The LCS Are Set= Yankees/Guardians and Dodgers/Mets

Both League Championship Series are set after both the Dodgers and Guardians nee Indians won home decisive 5th games well within 24 hours as Cleveland’s game vs the Detroit Tigers was moved up 7 hours to a 1 P.M. Eastern Time start today Saturday October 12th.

Next the Dodgers are roughly 9 to 5 favorites vs the Mets in a 1988 NLCS redux, which was won in the maximum 7 games by L.A. en route to their one totally “legit” or one can say full season crown since winning in 7 at Minnesota in 1965.

The Mets swept the Dodgers in 3 straight “div” series games in 2006 before losing to the eventual champion Cardinals in a 7 game NLCS.

Nine years later, this time the Mets won a decisive game at L.A. doing so in #5 of a 2015 division series. All three previous Mets/Dodgers post-season series ended in L.A. where a fourt such entity will begin tomorrow night.

New York (Yankees) have also “opened” as about 9 to 5 “faves” vs the Guardians nee Indians, who first on Thursday past, rode David Fry’s key 2RHR (5-4) at Detroit, ending an 11 game ‘offs losing skein when facing elimination and then today broke an eight game “decisive” game losing streak, getting another multi run, Saturday afternoon home tilt home run from Lane Thomas, today a “slam” off presumptive A.L. Cy Young winner, Skubal in a (7-3) win.

Only once before had the Guardians won a decisive tilt, that in ’97 when they 5’d the Yankees in the “div” series.

Bernie Williams flew out to end the 1 year reign of the Yankees but 3 years later caught Mike Piazza’s drive to center, clinching a 4th Yankees crown in 5 seasons.

The Yankees are (4-2) vs “Cleve” in post-season entities, winning the lone previous LCS between the teams in ’98 and also winning “Div” series in 2017 and 2022 plus a bubble “B.S.” 16 to 8 round? in 2020.

Cleveland’s other series win vs the Yankees, who have won 27 crowns to the Cleveland franchise’s two was in a 2007 “div” series, most famous for the invasion by bugs during game 2 in Cleveland.

Above, left to right, pitcher Steve Gromek and Larry Doby are in a picture that as with an Elton John, I guess Bernie Taupin song, “sad songs,” SAID SO MUCH.

On another Saturday afternoon 1 P.M. start in Cleveland Gromek won and Doby homered in a (2-1) “Cleve” win that put them up 3 games to 1 in the ’48 World Series, the last one and second that Cleveland won.

They failed to wrap in #5 the next day before their huge Municipal Stadium throng but did so in Boston, where they had won a 1 game ‘off vs the A.L. Red Sox to win the pennant, the next day.