark) hitting more than 12 HR, one guy stealing 100 (Vince Coleman; 250 as a team), and Willie McGee knocking in a 100 with 11 HR. But I think we're a 2025 version of that. The Yankees live and die by the HR; the Jays hit them in bunches sometimes (and that's when we score double-digits), but they don't. Yesterday was a more typical game: five runs on a lot of singles and doubles, taking advantage of a huge error, and production from the bottom half of the order.

a true, old-school small ball team would be like the guards y/n?

Guards arent smallball they’re deadball

A true old-school small-ball team would do things like automatically call for a sacrifice bunt in the third or fourth inning if their ace was on the mound; I don't think that kind of thing exists anymore, least of all when your ace will be gone after six or seven innings.

Phils going to Luzardo for the 10th is kind of a surprise

Baaaaaaaarf

Wow poor Kerkering

That was ugly--feel terrible for that guy.

jfc what a way to lose

Oh nooooooooo

Fuuuuuckijg brutal. Bad luck on the bobble and then terrible choice going home (there was two outs right?!)

He would’ve had him at first

Gotta feel bad for the kid

i wonder if relievers get *any* fielding practice over the course of a season

I, on the other hand, enjoyed this

I’ll take the win but idk about enjoying a game where the only 2 runs were a walk in and a broken bat error.

One team had more errors and less hits. Pitching was just nasty for both teams (Roki 3 innings so good). Phillies did play themselves. Walking a 1-17 Ohtani for a proud Mookie not the move, ever really.

a wins a win

xpost

Crew not really catching a lot of breaks today

Awful way to lose a game and that’s unfair given the Phillies managed four hits in 11 innings. Harper and Turner did nothing this postseason. Harper didn’t have a single rbi.

I feel bad for Kerkering but that's gotta be one of the dumbest plays in the history of baseball, considering the circumstances.

Wee bit hyperbolic, but on this fine day I'll allow it

I feel bad for Kerkering but that's gotta be one of the dumbest plays in the history of baseball, considering the circumstances.

The circumstances are that he panicked given the situation

your life builds to moments like that. just brutal

Roki emerging as a lights out closer this postseason after his disappointing debut as a starter is a great story.

there's a good story on how the dodgers did it https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46488389/mlb-playoffs-2025-los-angeles-dodgers-roki-sasaki-closer-delivery-transformation

i learned that the dodgers head of pitching is 30 years old. fucking hell

Roki emerging as a lights out closer this postseason after his disappointing debut as a starter is a great story.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, October 10, 2025 6:15 AM (forty-five minutes ago)

Gagne-esque

Still trying to get my head around how ugly that play was--it was like three errors in one: 1) mishandles ball; 2) throws to the wrong base; 3) runner's there anyway, but as a finishing touch throws wildly. I suppose I've seen that before, but obviously not in a situation of that magnitude.

kim also didn't touch home plate initially lol

Listening to Jayson Stark on Blair & Barker.

1) Barker makes the same point as gyac about Harper and Turner.

2) Stark compared Kerkering's situation to Mitch Williams after the '93 Series (acknowledging the obvious difference between an NLDS and a WS). Williams never threw another pitch for the Phillies; he and Barker both thought the best course is to trade him--not as punishment or anything, but rather to spare him.

the point at which the ball was (finally) in his hand:

https://i.imgur.com/g6eGrvi.png

^^^distances are deceiving in static image because kim (85% in BR speed) is reaching or at peak velocity whereas pages (68%) is still accelerating.

even more soul-crushing once that's factored in.

Almost unanimity in everything I heard today that I should be rooting for the Tigers, who'd be much easier for the Jays (especially with Skubal pitching tonight and possibly limited to one game in the ALCS). Truth is, I don't much care. I guess I believe that, in the end, you'll win the WS if you were meant to win the WS. If it's the Tigers, I'll be thinking about 1987, if the Mariners, 1977.

Amazing fact if you're not watching: Skubal can be the third LH Tiger starter to win a deciding game, the other two being Hal Newhouser and Mickey Lolich--and both did it on Oct. 10.

An excuse-me hit--do people still say that?

had no idea naylor had 30 sb!

completely insane throw to second by raleigh

that was as perfect as it gets

and Skubal already at 10k!!

That SB by Naylor was so bizarre; probably an easy pickoff if not for the noise level.

Skubal could use a few quick contact outs, otherwise he's probably gone after six.

8 straight strikeouts!!!

