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Originally Posted by allenciox
Yeah, the Cottons are an unusual type team to match up against. Because of your ballpark favoring righty ba, the Caspers are trying to use all righty starters when we are in your park. Maddux gets promoted from my fifth starter normally to my second starter in the series (I figure groundball pitchers should be favored in power parks).
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The Cottons going 5 games in the NLDS is a big deal here, because now in order to get the pitching matchups I want, I need to roll 3 tired starters. We'll see how it goes, but I suspect that game 1 victory by the Caspers is the edge they needed to pull the upset.
Stream of consciousness:
EDIT: Enormous game 2 victory for the cottons, but not out of the woods yet since the Caspers have home field advantage for 3/5 of the remaining games.
EDIT2: The Quantum Condors let up the tying run (eventually losing in extras) in the top of the 9th, with 2 outs... on a Pesky error at SS. Then game 3 goes down after Steve Howe, who let up a single HR all season, in a park suppressing righty power, lets up a 3 run HR to blow the 2-0 lead with 2 outs in the 8th. It's funny how sometimes your greatest strength can become a weakness in the playoffs, or vice versa.