The MLB Playoff Race is Embarrassing Teams
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What is the current state of the MLB playoff race and how many teams are still in contention?
19 days left until the end of the MLB regular season. Going into the week, there were 19 teams still in contention for a playoff spot. They were fighting for 12 spots. Okay, now there's just 15. Multiple teams have been completely embarrassed this week and now no longer in a playoff spot. One team fought another team over a dirty slide that embarrassed the other team. One team made the greatest play of the season then got embarrassed the next fucking day and the day after that and the day after that and the day after One team capped off one of the most embarrassing seasons of the year. Shohei Otani has been embarrassing at the plate. May never pitch again, and that's not hyperbole. One team star player returned after two weeks and got booed.
The Marlins entered this week. They were still in playoff contention. Then they faced the Nationals.
Nobody home. Ortiz gonna mow their dirt. That ball is absolutely...
They are no longer in playoff contention. And the most embarrassing moment of the week was probably done by an umpire. Umpiring a game between the Cardinals and the Rockies. They got a guy named Hansel Rincon. Making his major league debut, gives up a triple. Then throws a wild pitch, gives up his first career run. Umpire stops the game and tells Rincon to straighten out his cap. Then the game goes on. No one really does it or says anything about it. Gives up an inside the park home run after that, then gives up a single. Gets taken out of the game, only gets one out, allows two runs. Then Oli Marmal comes out and starts arguing with the umpire. The umpire calls a pitch clock violation on the pitcher because of the arguments.
Which recent games featured the most embarrassing moments for teams this week?
Said enough is enough, stop arguing. I'm calling a pitch clock violation because your ass is arguing too much. Then Oli Marmal loses it. All right, he comes out of the dugout, tilt his own cap. Tells the umpire to go f**k himself. Says he needs to grow the f**k up. So the new pitcher comes in. He gives up the game-tying hit. Then Zach Veen bunts. Bruley makes an amazing play. Gets the guy out at home. Calls him safe. So he calls this guy safe. He looks out by a mile. Cardinals were out of challenges at this point, so they cannot challenge. And this run counts. After the game, he was asked about the hat crookedness. He says it was Goodman who brought up Rincon's hat. The batter told the umpire that his hat was crooked.
and that that was distracting. The umpire said, okay, it is crooked. Let me tell the pitcher not to have a crooked hat.
How did the controversial umpire decision involving Hansel Rincon’s crooked hat unfold?
Now that's a little controversial too, because Goodman wasn't even at the plate when that happened. Either he mistaked Goodman for Kerrig or he lied. Goodman came out later and said, I never said that, which would make sense because he wasn't at the plate. It was actually Kerrig. And before Saturday's game, Cardinals come out in solidarity with Rincon and they all wear crooked hats. during batting practice and in the dugout. Then the Springfield Cardinals announced they're going to have a Crooked Hat giveaway on September 10th. That's the AA team. Doug Eddings, the next day, apologized to Rincon on the field. They got video of it. Unfortunately, Rincon, native of the Dominican Republic, does not know English.
And he said after the game, I understood a couple words. It looked like he apologized to me for what happened last night. So, Rincon says it was an apology. If you look at the rules, there is no rule that says you can't wear a crooked hat. Now there are some rules that are open to interpretation. You cannot do anything on the field or wear anything that's a distraction to the pitcher or to the batter. So technically, you know, it would go under the guise of, yeah, you got to straighten your cap. So a little bit of a power hungry move. Cardinals went four out of six, but their playoff odds go down to 0% to the Cardinals. are eliminated from the playoffs. According to Fangraph's projections, an AL team as of today will need to win 82 games to make the playoffs.
The Orioles had 68 wins going into this week. They're one game back of a wildcard spot.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the current state of the MLB playoff race and how many teams are still in contention?
0:00–1:27
2
Which recent games featured the most embarrassing moments for teams this week?
1:27–2:12
3
How did the controversial umpire decision involving Hansel Rincon’s crooked hat unfold?
2:12–9:15
4
What were the key highlights and low points of the Orioles’ recent series against the Rockies and Red Sox?
9:15–16:41
5
Why did the Mariners’ playoff odds plummet after their losing streak against the Athletics?
16:41–19:39