JotCast | 2017 AL Wild Card Live Blog

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Anonymous

5:47

Oh right. It's 2017. Home Runs.

AdamZ

5:47

lol

kevinthecomic

5:47

let's start again

Jeff Sullivan

5:47

See the thing is that the Yankees are extremely good

Travis Sawchik

5:48

Towers was right

Nick

5:48

Why would you throw that pitch?

Jeff Sullivan

5:48

He's not really throwing the pitches he's intending to throw

Travis Sawchik

5:48

All those poor Twins beat writers had to kill their running game stories

Jeff Sullivan

5:49

Berrios warming up for the Twins

What a game, already

Enlightening Round

5:49

How does Castro rate as a pitch framer? Doesn't look good tonight

Travis Sawchik

5:49

Terry Francona said he was rooting for both these teams to really work tonight. Indians have to be loving this

Jeff Sullivan

5:49

Above-average, but he mishandled the pitch to Gregorius right before the homer. With a called strikeout instead of a ball, it's still 3-0

Beel

5:50

Travis the doubleheader would give the WC1 team a much bigger advantage than the #1 seed gets. I don't like that. Why do they deserve such a large relative advantage compared to the other playoff teams? Especially considering they didn't win their division.

Travis Sawchik

5:50

I see your point, but it would actually give the No. 1 seed a greater advantage since the Wild Card teams would often further exhaust themselves in a second game

Owen

5:51

You guys should take a poll of what the audience thinks that length of this game will be.

Travis Sawchik

5:51

Minutes or innings?

Galvanic

5:51

Hope this game ends 31-30 in the 12th inning.

Jeff Sullivan

5:51

Boy do I not

Travis Sawchik

5:51

I have a 2-year-old. I am not at all rooting for that

5:52

I'm all for a noon start

Jeff Sullivan

5:52

I don't know how many signs Santana just shook off, but he doesn't have that many pitches

Travis Sawchik

5:52

Twins could really use Santana to get it together

Dubslow

5:53

The only logical conclusion is that the balls are juiced right? This is insane

Travis Sawchik

5:53

It doesn't appear MLB introduced a new ball for the postseason

tommy toms

5:53

why do they call it "painting the black"?

Jeff Sullivan

5:53

Because there's a little black border around the white bit of the plate

Travis Sawchik

5:53

Why is there a black border around the plate?

Jeff Sullivan

5:54

I'm guessing...it's...what the plate is mounted on?

Travis Sawchik

5:54

I have no idea. Need Lindbergh and Arthur to investigate

Alex

5:54

Travis, how hard is it for you to separate being a fan vs. being a journalist?

Jeff Sullivan

5:54

Santana is at 40 pitches, with just 20 strikes

EccentricChemist

5:55

So pretty much both teams are going to burn through all their pitching tonight and be screwed come Thursday?

Travis Sawchik

5:55

There are times when you can be both ... like in this very moment where I am not covering either team

Jeff Sullivan

5:55

Wild card teams should try winning their divisions

5:56

Hicks *really* wanted to crush one of those pitches up and in. No dice. We're through 1! 3-3

Nick Punto to Alexi Casilla

5:56

Ervin Santana throwing 96-97 is exactly why velocity is overrated

Travis Sawchik

5:56

Hey, what if the was the first game of a KBO-style, potential double-header Wild Card round? (I will eventually stop pushing this idea .. just not today)

Jeff Sullivan

5:56

This season Yovani Gallardo gained 3 miles per hour for some reason and sucked

PitchClocksPlease

5:56

1st inning took 46 minutes to play.

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