Five games in, this World Series is already a classic.

We are lucky if some series have A moment. This series has a bunch.

Barger pinch-hit Grand Slam.
Yamamoto.
18 innings.
Ohtani, OHTANI!
Kershaw to Klein.
Vlad. Vlad again.
Yesavage masterpiece.

Is this the best World Series since DBacks-Yankees in 2001?

2011 Cardinals-Rangers was great.
Game 7 of 2016 Cubs-Indians. Amazing.

But this is…
East vs West
USA vs Canada
Shohei the hitter
Shohei the pitcher.
Vladdy’s moment.

If the baseball Gods give us all seven games, that would be the icing on this cake.

28 comments

  1. Besides the 18 inning game it’s been a boring series.

    I don’t mean in the sense that there hasn’t been exciting moments or great performances. But the games have been decided relatively early.

  4. This has been the best world series since 2016, imo. Action every game, storyline after storyline, as OP mentioned. A clear David vs Goliath matchup, Canada vs USA (with everything going on outside of sports).

    Truly fantastic.

  6. yes it has been a good series, hopefully the dodgers can make it even more interesting and bring it to a game 7 🤞

  7. As a Giants fan, naturally, I root against the Dodgers. At first I was thinking, if the Dodgers lose it may not bode so well for the league cause they’ll come back surely signing Schwarber, Alonso, Bichette, Bregman, Framber, Cease, Ranger, and some top international pitchers, while manipulating the salary cap so that they only get paid $19/hr for the next 3 seasons.

    The more I thought about it, I realized… even if they win, they’ll STILL probably sign all of those guys for $15/hr and two packs of cracker jacks. So GO JAYS!!! Please do this for all baseball fans.

  8. Vlad is on course to not only be the best Jays post-season hitter, but all of MLB! He’s on fire, was the guy who hit the 2-run dinger against Ohtani. He’s leading the charge. He’s just 2 homeruns shy of the best of all time! What a moment we are watching.

  9. 2001 was amazing. Randy and Mariano. Jeter. Game 7 heroics. Of course is wish the 116 win Mariners didn’t trip over their dick in the playoffs. I blame the break in the season at the end, and the fact that everyone who didn’t have a team was rooting for the Yankees after that.

    Rangers-Cardinals was crazy simply for the fact that the Rangers were 1 strike away from winning multiple times, and couldn’t close the deal.

    I loved watching KC get their WS win in 2015. Much like the Angels in 2002, it is fun to watch long suffering fan bases get rewarded.

    This series has been awesome. Obviously I wish the Mariners had held on to their lead in game 7 of the ALCS, but this has been fun baseball, to be sure. One for the ages.

  11. Love Vladdy! This has been an amazing series. Much respect to the Jays! World class organization and world class fanbase.

    Hoping Yamamoto takes us to game 7!

  14. Hard to blame the Dodgers – this Toronto team of relative nobodies has become a generational team of talent with a “one for all all for one” mentality- they play for each other – and Canada-they will be studied for years

  15. Honestly it’s been pretty boring other than the 18 inning game. I had the game up last night on my 2nd monitor but it just wasn’t competitive. I can see why Jay’s fans would love it ofc, but there’s been 1 or 2 competitive games the whole series.

  16. after this season i would love someone to do a break down of the performances of the playoff teams. their stats before all star break, post all star break, and then playoffs. and then compare that to salaries.

    it’ll show you it’s all about who is hot at the right time. long term during a season the higher payroll teams play well more consistently, but in the short term it’s all about talent that is hot at the right time.

  17. Completely unbiased perspective, but the GOAT world series of this century have been 1. 2019, 2. 2001, 3. 2016, 4. 2015

  19. I love looking back at the threads that have top comments saying whoever wins the Seattle Jays series has the honor of getting swept is the WS.

  21. This has been an amazing series.

    I also must marvel at how good the games look nowadays, both in photo and on tv.

  25. I haven’t watched baseball in many years but this series has drawn me in. I am in awe of the Blue Jays coming back to win two games in LA after losing the 18-inning heartbreaker (I think I fell asleep in inning 15).

    They exemplify resilience and I hope they win it all at home.

  26. Dodgers have 4 runs in something like 27 innings. Dodgers are so bad Toronto walks a guy hitting . 268 to face a guy hitting .250.

  27. Ngl I started putting the first paragraph of your post into the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire.

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