NLDS Game 4: CHC 6, SF 5

W: Hector Rondon (1-0, 5.40 ERA)

L: Will Smith (0-1, 0.00 ERA)

The Giants' alternate year World Series run is finally broken. If the Cubs go all the way, Theo Epstien will be MVP of the century.

Today's game and starting pitchers:

NL DIVISION SERIES:



WASHINGTON NATIONALS VS. LOS ANGELES DODGERS

Los Angeles (Rich Hill, 12-5, 2.12 ERA) at Washington (Max Scherzer, 20-7, 2.96 ERA), 8:00 pm ET, FS1

NLDS Game 5: LAD 4, WAS 3

W: Julio Urias (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

L: Marc Rzepczynski (0-1, 4.50 ERA)

Clayton Kershaw - two starts and a save in this five-game series. That's crazy.

ALCS Game 1: CLE 2, TOR 0

W: Corey Kluber (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

L: Marco Estrada (0-1, 2.25 ERA)

ALCS Game 2: CLE 2, TOR 1

W: Josh Tomlin (1-0, 1.59 ERA)

L: J.A. Happ (0-1, 3.60 ERA)

NLCS Game 1: CHC 8, LAD 4

W: Aroldis Chapman (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

L: Joe Blanton (0-1, 67.50 ERA)

Maybe Toronto will have better luck at home.

[Edited 10/16/16 10:55am]

Yes! A grand slam to win the game! Woo hoo! Go Cubs!

Joe Blanton should be ashamed. He has done the job all year for the Dodgers...why on earth would he throw an 0-2 slider in Montero's wheelhouse? That's Pitching 101...0-2 count, MAKE THEM CHASE. Still can't believe what I saw. Kershaw can even it up tonight, but the Dodgers are asking a LOT of him. We shall see...GO DODGERS

NLCS Game 2: LAD 1, CHC 0

W: Clayton Kershaw (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

L: Kyle Hendricks (0-1, 1.69 ERA)

Unlike David Price, Kershaw has proven he can pitch in the postseason.

Today's game and starting pitchers:

AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES:



CLEVELAND INDIANS VS. TORONTO BLUE JAYS

Cleveland (Trevor Bauer, 12-8, 4.26 ERA) at Toronto (Marcus Stroman, 9-10, 4.37 ERA), 8:00 pm ET, TBS/SNET

ALCS Game 3: CLE 4, TOR 2

W: Bryan Shaw (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

L: Marcus Stroman (0-1, 6.75 ERA)

Terry Francona can't make a bad move at all this postseason. Indians' starting pitcher gets pulled in the first inning because of an injury? No problem, Tito can handle it. Amazing.

Today's games and starting pitchers:


AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES:

CLEVELAND INDIANS VS. TORONTO BLUE JAYS

Cleveland (Corey Kluber 18-9, 3.14 ERA) at Toronto (Aaron Sanchez, 15-2, 3.00 ERA), 4:00 pm ET, TBS/SNET

NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES:

CHICAGO CUBS VS. LOS ANGELES DODGERS

Chicago (Jake Arrieta, 18-8, 3.10 ERA) at Los Angeles (Rich Hill, 12-5, 2.12 ERA), 8:00 pm ET, FS1

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ALCS Game 4: TOR 5, CLE 1

W: Aaron Sanchez (1-0, 1.50 ERA)

L: Corey Kluber (1-1, 1.59 ERA)

NLCS Game 3: LAD 6, CHC 0

W: Rich Hill (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

L: Jake Arrieta (0-1, 7.20 ERA)

Maybe Terry Francona ran out of rabbits to pull out of his hat. Trevor Bauer looks to be out for the rest of the series and Cy Young winner Corey Kluber can't pitch again until game seven at the earliest on short rest.

ALCS Game 5: CLE 3, TOR 0

W: Bryan Shaw (2-0, 2.70 ERA)

L: Marco Estrada (0-2, 2.57 ERA)

NLCS Game 4: CHC 10, LAD 2

W: Mike Montgomery (1-0, 6.23 ERA)

L: Julio Urias (0-1, 9.82 ERA)

Terry Francona proved me wrong. The Indians' pitchers really shut down the Blue Jays' bats in this series.

