Baseball Post-Season Notes

More facts, albeit esoteric, less, if any opinions this day/night of #6 at Toronto with the Mariners bidding to reach the World Series for the first time, as they have a (3-2) series lead.

I believe only when the 2 all road series occurred that the road team won the first 5 tilts in any LCS or World Series.

Only once in the Blue Jays’ 9 previous LCS or World Series (all best of 7, it occurred in their and the A.L.’s first best of 7 ALCS in ’85 when K.C. won at Toronto) or the so called M’s in 3 such, have either been in a 7 game entity.

Meanwhile the Dodgers broke form as for just the third time in 39 (1/13, fractions anyone?) LCS or World Series, 5 best of 5 LCS included, were in a 4 game entity, winning that way in ’63 and Friday past while losing in 4 to Baltimore (Orioles) in ’66.

Fox again got more games than TBS. In 19 seasons/years of both Fox, now it is FS1 and they stay on the batter which is poor coverage (the Suarez G. slam, the latest example), and TBS telecasting the LCS (‘2007-2025), that has manifested 13 times, 5 times there were an equal number of games on each network with 2008 (TBS had Tampa Bay –$$$ ruined that fine organization, one of 5 teams the Brewers just swept by L.A., Rockies, Padres, and already cited Mariners the lone team of baseball’s 30 never to qualify for a World Series—in 7 vs defending champion Boston while Fox was on the eventual champion Phils’ 5 game LCS win vs the Dodgers. Remember when L.A. made ‘offs but not as much as the NLCS–no longer the case.

Left to right, Wally Bunker and Jim Palmer, two of the 3 Orioles starters to shutout L.A. thwarting their “repeat” bid (they still have never done so but will be pretty big “faves” to do so this time, more vs Seattle against whom they would open at home after a week’s rest while if Tor wins the next 2, the Jays would have home advantage but still be fairly sizable underdogs) in ’66. (Dave McNally is the other, Moe Drabowsky was brilliant in relief in game 1, the only tilt in that series, in which L.A. scored)