They stopped him at 7--a playoff record, though. (Not sure who has the WS record.)

Oh oops thought it was active I just turned it on

Nervy, nervy, nervy.

Wow

Why take out Kirby?

He was dealing and dominating

George Tarkanian Kirby

Great game...nice to just sit back and enjoy.

Game 5

Nine years in the minors? That's great.

It’s his birthday!

So close

Must be nerve-wracking to be a Mariners fan with all those warning-track fly balls.

Two walks

Gets out of it

Was wondering if this was headed towards a Raleigh walk-off. Wrong part of the order--maybe a Rodriguez walk-off.

Detroit's only hope is to outlast Munoz, I'd say.

Extra Innings of Game 5

had no idea naylor had 30 sb!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, October 10, 2025 5:43 PM

not me 😎

Deepest sympathy to Seattle and Detroit fans. I've never experienced this--I would think it'd be more excruciating than G7 of a WS in some ways.

Gilbert looks good.

(Wait, I have--Edwin's HR against the Orioles.)

Still so glad of the no ghost runner

What a game

Thinking especially of the Phillies yesterday, that was a nice play by Baez under the circumstances.

Still so glad of the no ghost runner

― music for empty-headed zoom-zooms (Bee OK), Friday, October 10, 2025 8:18 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

both lead off batters were on 2nd with no outs so far.

Great pitching

felt obligated to get to 2nd to start the inning in honour mr manfred

This place is a fucking cavern.

Ok, what is up with the shoe on the head?

Here we go

They were right that Crawford should have taken a second shot at a bunt, and they're even more right here.

Out at home

Gets out of it

Baseball.

I woke up why is this still going

This has been an amazing game--was actually going to post something like "gyac will wake up in time for the game-winning hit."

Four-hour game; this is real baseball, the way we used to play it in the early 2010s.

Whoever wins this will be cooked for game 1 Sunday.

Yesohgodyes.tweet

No

another runner on second w no out!

HBP

Foul ball, correct call

I know the Tigers have some amazing pitching, but aside from AL MVP Cal Raleigh, the rest of the Mariners are ice cold.

Or not, I was confident

looked like a foul to me. but instead was a hbp while attempting to bunt?!

Ha--so other teams lose blown calls too. They really have to rethink the appeal process.

Crazy call for the 12 inning

30 Ks on the day...

Every pitch

Unbelievable

Whoever wins this will be cooked for game 1 Sunday.

― BrianB, Friday, October 10, 2025 9:02 PM (six minutes ago)

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

Oh, man...OK: I'm calling a walk-off HR from Raleigh or Rodriguez.

i know 'never bunt' but crawford fucking has to bunt there, does he not?

I'm dying to watch the last episode of Peacemaker season 2 but...

this game rules

31 Ks

Terrible strike call.

why would you not just groove bp fastballs to colt keith? no need to play cute here, this guy belongs in AAA or even AA.

33 Ks. insanity

What a game

surprised there haven’t been even more with this ump’s zone

easy, mookieproof is gonna come at you if you don't back the blue.

Flaherty really?

Just didn't know he was on the Tigers. Two walks tho

again with the ghost runner

flaherty throw a strike challenge

Close

Or not really

Oh! Thought that was it.

Got Em

ohhh wow what a strikeout. was in the zone too

Double play, wow

ahahahhahaahahaha yessssss

lol

let's play 2!

I'm verklempt. I'm without klempt.

14 inning

I mean you gotta feel good for Flaherty, dude was living the pitcher's nightmare being unable to throw a strike in the highest possible leverage situation and then he got to live the pitcher's dream

I DON'T CARE! FIRST-AND-SECOND AND NOBODY OUT AND YOU'RE THE HOME TEAM IN EXTRAS YOU *HAVE* TO BUNT THEM OVER

And in an elimination game to boot

saving you a search:

"The MLB record for most combined strikeouts by both teams in a game is 48, and has been accomplished twice."

Agree

XXpost

Mariners' ace Bryan Woo was rostered for the ALDS and has pitched 0 innings. Waiting for his moment I guess?

really need that booth guy to stop screaming, he reminds me of that boxer in Miller's Crossing

i take that back, Woo is not on the roster

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slangsonsports.bsky.social‬

14 innings!!!

This is the longest winner-take-all game by innings in postseason history

The Giants over Pittsburgh in 18 doesn't count?

The Brandon Belt game

wow, rude

i'm sure the jays are glad to have tomorrow off. they're going to be tired after watching this game.

