There's Only One Postseason (in 2018)

at the end of the day it works out for the Rockies - Hamels is out and the Cubs are all out of players

Really, only one guy?

Maddon burning potentially three starters is him understanding his squad won’t get past the Brewers right?

it's already the point where we curse Tony LaRussa's invention of the 8-man bullpen

u SOB

yeah this works out nice for us

ok surely THIS will be the Cubs' inning

hey VHS, u gotta get to tomorrow

and Oakland has hardly any starters

It burns Hamels that he threw 29 pitches?

good ass game!

Close

Why aren't they screaming at each other?

jfc I gotta go to bed

Well I don’t see Hamels starting game 1 now.

Morbs you are right, it’s just that instinctively I would have gotten more outs from Strop. And De La Rosa still available.

Dang six straight sliders to strike Bryant out and (following on Gameday) the last one looked like the only one in the strike zone

It’s just that Black now has his second best reliever pitching whereas Maddon asked 2 starters in relief, if the Cubs win, its not because they outmanaged the opponent.

Cubs pitchers really meatballing the first pitch of the at-bat over and over again

please tell me no one actually calls Arenado and Story "Batman and Robin" and that it's something A-Rod just made up

I haven't heard it before tonight

It’s a classic Arodism.

who the fuck just hit that

Omg Wolters lol

Tony Wolters lmao

Do you believe in miracles?

it's amazing what heroes are in october or whatever vasgersian said

Rox were like 0-18 with men on so I guess someone was due

A nice time to remind everyone that the Rockies run differential is of +35. The less by a team that wasn’t in the negative.

whatsa wolters?

A-Rod just came out for littleball a la Joe Morgan. does he recall last October?

It didn't hit him?

no way did it hit him

chris paul ass move by gore I love it

wow if Gore doesn't swing there he'd probably be on 3rd w/ no outs right now

Great game.

RIP cubbies

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Really ugly strikeouts by Gore and Baez.

At least the right team won

Cub fans can put their Bears stuff on now

Two games at home, only needed to win one of them, two runs scored in 22 innings, the Cubs can only blame themselves.

what a nice morning

still thinking about Gore at 3-2 w/ no outs, the announcers saying "you really should not swing at this", and then Gore striking out on a curve that was like 8 inches out of the zone. I don't think they'd catch him stealing 2nd or 3rd so chances are the Cubs at least tie it. if only he'd listened to A-Rod. oh well

pretty representative game for this season's cubs, where they really struggled with run production for some reason. lots of losses where they got 1 or 0 runs.

I find it insane they won 95 games, considering everything that happened. They need another starter and probably another hitter. And one fewer shortstop.

Is Colorado eliminating Chicago good news for the Brewers?

we'll know in a week

probably, Cubs are a better team and you don't really get home field advantage against them

that said the Cubs have played an insane # of games in the last 5-6 weeks and it was starting to show. plus they burned 3 starters in that game.

home teams now 5-8 in wild card games

let's hope it's 5-9 tomorrow

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— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) October 3, 2018

lol, that hug was a funny and weird moment. i'm imagining there were plenty of cubs bros who were mad at baez for showing any sort of affection for a player on the other team during a wild card game, though. and although it wouldn't be a big deal the vast majority of the time, once of the announcers (i forget who) was correct in noting that it shouldn't be allowed to do that during a live play, because one of the runners on first or second could have tripped and fallen on the basepaths (for example) and arenado would've been hindered from throwing him out.

While I agree that the hug shouldn't happen while the ball is live, Arenado seemed intent on not making a play and went for the hug as much as Baez did.

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