They just announced it. Braves and Mets are postponed the next two days and they'll play a doubleheader on Monday. Means the Braves are going to be fresh for us this weekend but they've gotta save arms for Monday too because those two games will probably decide a playoff spot.

So Sale was scheduled to pitch tonight, and Fried on Thursday. It will be interesting to see when they will resume pitching. On Monday's DH, or the Royals games.

Yeah it turns out they aren't going to play if the games don't matter, the question is does that include seeding. The Braves are team on the outside looking in so they'd need the other teams to lose. We might need the D'backs particularly to win some games. I don't think the Braves can get far enough past the Mets to lock it up before Monday.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The games Monday will only be played if they matter to one or both teams for playoff reasons. <a href="https://t.co/Q9ikF2eiEE">https://t.co/Q9ikF2eiEE</a></p>&mdash; Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/1839049900002070991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

As if things hadn’t turned into a raining shit cluster**** enough….

The Mets, Arizona, and Atlanta are all within a game of each other for the 2nd and 3rd WC berths, and Atlanta currently leads the season series with the Mets 6-5. I'm not sure how it wouldn't matter, but it will be interesting.

The bigger more important matter at hand IMHO is if Sale pitches Friday night now vs. KC. And Fried on Saturday. We we're going to miss these guys in the normal rotation, but now who knows.

Exactly.

Joel Sherman just fired off another tweet saying if the DBacks are eliminated it would be commissioner's decision if the doubleheader is played.

Such complicated math. Looks like the Braves have the tiebreaker on the Dbacks so they'd need to be 1 game ahead of Arizona by Sunday to clinch over them. That's doable, we really need Arizona to win tonight and make this more complicated.

Who the heck would have guessed on opening day we'd be sitting here going into the last weekend rooting for Arizona to beat up on the Giants and Padres. What a mess.

No doubt.

Can someone explain like I'm five on what that tweets talking about and how it effects us?

The other thing is I just saw the National Hurricane Center has upped their forecast for this thing to be a Cat 4 at landfall. Obviously won't be near that in Atlanta but this is going to be a nasty storm. Hopefully we can even play on Friday.

now Im more confused than normal

I don't think we entirely know yet, but the Braves vs Mets is postponed the next two days because of the hurricane.

What's 100% true is the Braves were about to use their best 2 starters against the Mets and now those games are moved to Monday for a doubleheader. The Braves are on the outside looking in just behind the Mets and Dbacks.

Who knows if Atlanta throws their best pitchers at us or save them for the potential doubleheader. What we do know is we need the Dbacks to win tonight to put pressure on the Braves and Mets. The more the Dbacks win it forces the Mets and Braves to play hard while possibly saving something for a Monday doubleheader that would decide playoff teams.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is an awful break for KC. Not only does it mean all 3 games are basically guaranteed to have playoff implications for Atlanta, it means that Sale and Fried, who were supposed to pitch tonight and tomorrow, will likely start Friday and Saturday, with Schwellenbach Sunday. <a href="https://t.co/kVKYzDINAV">https://t.co/kVKYzDINAV</a></p>&mdash; Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/1839053468708794422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Crazy talk here, but are there any chances of moving the Atlanta games to KC?

/asking for a friend.

one could surmise that the braves think they can beat the royals (and their light lineup) with their lesser starters..........? :hmmm:

Confucius says "It is , what it is"..

No. The storm will basically be through there by Friday night. The only issue may be can the Royals get to Atlanta tomorrow, which would be the same issue the Braves would have potentially getting to KC. Unless they made that decision today, which they aren’t gonna do.

Lets just sweep Washington and hope the Fish do the same to the Twinkies. Stress free weekend in A-Town then.

Possible, but probably not likely.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2...2LxQs/100.webp

I would be somewhat surprised if they don’t pitch Sale and Fried. There is a theoretical world where the Braves could lose a series to us and if the Mets take care of business vs a nothing to play for Brewers team, the Braves could be out of it by Monday. This would also include the Dbacks stopping their meltdown. The good news is that we will have Lugo and Ragans on Saturday and Sunday so we could maybe get a close or tied game long enough to get into bullpen which becomes more of a crap shoot. Also, he’s good but Fried has not been usual Fried this year. Sale we have almost no chance of getting to and we have Singer on the mound (assuming the Braves do pitch Sale Friday) in an important game on the road. I’d set his IP over/under at 3.5

We’re winning the whole ****ing thing

Very unlikely. And I hope not, have tickets to Saturday's game.

