1 out away!

No-no on the final day. Good stuff.

No hitter

Got it! That's a hell of a way to head into the playoffs.

Tigers and Reds blowing their games open in the 8th, so DET will win AL Central, STL will win NL Central, barring a 9th inning catostrophic collapse.

Hell of a catch to seal the no-no.

Ironman92;1658294 wrote:No hitter

Two seasons in a row where the final day of the regular season has a no-hitter thrown.

sportswizuhrd;1658303 wrote:Two seasons in a row where the final day of the regular season has a no-hitter thrown.

Who was last year?

like_that;1658304 wrote:Who was last year?

The pitcher for the Marlins that he battled a against today.

DET has clinched the AL Central, 3-0 over the Twins

Great catch after taking a strange angle to seal it

STL clinches the NL Central with the Pirates losing 4-1 to the Reds.

KC hosts AL Wild Card game Tuesday (vs. OAK or SEA)
PIT hosts NL Wild Card game Wednesday (vs. SF)
STL/LAD in one NLDS
DET/BAL in one ALDS

A's lead 2-0 but runner on 1st and 3rd after a fluke kick save by the pitcher cost him an out at first. Unlucky

A's up 2-0 going to bottom of 8th.....here come the Rangers.

Dunn was one of the founding favorite athletes of this meaty oker site....he deserves the champaign celebration.

Need 3 more outs and I'd keep Sonny Gray in as he's been nails and only 84 pitches thru 8

Doolittle is awesome...but Gray is completely invested in this game. Playoffs on the line.

Please please let no one be on for Adrian Beltre in the 9th...he bats 3rd

The curse of Dunn is turning!!!

Rosales bobbles and then Odur inexplicably goes towards 2nd and the ball went to where he was for a probable DP to end the inning.

4-0 A's

Bobby Abreu

Replaced after his hit and his career is over

2470 career hits
574 doubles
1475 walks
1453 runs
1363 RBI
288 HR
400 SB

Great career, regardless of his longevity

Good bye to

Paul Konerko, Bobby Abreu and Derek Jeter. Adam Dunn when the A's are eliminated.

Anyone I miss who have already announced? Some guys will be forced into retirement.

sportswizuhrd;1658378 wrote:Good bye to

Paul Konerko, Bobby Abreu and Derek Jeter. Adam Dunn when the A's are eliminated.

Anyone I miss who have already announced? Some guys will be forced into retirement.

Dunn is not a definite but likely

Did really feel like posting this in the playoff thread... but Joe Madden leaving the Rays... pretty interesting. I always liked him.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11754873/tampa-bay-rays-manager-joe-maddon-exercises-opt-clause-leaving-team

And he's leaving on his own. Enacted his opt out clause.

Curious to see where he ends up. Reports are already indicating that his former boss Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers are sticking with Mattingly. Personally I'd can Mattingly and hire Maddon but that's just me.

lhslep134;1666410 wrote:Curious to see where he ends up. Reports are already indicating that his former boss Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers are sticking with Mattingly. Personally I'd can Mattingly and hire Maddon but that's just me.

I would take Maddon over Mattingly easily.

Hopefully he stays away from the Twins.

like_that;1666411 wrote:I would take Maddon over Mattingly easily.

Hopefully he stays away from the Twins.

I'd be more worried about him going to the Tigers after taking a year off to chill. I can't imagine, after doing all he did with a small-market club, that he would pick another like the Twins over a team where ownership writes big checks regularly. And I'm pretty sure Ausmus is a barely functional derp as Detroit's manager, turning a team that does have a lot of legit talent in its line-up and rotation into a squad that barely won its division before getting stomped in the playoffs due to how no one seemed to really bother doing much to fix arguably MLB's worst bullpen. Fucking Joe Nathan would have been released about 25 times last year by virtually any other club, while that dipshit kept him as their closer all year.

Best hope is that after one more year of Mattingly, LA decides to make the change. Or another big-money team is looking to make a change.

I just read that Maddon's opt-out clause got triggered by Friedman's leaving for the Dodgers. That's some excellent contract negotiating/writing by his agent to have an opt-out clause based on your most important boss's departure.