Weird & Wild on Day 1 of MLB playoffs: Twins end 18-game, 6,937-day postseason losing streak

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Weird & Wild on Day 1 of MLB playoffs: Twins end 18-game, 6,937-day postseason losing streak
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Here's everything that stood out from Day 1 of the MLB postseason, from the Twins' streak-ending win to ... the greatest Game 1 upset ever?

smokeball at 3:07 p.m. ET at romantic Tropicana Field. I don’t know what you were up to at that hour. But I was nestled into my favorite sofa, ready to live everyone’s October dream.

All four other AL Central teams made it all the way to the World Series. … Those other four AL Central teams won 83 postseason games in the time the Twins were winning zero. And that’s just wrong.Don’t even think about how long this Twins losing streak would have lasted if Johan Santana had never found his way to the Great Lakes. He was the winning pitcher in the Twins’ most “recent” postseason win … and also the starting pitcher in the win before that .Home. Away.

I don’t bet on baseball. I hear there are people out there who do. So while I don’t know much about that, I’m guessing those people spotted the pitching matchup in Milwaukee on Tuesday and thought they saw the lockiest lock in the history of postseason lockiness.The biggest Game 1 upset in the history of postseason baseball!

The old record — a Masato Yoshii-Randy Johnson “mismatch” in the 1999 NLDS — was nearly half a run tighter than this one. Take a look for yourself. Here come the top four in that category. to break this record — since STATS found only three Game 1s in history with a greater ERA disparity than this one, period, regardless of outcome.In those other three starts, the “right” team won. But face it.

I ran that one past my friends at STATS Perform. And once again, that answer was … no one! Just Royce Lewis.

contributed an E-6 throwing error in the third. And let’s just say you don’t see many teams fumble and bumble like that in the first three innings of any game.

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