bearister said:

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To me the signature moment of the World Series was spotting this guy behind home plate in Toronto. He was bad jujuing the Dodgers' Japanese players.




* "The "bad luck" associated with Colonel Sanders in Japan is a superstitious curse known as the "Curse of the Colonel," which began in 1985 after fans of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team threw a statue of Colonel Sanders into the Dotonbori River. The team had been unsuccessful in winning a championship since that event, leading fans to believe the statue's owner had cursed them."
AI Overview

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I'm not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

dajo9 said:

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The Dodgers suffer from home run swinging in October. This is what moneyball says to do but, in my opinion, what works against the average in the regular season, no longer works in the postseason. Teams that win in October are teams that make contact and put the ball in play. The Dodgers have created many unlikely pitching heros in the last decade from their fruitless swings for the fences.

That is true when the Dodgers win also. The Dodgers became a championship team after they acquired Mookie Betts in 2020. In the postseason he batted .296 in 2020 and .290 in 2024. This year he is batting .234.

The Dodgers need to move Betts back to the outfield so he can focus on hitting.

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Freddie Freeman disagrees.
Freddie Freeman digs the long ball.

Anarchistbear said:

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I guess the Blue Jays aren't going to the White House

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I was just thinking this, Canada could do something fun.
But what what if they have a maga idiot like Nick Bosa on their team?

Cal88 said:

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If they win today, there will be an extra 10% tariff on Canadian imports.

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And if the Dodgers win, the National Guard gets reinserted into Los Angeles

GMP said:

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The numbers do not support your theory. They showed a graphic during Game 5 that the team who hits more home runs this post season is like 35-9. I forget the exact number but it was very lopsided.

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GMP
Were you previously Grand Master Poop on that other site?

GMP said:

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The numbers do not support your theory. They showed a graphic during Game 5 that the team who hits more home runs this post season is like 35-9. I forget the exact number but it was very lopsided.

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I'm not saying there would be a negative correlation between home runs and winning. I'm saying, if you pursue home runs so much that your overall approach is flawed then you are going to lose in October. The stat below is postseason strikeouts per home run.

Blue Jays - 4.0
Dodgers - 7.0
Mariners - 6.5 (so far they look like they put up a tougher fight against the Blue Jays then the Dodgers)
Brewers - 9.4 (41.0 vs. the Dodgers and 4.9 vs. the Cubs)
Cubs - 6.8

All the other postseason teams are in double digits except the Guardians 8.0. Based on these numbers my theory holds up pretty well. I bet if the network gave us won-loss record for teams based on number of strikeouts it would look very much like the home run won-loss record.

The argument is making contact- a home run is contact but the Blue Jays have been very good at extending innings with contact, not necessarily home runs

Anarchistbear said:

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The argument is making contact- a home run is contact but the Blue Jays have been very good at extending innings with contact, not necessarily home runs

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Yes, but if you just look at strikeouts per game the data is ambiguous. The Mariners were 2nd worst but had a good postseason. Strikeouts are ok if they are supported by the appropriate amount of home runs. For big payroll teams like the Dodgers and Yankees that approach works in the regular season. In the postseason against better pitching, the strikeouts go up and so do the losses.

The Dodgers are batting .201 as a Team thru Game 5

Gausman with 8 k's thru first 3 innings.

But Mookie Betts finally BREAKS through with bases loaded.

3 - 0

Gausman can shove his splitter up his @$$.

George Springer gets a 2 out RBI in obvious pain.
What a stud!

3 - 1

Mookie Betts with the 2 run single
Dodgers win
On to game 7

bearister said:

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"In series which have a 2-3-2 format (like this one), teams who take a 3-2 lead by winning Game 5 on the road before returning home for Game 6 and 7 have gone on to to win the series 20 of 27 times (74.1%)."
Sports Illustrated

I assume those odds improve a bit for the Dodgers with Yamamoto pitching Game 6.
* Koufax had 15K's in Game 1 of the 1963 World Series against the New York Yankees. If memory serves, the Yanks had a couple of decent bats on that team.