In AAA, Nick Pratto hit a walkoff sac fly in the 10th to win the game for Omaha tonight in the International League Championship series. It's tied at 1-1 and they play a final game tomorrow for the league title.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!! <a href="https://t.co/C2HTgGcPSy">pic.twitter.com/C2HTgGcPSy</a></p>&mdash; Omaha Storm Chasers (@OMAStormChasers) <a href="https://twitter.com/OMAStormChasers/status/1839139629947134063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Juan Soto? It isn't even worth talking about. We arent able to pay another big time player

Meh. Don’t have 7 game losing streaks in the last 2 weeks of the season and none of this even matters.

The Royals made their bed. Now they have to lay in it.

Finish the sweep of Washington today and win at least one in Atlanta this weekend (regardless of who’s pitching) and they’re likely in.

If they can’t do both of those, they have no business being in the playoffs. :shrug:

I bought tickets for game 1 of the ALDS. I figured that would be our best option of catching another game at the K this year.

https://www.mlb.com/royals/tickets/postseason

The Jayhawks play at Arrowhead on Saturday afternoon too. I'm not sure how much that would be a potentially conflicting factor on them coming to KC, but it certainly doesn't help.

This statement right here is exciting. We have 4 games left in the season and are seriously in contention to play in the post season? Holy shit, what a season. I'd like to go back to my original post in this thread.

I was optimistic, but didn't expect this. Was honestly hoping for a good progression from the team under JJ/Q. Far surpassed expectations and I'm absolutely stoked to see what they can do in the postseason this year, with the future being bright. Go Royals!

The White Sox are such a dumpster fire of an organization. Some of this stuff is crazy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This article just confirms what I already thought of Yasmani, Lance, Graveman, etc. <br><br>The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhiteSox</a> are a trash organization with trash people<br><br>I’m always team Liam Hendriks <a href="https://t.co/UQKsXc1n1C">https://t.co/UQKsXc1n1C</a> <a href="https://t.co/4YURNvmwnv">pic.twitter.com/4YURNvmwnv</a></p>&mdash; Herb Lawrence (@Ecnerwal23) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ecnerwal23/status/1838987836642443305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I can see how Liam Hendricks rubs teammates the wrong way if you know anything about him (he's woke), but still, part of being a good teammate is embracing every one regardless of your differences and definitely being in his corner when he has cancer.

The White Sox are trash. They can fall off a cliff, as far as I’m concerned. But please find a way to beat Detroit a few times first.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vinnie Pasquantino is hitting off the pitching machine on the field this morning in D.C. There have been quite a few balls sent over the fence. Pretty incredible progress. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a></p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1839332834022248758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Any chance he comes back early?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Braves are going Fried (Fri.), TBA, TBA for this weekend&#39;s series against KC . Snitker said Sale is fine when asked the past two days. The question is why push Sale back to Sat. or Sun. when knowing this means the WC series could end without him making a start. Waiting to hear.</p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href="https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1839354715920089215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm afraid those 2 7 game losing streaks will keep us out. Atlanta will be fired up to win, we somehow have to get at least 1 win there. If we lose the last game in Wash., we gotta have 2 games in Atlanta. This a fight with Seattle for the last WC spot, Detroit finishing with the White Sox is probably going to sink us!

I still refuse to root for Chicago.

LOL. This didn't age well.

We just eliminated Seattle

Yep… SEATTLE IS GONE!! Wild card comes down to the AL Central

Detroit is off the table. They are in, there is no way they don't win the series vs the White Sox. The race is between us and MN. We need one win in Atlanta and the Twins to lose one of 4 games. The Twins losing twice would also do the trick. I'd say it's about 70/30 that we make it in. If the Twins win tonight drop that to 60/40 and if they win and we lose tomorrow, it's a good ol' fashioned 50/50

The Tigers ain’t losing in Chicago so we need to sweep Atlanta or else we will be playing Houston

Don't we want to play HOU?

Baltimore has had a similar finish to the season as the royals.....and less playoff experience.

But who knows. whomever gets hot at the right time........

Houston > Cleveland path I like better than Baltimore > New York

We got swept in Houston the end of last month and the 1st of this month, 4 games. But who knows?

That was in the midst of our 1st 7 game losing streak.

If we make it, I’d much rather play Houston than Baltimore. We actually match up with them pretty well.

The big key is we need to win tomorrow or have Minny lose tonight and tomorrow so we can set our rotation for the series. Singer pitching tomorrow for us. Ideally, would like to save Lugo and Ragans for games 1 & 2 in Houston.

The most likely scenario is they win 2 of 3 vs the White Sox

Lol Detroit is 9-1 against the White Sux. I doubt they lose, but maybe the Sux can pull one off.