Today's game and starting pitchers:

NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES:

CHICAGO CUBS VS. LOS ANGELES DODGERS

Chicago (Jon Lester, 19-5, 2.44 ERA) at Los Angeles (Kenta Maeda, 16-11, 3.48 ERA), 8:00 pm ET, FS1

Indians, woo.

Cubs coming back.

This is where not re-signing Zack Greinke may come back to haunt the Dodgers. They've proved me wrong all year so I'll just watch and see...but this is looking "shaky" for the Dodgers to say the least. GO DODGERS

NLCS Game 5: CHC 8, LAD 4

W: Jon Lester (1-0, 1.38 ERA)

L: Joe Blanton (0-2, 21.00 ERA)

[Edited 10/20/16 21:31pm]

You don't believe in curses and jinxes? Well...lately, over the past few months, I've been listeining to a lot of Chicago...the band. Making itunes playlists of their first four albums. Well...once it was decided that the Dodgers were playing the Cubs in the NLCS, NO MORE CHICAGO. I vowed that I would not listen to them, could not listen to them...until the NLCS as over and my Dodgers were heading back to the World Series. I was true to my vow, listened to NO CHICAGO. Well...today, at about 4:10pm PT, about an hour before first pitch...I'm antsy, with nothing to do. I've been watching the show "Freaks and Geeks" on Netflix and figured, "I'll watch an episode...that'll pass the time til the game starts." So...I turn on the show, I'm watching the episodes in order...never watched the show before. The episode begins on the football field. One of the freaks has a crush on the tuba player in the marching band, and the freaks are watching the band practice. I said, "Hmm...that song sounds familiar...waht song is that?" I couldnt figure it out, but I knew the song. The other freaks begin making fun of the band, and one says, "That has got to be the worst rendition of Chicago's '25 or 6 to 4' that I've ever heard." I knew then that we were sunk...

NLCS Game 6: CHC 5, LAD 0

W: Kyle Hendricks (1-1, 0.71 ERA)

L: Clayton Kershaw (1-1, 3.00 ERA)

YES!!! My Cubbies are going to the World Series!

UncleJam said:

You don't believe in curses and jinxes? Well...lately, over the past few months, I've been listeining to a lot of Chicago...the band. Making itunes playlists of their first four albums. Well...once it was decided that the Dodgers were playing the Cubs in the NLCS, NO MORE CHICAGO. I vowed that I would not listen to them, could not listen to them...until the NLCS as over and my Dodgers were heading back to the World Series. I was true to my vow, listened to NO CHICAGO. Well...today, at about 4:10pm PT, about an hour before first pitch...I'm antsy, with nothing to do. I've been watching the show "Freaks and Geeks" on Netflix and figured, "I'll watch an episode...that'll pass the time til the game starts." So...I turn on the show, I'm watching the episodes in order...never watched the show before. The episode begins on the football field. One of the freaks has a crush on the tuba player in the marching band, and the freaks are watching the band practice. I said, "Hmm...that song sounds familiar...waht song is that?" I couldnt figure it out, but I knew the song. The other freaks begin making fun of the band, and one says, "That has got to be the worst rendition of Chicago's '25 or 6 to 4' that I've ever heard." I knew then that we were sunk...

That was a brutal hex you put on the Dodgers. Minimum number of batters faced by the Cubs--only a perfect game thrown by Hendricks would have been worse.

Today's game and starting pitchers:

WORLD SERIES:

CLEVELAND INDIANS VS. CHICAGO CUBS

Chicago (Jon Lester, 19-5, 2.44 ERA) at Cleveland (Corey Kluber 18-9, 3.14 ERA), 8:00 pm ET, FOX

A major milestone in sports history will occur one way or another when this is over.

I hear Chicago tickets are selling for $12,000 because this could be a once in a lifetime event there.

[Edited 10/26/16 11:18am]