It occurs to me that if the Padres lose the wild-card tiebreaker game in Denver on Monday, their collapse will be a pretty big one, too. Oh, nothing like the Mets’ collapse, but the Padres led either the division or the wild card for much of the season, albeit never by a wide margin.
For every collapse there is a comeback, and the Rockies’ comeback is almost as great as the Phillies.’ On 12 Sept., the Phillies were 7 games out. The Rockies were five games out in the wild card race on the 17th. The Phillies are in, while the Rockies, who have won 13 of their last 14 games, still need to win an “overhang game” against the Padres.
The Rockies are 50-31 at home this year. Huge advantage, Colorado.
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I thought about blogging about it yesterday but was just too depressed. These past two games have been very painful!
Seed planted by Greg Weeks — 01 October 2007 @ 08:29
An article in baseball Prospectus said that the Padres collapse is the 13th greatest of all time.
The greatest of all time? 1995 Angels, who had a 99.988% chance of making the playoffs in late August. The odds of them losing were 8000-1 against.
Seed planted by Chris B — 02 October 2007 @ 09:10