Wild Card round

@Cheezers posted:

With the Brewers all but locked into the #3 seed it's time to start looking at who we may be facing.

Mother Nature is clearly a Brewers fan.    Hurricane Helene postponed the last 2 games of the Mets-Braves series and they now have a DH on Monday.   We need to all root for Arizona to get the #5 seed or be knocked out of the playoffs completely.  It would be perfect to have either the Mets or Braves for the 6 spot.  They would have to play the DH on Monday and travel to MKE on Tuesday for the 1st game of the Wild Card round.    You would have to imagine both teams will be burning through their bullpens.

Interesting games this weekend on the NL side.  AZ and San Diego play each other.   Padres are looking like they'll be the #4 seed as the top wild card.   Do they rest players a bit, giving AZ and easier path the the #5 seed?

Braves play the Royals, who are still looking to clinch their own wild card spot.  In theory if the Braves get swept and are eliminated then the DH on Monday probably wouldn't happen, unless seeding is still in play.

And of course the Mets visit Milwaukee.   How much of a pain would it be for New York to play 3 here, have to fly to Atlanta for a DH on Monday, then fly back to Milwaukee for game 1 of the wild card round on Tuesday?

Should be interesting scoreboard watching this weekend.   Just need to hope things shake out in our favor!!

Burning through the bullpens is certainly something that could happen for the Braves/Mets. However, even more important is burning through their starting pitchers. The Mets and Braves may end up having to start their #4 or #5 starters in the first two games of the wild card round. That is huge.

If you face the Braves, it means you may not have to face Chris Sale at all. If you do face him, it's about 90% chance you will lose (Sale is 18-3 this year with a 2.38 ERA and will win the Cy Young).

The Brewers and Padres theoretically should have a huge advantage over the other wild card round teams as they are locked into the 3 and 4 seeds and can line up their starters they way they want. The problem is that it really doesn't matter much for the Brewers. None of their guys are aces that you can put out their Game 1 that the other team fears facing. The Brewers have about 4-5 guys that are interchangeable as starting pitchers. None of them are great, but none of them are terrible.

I'm a broken record on this, but knowing what they know now (a playoff berth), would the Brewers have traded Corbin Burnes for Ortiz and DL Hall. I know I would trade those two guys back to the Orioles in a heartbeat to have Burnes in the playoffs (even if he would have been gone for nothing but a comp pick after this year).

Might be a good place to debate who should be on the playoff roster.

Pitchers

Peralta, Myers, Rea, Civale, Montas, D. Williams, Ross, Megill, Ross, Koenig, Payamps, Ashby, Milner.

Left off: DL Hall, Mears

Position player

Contreras, Adames, Chourio, Turang, Ortiz, Frelick, Hoskins, Perkins, Mitchell, Monasterio, Haase, Sanchez, Bauers

Left off: Collins

Seems about right.    Peralta, Myers, and Civale should be the 3 starters for the wild card round.   Just read on today's recap that Civale is 6-1 with a 2.57 ERA in his last nine starts.  Pretty damn good.   Ross, Rea and Montas for long relief if one of the starters falters or pitch count gets really high (Peralta).

And Eric Haase with his .286 BA should be the DH for all the games.  He puts the ball in play. If I see Hoskins and Bauers back to back in the order I may have a coronary.  It is  just virtually giving the other team 2 outs in an inning when they are back to back.

So with Mets and D-Backs winning, and Braves losing. If Mets and Braves split the DH, they both are in, with the Mets being the 6th seed. . If 1 teams wins both games the Diamondbacks are in as the 6th seed

@ammo posted:

And Eric Haase with his .286 BA should be the DH for all the games.  He puts the ball in play. If I see Hoskins and Bauers back to back in the order I may have a coronary.  It is  just virtually giving the other team 2 outs in an inning when they are back to back.

Regardless of how it plays out. Please don't have a coronary. We need you around here

You too.

Mets/Braves: Whoever wins the early game is in, and has zero incentive to not start resting players for the next three playoff road games in game 2.  Arizona must really regret blowing that 8-0 lead against the Brewers.

Brewers can’t play the Braves.  If they split we get the Mets.  Sweep by either team and we get AZ.

Hope the Braves win game 1.  They'll then sit everyone for game 2 while Mets will have to play all the regulars in order to get the win.  Then the Crew gets the Mets at home tomorrow.

Mets come back in the top of the 9th. Marte singles and Lindor hits a 2 RBI HR, to put the Mets up 8-7. Braves batting in the bottom of the 9th, in game 1.

1 out, Eli White singles to short CF, for the Braves. Tying run is on base, in White. Laureano at bat. Is 3-4, with a HR, today. White steals 2nd base. Laureano strikes out. Darneau at the plate. He is 2-4 today. Grounds out. Mets win. Braves have to win Game 2 to clinch a WC playoff spot. If the Braves lose, Arizona is in.

Braves were up 3-0 after 7.  Gave  up 6 in the 8th and 2 in the 9th and lose 8-7.   Mets closer Diaz has thrown about 75 pitches the last 2 days.

Chris Sale may be pitching for the Braves, in Game 2 of this double header.

@mrtundra posted:

Chris Sale may be pitching for the Braves, in Game 2 of this double header.

Chris Sale scratched

Chris Sale, the Braves' scheduled Game 2 starter, has been scratched with back spasms. Atlanta saved Sale all weekend for their elimination game and now, when it finally comes, he's down for the count. An absolute gut punch for the Braves. Grant Holmes, who has made six starts and 19 relief appearances in the majors this year, will start instead

What a kick to the

So far, so good, for Holmes. Puts them down, in order, in the top of the 1st.

Mets have zero intentions to win this game.  Win and they go to San Diego, lose and they go to Milwaukee.   

can you blame them. that first game was epic. Two rallies, a crazy ending, both bullpens are taxed, a mini celebration (MLB said they could not celebrate between games) It is crazy to think either team has much left after that. I am a Mets fan and I can tell you I don't care what happens the 2nd game.

Don't blame them one bit.  Any team would rather play MKE than San Diego I would think.

i dont know. this year, the Mets owned San Diego while MKE only lost one to NY and that was yesterday. They seemed to play better when they played the Padres.

Mets it is. Going to be tough.

Can we keep up the regular season wins we had vs the Mets going into the postseason? Hope so. I'm feeling positive about a Crew series win in this one for several reasons.