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I think the 74% chance of winning WS for a team that wins Game 5 on the road just shrunk a bit for Toronto.

BEAT LA!

Using AI I couldn't come up with the odds of a batter hitting a "lodged ball" but it has to be a long shot…..and the rule saved the Dodgers.

Jays had their chances. Oh well! On to Game 7!

bearister said:

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Using AI I couldn't come up with the odds of a batter hitting a "lodged ball" but it has to be a long shot…..and the rule saved the Dodgers.

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I don't think so. It would have been 3-2 with a runner on 2nd.

dajo9 said:

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bearister said:

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Using AI I couldn't come up with the odds of a batter hitting a "lodged ball" but it has to be a long shot…..and the rule saved the Dodgers.

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I don't think so. It would have been 3-2 with a runner on 2nd.

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Yeah, in the 9th the lead runner doesn't matter if he doesn't tie the game.

No, 3-2 with a runner on third and they could have tied it with a sacrifice fly, which changed the entire game. No way to know what happens after that.

That game was stressful as **** for this Dodgers fan. On to game 7…

Even Canada's top general admits the country is racist. Beat the Blue Jays.

AI Overview:

"As of November 1, 2025, there has been only ** one officially recorded instance** of a baseball getting lodged in the bottom of the outfield wall at the Toronto MLB stadium (Rogers Centre) during an MLB game.
This incident occurred on October 31, 2025, during Game 6 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Blue Jays player Addison Barger hit a line drive that became wedged under the padding at the base of the center-field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Under MLB ground rules for the Rogers Centre, a fair ball that lodges in the fence padding is a ground-rule double, and the ball is immediately declared dead. The umpires made this call, which resulted in a controversial play that prevented potential runs from scoring and ended in a double play, securing a 3-1 win for the Dodgers. Blue Jays manager John Schneider stated post-game that he had never seen a ball lodged in the wall before this incident.

It is impossible to predict how many times this might happen in the future, including in 2026. This type of event is extremely rare and depends on precise ball placement and impact location."

bearister said:

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AI Overview:

"As of November 1, 2025, there has been only ** one officially recorded instance** of a baseball getting lodged in the bottom of the outfield wall at the Toronto MLB stadium (Rogers Centre) during an MLB game.
This incident occurred on October 31, 2025, during Game 6 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Blue Jays player Addison Barger hit a line drive that became wedged under the padding at the base of the center-field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Under MLB ground rules for the Rogers Centre, a fair ball that lodges in the fence padding is a ground-rule double, and the ball is immediately declared dead. The umpires made this call, which resulted in a controversial play that prevented potential runs from scoring and ended in a double play, securing a 3-1 win for the Dodgers. Blue Jays manager John Schneider stated post-game that he had never seen a ball lodged in the wall before this incident.

It is impossible to predict how many times this might happen in the future, including in 2026. This type of event is extremely rare and depends on precise ball placement and impact location."

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God is a Dodger fan

Different rules of the universe apply to Ohtani and those in his draft. That is a mitten full of stranded base runners TOR has left stranded after 2.

BOOM!

bearister said:

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Different rules of the universe apply to Ohtani and those in his draft. That is a mitten full of stranded base runners TOR has left stranded after 2.

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I give stock tips too.

bearister said:

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bearister said:

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Different rules of the universe apply to Ohtani and those in his draft. That is a mitten full of stranded base runners TOR has left stranded after 2.

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I give stock tips too.

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LOL

Toronto just keeps coming at you.

1968, 1969, 1970 all had over 20 wins.

His battles against the Detroit Tigers back then were HUGE.

He did PPG glass commercials throwing his fastball.

Bassitt circling airport dumping fuel.

A 262 hitter with 7 runs this season.
Hasnt gotten a hit in a month.
Wow!

This series is UNBELIEVABLE!

Extras?