The Jays bats were hot last night. Varsho surprised everyone with that 6th inning pinch hit grand slam. Blake Snell looked shaky to me. He just never seemed to find his groove. I’ve got no dog in this race and I really like Kershaw and Betts but I’m rooting for Toronto.

Smoltz is such a shill for the Yanks and Dodgers. He finally ran out of superlatives for the dodgers as those runs kept coming. Go Jays.

The Blue Jays can hit from top to bottom, as a Mariner fan I saw every bit of that.
I don’t care too much now, but I’ll say go Blue Jays.

No disrespect intended to anyone here, but I’m just glad the foreign teams have been losing.

Growing up in Buffalo, I can recall when Toronto got the expansion team, and they have been by default the “home team” for western NY since. The AAA farm team in Buffalo is part of the Jays system, so go blue jays. I don’t follow baseball much, but get tired of the Yankees dodgers always being there.

I watched a couple minutes of the World Series last night. Advertisements all over everything. How tacky. Walking billboards. Another perfect example of what's wrong with baseball. No thanks.

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Originally posted by cas:

Advertisements all over everything.

The TV commercials in between pitches is really getting disgusting.

Not between batters. Literally in between the GD pitcher throwing the next ball.

I like this dodgers team. I also like Springer and Scherzer. So there is a part of me that was a bit conflicted.

Then the Fme Canadians played that dang commercial.

Yeah, go Dodgers. Now I really really dont want the Canadian team to win.

Ohtani is an amazing talent

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Ohtani is an amazing talent

Looking forward to seeing him pitch a World Series game tomorrow night!

^^^ +1

Tonight has been an exciting game so far. Two fantastic throws nailing runners at 3rd and home, smart base running, clutch hits down the 1st baseline, and some timely homers.

EDIT: Posted too soon as Ohtani hit another solo homer. Most pitchers have a room temperature batting average but Ohtani is a once in a generation pitcher that can hit. Last good hitting pitcher I remember was Hall of Famer Steve Carlton and Ohtani is 84 points better.

I love how they kept showing Ohtani..and then the nice long focus on his back side
Shohei buttocks
Hey I'm fine with that!

Entertaining game. Tied at 5, bottom of the 8th.

Great game. 5-5 tie bottom of 9th.

The ads are annoying.

I can’t wait for pharma ads to be banned.

Home plate umpire doesn’t expand the strike zone—at all, but he calls ‘em the same for both teams.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Home plate umpire doesn’t expand the strike zone—at all, but he calls ‘em the same for both teams.

He looks pretty short and is calling head height (for him) pitches as strikes haha. He has called em the same for both so learn as you go but man that slow strike call early was pretty brutal. I’m happy but kind of shitty for anyone routing for TOR. Also, Ohtani is pretty good

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Originally posted by TMats:
Home plate umpire doesn’t expand the strike zone—at all, but he calls ‘em the same for both teams.

He rightfully got his butt chewed earlier in the game when he slowly called a 4th ball a strike, the runner at first began walking to 2nd, and got thrown out.

Seems to have been good since then.

I haven’t followed baseball too closely in recent years, but when did pretty much everyone have a high 90s fastball? I feel like last couple years I’ve started watching more again, I’m seeing consistent heaters. I went to college with Steve Strasburg and just saw that guy throw hard and it stood out, but damn so many guys throwing hard now it seems. Sure we had Nolan, RJ, Gagne, and some others known for their fastball. I grew up in 90s and remember avg being more like low 90s, and Greg Maddux probably not even hitting 90. I know the mound has grown and shrunk but just curious.

2 games later… What a fucking night… 2 complete games momentarily. Crazy ball game. So if someone comes in relief and throws a complete game…