• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Baltimore Sports Today

Baltimore Sports Today

Baltimore Sports News Continuously Updated

  • Football
    • Ravens
    • Redskins
  • Baseball
    • Nationals
    • Orioles
  • Basketball
    • Mystics
    • Wizzards
  • Capitals
  • Soccer
    • Blast
    • D.C. United
    • Spirit
  • Colleges
    • George Mason
    • George Washington University
    • Georgetown
    • Howard
    • Johns Hopkins
    • Morgan State
    • Towson
    • University of Maryland

Sunday NLCS open thread

October 21, 2024 by Camden Chat

Championship Series - Los Angeles Dodgers v New York Mets - Game 5
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images

The Dodgers could head to the World Series with a win in Game 6 tonight.

With the Yankees finishing off the Guardians in five games last night, it’s now left for the National League to settle its champion. The Dodgers and Mets are in action in Game 6 tonight with LA holding a 3-2 edge in the series. If the Dodgers win this one, it’s over. If the Mets pull it out, then it will come down to a Game 7 for all of the pennant marbles tomorrow.

The teams that remain, including the Yankees, are the biggest payrolls out there in MLB. That’s pretty boring, but that’s how it’s worked out this year. Money doesn’t buy a title every year but it does, if used wisely, buy you a better chance to push for one. For the Dodgers and Yankees, the big money guys have helped them get this far.

That’s a bit less true of the Mets, who paid about $62 million to other teams to have Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer pitch for them this season. To a lesser and more Orioles-connected degree, they’re also paying $8 million to not have James McCann play for them. Their biggest money guy Francisco Lindor is delivering, so that’s something for them.

I remain just so slightly preferring that the Mets pull this one off, since they haven’t won a World Series since 1986. On the other hand, maybe the Dodgers are better positioned to go toe-to-toe with the Yankees, so is that a preferable outcome even though LA last won in 2020?

There are those (I’m not one of them) who feel that LA’s title in the pandemic season doesn’t even count, so if one was to take that out, they go back to 1989. That’s also quite a while. Taylor Swift was not born yet the last time that the Dodgers won a World Series following a 162-game season.

Dodgers lineup

  1. Shohei Ohtani – DH
  2. Mookie Betts – RF
  3. Teoscar Hernández – LF
  4. Tommy Edman – SS
  5. Max Muncy – 1B
  6. Enrique Hernández – 3B
  7. Andy Pages – CF
  8. Will Smith – C
  9. Chris Taylor – 2B

It’s going to be a bullpen game for the Dodgers, or at least their listed starter is reliever Michael Kopech. There is something aesthetically displeasing about the idea of a team regularly patching together postseason games using only its bullpen. Surprisingly, my personal aesthetic preference is not usually connected in any way to successful outcomes in baseball or in life in general.

Mets lineup

  1. Francisco Lindor – SS
  2. Brandon Nimmo – LF
  3. Mark Vientos – 3B
  4. Pete Alonso – 1B
  5. Jesse Winker – DH
  6. Starling Marte – RF
  7. Tyrone Taylor – CF
  8. Jeff McNeil – 2B
  9. Francisco Alvarez – C

In this win-or-go home game for the Metropolitans, they turn to Sean Manaea, who sported a 3.47 ERA over 32 regular season starts. That’s pretty good! He’s allowed five earned runs across three postseason starts, including two runs allowed in five innings earlier in this series.

Filed Under: Orioles

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • NFL Power Rankings Entering Week 6
  • 4 Teams That Could Sign Titans Released First-Round Bust
  • Baltimore Ravens’ New Arrivals Could be the Answer to Terrible Start
  • NFL Transactions: Wednesday 10/8
  • News & Notes: Malaki Starks Critiques His Rookie Start

Categories

  • Baseball
    • Nationals
    • Orioles
  • Basketball
    • Mystics
    • Wizzards
  • Capitals
  • Colleges
    • George Mason
    • George Washington University
    • Georgetown
    • Howard
    • Morgan State
    • Navy
    • Towson
    • University of Maryland
  • Football
    • Ravens
    • Redskins
  • Soccer
    • Blast
    • D.C. United
    • Spirit
  • Uncategorized

Archives

Our Partners

All Sports

  • 247 Sports
  • Bleacher Report
  • CBS Baltimore
  • Forgotten 5
  • NBC Sports Washington
  • Maryland Sports Blog
  • OurSports Central
  • PressBoxOnline.com
  • The Baltimore Sun
  • The Baltimore Wire
  • The Sports Daily
  • The Sports Fan Journal
  • The Spun
  • USA Today
  • Washington Post
  • Washington Times

Baseball

  • MLB.com - Orioles
  • MLB.com - Nationals
  • Baltimore Baseball
  • Birds Watcher
  • Camden Chat
  • District On Deck
  • Federal Baseball
  • Last Word On Baseball - Nationals
  • Last Word On Baseball - Orioles
  • MLB Trade Rumors - Nationals
  • MLB Trade Rumors - Orioles
  • Nationals Arm Race
  • Orioles Hangout

Basketball

  • NBA.com
  • WNBA.com
  • Amico Hoops
  • Bullets Forever
  • High Post Hoops
  • Hoops Hype
  • Hoops Rumors
  • Last Word On Pro Basketball
  • Pro Basketball Talk
  • Real GM
  • Wiz Of Awes

Football

  • Baltimore Ravens
  • Washington Redskins
  • Baltimore Beatdown
  • Baltimore Gridiron Report
  • Ebony Bird
  • Hogs Haven
  • Last Word On Pro Football - Washington Commanders
  • Last Word On Pro Football - Baltimore Ravens
  • NFL Trade Rumors - Ravens
  • NFL Trade Rumors - Redskins
  • Our Turf Football - Ravens
  • Our Turf Football - Redskins
  • Pro Football Rumors - Ravens
  • Pro Football Rumors - Redskins
  • Pro Football Talk - Redskins
  • Pro Football Talk - Ravens
  • Redskins Gab
  • Ravens Wire
  • Redskins Wire
  • Riggos Rag
  • Total Ravens

Hockey

  • Washington Capitals
  • Elite Prospects
  • Japers Rink
  • Last Word On Hockey
  • Pro Hockey Rumors
  • Pro Hockey Talk
  • Stars And Sticks
  • The Hockey Writers

Soccer

  • Baltimore Blast
  • Black And Red United
  • Last Word on Soccer - DC United
  • Last Word on Soccer - Spirit
  • MLS Multiplex

College

  • Big East Coast Bias
  • Busting Brackets
  • Casual Hoya
  • College Football News
  • College Sports Madness
  • Fourth Estate
  • GW Hatchet
  • Saturday Blitz
  • The Diamondback
  • The Hilltop
  • The Hoya
  • Testudo Times
  • Zags Blog

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in