LAD 6, WSH 5

I'd like to tell you I was conflicted about watching Chase Utley punch the game-winner past a diving Murphy, but...past a diving Murphy. I'm not sure the Dodgers can finish the job, but it sure is nice to see the Nats squirm.

Points!

Seager -5
JTurner 4

Kershaw 18.67. Love it.

***

Murphy 5
TTurner 6

The money:
78: Yuhan 2
75.67: MacEachern
70: Williams, Stempel, Simone

high 50s: Bingham 2, Ekard, Shotwell

40s: Bunting 2, Shee/Bell, the Johnsons, Yuhan 1, Reid Love, Currie, and Quinn

30s: Arbour 1, Reid Hate, Cameron 1, Bingham 1, Brady, Green, Crase, and Bauer 2

20s: Bauer 1, Drake, Broomfield, Cameron 2, Bunting 1, Winklepleck

10s: Elodie, Arbour 2

SF 6, CHC 5 (13)

I fell asleep listening to this game, and woke up in the middle of the night to the dulcet tones of Jon Miller's wrap-up...which sounded to ME like the Cubs had won, which was sort of how I'd left it when I dropped off.

Nope! Los Gigantes went blown save for blown save with the bears apparent and lived to fight another day. You're killing me, not-smalls!

But in a good way, at least pool-wise. Your points:

Baez 1
Bryant 10
Rizzo -4 (argh)
Russell 2
Zobrist 1

Arrieta 17 (6 IP, 5 K, 1 BB; 4 TB, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 LOB)

***

Belt 2
Pence -4
Posey 4

Bumgarner 8

Standings after the jump!

CLE 4, BOS 3; Cleveland advances

I'm happy for Cleveland, but I hate to see Papi go out like that, NOT TO MENTION HALF OF US. God, this is grim.

The points. SIGH.

Betts 2
Bogaerts 1
Bradley -1
Ortiz 1
Pedroia 2

Buchholz 7
Uehara 2

***

Napoli -3

Departures and leaders, after the jump.

WSH 8, LAD 3

..Ugh, although Murphy's negative-number performance warmed my heart a bit. Well, until the Cleveland/Boston game ended, and I don't know when I'll have the strength to get to that, so let's get this done first.

Your points:

Seager 1
Justin Turner -1

Maeda 5

***

Harper 4
Murphy -3
Trea Turner 1

Your money is currently as follows:

Williams 65
Yuhan 2 64.33
Stempel, Simone 55

Ekard and Reid Love just behind.

But now...I have to calculate the lava flow that is the Red Sox loss. Talk about a horror movie. And Arrieta just hit a home run. I don't even know.

TOR 7, TEX 6 (10); Blue Jays advance

Mighty courteous of the Jays to wait 'til I switched over from the debate to beast the Ranger defense, but that was about as much excitement as I could take in one night...

It felt all September like people kept forgetting the Rangers had won their division/existed, and it felt all week like they were never really in the LDS. And...now they're not, and I wonder whether Banister isn't going to pay for this Groundhog Day result with his job, deservedly or not. 

Your points:

Andrus 4

Beltran 1

Odor 8

***

Bats -5

Duck Donaldson 7

Encarnacion 9

Osuna 4

The following picks have gone dark:

Andrus

Beltran

Beltre

Darvish

Hamels

Odor

As knockouts go, this is not disastrous, but a few slates will suffer for the series not going longer (Hamels was set to start a Game 4, I think, which wouldn't have gone well but could have carried a few slates a little longer). 

Standings after the jump.

WSH 5, LAD 2

Finally, someone makes a series out of the LDS! ...Too bad it's the Nats, all of whom I'd like to shoot into the sun. No negative points, though, so that's a nice change of pace.

Seager 4
Turner, J 3

Hill 6.33 (buncha Ks, left 3 on)

***

Murphy 6 (ugh)
Turner, T 3

View's still more or less the same at the top:

Williams 57
Simone 51
Stempel 46

Bunting 2, Yuhan 2, and Reid Love also in the low-to-mid-forties. I was expecting some shuffling up today with three games going on, buuuuut we're back down to two because it seems the Biblical downpour we were getting here at midday is movin' on up to Boston, so CLE/BOS is tomorrow at 6 ET. Showdown in the Skydome still on for 7:30 as far as I know, since...it's a dome.

CHC 5, SF 2

As a TV critic, it's great that some of these serieseses seem set to end in three; it frees up my primetime for, you know, my job.

As a poolie...enh. Would anyone like to put up a fight here? The years when half the pickers drop out after Week 1 aren't any fun for anyone.

From last night's authoritative win by the Cubbeenies:

Baez 2
Bryant 1
Rizzo -4
Russell -1
Zobrist -1

Hendricks 6.67 (3.2 IP, no K, no BB; 1 R, 2 RBI, 0 LOB)

***

Belt 1
Posey -1

everyone else cancelling their TBs out with LOB

Money, standings, and schedule after the jump.