The Playoff Race

[Brosnan2715]

AL East Division Championship: The Yankees currently have a 1 game lead over the Boston Red Sox in the East division heading into the last weekend of the regular season. The Yankees will play the BoSox at Fenway Park.

Chien-Ming Wang (8-4, 4.02) will take on David Wells (14-7, 4.47) on Friday night.

Randy Johnson (16-8, 3.79 [3-0, 2.17 in September]) will take on Tim Wakefield (16-11, 3.96) on Saturday.

Mike Mussina (13-8, 4.41) will take on Curt Schilling (7-8, 5.98) for the last regular season game of the year on Sunday.


AL Wild Card: The Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians are tied on top of the Wild Card. The Cleveland Indians will take on the Chicago White Sox at Jacobs Field.

Mark Buerhle (16-8, 3.19) will take on Kevin Millwood (9-11, 2.92) on Friday.

Jon Garland (17-10, 3.53) will take on Jake Westbrook (15-14, 4.46) on Saturday.

Brandon McCarthy (2-2, 4.21) will take on Scott Elarton (11-8, 4.51) for the last regular season game of the year on Sunday.


NL Wild Card: The Houston Astros currently have a 2 game lead over the Philadelpia Phillies. The Houston Astros will take on the Chicago Cubs at Minute Maid Park.

Carlos Zambrano (14-6, 3.33) will take on Andy Pettitte (17-9, 2.42) on Friday.

Jerome Williams (6-9, 4.28) will take on Roger Clemens (12-8, 1.89) on Saturday.

Greg Maddux (13-14, 4.18) will take on Roy Oswalt (19-12, 2.86) for the last regular season game of the year on Sunday.


The Philadelphia Phillies will take on the Washington Nationals at RFK Stadium.

Eude Brito (1-2, 3.68) will take on Livan Hernandez (15-9, 3.95) on Friday.

Mike Myers (12-8, 3.71) will take on John Patterson (9-6, 2.90) on Saturday.

Jon Lieber (16-13, 4.22) will take on Hector Carrasco (5-3, 1.73) for the last regular season game of the year on Sunday.




Any predictions?

[Brosnan2715]

Well, since it's kinda slow...my predictions are:
Tie for the AL East and Wild Card. Yanks win the 1-game playoff against Boston, and Cleveland beats Boston as well. (is that how they're gonna do that?)

Astros win the NL Wild Card.

[madyaks]

Houston wins, Who knows about the American league.
If Schilling wins Sunday to clinch you east coast haters better not turn on ESPN.

[ElviswasaBluesFan]

I would love to see Cleveland get in. They have been on fire the 2nd half of the season. Plus, if they get in it means either Boston or the Yankees did not.

[sherwood koho]

How does the AL East tie-breaker work. I was thinking that the Red Sox had to sweep to win the division since they are 7-9 against the Yanks this year.

[Jack Sparrow]

It goes like this............

If there is a tie for the AL East AND the Wild card, the Yanks/Sox play a one gamer and Cleveland automatically gets in because the loser of that one game playoff will have one more loss than the wild card leader (Cleveland).........

If the Yanks and Sox tie but finish ahead of Cleveland, then the one with the better record vs each other gets the title and the other gets the wild card.

[Brosnan2715]

QUOTE(Jack Sparrow @ Sep 29 2005, 11:12 PM) Quoted post

It goes like this............

If there is a tie for the AL East AND the Wild card, the Yanks/Sox play a one gamer and Cleveland automatically gets in because the loser of that one game playoff will have one more loss than the wild card leader (Cleveland).........
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I think the loser of the Yanks-BoSox game would take on the Indians for the WC title, different from the old way you mentioned.

[Jack Sparrow]

FYI

Any one-game tie-breakers would be scheduled for Monday, October 3rd, with times to be determined.


BOS-CLE Fenway Park, Boston

[Jack Sparrow]

QUOTE(Brosnan2715 @ Sep 30 2005, 12:15 AM) Quoted post

QUOTE(Jack Sparrow @ Sep 29 2005, 11:12 PM) Quoted post

It goes like this............

If there is a tie for the AL East AND the Wild card, the Yanks/Sox play a one gamer and Cleveland automatically gets in because the loser of that one game playoff will have one more loss than the wild card leader (Cleveland).........
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I think the loser of the Yanks-BoSox game would take on the Indians for the WC title, different from the old way you mentioned.
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Yeah I forgot they changed the rules for the better since the start of divisional play.

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[Jack Sparrow]

Boston wins the East and the Indians win the wild card.

[kah]

Yanks, Indians, Houston.