{"id":7874,"date":"2013-10-07T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2013-10-10T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:31:48","slug":"quick-thoughts-on-monday-10713s-playoff-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7874","title":{"rendered":"Quick thoughts on Monday 10\/7\/13’s playoff games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, both my guesses for Sunday won (Pittsburgh and LA) but not quite how I envisioned it.\u00a0 Liriano<\/strong> was good but not shutdown, and Pittsburgh needed a big hit from one of their big hitters.\u00a0 Meanwhile Ryu<\/strong> melted under the pressure … but so did his counterpart Teheran<\/strong>, and LA battered their way to a big 13-6 win.<\/p>\n

So, I guess that makes it 10 for 11 so far in the baseball post season.\u00a0 Not bad.\u00a0 Lets see who we like tonight:<\/p>\n

– NLDS Game 4: Stl at Pitt: StL better win this game, else they face a ton of 2nd guessing for sitting Shelby Miller<\/strong> in favor of Lance Lynn<\/strong> (who promptly got bombed).\u00a0 Wacha<\/strong> nearly no-hit the Nats in his final regular season start and easily shut down Pitt earlier in September.\u00a0 Morton<\/strong> has gotten pounded by STL in 2 of the 3 times he’s faced them this year.\u00a0 I feel like StL is stealing one and forcing a 5th game.<\/p>\n

– NLDS Game 4: Atl at LAD: Garcia<\/strong> vs Nolasco<\/strong>.\u00a0 A tale of two seasons for both pitchers; if you had told me this was the matchup in April I would have laughed and given the series to LA.\u00a0 Now?\u00a0 The tables have turned: Garcia was excellent all September and Nolasco was god-awful.\u00a0\u00a0 I think Atlanta gets to Nolasco in this one … but LA also gets to Garcia and this turns into another game like yesterday’s … LA’s hitting hot though and outslugs the Braves for the game 4 victory.<\/p>\n

– ALDS Game 3: Boston at Tampa: Buchholz<\/strong> vs Cobb<\/strong>; wow, tough match up to call.\u00a0 I think Tampa’s too good to get swept and gets at least one win here.\u00a0 Cobb was great in the WC game, is generally good at home (unbeaten 7-0 record) and the Rays get all excited actually playing infront of a sell-out crowd.<\/p>\n

– ALDS Game 3: Athletics at Detroit: Parker<\/strong> v Sanchez<\/strong>.\u00a0 Neither guy has that great of a statline against the other team this year; Parker’s one appearance vs Detroit in April he got hammered for 8 runs in 3 1\/3 innings, while Sanchez shut them down in April but got beat by them in August.\u00a0 On the whole of it, you have to go with the AL ERA champion at home though, so we’ll go Detroit.<\/p>\n

Picking St Louis, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa and Detroit today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, both my guesses for Sunday won (Pittsburgh and LA) but not quite how I envisioned it.\u00a0 Liriano was good but not shutdown, and Pittsburgh needed a big hit from one of their big hitters.\u00a0 Meanwhile Ryu melted under the pressure … but so did his counterpart Teheran, and LA battered their way to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[1262,777,2020,319,1910,321,2018,872,1913,2044,1953,778,1333],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-season","tag-alex-cobb","tag-anibal-sanchez","tag-charlie-morton","tag-clay-buchholz","tag-francisco-liriano","tag-freddie-garcia","tag-hyun-jin-ryu","tag-jarrod-parker","tag-julio-teheran","tag-lance-nynn","tag-michael-wacha","tag-ricky-nolasco","tag-shelby-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}