Year after year, Dave Roberts will inevitably leave a pitcher in too long in the playoffs. Snell's pitch count is high, he got you all the way through to the 7th, walking the first batter feels like the perfect trigger to pull him and move on to the next pitcher out of the 'pen

EDIT: AND I TOTALLY FORGOT TO MENTION HOW IdK mAyBe A HR MIGHT BE THE RIGHT TIME TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE??

Career postseason ERA moves to 3.31

I’m a middle-aged fan, and my thinking has evolved on this, so hear me out: When my team loses in the playoffs, I actually root for the team that beat them from then on, unless something ugly has happened. I figure they’ve won fair and square and deserve my respect going forward for the remainder of the playoffs. Same goes for the teams from my team’s division. Case in point: I cheer on the White Sox. But the Guardians beat them. Now I’m hoping they beat the Rays. But I still want Milwaukee to win it all, even though I am also a Cubs fan because hey, Chicago. However, there are expansion teams that have come on since my adolescence that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to root for because I don’t think of them as real teams! That last part is prejudice I know. But baseball is historical according to when you entered the history. For me, the Mariners and the Blue Jays are the last real MLB teams. I’m Gen X. And don’t get me wrong. I’m having fun watching the Rays play this post-season. But they might as well be the Savannah Bananas in terms of my investment in watching them. Thoughts?

As per the box score.

…I’m going to say that this is, uh, not a good outing, isn’t it?

Peralta's fastball is up 2.5 mph from the regular season (96.8 vs 94.3). Diaz is up 2.0. Sasaki is sitting 99.8 and Edgardo Henriquez is pumping 101.8 avg out of the Dodgers pen.

52 of 73 playoff pitchers are throwing harder than they did all year. Dodgers have 6 guys up a full mph or more.

Postseason baseball is awesome

data from armside.ai/october

Who is the guy showing up at multiple playoff games in LA behind home plate? I’ve seen him sitting with the Marlins Man a couple times.