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October 21, 2014
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
I haven't paid much attention to either SF or KC until now,but last night's game was anything but dramatic.
posted by jeremias at 07:05 AM on October 22, 2014
The story on Shields has historically been that if you don't get to him early, you won't get to him. Last night reinforced that idea. The KC bullpen wasn't that bad, but once you are down 4, allowing even one more is not acceptable. Baumgartner is a beast of mythical proportions. I didn't turn to this game until quite late -- Bruins were in a beauty against San Jose -- but the little I saw and heard, and what I had seen in previous games, told me that he is scary.
posted by Howard_T at 03:04 PM on October 22, 2014
The Out Of The Park Baseball developers used the 2015 version of their game to run the upcoming World Series five times.
The first series went six games. All the others went seven.
I won't spoil the projected winner, but I will say they posted the stats generated by the five series in a big google doc. If only we knew anyone who liked that sort of thing.
Interestingly, the overall losing team scored more runs across the five series and had a better ERA from the starters and the bullpen.