Get the episode transcript on the episode page.
Tonight’s games are Braves .vs. Expos (Expos lead 2-1) and Blue Jays .vs. White Sox (Jays lead 2-0). It’s hero time for the Braves and Sox.
You can catch both games on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture starting at 5:30pm Pacific.
Transcript:
Howdy folks it’s Divergent League Update for Tuesday, March 30th 2021 but here in Divergent League it is October 7th 1993, and the Postseason Blues have claimed another team’s hopes, while one team ascends to the League Championship Series.
That’s right, the St. Louis Cardinals are out of it, felled by the San Francisco Giants in three games to become our first casualty of the 1993 Postseason. Two teams may join them tonight.
One of the strangest things about this postseason so far is the perilous situation the Chicago White Sox find themselves in- down 2-0 against those darn Blue Jays who simply will not die.
The 93 Jays are the first ever Divergent League team to lose a one-game playoff, then win a one-game playoff. They’ve thus far held the White Sox to a single home run, off the bat of Craig Biggio who the Sox acquired in the off season.
That’s not the only trade having an effect in this postseason, though- The Blue Jays had that massive deal with the Mets earlier in the season which resulted in Dwight Gooden and Bobby Bonilla moving to Toronto… the very same Gooden who won their one-game playoff against the Tigers.
Todd Stottlemyre will be on the hill for the Jays tonight, facing off against Wilson Alvarez for the Sox.
Elsewhere in the AL, the mighty Baltimore Orioles have a 2-1 lead on the Houston Astros. These are both CPU teams so we don’t really care about that.
Our other big series is Atlanta .vs. Montreal, where the Expos lead 2-1 on the Braves. Tom Glavine will starts for Atlanta, opposite Chris Nabholz for Montreal.
You can catch both games on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture at 5:30pm Pacific.
First the big news: The San Francisco Giants have swept the St. Louis Cardinals and are moving on the National League Championship Series. Congratulations to the Giants.
The Orioles have a 2-1 lead on the Astros in on ALDS series, with Toronto leading Chicago 2-0.
We return to broadcasting Tuesday 3/30/21 at 5:30pm PST with:
Every game is win or go home! Be there at https://twitch.tv/extrafuture
Today’s regularly-scheduled Divergent League Update podcast episode is delayed until tomorrow. More importantly: we’ve got 4 potential sweeps in our Division Series match-ups, fans!
Tonight we’ll watch Game 3 of Atlanta .vs. Montreal. Can Atlanta hang on, or are the Expos on Championship-bound? Find out tonight on http://twitch.tv/extrafuture
Coming up on the Twitch channel tonight at 6:45pm Pacific time we’ve got Game 1 of Blue Jays .vs. White Sox in the ALDS.
Jack Mcdowell will be on the mound for the Sox, with Pat Hentgen toeing the rubber for the Jays.
The Blue Jays made a huge late-season comeback to make it here, can they keep the momentum against the seemingly all-powerful White Sox?
Update: The Jays put an upset on the White Sox, winning Game 1 by a score of 4-1 on the strength of a Pat Hentgen start and Bobby Bonilla’s 2-run dinger.
No transcript, short episode this week! We have our Wild Card winners, and we move onto the Playoffs proper.
1993 Divergent League Update Week 10 is now available!
Welcome to flavor country, folks, it’s time for the Division Series. Tonight at 5:45pm PDT (one hour early) we’ll be watching Games 1 of Expos .vs. Braves and Giants .vs. Cardinals.
Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays for defeating the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in the AL Wild Card, thanks in part of a stellar complete game by Dwight Gooden who the acquired as part of a blockbuster trade earlier in the season.
They Blue Jays will go on to face the Braves in one of our NLDS matchups.
Congratulations to the Montreal Expos for winning the NL Wild Card against the once seemingly-invulnerable Philadelphia Phillies. Moises Alou drove in the lone RBI in the 1-0 victory, with Montral’s Ken Hill pitching a complete game shutout on the strength of 10 strikeouts.
The AL Wild Card game of Tigers .vs. Blue Jays will broadcast tomorrow, March 17th, at 7:15pm PDT following AEW Dynamite on https://twitch.tv/extrafuture
You can find the 1993 Postseason Bracket in the previous post. Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards coming to this post soon.