TOR 6, LAD 1

The Dodgers look a little tight mentally, making some yips-y mistakes out there. Not to take anything away from the kid, though. What a great story. Yesavage has made like three times as many postseason starts in the majors as regular ones or something? Love it.

Dodgers pickers, less so; not a terribly point-ish evening, although everyone look out, Quinn 2's makin' a run! 

Bichette 1
Guerrero 4
Kirk 1
Schneider 4
Springer 0

Betts 0
Freeman 0
Hernandez, T 2
Ohtani 0
Pages 0

Definitely cross-check these numbers -- my spreadsheet basically ran out of road; the tweak worked AFAIK, but if something looks off, leave a comment! -- but here's the money going into the last travel day:

154 Izzo
123 Bauer Snoozical
122 Quinn 2

119 Mectomy
118 MArbour 1 and Mopsiukas 1
112 Dunn 2

Betts is kind of a problem for non-Izzo slates that want to compete. It doesn't seem like he's having that terrible a postseason, until you remember that he has one more TB than a guy on the Cubs who hasn't touched a bat in weeks.

Everyone else after the jump!

TOR 6, LAD 2

What a watchable Series we have in 2025. What a well-matched pair of teams. What a mitzvah that they're tied up and we get at least a couple more games.

What an interesting points array...

Bichette 1
Guerrero Jr. 5
Kirk 0
Schneider 0
Springer, not in the line-up 0

Betts 1
Freeman 2
Hernandez T 1
Ohtani 0
Pages 0

Perfectly creditable outing from Ohtani, but Dave Roberts thinks Blake Treinen is...anything, and that belief put it out of reach. 

The BPP money going into the final game in Los Angeles...

150 Izzo
121 Bauer Snoozical
119 Mectomy

118 MArbour 1 and Quinn 2
114 Mopsiukas 1
112 Dunn 2

So there's not zero drama here.

97 Fell 1
95 Drake 2
91 Green

80s Cameron First, Wonsetler 1, DGB, AK Dos, and the Shotwells

70s Bingham Prime, AK Uno, and Reid Omega

60s Dunn 1 and Cameron Second

50s Drake 1, Bingham Emo, the Estros, and the Arbours

40s Tormey and Mopsiukas 2

22 Quinn 1

The simultaneous fun and torture of the pool is sitting in front of the spreadsheet when I have other work to do, wool-gathering about paths to the money for the un-bolded slates. I need to stop it with that now, so let's all speculate groundlessly about tonight's pitching matchup instead, Yesavage v. Snell. Everybody's tired, everybody's seen everybody else's pitch array, one of the bodies started the year eating cheese sandwiches on a creaky bus, but you just never know at this time of year. 

You do know to check my math, though, so do that, get stretched out for Game 5 at 8 ET, and good luck!

LAD 6, TOR 5 (18) (eeee-yep)

I stayed up for ENOUGH of this one that my eyes feel all gritty today -- but only managed to get to the bottom of the 14th before, well, "Enter Sandman" and all that. I kind of wish I'd managed to watch the entire thing, as a badge of honor...even though a lot of the baseball was weird at best, there was another "bunting is absolutely inexplicable, why would anyone" etc. etc. incident, pinch-runners were in that shouldn't have been, Springer hurt himself mid-at-bat, the determined tag everyone was talking about was glued to Ohtani's nuts, on and on.

But watching my Bluesky feed populate with variations on "what the crispy fuck was THAT" over and over again was a delight for as long as I could keep my eyes open.

Plenty of points on tap, too, although maybe not as many as you'd hope given they, you know, played two full games? But that's part of the story, too, that neither of these bullpens is, er, especially well-regarded, and they both stuck in for another nine.

That's going to have ripples tonight, but for today, the points:

Betts 1
Freeman 5
Hernandez, T 7
Ohtani 12 again (is a thing I get to type)
Pages 0

Bichette 2
Guerrero Jr. 2
Kirk 5
Schneider 1
Springer 0

And with that, the 2025 pool functionally becomes a fight for place and show.

