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?

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.