We warned you that things could get wild in the postseason.

Don’t you love it?

We even caught a weather break this week in cooler temperatures. (“Cooler” meaning less than One Hundred And Five.) It actually feels like October Baseball.

Thirty minutes into the St. Louis vs. Atlanta Elimination Game Five, one of my besties from St. Louis texted: “Can you believe this game?” I hadn’t turned on the game because I was working but I did wonder what could have happened a half-hour into the game that would make it an already ‘unbelievable’ game. Five homers already? Four outfield diving catches? Three players already ejec…

Oh. I see. 10-egg.

Ouch.

If only there were a 10-run rule like in Little League.

But neg. It’s the majors. Crazy things happen at every level. This is one of the crazier.

I checked my phone’s sports app and saw it was 10-0. In the top of the first. With the Cardinals still batting. I actually said to myself, out loud, “It’s Ten Nothing top of the FIRST?” I’m pretty sure that’s what I said. I never listen to me.

The Cards held on for a 13-1 win. The Braves … have a while til spring training.

Still, I bet every Brave will tell you that it’s better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

Do the Dodgers feel that way? Clayton Kershaw, maybe the best pitcher of his generation, entered the eighth inning (and no one knows why on earth LA manager Dave Roberts put him in) in last night’s late game against Washington, another Game 5, with a two-run lead; he allowed home runs on consecutive pitches. Tie game. The Nationals win in the 10th.

Baseball is a very humbling game.

Rays at Astros in another elimination game tonight at 6. Rays had to play their way in with a one-game playoff against the A’s. Houston is the better team, obviously. But it’s the postseason and it’s baseball so…who knows?

As my man and former major league Dominican pitcher the late Joaquin Andujar, who I love, once said, “Baseball can be sum up in one wort: june never know, mang.” 

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