Wild Card: The Thread

[Dback Jon]

While I have not given up hope that the Dbacks can three-peat the NL West, both SF and ANA have shown that a division title is not required to make the World Series. With our pitching, I like our chances in any playoff series. The only trick is getting into the playoffs.

The Diamondbacks start tonight in 5th place in the Wild Card Standings - 5 games behind Philly.
Montreal is 1/2 game ahead of us
St. Louis is 1 game ahead of us
Florida is 3 games ahead of us

Lurking behind us is:
Chicago is 1/2 game behind
Los Angeles is 1 1/2 games behind
Colorado is 1 1/2 games behind

Tonight:

Montreal plays at the Dbacks.
Florida plays at St. Louis
Philly plays at Colorado
Chicago plays at San Diego
LA hosts Cincinatti.

So, we play the team immediately in front of us. That is our first goal - pass Montreal, which we can do tonight. Two of the other teams in front of us play each other, so we can gain ground on 1.

 

[SweetD]

I am with you and I am bring the RALLY RATTLER

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[mark1]

The rally rattler, I like it

Go snakes

 

[AZZenny]

Me too! LOL!

 

[Dback Jon]

Montreal, St. Louis and Colorado lost last night, all others won.
Arizona moves into a tie for second.

Phillies
Florida 2 back
Arizona 5 back
St. Louis 5 back
Montreal 5.5 back
Chicago 5.5 back
LA 6.5 back
Colorado 7.5 back

 

[schillingfan]

Originally posted by Dback Jon
Montreal, St. Louis and Colorado lost last night, all others won.
Arizona moves into a tie for second.

Phillies
Florida 2 back
Arizona 5 back
St. Louis 5 back
Montreal 5.5 back
Chicago 5.5 back
LA 6.5 back
Colorado 7.5 back

errrrrrrrrr, I believe that's a tie for 3rd place behind the Phillies. Fish are firmly in second. Ugh, kill the fish.

 

[Dback Jon]

Originally posted by schillingfan
errrrrrrrrr, I believe that's a tie for 3rd place behind the Phillies. Fish are firmly in second. Ugh, kill the fish.

you were correct!

 

[Dback Jon]

Last nights winners: FLA, AZ, COLO, CHI, LA

Losers: Phillies, STL, MTL


Standings:

Phillies
Florida 1 back
Arizona 4 back
Cubs 4.5 back
St. Louis 5 back
Los Angeles 5.5 back
Montreal 5.5 back
Colorado 6.5 back


Plus, the Gnats lost!

 

[schillingfan]

Well, we lost today. So win tonight and you can be 3 behind. Plus we head to PacBell park for the weekend. Good time for the D-Backs to make their move.

 

[mark1]

Schillfan

Are you torn who to root for?

 

[schillingfan]

Originally posted by mark1
Schillfan

Are you torn who to root for?

nah, I root for both to win every game. Too many other teams in the mix right now. What would really tick me off would be to have the Fish or Cards win the wild card instead of the Phillies or D-Backs. Now if it comes down to the last week of the season and it's a neck and neck thing, that might be different.

But right now I'd be happy if either team was the wild card.

 

[Lefty]

I could never pull for two teams. It's the Diamondbacks or no one.

 

[AzKarl]

Originally posted by schillingfan
nah, I root for both to win every game. Too many other teams in the mix right now. What would really tick me off would be to have the Fish or Cards win the wild card instead of the Phillies or D-Backs. Now if it comes down to the last week of the season and it's a neck and neck thing, that might be different.

But right now I'd be happy if either team was the wild card.

Schillfan,

I was born in Philly and lived there the first 12 years of my life. I have been a baseball fan since I was about 4 and my team was the Phillies for well into my 40's when we got our Dbacks. Having lived here since 1967 I am an Arizonan and root for everyone here first. However after the Dbacks the Phils are my team. Good luck down the stretch. Any self respecting Phillies fan knows that no lead is safe. My 1964 Phillies had a 6.5 game lead with 10 to play and lost 10 straight plus the pennant. The same thing could happen to the Giants and besides we still have at least six games against them don't we?

 

[Dback Jon]

Winners yesterday: Colo, AZ, CHI, STL, LA
Losers PHI, MTL, FLA


Standings:

PHI
FLA 1 back
AZ 3 back
CHI 3.5 back
STL 4 back
LA 4.5 back
MTL 5.5 back
COL 5.5 back

 

[Dback Jon]

Series starting today

Home vs Away

AZ vs NYM
LA vs CHI
STL vs ATL
HOU vs MTL
SF vs PHI
MIL vs FLA


Last series we passed STL and MTL. Florida has the easiest upcoming series, Philly the toughest.

Goal - cut Philly's lead!!

 

[Dback Jon]

Friday's winners: FLA, COL, LA
Friday's losers: MTL, PHI, AZ, CHI, STL


PHI
FLA
AZ 3 back
LA 3.5 back
CHI 3.5 back
STL 4 back
COL 4.5 back
MTL 5.5 back

 

[Dback Jon]

Weekend results:

PHI W. L
FLA W, L
AZ W, W
LA W, L
CHI L, W
STL W, W
COL W, L
MTL W, L

Sunday was berry berry good to the Dbacks!!

 

[Dback Jon]

Standings as of 8/10/2003

PHI
FLA
AZ 2 back
STL 3 back
LA 3.5 back
CHI 3.5 back
MTL 5.5 back
COL 5.5 back

 

[BC867]

Winning at home against weaker teams juices the team up.

But we're going to have to play solid on the road, and against stonger teams, of course.

Three triples on Sunday was a much better sign than 3 HR's. And Mondesi's excitement (good and bad) is instilling some fire that the D'backs were lacking.

Post-season, here we come!

I think we'll be in pretty good shape when our 4th best starting pitcher is . . . . . Randy Johnson.

He's clearly not 100%. What a lift to have Bautista and Webb join Schilling in leading the way!

 

[Dback Jon]

Upcoming series

Next series':
LA @ FLA (4 games)
STL@ PIT (4 games)
CHC vs HOU (4 games)
PHI vs MIL (3 games)
MTL vs COL (3 games)

AZ at CIN (3 games)

 

[Dback Jon]

Results from Monday:

Winners: STL, MTL, LA
Losers: FLA, COL, CHI

So, one of the co-leaders lost, the two teams immediately behind us won, the last three teams in the race lost.




STANDINGS

PHI
FLA .5 back
AZ 2 back
STL 2.5 back
LA 3 back
CHI 4 back
MTL 6 back
COL 6 back

 

[wierwolf]

I like our chances too in the playoffs. As long as we don't face the Cardinals. We always have bad luck against them for some darn reason.

 

[wierwolf]

Just keep chipping away D-BACKS!!!!!!!

 

[BOB_Man24]

Originally posted by wierwolf
I like our chances too in the playoffs. As long as we don't face the Cardinals. We always have bad luck against them for some darn reason.

Although we did sorta beet them in 2001.

Last year wasnt our year, with the team fading out towards the end. At least this year, we played so crapily if we want to make the playoffs we cant fade!

 

[Dback Jon]

Tuesday Aug 12th Results

Winners: FLA, COL, STL, AZ, CHI
Losers: LA, MTL, PHI

Plus, all division leaders (SF, ATL, HOU) lost.


Standings:

FLA
PHI .5 back
AZ 1.5 back
STL 2.0 back
LA 3.5 back
CHI 3.5 back
MTL 5.5 back
COL 5.5 back