{"id":821,"date":"2010-10-02T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2010-10-03T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T17:53:24","slug":"quick-pitch-dreaming-of-a-three-way-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Quick Pitch: Dreaming of a Three-Way Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now it is a little after 6:00 in the east, and the Padres lead the Giants 4-1 in the 7th.\u00a0 The Braves and Phillies are scoreless in the 6th.\u00a0 When the weekend started, my dream scenario was a longshot, but with each passing inning, it becomes more and more possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I was hoping for when the weekend started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Padres sweep of the Giants in Pac Bell<\/li>\n<li>The Phillies taking 2 of 3 from the Braves in Atlanta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If both of those (then unlikely) things happened, the Giants, Padres, and Braves would all finish with the same record and we would be in for a phenomenal situation where the Giants and Padres would play a one-game playoff on Monday for the NL West, with the loser playing a one-game playoff Tuesday night against Atlanta for the wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Pads won last night and are just 9 outs away from another win today.\u00a0 The Braves lost last night, so they need to sweep the final two games from the Phils to avoid their one-game playoff fate.<\/p>\n<p>This playoff is good for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As a baseball fan, it would be tremendous drama.\u00a0 Can you imagine the intrigue of a one-game playoff on Monday, with the winner in and the loser to play a one-game playoff the next night?\u00a0 Unprecedented&#8230;and fascinating!<\/li>\n<li>As a Phillies fan, it would be fantastic to have these teams have to burn their pitching staff, considering that there is still a chance that the Phils can match up with one of those West teams in the first round (if the Braves don&#8217;t win the wild card).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s most likely that it won&#8217;t matter because the Phils will probably get the Reds anyway, but a guy can dream, right?\u00a0 And, my dream is to face the Padres as the wild card on <em>zero days rest<\/em>!\u00a0 Imagine if they sweep the Giants this weekend, then lose to Lincecum on Monday, but rebound to beat the Braves on Tuesday, and then have to face a rested Roy Halladay and the Phils the very next night!\u00a0 Like I said, a guy can dream, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now it is a little after 6:00 in the east, and the Padres lead the Giants 4-1 in the 7th.\u00a0 The Braves and Phillies are scoreless in the 6th.\u00a0 When the weekend started, my dream scenario was a longshot, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[568,177,204,16,695],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-braves","tag-giants","tag-padres","tag-phillies","tag-reds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}