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For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series

2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves

2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros

2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers

2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

What’s the funniest way for this game to end?

In 2025, 522 MLB players hit at least 1 home run.
In 2024, 522 MLB players hit at least 1 home run.

Our Japanese media friends are reporting that this is the first time a Japanese pitcher has ever thrown a complete game in MLB postseason history.

Tarik Skubal vs Mariners #ALDS (2 starts)
13 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 22 K

And the #Tigers lost both of those games. The #Mariners win an instant classic in 15 innings — the longest winner-take-all game in MLB history — and will face the #BlueJays in the #ALCS.

Josh Naylor stolen bases by season:

1
1
1
6
10
6
30 (this year) 💨

Munoz threw 22 sliders and 3 fastballs.

Skubal changeup: 17 swings 14 whiffs (82%) is crazy stuff. WIZARDRY!

Tarik Skubal’s changeup is pretty good.

Number of players who hit at least 1 home run by season
2025: 522
2024: 522
2023: 538
2022: 539
2021: 546
2020: 427 (60 game Covid season)
2019: 549
2018: 536
2017: 525
2016: 515
2015: 512
2014: 493

30 HR 30 SB players by season
2025: 7
2024: 3
2023: 4
2022: 0
2021: 1

20 HR 20 SB players by season
2025: 24
2024: 19
2023: 19
2022: 9
2021: 10

In 2025,
12 players scored 100 runs.
16 players drove in 100 runs.

5 players did both:
Shohei Ohtani: 146 R, 102 RBI
Aaron Judge: 137 R, 114 RBI
Juan Soto: 120 R, 105 RBI
Kyle Schwarber: 111 R, 132 RBI
Cal Raleigh: 110 R, 125 RBI

In 2025,
94 players hit 20 homers.
46 players stole 20 bases.

24 players made the 20/20 club: Ohtani, Soto, Buxton, JRod, PCA, Carroll, Jazz, Lindor, JRam, Arozarena, Neto, Tatis Jr, Story, Swanson, Witt Jr, Elly, Tucker, Langford, Butler, Chourio, OCruz, JNaylor, Perdomo, Harris II.

In 2025,
33 players hit 30 homers.
21 players stole 30 bases.

7 players made the 30/30 club:
Juan Soto — 43/38
Julio Rodríguez — 32/30
Corbin Carroll — 31/32
Jazz Chisholm Jr — 31/31
Pete Crow-Armstrong — 31/35
Francisco Lindor — 31/31
José Ramírez — 30/44

In 2025, 522 MLB players hit at least 1 home run.
In 2024, 522 MLB players hit at least 1 home run.

FINAL: #BlueJays 5 #Yankees 2

The Jays outscored New York 34-19 in the four game series. They will wait to see if Detroit or Seattle is their #ALCS opponent.

And the Cubs stay alive. Game 4 against the Brewers will be tomorrow at Wrigley, 9:08pm.

Tigers/Mariners Game 5 will be Friday at 4:40 in Seattle. Skubal will go for Detroit.

4 elimination games today.
OCTOBER BASEBALL!
#ALDS #NLDS

3:08pm
Mariners (Miller) at Tigers (Mize)
SEA leads 2-1

5:08pm
Brewers (Priester) at Cubs (Taillon)
MIL leads 2-0

7:08pm
Blue Jays (Varland) at Yankees (Schlittler)
TOR leads 2-1

9:08pm
Phillies (Nola) at Dodgers (Yamamoto)
LAD leads 2-1

on the Aaron Judge home run off the pole:

99.7 MPH is the fastest pitch he's ever hit for a homer

1.2 feet is the furthest-inside pitch he's ever hit for a homer

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s 61st home run with a fan

this rules so much

#Cubs and #Brewers exchange three-run bombs in the first. Game on.

The NLDS has been taken over by the radical left (all four starters are LHP)

Nick Castellanos (out of 145 qualified batters) was:
- 23rd worst in OPS
- 18th worst in OBP
- 20th worst in wOBA
- 18th worst in wRC+

- only 2 players (Bichette, B. Lowe) were worse in Outs Above Average
- only one (Soto) was worse in Fielding Run Value
- only 6 worse in DRS

Rough year.
#Phillies

Pitch - swings, whiffs (chart) Fastball - 7, 2 Slider - 4, 4 Changeup - 6, 6 Curveball - 1, 1

Blake Snell is dealing. Through 3 innings, the #Phillies can’t make contact on anything that isn’t a fastball.
#Dodgers #NLCS

I was looking their 2025 stats up earlier:

Snell on the road:
4.30 ERA, 2.96 FIP (23 IP)
Luzardo at home:
4.16 ERA, 2.50 FIP (93 IP)

#Mariners 3
#Tigers 2

The first Mariners home postseason win in 24 years. Jorge Polanco goes deep twice off the reigning and future AL Cy Young Winner Tarik Skubal, and Julio knocks Cal in with a game-winning double in the 8th. Series tied 1-1 heading to Detroit. #Mariners #Tigers #ALCS

The Jorge Polanco game!!!

#Mariners #Tigers

Pitch: swings - whiffs - % 4-seamer: 9 - 2 - 22% Splitter: 16 - 11 - 69% (nice) Slider: 6 - 5 - 83% ALL: 31 - 18 - 58%

Nasty business from Trey Yesavage tonight with the splitter and slider. The #Yankees were helpless up there. #BlueJays #ALDS

Trey Yesavage’s breaking stuff is filthy. Thru 2 innings: #Yankees have 6 whiffs on 7 swings at the splitter and whiffed both times they swung at the slider.

#BlueJays

Tarik Skubal and Luis Castillo faced off twice this season.

Skubal: 5.91 ERA
4/2 @ SEA: 5.2 IP, 3 ER, 3 BB*, 8 K
* = tied season high
7/11 at home: 5 IP, 4 ER
He gave up 1 HR in each start. (JRod, Moore)

Castillo: 3.75 ERA
4/2: 7 IP, 2 ER
7/11: 5 IP, 3 ER

Greene: 4-6, 2B, 3B

#Tigers #Mariners