The weird thing is the Sux seemed semi motivated right now to NOT get that 121st loss, so they actually played a decent series against the Angels and finished the sweep today, so I think their going to go into Detroit with a little motivation. Of course, that all goes away as soon as they lose one but who knows, maybe Friday they pull off a crazy win?

That said, if we manage to get in, I honestly don’t want to pass Detroit at this point. I’d rather get the last Wild Card and play Houston. We match up better with them. And then if we somehow managed to pull that series off, then we play Cleveland. I like that matchup better than any other potential matchup in the playoffs.

We need to be rooting HARD tonight for Miami and Baltimore. A Baltimore win means a motivated team heads to Minny and still has something to play for (AL East crown).

GO ORIOLES! GO MARLINS!

I'd rather be the 3rd wildcard. Houston on the road then Cleveland in the divisional. If you're the 2, it's Baltimore on the Road then the Yankees in divisional.

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7 total games. 4 for the Twins. 3 for us.

We just need 2 good outcomes of those 7.

There’s a lot of ways that this works out for us. Only a handful of ways this works out for the Twins.

Sweeps are hard even against bad teams. I don’t see us getting swept. I don’t see the Twins sweeping Baltimore.

By pulling off the sweep of our own against Washington, I’ll be really surprised if disaster happens. Obviously, it’s possible but sounds unlikely.

Atlanta finally announced their starting pitcher for tomorrow; Max Fried. Nothing yet for Saturday or Sunday. They're clearly taking it one game at a time at this point.

Lucky us.

Correct. Look, Fried is good and I have zero faith in Singer on the road in a big spot but Sale is a different animal. With Sale you hope your guy can find a way to match his zeros for 7-8 innings and get to their pen late. Fried is good, but he ain’t that.

Best case scenario: Marlins win tonight. Singer has the game of his life, we score some runs, and we clinch tomorrow night. Party all night. Shelve Lugo and Ragans, and we get them both fresh for the playoffs next week.

Sound good everyone? Okay, all in on three... ROYALS!

Aisle drink 2 dat!!!

Nah, the best case is twins lose tonight, the Friday Atlanta game gets rain delayed, twins lose tomorrow night, then we throw scrubs this weekend and rest all our starters

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I’d like to see the boys clinch with a win. I think they need that moment.

I agree with the getting another win sentiment to seal the deal.

And don't look now, but the Marlins are doing their part... They're up 3-0 in the 5th inning. GO MARLINS GO.

Marlins go up 3-0 in the 5th

Bases loaded now with one out in the 5th. C'mon Marlins, blow this thing open!

Good news, bad news. NY up 5-0 on Baltimore now, but Miami up 3-0 with 2 runners on and one out.

Need Minny to lose tonight because they may be playing Orioles B team all weekend.



Edit: scratch that. If O’s lose to Yanks they’re still only up 3 on Detroit for Top Wildcard spot and Detroit has tie breaker over Balty. So they’ll be plenty motivated to get that win tomorrow night either way to lock up the Wild Card series at home instead of on the road.

So Yankees game outcome less important now.

Marlins get a run on a throw home with drawn in infield but the catcher dropped it.

Trying to switch to mlb network to see if I can catch an update on the twins game from the NFL game between commercials on prime is not convenient :mad:

Marlins stranded the bases loaded in the top of the 5th by the way and then got a 1-2-3 inning in the bottom half. One out in the top of the 6th, still 4-0 Marlins.

I'm watching the Marlins broadcast and they have commented on how tight they thing the Twins look. People in the crowd are getting restless.

Tell me more I'm almost there

Correa homerun, 4-1 Marlins

Sorry babe

And deflated

162-game schedule, nobody gives a shit if you get in with a win. Just get in.

Valente Bellozo was masterful, keeping the Twins off-guard with his 90-mph fastball. Correa was the only one that had his number. He threw him a cement mixer.

I agree. Who cares. Just get in.

Marlins get out of the 6th.

On the 7th, 4-1 Marlins

I like seeing that bullpen arm come in and immediately get out of the inning

Omaha seems to be taking care of business.

Omaha has taken a 7-3 lead in the final game of the International League championship series. They're 3 innings away from the International League title if they can hold on.

GO MARLINS GO

The Twins are in total playoff mode. Griffin Jax, one of their two relief aces, comes in to keep the deficit at three runs.

They used him kind of early last night too.

To the bottom of the 7th

4-1 Fish

Oh boy, big spot in the Marlins game. Runners on 2nd and 3rd, two outs...