Mets vs. Padres All Game Summaries in NL Statis-Pro Playoffs

Here is the summary of the best-of-3 Statis-Pro NL opening round with the Mets visiting the Padres.

Pos	Mets notables	Card OPS/ERA	NYM 11'-28 = HR, Citi Field NYM
SS	Francisco Lindor	0.801	Gm 1- 3 stls; Gm 3 - 10th inn 3 -run homer, 4-1 win
DH	Juan Soto	0.946	gm 1 - HR, Gm 2 - HR, 2b, only player 3 Xtra base hits
1b	Pete Alonso	0.884	Gm 2 - HR
LF	Starling Marte	0.719	only Met with 4 hits in series
ss	Luisangel Acuna	0.63	Gm 1 - Pinch run in 9th, stole scored in 6-5 win
2'-8	Kodai Senga	3.51	Gm 1- 2.1 IP, 5 runs on 2 IF singles and FC safe at home
2'-8	Clay Holmes	3.56	Gm 2 - 5 IP, 4 runs
2'-7	David Peterson	4.07	Gm 3 - 6 IP, 0 runs (Padres struggle vs. LHP)
2'-9	Edwin Díaz	2.94	MVP - Won Gms 1 & 3, 4 IP, 1 Hit, 0 Walks, 6 Ks
2'-7	Sean Manaea	4.31	Gm 1 - kept close with 5 outs in relief enable rally
2'-8	Huascar Brazobán	2.70	Scoreless IP all 3 games
Pos	Padres notables	Card OPS/ERA	SDP - Deep 11'-24 = HR, PETCO Park SDP
RF	Ramon Laureano (2 v L)	0.722	Gm 3- bat vs. LHP, 2 of 4 and 2 steals
3b	Manny Machado (3 v L)	0.825	2 of Padres 4 Xtra - all doubles no team HRs
1b	Jake Cronenworth (6 v L)	0.728	Series high 5 hits
2'-8	Dylan Cease	3.48	Gm 1 - 5 IP, 2 runs 1 ER
2'-7	Nick Pivetta	3.93	Gm 2 - 5 IP 2 ER, Win
2'-7	Yu Darvish	4.03	Gm.3 - 6 IP, 0 runs
2'-9	Jason Adam	3.43	Gm 1 - BS, Loss, Gm 2 and 3 scoreless 9th incl Gm 2 Sv
	Game 1		SD led 5-4 until 9th, NY won 6-5
	Game 2		SD won 5-3
	Game 3		Darish & Peterson 6 scorelss IP each, Mets 4-1 in 10 inn

 We finally started our NL playoffs and the Mets brought in Edwin Diaz in the 8th to strikeout the side, the Mets rallied for two in the 9th to take a 6-5 lead over the Padres, then Diaz recorded another 1-2-3 inning for the Game 1 win.

The only down side for the Mets is out playoff rules are if a reliever pitches to more than 5 batters he is out for the next game so they will play Game 2 of the best-of-3 without him.

The Padres had a 5-2 lead until Lindor singled and Soto homered in the 6th to make it 5-4. The homer was impressive because it was on a deep drive on his card, which at PETCO Park is only a homer on an 11-24, so a 25-88 would have been caught to end the inning and the Padres would have won 5-4.

After the Padres won the 2nd game 5-3 a pitchers duel went late to decide Game 3.

For the second time in the series a Mets star, this time Lindor, hit a deep drive and his also went out, this time on a 14 to fall within the 11-24 home run range. The Mets therefore won 2 of 3 games because of drives that went out of the spacious San Diego Stadium. Both Soto and Pete Alonso hit additional homer runs that were clean shots in the Home Run ranges on their cards. That gave the Mets four homers in the series, and the Padres did not hit any home runs, managing only four doubles. 

The Mets Advance and here are the scoresheets. The picture of the playing cards in the setup is fun because we have cards from a year that Statis-Pro had 4-sided cards all in different colors. We shuffle them all in different directions and play through all four sides, then on the second time they go through the deck it is like the photo of the cards - all lined up to go through the black font, then blue, then green and then red. The photo was the deck when we had just gotten through all the black cards, and were just starting to flip over to use the blue side.

