As he usually does, Costas spent his two playoff broadcasts this season (Game 1 of Braves-Dodgers with Smoltz, Game 3 of Rockies-Brewers with Jim Kaat, who was crotchety as usual) complaining, waxing poetic about the good ol’ days, and, in an exciting new twist, mispronouncing a number of player names. I honestly don’t think one person in the world other than John Smoltz really gives a shit that there are fewer pitchouts across baseball in 2018.īob Costas is, unsurprisingly, another offender. In the Braves-Dodgers series, which he called Game 1 with Bob Costas (more on him in a little bit) and Games 2-4 with Joe Davis, Smoltz has managed to complain (numerous times) about the shift, stolen bases (or the lack thereof), and pitchouts, to name just three topics. He’s hit on nearly every anti-stat cliche in a four game series, which blows my mind, because I swear that he used to be the best analyst on TV maybe a year or two ago. In an attempt to save his own bacon, Darling claimed to “love” MLB’s “ let the kids play” ad campaign, but this was something completely different. He also got upset in the seventh inning when Benintendi (him again!) dared to swing the bat in the seventh inning on a 3-0 count. During Boston’s 16-1 shellacking of the Yankees in Game 3 of their ALDS matchup, Darling got pissy about the “ unwritten rules of the game” when Andrew Benintendi stole a base in the fifth inning with the Red Sox winning 10-1. Quite frankly, it seems like a fair bit of them actually dislike baseball. ![]() The Astros so thoroughly shitkicked the Indians that I can’t tell you one thing that happened in the series.Īnd because we haven’t gotten those moments (yet, hopefully), I’ve noticed something when listening to the announcers calling the games this Postseason. Brock Holt hit for the cycle, but the Red Sox won 16-1. Ronald Acuna became the youngest player to hit a grand slam in Postseason history, but the Braves scored just three runs in the 15 innings after that, falling in four to the Dodgers. The Brewers got a walk-off win in Game 1 of the NLDS, and shut out the Rockies for the rest of the series en route to a sweep. ![]() This year, we haven’t gotten many of those moments through the first week-plus of the Postseason. ![]() Major League Baseball has had a strong couple of Postseasons over the last couple of years, with especially 20 going down in history and creating moments that will be etched into the minds of fans for lifetimes.
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