Jayson Stark

The first 4 innings in Toronto:

Blue Jays - 11 runs

Yankees - 2 balls in play

One of the most shocking games in both teams’ postseason history

Before last night happened, the Phillies had played 20 postseason games in Philadelphia where they took a lead of 3+ innings into the 6th inning.

Their record in those games was 19-1, with the fabled 15-14 game in the ‘93 World Series as the only loss.

Now…make that 19-2

MLB Division Series Day 1: Weird & Wild highlights from watching all 1,421 pitches From Brewers magic to a Tigers triumph, I watched 1,421 pitches go roaring toward home plate on one of the great baseball days of the year.

New LDS Weird & Wild!

A guy who hit 55 HR got to pitch!

The Brewers paraded 20 hitters to the plate in 2 innings!

The Blue Jays did something they’d barely done since Joe Carter’s HR!

And the Tigers are now asking: Collapse? What collapse?

Plus...weirdest K ever?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

MLB Division Series Day 1: Weird & Wild highlights from watching all 1,421 pitches From Brewers magic to a Tigers triumph, I watched 1,421 pitches go roaring toward home plate on one of the great baseball days of the year.

New LDS Weird & Wild!

A guy who hit 55 HR got to pitch!

The Brewers paraded 20 hitters to the plate in 2 innings!

The Blue Jays did something they’d barely done since Joe Carter’s HR!

And the Tigers are now asking: Collapse? What collapse?

Plus...weirdest K ever?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

Yankees starting pitching in this postseason

Game 1 - Max Fried 6.1 innings
Game 2 - Carlos Rodon 6 innings
Game 3 - Cam Schlittler 8 innings
Today - Luis Gil 8 outs

Pitch counts today:

Freddy Peralta - 79 pitches to get through 5 innings

The Cubs - 78 pitches to get through the first inning

What a crazy baseball game

Let's sum up the first 2 innings in Milwaukee.

Brewers:
20 hitters came to bat
14 of them reached base
9 runs
3 hits by Jackson Chourio in 2 innings

Cubs:
2 guys in their lineup haven't even gotten an AB yet!

It's the most Brewers game ever

Here are the Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday game times for every series in this round

MLB has announced game times for the rest of the Phillies-Dodgers NLDS. Here's every game:

Game 1 (tomorrow): 6:38 ET/3:38 PT
Game 2 (Monday): 6:08 ET/3:08 PT
Game 3 (Wednesday): 9:08 ET/6:08 PT
Game 4 (Thursday): 6:08 ET/3:08 PT
Game 5 (Oct 11): 8:08 ET/5:08 PT

8+ shutout innings, 12+ K in a potential Oct. elimination game:

Joe Coleman, Tigers, 9 IP, 14 K, 1972 ALCS
Cam Schlittler, Yankees, 8 IP, 12 K, tonight

That’s all, folks

If that bases-loaded no-out situation looked familiar to Alex Cora last night, I unearthed the reason for that in this column!

Yankees-Red Sox loads up drama, Skubal strikes again, Ohtani’s 829 ft. of homers: MLB playoffs Day 1 I don’t know how you spent your day Tuesday. But I know how I spent mine … by watching postseason baseball for 11 hours and eight minutes.

What a way to kick off the postseason!

Bases-loaded Chap-mania
What Skubal did that no Cy Young ever has
Another Ohtani first
The return of "Go, Cubs, Go"
A .197 hitter batting cleanup?
Tarik Skubal walked who?

It's a Wild Card edition of Weird & Wild!

www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Weird & Wild: Yanks-Red Sox loads up drama, Skubal strikes again, Ohtani's 829 ft. of homers

What a way to kick off the postseason!

Bases-loaded Chap-mania
What Skubal did that no Cy Young ever has
Another Ohtani first
The return of "Go, Cubs, Go"
A .197 hitter batting cleanup?
Tarik Skubal walked who?

It's a Wild Card edition of Weird & Wild!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Weird & Wild: Yanks-Red Sox loads up drama, Skubal strikes again, Ohtani's 829 ft. of homers

What a way to kick off the postseason!

Bases-loaded Chap-mania
What Skubal did that no Cy Young ever has
Another Ohtani first
The return of "Go, Cubs, Go"
A .197 hitter batting cleanup?
Tarik Skubal walked who?

