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Originally Posted by bailey
This thread needs a better title, I have trouble finding it.
Collingwood has been jockeying back and forth with Shanghai for 1st place all season long so predictably they end up tied. We've got home field advantage thanks to a 10-9 season series win and we've won 2 games out of 3 at home. Shanghai sports 23 perfect cards on his active roster with another 31 perfect cards in visible reserves. The loser gets to go on the road for the wild card game with a team that has Cy Young (the 4 million point Cy Young) fully rested. It turns out that the Magpies faced this guy twice during the regular season scoring 10 earned runs in 9 total innings.
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Yeah, this forum is definitely not the easiest to locate when a post hasn't shown up in a while. Also that's a bold move stating those good stats your team produced against Cy Young prior to a playoff game.
It was like the kiss of death whenever I would notice how well my team did against a particular pitcher in the regular season and then end up scoring 1 run against him in the playoffs. My latest season with my improved pitching staff did not result in a better season with just 73 wins but then of course I ended up in a stronger Diamond league this year too. I was in playoff contention as late as Friday morning, but an 11 game losing streak (thanks to a slew of games against top teams in a row) crushed my dreams of a wildcard appearance by that afternoon.I still need more pitching though and will probably have to address my OF defensive play since the opposing teams batting lineups are getting stronger and are taking advantage of their lack of range in LF and RF.