2009 Playoffs Thread

[Omar]

8/28 Standings

NL East

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#     REMAINING

PHI       73       52      ---    ---     37
FLA       67       60      7.0     30     35
ATL       67       60      7.0     30     35

NL Wild Card

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB      E#     REMAINING

COL       72       56      ---    ---     34
SFG       69       59      3.0     32     34
FLA       67       60      4.5     31     35
ATL       67       60      4.5     31     35

Two observations:

• I suck at converting tables to here
• After a 5-1 road trip, we now only have three teams ahead of us. We definitely have to think the team has impressed enough to warrant significant overtures at adding bats

Tonight's Games
COL (Jimenez) vs NYM (Perez)
LAD (Wolf) vs STL (Carpenter) [ESPN]
WSH (Stammen) vs MIL (Suppan)
HOU (Rodriguez) vs CHC (Zambrano)
PIT (Maholm) vs SFG (Lincecum)

Wild Card leaders go on the road to Citi Field (here's hoping that the Mets help us out), but St. Louis and San Francisco both have strong pitchers for them at home. Here's hoping the Brew Crew and Astros drop past the five game threshold by Friday and dump players.

[Ramp]

Here's to hoping Josh Willingham stays hot and the Nats continue to not be the worst team ever (4-7 home trip!)

[MiamiHomer]

Here's to hoping we get a bat like Josh Willingham.

[m26555]

Weren't there six teams in front of us not too long ago? I'm liking what I see.

[Namaste]

My confidence is at -4000

[Namaste]

Natinals taking it to the Brew Crew baby!!

[MiamiHomer]

Tatis hits a grand slam...what's new. Colorado down 3-7 now.

[Omar]

Mets do their part and defeat the Rockies, 7-3

Cardinals beat up the Dodgers, 6-1

Scores in progress:

HOU 1 CHC 1, BOT 8
WSH 13 MIL 5, TOP 6
PIT 0 SFG 0, TOP 1

[Omar]

As of July 28th, 2009

TEAM      WIN     LOSS     GB     REMAINING

COL       54       45      ---     63
SFG       53       46      1       63
STL       54       48      1.5     60
FLA       51       48      3       63
ATL       51       48      3       63
HOU       50       49      4       63
MIL       49       50      5       63

Tonight's Games
COL (Marquis) vs NYM (Pelfrey)
ATL (Jurrjens) vs FLA (Nolasco)
WSH (Balester) vs MIL (Villanueva)
HOU (Oswalt) vs CHC (Dempster)
LAD (Billingsley) vs STL (Wainwright)
PIT (Morton) vs SFG (Zito)

[Fish Tank Frenzy]

Win 40 more games and we got a good shot at winning this thing.

That's 40 wins out of 63 games = .635 Winning %

I think it can be done.

Need to avoid getting swept. One long losing streak and it becomes almost impossible to win the WC.

[Omar]

Finals
ATL 3 FLA 4
COL 0 NYM 4

In Progress
HOU 6 CHC 6 TOP 6 (uh oh)
WSH 5 MIL 2 TOP 8
LAD 0 STL 0 BOT 2
PIT 0 SFG 0 TOP 1

Division wise, the Phils are losing 1-0 @ Arizona at the moment (6.5 back pending their result)

[MiamiHomer]

Houston wins 11-6
MIL lost 8-3
STL up 6-0 8th
SFG-PIT tied 1-1 in the 6th.

[Namaste]

2 in the loss column between us and COL

[MiamiHomer]

SFG took the lead.

[MiamiHomer]

7/29 update to the race.

NATIONAL	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Colorado	54	46	.540	-	27-21	27-25	499	446	+53	Lost 2	5-5
San Francisco	54	46	.540	-	33-15	21-31	398	372	+26	Won 2	5-5
Chicago Cubs	52	46	.531	1	31-19	21-27	422	405	+17	Lost 1	7-3
Florida	        52	48	.520	2	26-24	26-24	452	463	-11	Won 2	6-4
Atlanta	        51	49	.510	3	27-23	24-26	443	413	+30	Lost 1	6-4
Houston	        51	49	.510	3	28-25	23-24	425	452	-27	Won 1	5-5
Milwaukee      49	51	.490	5	25-26	24-25	461	489	-28	Lost 3	3-7
NY Mets	        48	51	.485	5.5	27-20	21-31	424	455	-31	Won 4	6-4