Topic: Major League Baseball Postseason Thread

[Kenny Blankenship]

Game one, advantage Twins.

Defense was the reason we won, and more specifically, Torii Hunter saved the game for us.  He threw out a runner at the plate in the 2nd, and robbed A-Rod of a homer in the 8th.  And while Santana wasn't lights out like has been so many times this year, he was uber clutch, always getting the batter out when he needed to.

It's still early in the series, but it's nice to get the first win in the series.

[GrEeNdAyFrEaK]

Santana got lucky that Minnesota's defense was outstanding, including the 5 double plays your forgot to mention
I'm just happy the Yankees lost XD GO TWINS!

w00t!!!! GO CARDS! My aunt is at the game now. I am such a huge Cards fan. They have been amazing this year. Busch Stadium is such a friendly place to be. When the Cards get to the World Series, I'm going and I will be in the Diamond Box sipping my Diamond Box Soda. YaY!

I have a Great Aunt that lives in St Louis and she sends us Cardinals stuff all of the time, they're my second favorite team behind the Reds Ive been to Busch a few times and saw McGwire hit a homer in one of them I still have newspaper clippings and memorabila from when he broke the record

[spongemonkey13]

yeah you guys played good defense and robbed us from some runs. i thought mike pitched pretty good just a few mistakes which cost us. still 2-0 game that was close. we could never bring our runners in. :sad:  

[ssj4gogita4]

Cardinals are gonna win it in 5...no doubt
Astros will win it in 6...possibly 7

[Kenny Blankenship]

Cardinals are gonna win it in 5...no doubt
Astros will win it in 6...possibly 7

In case if you didn't know, the first round of the MLB postseason is a best-of-five series.  And for the AL/NL Championship Series and World Series, it becomes a best-of-seven series.

[Megan]

I have a Great Aunt that lives in St Louis and she sends us Cardinals stuff all of the time, they're my second favorite team behind the Reds Ive been to Busch a few times and saw McGwire hit a homer in one of them I still have newspaper clippings and memorabila from when he broke the record

Where at in STL does she live?

[GrEeNdAyFrEaK]

I couldn't even tell you, i've never actually been to her apartment, we've just been to St Louis to go to ball games

[spongemonkey13]

the yankees won in the 12th inning with a sac fly by matsui. series is tied!

[Kenny Blankenship]

(sigh) Shouldn't have lost that game.  You can't let Nathan pitch the 12th after pitching the 10th and 11th, he threw 40 some pitches in the first two innings and was showing obvious signs of fatigue in the 11th (even I saw that).

So, so close to heading to Minneapolis up 2-0. (sigh) Well, hopefully the Twins don't lose ALL the momentum thanks to the outcome of this game, because we can definitely hang with this Yankee team.  Just need a good outing from Carlos Silva Friday and just like that we're in great shape in closing out the series at home.

[spongemonkey13]

yeah i think we are pretty evenly matched. both games were decided by 1-2 runs.  

[ssj4gogita4]

Cardinals are gonna win it in 5...no doubt
Astros will win it in 6...possibly 7

In case if you didn't know, the first round of the MLB postseason is a best-of-five series.  And for the AL/NL Championship Series and World Series, it becomes a best-of-seven series.

Ok...I still pick those teams though...

[Kenny Blankenship]

(sigh) You ever get that feeling that absolutely nothing can go right for you?  That's exactly how the Twins must feel right now.  This is thoroughly depressing.

On a different note, great game in Boston earlier today.

[spongemonkey13]

so far my predictions are going pretty good with the exception of the braves. yanks up 8-1 in the 7th

[ssj4gogita4]

Yankees are dumb...they should perish

[spongemonkey13]

Yankees are dumb...they should perish

and yet they won