The 2022 MLB season advances into a brave new world, the 12-team post-season class that will determine a champion over the next month. And it will be fast. The The new Best of Three Wild Card series begins on Friday It will be determined by Sunday at the latest. The explosion of high stakes baseball pits eight teams against each other – Guardians-Rays, Cardinals-Phillies, Blue Jays-Mariners and Mets-Padres – for the right to advance.
The candidates they will face in the next round are familiar – Los Angeles DodgersAnd the Houston AstrosAnd the Atlanta Braves And the New York Yankees Hold the top seed. But sure enough, some of these competitors have plans to bring down the current global baseball system.
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First, they have to get through this weekend. And that sounds daunting for many of the top seeds.
There was a dominant, high-ticket ace in his late 30s on the hill in New York on Friday. But it wasn’t Max Scherzer. Maestro Padres U Darvish frustrated the Mets’ favorite for 7 rounds as the San Diego Bats repeatedly left the arena. Scherzer left under a downpour of Citi Field boos after allowing a post-season job – the worst of four homers and seven runs in 4 2/3 innings.
After 101 regular season wins, the Mets were on the verge of elimination at the hands of Padres. Jacob Degrom Now he’s likely to take the hill with the Mets’ season – a magical season until about two weeks ago – riding on his performance.
New York will have to hope to deviate from Scherzer’s uncharacteristically disastrous outing. Josh Bell, Trent Gresham, gorexson brovar And the Mane Machado Three-time winner Cy Young took deep, with the three highest blasts coming off Scherzer’s Fastball.
Just Eduardo Escobar I arrived at Darwish, carrying his hot car from September to October. Darwish struck four separate hits and six, allowing one of them to run on Homer Escobar’s solo. The 36-year-old right-hander with an unparalleled barrage of pitches now threw 21 runs against the Mets in 2022, allowing two sets of runs and one walk while hitting 19.
While deGrom will be under the microscope, Padres will enter Game 2 with the hottest starting pitcher. left-handed Blake Snell He has a 2.19 ERA in 14 starts since breaking all-stars, and a sparkling 0.72 ERA over his last four starts. After a strong return to play this summer, DeGrom has fluctuated to 6.00 ERA in his last four starts.
The sailors pounce on blue jays Luis Castillo also plays like an ace
The sailors would welcome themselves back to the post-season, thank you very much. The club that ended a 21-year drought in October came out teetering against its top-ranked hosts, the Blue Jays. led Cal RallyThe two-part Homer, put three runs at the top of the first half, then handed the ball to Luis Castillo.
It turns out that this is a lot.
Dynamic ace earned from Cincinnati Reds At the height of the commercial lead time, the stellar Blue Jays lineup rocked. He hit five hits, only allowed six hits and felt completely in control. An all-powerful Andres Muñoz has blasted through the last five Finals to give Seattle their first post-season win since Game Three of the 2001 ALCS.
After defeating the Blue Jays Ice Alek ManohSailors will move to Game 2 with a chance to advance to ALDS against the Astros. Saturday’s match will bring Mariners player Robbie Ray against his former club and Kevin Gussmanthe novice signed a nearly identical contract this winter to replace him.
Phyllis Explode for 6 runs in ninth to oust the Cardinals
Entering the ninth inning in St. Louis, it looked as though the first big post-season moment of the rookie Cardinals would be the decisive blow in the first game pitcher duel. By the end, 10 Phillies had been hit, the Cardinals fused, and the player in Year 11 Jean Segura was the hero in for him The first postseason game.
After the writer Phillies Zach Wheeler (6 1/3 innings) and starting Cardinals Jose Quintana (5 1/3 innings) both posted aimless outings, and this turned into the Battle of the Bullpins. The Phillies initially gave in, allowing the two-footed and injured Homer to pinch apprentice Juan Yepez. But the cardinals gave in full. In an effort to save a fivefold, St. Louis confidant Ryan Heelsley lost his lead in the ninth. He only got three naysayers, walked twice and dropped Alec Bohm at 101mph to force her to run. When the cardinals pulled him up, seeming worried about an injury to his hand—he left his last outing with a jammed finger—they brought Andre Balant. The right-handed rookie made some sense, he got a lot of players on the floor and the cardinal was in desperate need of a double play. But it didn’t work.
Segura solo stabbed through the right side, scoring twice and putting Velez ahead. Then the gates opened. Two more ground rounds produced two more times and Kyle Schwarber’s sacrifice fly made the score 6-2. According to MLB.com’s Sarah Lange, the Phillies became the first team in post-season history to score more than 6 games in the ninth game or later after going in without goals.
Recently converted to Bullpen, Zach Eflin allowed a run back but locked it out, 6-3.
Finally, the difference to the game – and perhaps the series eventually – may lie in the extra strand of confidence Wheeler got from manager Rob Thompson. Due to its slender extension, the best cardinal dwellers couldn’t quite make it, and now they’ll have serious bullseye questions heading into Do or Die 2.
Shane Pepper, Jose Ramirez help the Guardians stifle the rays in Game 1
What is a contract? Behind an outdated ace performance from Shane Pepper and Homer’s two-round run from Jose Ramirez, the Guardian put Rays away in a lightning-fast game 1. Bieber went 7 2/3 runs, allowing only one run on Jose Seri’s long ball and writing off eight.
Rays writer Shane McClanahan was as good as Bieber, but allowed for a Ramírez blast that put Cleveland back on top almost immediately after Homer Siri. From there, Bieber shut it down. Cleveland captain Terry Francona has turned untouchable Emmanuel Clase in the last four games. Finally, the game was executed in less than 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Cleveland will enter Game Two on Saturday with a knockout opportunity in the new wild card format. They send young curveball artist Triston Mackenzie up the hill against Rays Tyler Glasno, an ace who recently returned from Tommy John surgery.
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