Game 1 Scoresheet

Game 2 Scoresheet

Game 3 Scoresheet

Mariners Make Statis-Pro World Series 4 Days After Falling 8 Outs Short

Just four days after falling 8 outs short of making the actual MLB World Series, the Seattle Mariners made the World Series in our  free Statis-Pro baseball simulated season. After losing a 3-1 lead in a decisive Game 7 on a George Springer 3-run homer in the 7th in actual MLB play, the Mariners avoided going to a decisive Game 7 by wrapping up the Statis-Pro ALCS in six games against the Yankees.

This month shattered our July 2024 record with 195,616 unique views. Hey, we assume half are bots, but we thank all of you who are real viewers for checking in on our Statis-Pro simulations during what has been a very exciting real MLB season with the highest TV ratings in years.

The Mariners easily defeated the Detroit Tigers in five games in the previous series, while the Yankees had to survive a 7-game series against the Houston Astros, who in Statis-Pro unlike the actual MLB season had the services of Yordan Alvarez. 

Just a reminder, it is much more likely that baseball simulations are different from actual results since the better team in baseball barely wins half of playoff series, while more than 70% of NBA and NFL favorites win in playoff matchups.

The Mariners will need to wait a while for their second straight Statis-Pro World Series appearance since that while our AL Commissioner in Montana managed to find some free evenings to get through the AL playoffs, our NL Commissioner in Milwaukee hit a very tough work month in October and still needs to get all playoff games in. before a winner can be crowned. In the NL Statis-Pro regular season it was the two actual MLB final two teams - the LA Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers - who earned the byes, but in a season of parity the four wild card teams (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres and New York Mets) will hope to change the simulated NLCS. The only NL team to make the MLB playoffs but not the Statis-Pro playoffs was the Cincinnati Reds, who tied for the final Statis-Pro spot but lost a one-game playin game.

Here is the exciting breakdown of the last three AL playoff series. Shohei Ohtani did lead the Statis-Pro Dodgers to the best record in our simulations, likely because we allow injured players to play so the Dodgers played our entire season like they did once healthy in the NL playoffs.

Divisional Round (best of 7) 

Seattle vs. Detroit After a tough five game battle in the Wild Card Round, the Seattle Mariners flexed their pitching muscles against the Detroit Tigers. Seattle won games by the scores of 2-1, 1-0, 2-0. George Kirby, Bryan Woo and Logan Gilbert were the winning pitchers in shutting down the Detroit offense. The Tigers did salvage one game before being eliminated four games to one. 

Houston vs. New York This evenly matched series saw the first four games split. The highlight being game one when the Yankees had two outs in the bottom of the ninth trailing by two runs. With a man on first, the Yankees pounded three consecutive two-out hits to rally against the beleaguered Astros bullpen. It looked like the Yankees would take control in the pivotal game five. In the ninth inning of a 3-3 game, Aaron Judge singled and Cody Bellinger doubled to set up second-and-third with nobody out. But New York failed to score, and Houston made them pay in the 10th inning with back-to-back solo shots from Yordan Alvarez and Christian Walker. However, in the last two games of the series, it was the reigning Statis-Pro AL MVP who came through. Aaron Judge hit a 3-run homer to win game six and followed that with the game winning solo shot in game seven to win the deciding game 3-2. 

 Statis-Pro American League Championship Series Both of the Wild Card winners advanced to the ALCS. It was a wild start, with four lead changes in the final two innings of game one. The Yankees walked it off with Jazz Chisholm Jr's game winning double to win it 6-5. The teams split the first four games of the series making it a best of 3. In the pivotal game five, the Mariners erupted for a five-run second inning capped by Josh Naylor's 3-run blast. Carlos Rodon got roughed up to take the loss. That trend continued in game six when Max Fried only lasted four innings and gave up five runs (four earned). Jorge Polanco led the Mariners offense going 10-25 in the series with a homer, 3-doubles and 4 RBI's. Aaron Judge finished a disappointing 3-19 (six walks) and only drove in two runs. The Mariners make it two straight Statis-Pro pennants and await their NL foe for the 2025 Statis-Pro World Series.

Statis-Pro Mariners and Yankees Advance in Blog’s Record 114,354 Unique Visits

 

If they had played baseball in the old pony express days you would have received the update faster than this, but here is the update on the first round of the Statis-Pro AL playoffs - 15 days after the games were actually completed by our AL Commissioner based in Montana.

