Padres pull of triple play to beat the Dodgers in the 9th and clinch playoffs!

[AlohaUte]

Absolutely amazing game. This is the first time in baseball history that a triple play clinched the playoffs for a team.

This baseball season has been epic across the boards. Tons of really good teams, witnessing the greatest player of all time (really, no hyperbole there) in Ohtani, the wild card races in both leagues are epic, etc.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

It’s fun to see someone with a passion for baseball Alohaute. The overlapping of football in to baseball season really hurts MLB. Football has become king. I remember growing up in the 60s baseball was king.

I used to run home from school to catch the last couple innings. Playoffs and World Series were the best. Yankees (my adopted team) and Dodger World Series. Big red machine of the seventies and who can forget Willie Stargell and the “ we are family “ pirates. Lots of memories.

[AlohaUte]

It does take some excitement away from baseball. But I still have baseball during the week. On Saturday, it’s 100% Utes football, but all through my work week, I van turn on a Giants or Padres game in the evening and enjoy it and get into it. For this reason I like the overlap.

[GameForAnyFuss]

Let’s go Padres!

[utefansince79]

Long time Salt Lake residents may remember when our AAA team, in late 60s I believe, was named the Padres.

[UtesRule]

Go Braves…fighting hard for one of the remaining two playoff spots in the NL. Hurricane may actually help them (with pitching rotation).

Ohtani is unbelievable but I still think it’s a little early to definitively name him the GOAT, but he is clearly already in the discussion.

For the baseball fans on this board…was Ohtani’s 50/50 more impressive than Acuña’s 70/40 (stolen bases / home runs) from last season.

I am biased but I’m more impressed with the 70/40. Not saying he is better than Shohei, but I feel that accomplishment last year (also never been done before) was more difficult to achieve.

[OmahaOmaha]

That is such an interesting question because there’s no unquestionably correct answer. I like Ohtani’s 50/50 accomplishment a little better than Acuna’s 70/40. Stolen bases is mostly a God given talent – raw speed. Once the runner identifies the signs to steal, then it becomes mostly academic as there’s not much a catcher can do, even with a pop of 1.85-1.9 which is very quick. In the MLB, a runner is safe stealing second more times than not, certainly greater than 50 percent, but probably closer to 75 percent. Add in the new pitching rules that favor the baserunner even further, and I think stealing is slightly less of an accomplishment than a HR.

I think most agree that hitting an MLB HR is one of the most difficult things to do in sports in the normal course of the game — up there with scoring a goal in hockey or riding a bull for 8 seconds. Anyway, it isn’t a God given ability like stealing bases, it relies more on skill to go along with that ability. Identifying the pitch, what is will do, and where it will be at impact is crazy difficult. One of the best to ever do it was Barry Bonds, who hit a HR at a 7 percent clip for his career. For every 100 AB’s he hit 7 HR’s. Willie Mays hit 6 percent. Rafael Palmeiro 5 percent etc. This season, Ohtani is hitting a HR at an 8 percent clip, which is a little less than Aaron Judge at 10 percent, but more than the 6 percent Acuna hit in 2023. For that reason I place a little more weight on the HR accomplishment than the SB accomplishment, and would consider the 50/50 a little more prestigious than the 70/40 accomplishment.

One guy’s opinion.

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