SportsDystopia

For the Mets and the Brewers, the 2008 season came down to game 162 and the final Sunday of the season.  The two teams had staged an epic race from the playoffs, both surrendering impressive leads for the 2nd straight season.  Both teams had utterly depleted bullpens and injury riddled starting rotations.  New York had played it’s ace on Saturday, throwing Johan Santana on 3 days rest to try to save their season.  He went 9 shutout innings and allowed 3 hits.  But on Sunday, the Brewers’ CC Sabathia was able to match those 9 innings and circumvent his incindiary bullpen.  The Mets’ Oliver Perez was not.  He left in the 6th inning, with the game tied 2-2.  And that was the season.

Sabathia wanted this win every much as Santana wanted yesterday’s game, and he held the Cubs to 1 unearned run in the 2nd.  In the 8th, with the score tied, he bare-handed a bouncing comebacker to the mound to end the inning.  In the bottom half, Ryan Braun hit a 2-run homer, providing Sabathia with all the cushion he needed.

The White Sox stopped their 5-game skid behind Mark Buehrle, and will play Detroit on Monday to make-up a game rained out by the remnants of Hurricane Ike.  Gavin Floyd will face Freddy Garcia, in a meeting of pitchers traded for each other two years ago.  And if they win, the White Sox will then get to play Minnesota Tuesday in Chicago, after the Twins stopped their post-Sox skid by beating the Royals.  If the Sox win tomorrow, the Tuesday pitching matchup will be John Danks vs. Nick Blackburn.

Your Division Series matchups:

NL: Cubs vs. Dodgers, Phillies vs. Brewers

AL: Angels vs. Red Sox, Rays vs. Twins/White Sox

Predictions to come tomorrow…

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