Our NL Commissioner not only got so caught up in work

he was not able to start his series, but he also missed

the AL Commissioners update below outlining the first

two series, in which Seattle advanced to play Detroit

and the Yankees advanced to play the Astros.

The amazing thing is that the blog has set a record

this month with our playoffs posted, with 114,354

unique visits already in September - mostly following

our baseball but we are also having thousands start

to pull up the Value Add Basketball Game again

to play either the women’s games during WNBA

players or men’s games as previews of their

college season.

Three teams are still alive both in Statis-Pro and the MLB in the Mariners as well as the two teams with NL byes, Milwaukee and the LA Dodgers. The Toronto Blues Jays are the one team still alive in MLB play that has been eliminated in Statis-Pro, though they have fallen behind early in Seattle and need to rally to avoid a three games to none hole.

Here is our long overdue update.

First-round AL update:

Statis-Pro AL Wild Card Round  (Best of 5)

New York Yankees defeat Texas Rangers

The Yankees came in as the top scoring team in the Statis-Pro AL.

They lived up to that in sweeping the Rangers in three straight.

The Yanks averaged 9-runs a game.

Paul Goldschmidt led the way with 2-HR's and 6 RBI's in three games.

Seattle Mariners defeat Cleveland Guardians

More drama here as the series went the full five games.

The Guardians starting pitching continued to surprise as they helped shut out Seattle in two of the first three games.

The Mariners got the big hits in the final two games to rally. 

In game four, Eugenio Suarez smashed a grand slam on his way to 6 RBI's as Seattle won 6-4.

Then in the pivotal game five, Jorge Polanco blasted another grand slam as the Mariners rolled 11-5.

Statis-Pro ALDS  (Best of 7)

Seattle actually swept the season series 4-0 over the Tigers.

While the Astros and Yankees split their regular season series 2-2.

Probable starters:

Game 1 

Seattle vs Detroit

George Kirby (4-4, 3.38) vs. Tarik Skubal (8-2, 1.63)

Game 2

Seattle vs. Detroit

Luis Castillo (4-3, 3.79) vs. Reese Olson (5-3, 2.38)

Game 3

Detroit vs. Seattle

Jack Flaherty (3-5, 3.84) vs. Bryan Woo (8-4, 3.36)

Statis-Pro ALDS

Game 1

New York vs Houston

Max Fried (6-4, 5.66) vs. Ronel Blanco (5-3, 1.96)

Game 2

New York vs Houston

Clarke Schmidt (7-3, 3.12) vs. Framber Valdez (4-3, 2.85)

Game 3

Houston vs New York

Hunter Brown (6-2, 2.43) vs. Luis Gil (8-2, 4.15)

2025 Statis-Pro Season Final and Playoff Schedule

Here's the regular season finale update.

The Philadelphia Phillies won a thrilling 1-game extra to break a tie with the Reds of the last playoff spot and finish 26-23, and the AL teams finished and equally close battle to the end to set up all 12 teams making the Statis-Pro playoffs while actual MLB is still down to wire. Details below the playoff bracket and final standings. 

Complete Toss Up:

This is the headline for the 2025 Statis-Pro regular season.

As we head into the playoffs there is absolutely no clear favorite.

The entire playoff field is separated by three games.

We needed three tiebreakers to sort out the playoff seedings. (head to head records settled it)

Houston could have run away with the best record, but a miserable bullpen brought them back to the pack.

They suffered through a 2-6 record in extra-inning games and posted a league high seven blown saves.

The Astros swept the last two games from the Guardians to steal the division and first round bye.

While the Orioles faded in the east, the Tigers won 8 of 9 and their last seven in a row, to move past the Yankees to take the division and first round bye.

The regular season awards go to:

MVP

Aaron Judge

He led the league in OPS, Slugging, Home Runs, RBI's, Runs Scored, Extra Base Hits, Total Bases, and Walks.

Cy Young

Tarik Skubal

12 starts, 8-2, 1.63 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 108 K/76 IP, .205 Batting Average Against.

Spectacular Statis-Pro Finale: Dodgers & Brewers Clinch Byes

 The Dodgers simply needed to not lose by more than 4 runs to eliminate the Padres and claim the bye for the West Division (our Statis-Pro League has only an East and a West, no Central). You can play your own free Statis-Pro games by clicking here.

