MLB Playoff Dates - Potential Stadium Conflicts

[LionNYC]

Yankees don't want NYCFC to mess up their field for their potential World Series...

Didi gets picked off on 1st as he's stuck in the dirt/mud sliding back to 1st.

 

[LionNYC]

Yankees up 8-0 heading into the top of the 5th. Very much looking like there will be a Game 5 on October 18.

 

[QuazyPat]

Yankees up 8-0 heading into the top of the 5th. Very much looking like there will be a Game 5 on October 18.

Yup, I'm there and and as much as I love NYCFC, I was a Yankees fan first so sorry not sorry <3

 

[Mkdaman1818]

Yankees up 8-0 heading into the top of the 5th. Very much looking like there will be a Game 5 on October 18.

Done and done. I’ve been to every yankees postseason game at YS this year and will be going to the next 2 also. Great atmosphere. Hope we keep this going, even if it means nycfc plays at citi.

 

[Mkdaman1818]

Game 3, 8 PM
Game 4, 5 PM
Game 5, 5 PM

Those start times in New York for Games 3 and 4 are jokes. Honestly, have our 10/22 game at Yankee Stadium. Yankees are not winning 2 of out 3 against the Astros.

Usually the early games are 4 pm, but since Houston is central time, they pushed it an hour.

The main reason we’re an early game is because the other game is LA vs Chicago, and LA is west coast time. Having their game start at 4 or 5 pm wouldn’t be smart. I don’t see what else they could have done.

 

[LionNYC]

Houston up 3-0 entering the bottom of the 6th.

Dallas Keuchel is the starter for Game 5.

 

[413Blue]

Houston up 3-0 entering the bottom of the 6th.

Dallas Keuchel is the starter for Game 5.

Aaron Judge is finally doing it. 4-4

 

[LionNYC]

Aaron Judge is finally doing it. 4-4

6-4 Yankees.

I just pray we win on Sunday so our first home game would be after the World Series.

 

[Midas Mulligan]

Aaron Judge is finally doing it. 4-4

I love watching him swing the bat.

I'll be honest, I don't watch regular season baseball anymore except when I go in person. But I love some playoff baseball.

There's something about the pace of it that makes the pressure seem so tangible. And shit always seems to just get crazy.

 

[mgarbowski]

I love watching him swing the bat.

I'll be honest, I don't watch regular season baseball anymore except when I go in person. But I love some playoff baseball.

There's something about the pace of it that makes the pressure seem so tangible. And shit always seems to just get crazy.

That was a great game to watch as a Yankee fan. I too can't watch regular season baseball, and even playoffs hold no interest without a rooting interest, which usually means the Yankees or nothing. But when it all comes together the magic is there. But now after feasting on Astros pitchers numbers 3 and 4, it's back to Keuchel and Verlander.

 

[Midas Mulligan]

That was a great game to watch as a Yankee fan. I too can't watch regular season baseball, and even playoffs hold no interest without a rotting interest, which usually means the Yankees or nothing. But when it all comes together the magic is there. But now after feasting on Astros pitchers numbers 3 and 4, it's back to Keuchel and Verlander.

True, but they are the Astros. There’s something too that, I anecdotally believe.

 

[Mkdaman1818]

That was a great game to watch as a Yankee fan. I too can't watch regular season baseball, and even playoffs hold no interest without a rotting interest, which usually means the Yankees or nothing. But when it all comes together the magic is there. But now after feasting on Astros pitchers numbers 3 and 4, it's back to Keuchel and Verlander.

Was at the game again tonight. I do not have a voice, and somehow have to work and then go to the game again tomorrow night. Hell of a time.

For the record, we were getting hammered by their starter tonight (McCullers). We have to get to their bullpen somehow, or hope that Keuchel and Verlander are tired and we can hit them seeing them a second time.

 

[Mkdaman1818]

6-4 Yankees.

I just pray we win on Sunday so our first home game would be after the World Series.

That is the most sensible thing you’ve said in this thread. Win against Columbus (Austin) Crew, get a bye, and we get the Yankees and NYCFC playing at YS in the next couple weeks.

 

[thesauerchise]

I love watching him swing the bat.

I'll be honest, I don't watch regular season baseball anymore except when I go in person. But I love some playoff baseball.

There's something about the pace of it that makes the pressure seem so tangible. And shit always seems to just get crazy.

The anxiety of playoff baseball just builds and festers with every damn at bat. Raises my blood pressure more than anything else.

 

[ferrarinycfc]

Dodgers look odds on to capture the National League pennant.

Dodgers v Yankees World Series would be epic

 

[mgarbowski]

For the record, we were getting hammered by their starter tonight (McCullers). We have to get to their bullpen somehow, or hope that Keuchel and Verlander are tired and we can hit them seeing them a second time.

True, and sometimes the difference between pitchers is the ability to go long. In this series Keuchel and Verlander both threw more than 100 pitches in their starts. The Game 3 starter got bombed so his count is irrelevant, but McCullers was pulled after only 80, because he was starting to lose it.

 

[Gotham Gator]

That was a great game to watch as a Yankee fan. I too can't watch regular season baseball, and even playoffs hold no interest without a rotting interest, which usually means the Yankees or nothing. But when it all comes together the magic is there. But now after feasting on Astros pitchers numbers 3 and 4, it's back to Keuchel and Verlander.

Yes, but worth remembering that the first contests against Keuchel and Verlander were one-run games.

 

[21Architect]

Another fun aspect of playoff baseball is when people who watch zero regular season baseball suddenly become analyst.

I have two co-workers who looked at me like I have 3 heads when I was talking Marlins and baseball in general in April and yesterday they were DIE HARD Yankee fans talking about batting average and RBI’s.

 

[Mkdaman1818]

True, and sometimes the difference between pitchers is the ability to go long. In this series Keuchel and Verlander both threw more than 100 pitches in their starts. The Game 3 starter got bombed so his count is irrelevant, but McCullers was pulled after only 80, because he was starting to lose it.

I’m still marveling that they took out McCullers when they did. It was one hr, and he should have gotten the opportunity to face Didi, given that the other option was going to Houston’s less than stellar bullpen. I thought judges hr was the play of the game, because it forced McCullers out

 

[mgarbowski]

I’m still marveling that they took out McCullers when they did. It was one hr, and he should have gotten the opportunity to face Didi, given that the other option was going to Houston’s less than stellar bullpen. I thought judges hr was the play of the game, because it forced McCullers out

Managerial trust is huge. If Keuchel or Verlander gives up that homer up 4-1 with 80 pitches they face Didi, and maybe stay one more batter even if Didi triples. But you’re right that McCullers should have had that chance given the situation and their bullpen.