Thought maybe the Mets-Astros in '86 (16 innings), but that was a G6.

Caught Stealing

15th inning

who will win LVP for this game?

both teams are 1-9 w/ RISP...

Baseball is a crazy game

I just want to see the end

bluesky, in my experience, Has The Juice re: this game

return of the ghost runner

I DON'T CARE! FIRST-AND-SECOND AND NOBODY OUT AND YOU'RE THE HOME TEAM IN EXTRAS YOU *HAVE* TO BUNT THEM OVER

― mookieproof, Saturday, October 11, 2025 12:33 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago)

Crazy

is this the ultimely end of the Detroit Tigers?

Even with Raleigh up?

Doesn't mean anything

...

Finally

rip tommy kahnle

Incredible

At least that was just an honest walk off no errors or nonsense, Mariners finally exorcised that 18th inning hell game against the Astros

rip tommy kahnle

Might be why they didn’t put him in until they really had to

GOOD NIGHT

Night

That overthrow there seemed to matter--took away the DP, forced the IBB, forced laying one in with the bases loaded and a full count.

who will win LVP for this game?

Eugenio Suarez, like 10ks and a gidp, he should donate a ucl to one of the bullpen as penance

Bring it on!

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

So what'd I miss?

The Brandon Belt game

This was the 18 inning game vs the Nats? Wasn't a winner take all game though.

15 innings in a deciding game is crazy. We won't see the likes of it for a while, I think. Tigers did well to push Seattle to the brink, especially after their late season near-collapse.

i take that back, Woo is not on the roster

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Saturday, October 11, 2025 12:37 AM (six hours ago)

if they put him on the ALCS roster and he comes out and pitches 7 innings in game 1 that will be incredible

I honestly wonder if they used Gilbert and Castillo knowing Woo would be back?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/1976-expansion-draft.shtml

These people had clearly never picked teams before: it's supposed to go 1, 2/3, 4/5, 6/7, etc.

Great game, unfortunate result.

Rooting for the Brewers tonight. They're my second choice behind the Jays, and I also think that'd give us the four best teams left standing. (Or at least in the context of two leagues--no idea how the Jays/Mariners stack up against he NL teams that have been eliminated. I kept hearing about how much better the NL was this year, but the AL won interleague play 1,222-1,208.)

I think it’s gonna come down to whether or not Miz keeps his cool

Wooooo

Good start!

Ooop. That lead didn’t last long

Not a bad way to redeem yourself.

Just looking at Jackson Chourio's BRef career box:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chourja01.shtml

Has anyone ever had rookie and sopohmore seasons that were more similar right across the board? It's remarkable.

Looking forward to a Miz/Yesavage showdown next year.

Or, uh, actually this year!

kinda crazy both teams are throwing bullpen games eh

what did the brewers do to Vaughn to make him superhuman?!

Huge

and ya, the number of pen days in this round has been surprising.

Get a hit, Milwaukee--you really should pay for that kind of sloppiness.

Oooh Frelick could’ve scored there

i guess the math now is that in a 5-game series it make more sense to leave your shakier starters either off the roster or on the bench and lean on the pen more?

state of the art landfills

Why pull Miz there he was dealing

My thought too, but, you know, we need to get with the program.

Wheeeeeeeeeewwwwww

BOOOYAH

I didn't notice till just now, but how did Milwaukee even manage to win this year? They don't have a crown, or a pitchfork, or a jacket, or anything when someone hits a HR.

Well I sure hope Milwaukees streak of late inning heartbreak in elongation names doesn’t continue

Here we go

Yep. Getterdone

hoooray!

happy for them, hope they go on from this

Congrats frogs

Leaving three overdue teams with great stories, and one of the two most hated teams in baseball (not by me; indifferent).

Thank God for the DH, don't want to deal with the threat of a brandon woodruff homerun against Kersh again. Suffocating moment

YEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWW

whole extended family is from wisconsin so rooting for this team the remainder of this will be a no-brainer

Gi Brewers!

No offense to the Cubs and their fans but Brewers vs Dodgers is the matchup I wanted to see. If I wasn't a Jays fan I would be rooting for a Mariners-Brewers WS of two outsider teams and a guaranteed first-time champion.

belated congrats to the brew crew, tbh they deserved the win after being so consistent in the second half when the cubs went cold. the cubs did better than i expected getting to a game 5, it really seemed like the wrigley vibes threw the brewers off. but i will be rooting for the brewers over the dodgers for sure.