After six batters, that looked in doubt. Jacob Misiorowski struck out the first three Dodgers batters in the first. In the bottom of the inning, Christian Yelich singled. Then one of the only Hit & Run 2 (best rating) players left in the game, Caleb Durbin, executed the perfect hit and run with Yelich to put runners on the corners. Then rather than a 2-12 PB, a BD for clutch batting was drawn and Jackson Chourio went deep for a 3-run homer. It is rare a PB 2-9 will give up three runs in three batters since they control the action 83% of the time (on a PB 2-9 but not on a 10-12) but by using the Hit & Run and then drawing a clutch batting the PB 2-9 only impacted Yelich.

While the Dodgers only threw PB 2-8 and PB 2-9 pitchers the whole game (the best two pitcher ratings) the Brewers were on course for a 5-run win and keeping the Padres alive in the West.

However Misiorowski then fell apart, allowing 5 runs in 2.3 inning pitched (we score 1/3rd of an inning inning as 0.3 and 2/3rds as 0.7). In the 6th Mookie Betts hit is second homer of the game to mkae it 7-4 and the Brewers were on the verge of losing and falling to a wildcard and giving the Cubs the East title and bye.

However, Kirby Yates drew a PB9 and as a PB2-8, that gave Jackson Chourio the action on his own card with a 31-34 home run range, and the 32 random number was a homer. That started the game-winning rally. Rhys Hoskins walked and Isaac Collins came in as a pinch runner and stole second (going into the outfield and Jake Bauers moved to 1st base). Sal Frelick and Joey Ortiz hit back-to-back doubles, with Ortiz coming off ace reliever Tanner Scott off a PB11 that did not fall within his PB 2-9 range.

The Dodgers had their 8-7 lead after seven innings and eventually Trevor Megill had a 1-2-3 inning closing on two strikeouts for the Save.

The Dodgers improve to 26-16, and do not need to play their Arizona series since the 2nd place Padres are done at 26-22 so even if the Dodgers were swept twice by the Diamondbacks, since the Dodgers won the season series with the Padres 5 games to 1 so would have won a tie-breaker.

The Brewers finish 28-20, same as the Cubs, and the two tied there series 3 games each, but the next tie breaker is record at the end of divisional play, and the Brewers were 23-13 vs the Cubs 19-17 before interdivision started.

Both the Brewers and Dodgers therefore have our byes, and if the 8-7 Brewers win is a preview of our Statis-Pro NL championships it could be quite a Statis-Pro season.

As noted earlier the Phillies and Reds tied for the 6th and final spot at 25-23, so will play one more regular season game to determine who visits the 3-seed. The Cubs are the clear top wildcard seed and No. 3 overall seed with the 28-20 mark that only misses the division because of the Brewers tie-breaker.

The Padres 3-2 win over the Mets in Divisional play ends up being the tie-breaker as both finished 26-22, so all three games will be in San Diego.

Here is the line score and box score from the finale.

 

Team	1	2	3		4	5	6		7	8	9		R	H	E
LAD	0	2	3		0	0	2		0	0	0		7	9	1
Mil	3	0	1		0	0	1		3	0	x		8	10	1

 

