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Post by jmunson25 on Jun 1, 2016 12:34:39 GMT -8
San Diego Padres (20-31) vs Seattle Mariners (28-21) What: Seattle looks to continue their hot streak as they face off against division rival NL rival San Diego Padres. When: Monday, May 30th through Thursday, June 2nd Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, WA Mariners Media: TV - Root Sports; Radio - 700/920 AM The Seattle Mariners have taken the first two games of the series, bringing their record to 30-21, while the Padres have fallen to 20-33. The Mariners face a tough challenge as Felix Hernandez was placed on the 15-day DL on June 1st, with James Paxton being called up to take his place. Paxton has been iffy the past two seasons with injuries.
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Post by David on Jun 1, 2016 13:24:47 GMT -8
Should be noted the first 2 games were played at Safeco. The next two will be at Petco Park in San Diego for another 2 game set.
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Post by SurferGirl on Jun 1, 2016 21:50:34 GMT -8
Why did they break it up like that? I thought each team played a series of at least three games on their own home field against the same opponent. Explanation?
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Post by Cam on Jun 1, 2016 22:58:39 GMT -8
Why did they break it up like that? I thought each team played a series of at least three games on their own home field against the same opponent. Explanation? I have the same understanding! Seems strange to me.
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Post by SurferGirl on Jun 1, 2016 23:05:07 GMT -8
Why did they break it up like that? I thought each team played a series of at least three games on their own home field against the same opponent. Explanation? I have the same understanding! Seems strange to me. I don't know baseball that much, but this seems strange to me. I have heard of back-to-back full series with one team of 3-4 games at home, then the other with 3-4. I wonder if they are making up for a rain out earlier. jmunson25, David - Any thoughts on that?
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Post by David on Jun 1, 2016 23:13:29 GMT -8
I have the same understanding! Seems strange to me. I don't know baseball that much, but this seems strange to me. I have heard of back-to-back full series with one team of 3-4 games at home, then the other with 3-4. I wonder if they are making up for a rain out earlier. jmunson25 , David - Any thoughts on that? The most common series in MLB are 3-game or 4-game series. However, there are 2-game series, so it's not uncommon. Here's my take on it: Sometimes it'll have to do with an opponent's travel schedule. For example, later this season, Seattle has a 2-game series against Pittsburgh in the middle of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday) and later on a 2-game set in Pittsburgh in between their series with Toronto and the Chicago Cubs. I believe with the case in San Diego and Seattle, it's based on a rivalry thing. With inter-league play, there's rivalries. St. Louis/Kansas City, New York Mets/New York Yankees, Miami Marlins/Tampa Bay Rays, San Francisco Giants/Oakland Athletics, etc. San Diego is considered Seattle's NL rival... personally I think Denver makes more sense, but that's how it's portrayed. Seattle has a 3-game series with Texas on Friday. Why not play 2 in Seattle and 2 in San Diego? Stimulates interest in the fan bases to attend, plus Seattle can go directly to Texas after the series is done.
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Post by SurferGirl on Jun 1, 2016 23:25:36 GMT -8
I don't know baseball that much, but this seems strange to me. I have heard of back-to-back full series with one team of 3-4 games at home, then the other with 3-4. I wonder if they are making up for a rain out earlier. jmunson25 , David - Any thoughts on that? The most common series in MLB are 3-game or 4-game series. However, there are 2-game series, so it's not uncommon. Here's my take on it: Sometimes it'll have to do with an opponent's travel schedule. For example, later this season, Seattle has a 2-game series against Pittsburgh in the middle of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday) and later on a 2-game set in Pittsburgh in between their series with Toronto and the Chicago Cubs. I believe with the case in San Diego and Seattle, it's based on a rivalry thing. With inter-league play, there's rivalries. St. Louis/Kansas City, New York Mets/New York Yankees, Miami Marlins/Tampa Bay Rays, San Francisco Giants/Oakland Athletics, etc. San Diego is considered Seattle's NL rival... personally I think Denver makes more sense, but that's how it's portrayed. Seattle has a 3-game series with Texas on Friday. Why not play 2 in Seattle and 2 in San Diego? Stimulates interest in the fan bases to attend, plus Seattle can go directly to Texas after the series is done. I understand your point. I was talking to Angi and Kasey last night about the Steel's road trip and all the travel. Kasey talks about money a lot in regards to these things. It clearly has to cost more for two-game arrangements like that rather than three or four game arrangements. I guess that is the more surprising thing. With leagues trying to save money on these things, I am surprised these two-game arrangements are even on the table.
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Post by pajarito on Jul 1, 2016 19:44:01 GMT -8
Sorry again so late on this, but yep, David got that all right basically. Since the Astros moved from the National League (NL) to the American League (AL) back in 2013, both leagues now have an equal 15 teams. Like David pointed out, MLB set up rivalries between AL and NL teams, even before the move happened. But with 15 teams in both, they've set up each team with "one" (or two apparently...) rivalry team with the other league. Again, like David said, some are pretty easy or natural geographical rivalries like Chicago Cubs/White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals/KC Royals, LA Angels/Dodgers, etc. But yep, Seattle's NL rival is set up with the Padres, which I like actually. Both are on the Pacific West Coast and I thought both have a fairly significant Navy presence, though could be wrong about that and sounds like I might be one of the few who likes this matchup. Either way, the rivalry teams will basically play each other every year regardless (A couple of teams with no "natural rivalry" will actually have 2 rivalry teams.... and currently rotates them every other year....). Other interleague games consists of one division in the AL playing all the teams in another division in the NL, and these division matchups will rotate every year. But the rivalry teams will play each other regardless of which division they're matchup-ed with that year. And currently the rivalry teams will mostly play 2 back to back 2 games series, one series at one team, the other at the other teams. Not every year, but a lot of times it will be that. Sorry for the not very concise post and basically tangential to the question asked, just was trying to give some insight into interleague play and scheduling. I got this information off the Wikipedia page about Interleague, so if you want to find out more about how it's all scheduled out you can check it out too, ha. Oh yeah, this year, the AL West division is set to play all the teams in the NL Central. 19 interleague games total, so some are home and home 2 games series like it was with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Others are just one 3 game series.
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