This was a great day for baseball!
The Dodgers have swept the NLCS and will be facing either the Mariners or the Blue Jays in the World Series! Congratulations, Dodgers! Though I’m usually not even a fan of of the National League, I still plan to cheer for the Dodgers regardless of which team joins them in the series.
Meanwhile, the Mariners are only one win away from vanquishing the Blue Jays and claiming the ALCS. Go Mariners! We’re all counting on you to keep Toronto out of the World Series!
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who earlier tonight won Game 2 of the NLCS, defeating the Brewers by a score of 5-1.
I am happy to say that the Dodgers are currently ahead 2-0 in the series while the Mariners are currently ahead of the Blue Jays, also by 2-0, in the ALCS. Hopefully, this will mean that the Blue Jays will not make it to the World Series (Thank you, Seattle!) and that the Dodgers will keep the both the Mariners and the Brewers from taking the Commissioners Trophy up north. (Thank you, Los Angeles!)
It’s not ideal but, after the season I just lived through, I’ll take it!
Go Mariners! Go Dodgers!
It’s a sad time to be a Southern baseball fan.
The regular season is over. The playoffs begin tomorrow. Despite giving me a brief moment of hope in the final weeks, the Rangers did not make the playoffs. Usually, when the Rangers don’t make it, I cheer for the Astros but they didn’t make it either.
Instead, the following teams will be contending for a spot in the World Series:
For the American League:
For the National League:
In other words, a bunch of yankees and I don’t just mean New York.
Who will I cheer for out of that collection of teams? I know who I don’t want to win. If the World Series comes down to the Blue Jays and the Phillies, I might just stop watching baseball all together. (I’d have to cheer for the Blue Jays in that matchup but I wouldn’t be happy about it.)
The Guardians are tempting, even if they did clinch their spot by beating the Rangers. They were the last team to make it to the playoffs and I love a good underdog story. They may have beat the Rangers but they’re not the team that I blame for keeping the Rangers out of the playoffs. (I’m looking at you, Astros.) Ohio may be up north but it’s not that much up north so I guess I can support the Guardians or even the Reds!
Go Guardians!
And just like that, the 2024 MLB post-season came to an end.
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 2024 World Series champions. For five innings, it looked like the Yankees were going to pull off a miracle and keep the Series going to at least a Game 6. But, during the fifth inning, the Dodgers tied the score, the momentum shifted, and they never really looked back. Even when the Yankees briefly reclaimed the lead, it felt like the an eventual Dodgers win was inevitable. The final score was 7-6, Dodgers.
Watching the World Series is a lot different when your team isn’t on the field. I hoped the Yankees would win, because I’m an American League girl but what I really wanted was to watch was my team playing for the championship. Unfortunately, the Rangers did not make it this year. Maybe next year.
Now, how long do we have to wait for Spring Training to begin?
Hooray for the Yankees?
Yesterday, the Yankees finally showed some life and defeated the Dodger for the first time during this World Series. The Yankees have got a long way to go and the odds are against them. The Yankees have won one game but the Dodgers are still just one victory away from winning the Series. But I was still proud to see the Yankees actually playing the game as if they cared last night.
Game 5 is tonight. The Yankees are playing to keep the series going. The Dodgers are playing to bring it to an end. I really hope the Yankees pull off another victory. I’m not ready for baseball to end.
Go Yankees!
Congratulations to the Dodgers, who are now one game away from winning the 2024 World Series. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a World Series that was won in 4 but it could happen when the Dodgers and the Yankees meet tomorrow. Usually, the other team wins at least one game.
I’ll still be cheering for you, Yankees. I really want to see your team make a comeback, if just because I can remember how excited I was when the Rangers proved all their doubters wrong last year. The Dodgers have the momentum now but it only takes one victory to change things around. And, at this point, the Yankees can’t afford to lose another game. Not if they want to keep alive their chance of winning their first World Series since 2009.
Good luck, Yankees! I still believe in you.
Congratulations to the Dodgers on winning Game One of the World Series!
What a game that was! The Dodgers came from behind, tied up the game in the eighth inning and then won things in the 10th inning in the most spectacular way possible, with grand slam that brough four runs across the plate! If you’re going to go into extra innings, that’s how you want to win the game.
Of course, I endorsed the Yankees earlier today so they better make a comeback of their own tomorrow!
For now, here’s the grand slam that won the first game of the 2024 world series.
Everyone’s talking about endorsements or the lack of them today so I guess I should make it official. The World Series is starting tonight and I am officially endorsing the Yankees.
Why the Yankees?
They’re not my team and, as a Southern girl, I never thought I’d be endorsing a Yankee for anything. But even if the Yankees are not my team, they are the American League’s team. And I always cheer for the American League, the home of the Rangers.
The Dodgers just won the World Series four years ago. The Yankees haven’t won since 2009. It’s time for New York to have something cheer about.
Go Yankees!
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who clinched the National League Championship tonight and who will be facing the Yankees in the World Series! It’ll be the west coast vs east coast and I’m not sure who I’ll be cheering for. It’ll probably be the Yankees, because I’m an American League girl.
This will be the Dodgers first World Series appearance since 2020. Even though neither one of them is my team, I look forward to watching the Yankees and the Dodgers battle for the championship.
Start spreading the news, the New York Yankees are going to their first World Series since 2009! They clinched the American League championship tonight, defeating the Guardians in Game 5 of the ALCS!
As for who the Yankees will be facing, the Dodgers have a chance to clinch the NLCS tomorrow and the Mets have a chacne to tie things up and keep the series going. I’m hoping the Mets do just that because a World Series featuring the Yankees and the Mets just feels like a baseball dream come true!
Congratulations to the Yankees! Good luck in the World Series!
Through the Shattered Lens 