Pos	LAD	HR	SB	OPS	AB	R	H	BI	Notes
DH	Shohei Ohtani	23-31	AA	0.993	5	1	0	0
cf	Mookie Betts	27-32	B	0.885	5	2	2	3	HR, HR
1b	Freddie Freeman	33-34	D	0.847	5	0	0	0
C	Will Smith	31-33	D	0.913	4	2	2	0
RF	Teoscar Hernández	26-32	C	0.799	3	2	1	2	2b
2b	Hyeseong Kim	27-31	A	0.768	4	0	1	0
lf	Andy Pages	24-27	E	0.751	3	0	1	0
3b	Max Muncy	17-22	D	0.761	4	0	1	1
SS	Miguel Rojas	28-28	C	0.653	4	0	1	0	2b
	Dodgers Game Average				37	7	9	6
Pos	Mil 11'-43 = HR	HR	SB	OPS	AB	R	H	BI	Notes
LF	Christian Yelich	26-31	A	0.790	4	1	2	1	SF
2b	Caleb Durbin	18-22	B	0.727	4	2	1	0
DH	Jackson Chourio	31-34	A	0.759	5	2	2	4	HR, HR
C	William Contreras	27-32	C	0.796	4	0	2	1
1b	Rhys Hoskins	18-25	D	0.765	3	0	0	0
pr-lf	Isaac Collins	26-27	A	0.697	1	1	0	0	PR. Score
CF	Sal Frelick	34-34	B	0.719	4	1	1	1	2b
3b	Joey Ortiz	27-28	B	0.707	3	0	1	1	2b
ss	Brice Turang	31-32	A	0.681	4	1	2	0	SB, SB
lf-1b	Jake Bauers	18-24	A	0.715	3	0	1	0
	Brewers Game Average				35	8	12	8
PB	LAD Pitcher	K	MaxIP	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	W,K, Dec
2'-9	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	25-47	6	3.54	4	5	4	4	2,6
2'-8	Ben Casparius	25-41	3	2.90	1	0	0	0	0,1
2'-8	Blake Treinen	24-44	1	3.33	1	2	1	1	0,2
2'-8	Kirby Yates	22-44	1	3.46	0.3	2	3	3	1,0, loss
2'-8	Brock Stewart	25-41	2	3.23	0.7	2	0	0	0,0
2'-9	Tanner Scott	22-44	1	3.08	1	1	0	0	0,1
	Dodgers				8	12	8	8	3 walks,10 Ks
PB	MIL Pitcher	K	MaxIP	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	W,K, Dec
2'-8	Jacob Misiorowski	24-48	5	3.96	2.3	5	5	5	2,5
2'-7	Tobias Myers	25-42	6	4.02	1.7	1	0	0	0,0
2'-7	Nick Mears	23-44	2	3.80	1	0	0	0	0,0
2'-7	Jose Quintana	25-38	6	4.05	1	1	2	0	1,2
2'-8	Chad Patrick	26-42	6	4.38	1	0	0	0	0,2
2'-7	Abner Uribe	22-43	2	3.74	1	1	0	0	0,0 win
2'-9	Trevor Megill	24-45	1	3.37	1	0	0	0	0,2 save
	Brewers				9	8	7	5	3 walks,11 Ks

We will add the scoresheet here.

Dodgers Sweep Cubs, Play Brewers in Finale

 Mookie Betts beat a throw home from shortstop Francisco Lindor and then Teoscar Hernandez hit a 2-run homer to give the Dodgers and 8-2 win and sweep over the Mets.

The Mets will still be a wildcard, but now the math is simple on the NL East title. If Milwaukee beats the Dodgers in the finale, regardless of score, they win the East and get the bye. If the Dodgers win then the Cubs get the East title and the bye.

That would end the season and playoffs would be next with one possible exception - if the Dodgers lose by 5+ for a sweep then they would still not quite have the West clinched. In that case the Dodgers could play Arizona once or twice, and the only way the Padres take the West if the Dodgers were swept (loss by 5+) in all three games.

Ddd

Reds 7th Place in MLB & Statis-Pro - Same Top 7

 

If the actual MLB season and our Statis-Pro MLB season ended today, the Cincinnati Reds would have a 1-game series to determine the 6th and final team in the playoffs - making the top seven teams the same in our simulations and actual play.

However, they would not be in the same order. The Phillies struggled in Statis-Pro after their starting pitchers were injured so they would need to win the 1-game series against the Reds in Statis-Pro to advance, while in the MLB season the Phillies just kept winning and would have the bye to the NL semifinals. In the actual MLB season, the Mets would be the team that would have to play the Reds in a game to advance.

In our Statis-Pro season the LA Dodgers are very likely to be the NL West champ to get one bye. However they are involved in all of the remaining games.

The LA Dodgers remaining schedule is all we need to play out. That includes:

LAD Snell vs. Mets Peterson - if Mets sweep (win by 5+ runs) they win, if they go 2-1 (win by 5 or less) they win the division unless the Brewers go 3-0.

LAD Yamamoto vs. Brewers Misiorowski - The Brewers win the division if they do better than the Mets and go 2-1 or 3-0. 

If LAD beats both the Mets and Brewers, even if by 5 runs or less, then the Cubs win the Division.

If LAD wins both then they also win the West, but even if they lose the can play Arizona one or two more games to likely wrap up the NL West.