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AvatarDan Szymborski
10:09
I did it last year for individual games
and I thinK WS Game 4 was the swingiest playoff game ever
or something
10:10
I might be misremembering
Jeremy
10:10
Also in my own defense, I'm watching this chat more closely than the game.
kyle
10:10
The Astros/Cleveland ALDS series may have never happened.
Jeremy
10:10
I'm a Red Sox fan in the mountain time zone, and I'm not going to watch this game until the end either unless something big changes.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:11
Dangit, I don't know where I stashed individual play log
10:12
Wait, I found some of the accumulated data
10:13
These are the swingiest games in MLB postseason history
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:13
ooh
2011 WS Game 6 was insane
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:13
And there are some GREAT games in there
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:14
wow, why so few from pre-WW2?
Wire Fan
10:19
What did you think of the Dodgers pitching decisions in game 2 (starting Scherzer instead of Buehler in normal rest, using Urias out of the bullpen when they could have gone Graterol, Treinen, Jansen, and not using Jansen to start the 9th inning)
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:19
Puzzling. I love Urías' flexibility but why are you carrying Bruihl if not to go through the top of the order there, or line up one of your righties that has had success vs. lefties this year — which is basically all except Graterol.
10:20
The Scherzer decision... obviously there was a lot we didn't know about how he was feeling. If you knew he could only give you a few innings, starting him in G1 at least means you don't have to roll out Knebel/Gonsolin twice in the first 5 games
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:22
Graterol instead of Jansen, i kind of get in retrospect because Graterol's velo and ability to stop the running game has some value if you know the Braves are going to try to smallball it (runners go at will vs. Jansen). But just overall a terrible night for Roberts.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:20
I'm still here, just working on this
10:21
For some reason, my team numbers are FG from 2003-2020 and something I made up before that
(it's hard to remember my reasoning on a spreadsheet form a year ago)
I knew something was wrong and Royals/Pirates in the 2019 postseason was the worst game
Jeremy
10:22
Fewer evenly matched teams pre-WW II? Yankees just outclassed everyone else too often?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:22
There are just so many more games recently so they swamp the old ones!
Jeremy
10:22
1980 was one of the great years for playoff games. And they involved lots of fun memorable players. Very underrated postseason year, I feel like.
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:23
Given the way that the 1977 division winners repeated in 1978 and then disappeared in 1979, 1980 was a strange callback
but those were fun games. Watching George Brett go off on the Yankees was entertaining as hell
Phil
10:26
I am multitasking and just came uncomfortably close to pasting part of an employee review into the chat window.
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:26
Would have been really awkward if you left it up for one of us to fire him.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:27
Here were the least swingy games
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:30
need series game numbers for that one to really understand it
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:33
Yeah
I don't think doing it for series works as well
Games it does seem to have a lot of correlation
But for an entire series, it doesn't work
kyle
10:34
Yordan up reminds me that Brantley doesn't need to be batting second against lefties. Wonder if that changes after this game?
AvatarJay Jaffe
10:35
Doubtful — I'm not sure Dusty looks at Brantley hitting second in that context and says, "This is our big problem." Which isn't to say that he shouldn't deal with it, but with starters not working deep into games it might matter less than in the past.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:34
I guarantee this is nobody's list of best playoff series
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