It's a Wild Card edition of Weird & Wild!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

117 pitches for Garret Crochet

That's the most in any postseason game since 2019 - when Adam Wainwright, Stephen Strasburg, Gerrit Cole and Walker Buehler all threw between 117-120.

Most by a Red Sox starter since Jon Lester - in 2008!

What a heroic effort

"I want to get away from the numbers. I want to take a look at the "valuable" part."

New Starkville! We invited the voice of the Mariners, Rick Rizzs, and the voice of the Yankees, Dave Sims, to join us to talk postseason.

A wild MVP debate broke out!
theathletic.lnk.to/windTX

Presenting the MLB Postseason All-Quarter Century Team — just in time for October To finish off our season-long All-Quarter Century Team series, here are our picks for the best postseason performers since 2000.

Happy postseason!

As if you didn't have enough to debate this week, @TylerKepner and I are here with the postseason All-Quarter Century Team.

Pretty sure you'll agree with all these picks. Also pretty sure that if you don't, you might mention that!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Presenting the MLB Postseason All-Quarter Century Team — just in time for October To finish off our season-long All-Quarter Century Team series, here are our picks for the best postseason performers since 2000.

Happy postseason!

As if you didn't have enough to debate this week, @TylerKepner and I are here with the postseason All-Quarter Century Team.

Pretty sure you'll agree with all these picks. Also pretty sure that if you don't, you might mention that!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Most postseason appearances, active managers

Terry Francona 12*
Dave Roberts 10*
Bruce Bochy 9
Bob Melvin 8
Brian Snitker 7

(*Including this year)

Rockies set MLB record for worst run differential — minus-424! — in modern era No team had been outscored by that many runs in a season since the infamous 1899 Cleveland Spiders.

New from me:

The Rockies set the modern record for worst run differential — minus-424!

So where should they rank in the Worst Team Ever conversation?

www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

The Mets since June 12, when they were 21 over, best record in baseball:

38-55

The only NL teams with more losses since that day:

Rockies 64
Nationals 58

They had a worse record than the 44-48 Pirates after that date.

Unimaginable.

So the American League wild-card round will bring us an AL East invitational and an AL Central invitational.

Looks like Yankees-Red Sox, all in New York, on one side of the draw.

It’ll be Tigers-Guardians, all in Cleveland, on the other side.

Wild times ahead!

Game 162 chaos update:

Edwin Diaz has gotten 6 outs for the Mets today.

In the 5th and 6th inning.

They have 9 outs to go and they trail, 4-0, in Miami.

If they lose, the Reds are in, win or lose.

The Mets have used 4 pitchers in 4 innings.

They're losing, 4-0, in Miami.

Game 162. Chaos

4 players have hit 3 HR in a game in September.

And it's exactly who you'd expect

Kody Clemens Sept 13
Dominic Canzone Sept 16
Edmundo Sosa Sept 24
Luis Garcia Jr. Sept 26

Baseball is amazing

MLB playoff tiebreakers: A handy guide to navigate AL, NL postseason race chaos We’ve figured out every one of the tiebreakers that could still be in play (hopefully), including for a possible four-way tie in the AL.

The Mets and Reds are tied

The Guardians and Tigers are tied

A 4-way AL tie (for 3 spots) is still possible

So I’m here with a handy guide to all the tiebreakers

You’re welcome!

www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

Aaron Nola’s unique start tonight:

8 innings
2 hits
Homer
Triple
No singles
No doubles

Last pitcher with that line:
Pedro Martinez! On 8/14/2005

The only 2 others to do it in the wild-card era were knuckleballers!

Steve Sparks (2002) and Tim Wakefield (1995)

Baseball!

Here's a little sample of the kind of history Judge is making. It's pretty staggering

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm here to help you understand MLB playoff tiebreakers. (Seriously: Read Jayson, he explains all the scenarios.)

MLB playoff tiebreakers: A handy guide to navigate AL, NL postseason race chaos We’ve figured out every one of the tiebreakers that could still be in play (hopefully), including for a possible four-way tie in the AL.

New from me:

Could we have a 4 team tie? Then

My handy guide to navigate the tiebreaker chaos

www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...