Today is the 50th anniversary of the Tony C beanball. http://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-18-1967-tony-conigliaros-career-and-life-threatened-beaning
ESPN's game preview goes on and on and on about Sale and doesn't mention Pomeranz once. The Yankees starter, Montgomery, is mentionned twice.
What a garbage fire. http://www.espn.com/mlb/preview?gameId=370818102
"Let's win," said Red Sox infielder Eduardo Nunez.
• When batters have put Pomeranz's curveball in play this season, they have put it on the ground 63.8 percent of the time. That's the fourth-highest rate out of more than 40 pitchers who have generated at least 50 batted balls on curves in 2017.
• While Chapman has struggled against Boston this season (two blown saves, 8.44 ERA), Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel has a 1.80 ERA and a .105 opponents' batting average in four appearances against New York.
• By and large, the Red Sox have done a nice job against Aaron Judge this season, holding him to a .174 average and one home run in 12 games. However, Gary Sanchez has four homers and a 1.007 OPS in his 43 plate appearances against Boston.
And at one point they decided to make the AS Game matter by having it affect the WS. Oooops, they changed course after they realized it was dumb, just like they'll do with considering the WC play in game to be the real playoffs. It took them 14 years to fix that mistake. We probably won't have this discussion finalized until 2025 then.
Yes. See, the way the NFL works is that there is one game in each round. The time constraints are no different than in other rounds.
In baseball, it has always been a best of 5 or 7. In baseball, you win a series not a game. If they want to expand the WC match up to 3 games or more, then it can be considered the playoffs.