What is the story about?
We’re
down to four.
The Guardians managed to escape a 2-0 series deficit and will move on to face the Rays starting Monday night. Meanwhile, the NLCS starts tonight with what might be a pitching matchup for the ages at 5:00 pm PST on Fox.
Happy Sunday everybody!
In Mariners news…
- I like to imagine being the viewer who never saw this story, sees this question, and is left on their couch thinking, “he did WHAT??”
Around the league…
- Guardians superstar José Ramírez showed everyone that a baseball doesn’t even need to be nine full inches off the ground in order to be a homerun pitch, and Guardians pitchers struck out 21 White Sox on the way to securing the reverse sweep.
- Tarik Skubal and Jacob Misiorowski will go head-to-head tonight in Game 1 of the NLCS, and according to Mike Petriello it’s one of the best pitching matchups we’ve ever seen, and he has the numbers to prove it.
- Mark Polishuk at MLBTR laid out the case for the Yankees moving on from Giancarlo Stanton this offseason.
- Phillies President of Business Operations Sam Fuld was reportedly offered the position of President of Baseball Operations for the Athletics but elected to decline the offer and will remain in his current position in Philadelphia.
