A First: All 4 Division Series Are (1-1)

A first, in this the 30th possibility (’95-2024) as all four, best of five, baseball division series are tied at one game apiece.

First the Phillies at home and then in chronological order and on the road, San Diego (Padres), Detroit (Tigers) and K.C. (Royals) bounced back from game 1 losses to win game 2.

Today now at the Mets, it is #3 vs the Phillies, as the two are meeting for the first time in post-season play.

Later at San Diego, the Dodgers now series underdogs and with only 1 crown and that in a questionable “sitch,” to say the least, to show for their previous 10 one eighth “div” titles starting in 2013, before garnering (ode to the fine actor, James Garner, who I once saw driving a cool sports car, when as a 13 year old on a last vacation with my parents probably as a “Ba” Mitzvah reward, from a bus, Universal? Studio(s) tour) an eleventh this season, play #3 at S.D.

Tomorrow in a fourth out of 5 such, (1-1) Yankees/K.C. series, a # 3 Yankees at K.C. tilt (only other #3 at K.C. was a Royals win, however, the Yankees with Al “Sparky” Lyle hurling 5 and one third scoreless innings in relief in game 4, won the next 2 and the series, before (4-2 ‘ing) “my,” then Dodgers, to cop the ’77 crown) follows #3 Cleveland at Detroit.

In this baseball post, I impart that Detroit and Cleveland clashed in 4 NFL final round entities/NFL Title games from (’52-’57) and 3 straight from (’52-’54).

Detroit’s Lions beat Cleveland’s original Browns in 3 of those, (’52,’53 and ’57) with a late Bobby Layne to Jim Doran TD pass the decisive play in the at Detroit, ’53 tilt, one that remained an indelible early life memory for the late, excellent broadcaster, Dick Enberg.

This is the first ever Cleveland vs Detroit baseball post-season clash.