143 Izzo
118 MArbour 1 and Mectomy
117 Bauer Snoozical

113 Quinn 2
110 Dunn 2
109 Mopsiukas 1

Everyone else after the jump...

LAD 5, TOR 1

Tonight's game felt a bit more like a game, versus the barely-controlled bottle rocket of adrenaline of last night's. Good storylines, good performances. 

And the...JoBros? Why does Manfred have to be like this, I'm sincerely asking. There is no halftime show in baseball. Please go run a sport you don't despise.

No great segue from that to the somewhat subdued points, so let's get to those:

Betts 0
Freeman 2
Hernandez, T 0
Ohtani 1
Pages 1

Bichette 0
Guerrero 1
Kirk 0
Schneider 0
Springer 2

As established in my update on the previous post, you should check my math/inputting, but provided I got it right this time, here's the money going into the travel day:

124 Izzo
111 Quinn 2
106 MArbour 1

105 Mectomy 

95 Mopsiukas 1
93 Dunn 2
92 Bauer Snooze
90 Fell 1

And everyone else after the jump!

TOR 11, LAD 4

And we're back! No rust on the Blue Jay bats, that's for sure. The Dodger pen might have been discombobulated by other factors than the usual (and of course you'll join me in wishing the Vesia family the best right now)...or it might be that these Jays can just hit.

Points!

Betts 1
Freeman 0
Hernandez T 0
Ohtani 4
Pages 0

well well well, look who's back and feelin' fine -- Bichette 1
Guerrero Jr. 2
Kirk 6
Schneider 0
Springer 2

The mid-range and one-off picks need to step it up if anyone wants to catch the leader; for the moment, that's...

118 Izzo
110 Quinn 2
105 MArbour

Just off the pace:

104 Mectomy

Still a couple zombies groaning around in the top quarter; everyone else who's still active, after the jump!

TOR 4, SEA 3; Blue Jays move on

I just keep thinking about all the Bsky posts asking plaintively for a Game 8. It was a nail-biter, fun as hell, and I'm happy for the Jays...but man, it would be nice for Seattle to get to a Classic, ever.

And for half the pool not to get kneecapped, but we have to live in this world.

Last LCS points, with knocked-out picks in italics...

Arozarena 1
Canzone 0
Crawford 2
Naylor 1
Polanco 1
Raleigh 4
JRod 6
Suarez 1

Bichette 0
Guerrero Jr. 1
Kirk 1
Schneider 0
Springer 4

MVP for us, unsurprisingly, is Vladdy. LVP...I don't know, I guess Canzone, but if you're looking at expectations vs. performance, you could argue it's Arozarena. (Schneider didn't notch a TB this series, but wasn't getting at-bats; what can you do.) Barger and Clement looking likely for the Victorino if a Dodger doesn't steal it from them.

But that's a problem for the weekend. Now, we're looking at the money. Here again, italics mean the slate has no picks left, and will fall out of the updates going forward.

110 Izzo
108 Quinn
102 Crase AL

101 MArbour 1
99 Mectomy

The rest of us, after the jump...

TOR 6, SEA 2

A number of the serieses in the 2025 postseason haven't lived up to their potential; the ALCS doesn't have that problem. A certain Mets-osity to last night's defense aside, both teams feel pretty locked in -- at just the right time for a winner-take-all game tonight.

Some individual hitters have cooled, but that's what makes things interesting around here. Points!

Arozarena 2
Canzone! 1
Crawford 0
Naylor 5
Polanco 0
Raleigh 0
Rodriguez 0
Suarez 1

Bichette 0
Guerrero 5
Kirk 1
Schneider 0
Springer 0

Vlad Jr. just an absolute monster this past week. You love to see it.

Slight realignment of the money going into Game 7:

105 Izzo
96 Quinn 2
90 MArbour 1 and Crase AL

89 Mectomy
86 Mopsiukas 1
84 Bauer Snoozical

Everyone else after the jump!