What Teams Are Trying To Avoid "The Sweep"

TheShotDoctor · Aug 26, 2007

I Know Someone Started A Thread On This Last Sunday & Did Really Well....

What We Got For Today??

MR. NW

stosh · Aug 26, 2007

WhiteSox -104

smartermoney · Aug 26, 2007

Orioles, and Astros as well

stosh · Aug 26, 2007

oh... I like Balt, but Houston gets swept

wvgolfeer · Aug 26, 2007

Stosh, big Pirates fan here, but I would never take them when Armas toes the rubber. He started to come back around, but his last two starts have been terrible.

stosh · Aug 26, 2007

wvgolfeer said:
Stosh, big Pirates fan here, but I would never take them when Armas toes the rubber. He started to come back around, but his last two starts have been terrible.

Wandy has been shit too... and Pirates are killing lefties right now.
Wandy 0-2 vs Pitt this year.
Armas 5.0 ip 1 er vs Hou this year.

smokeman42 · Aug 26, 2007

i think white sox gets swept today for sure. boston bats are popping right now.

Stabler12 · Aug 26, 2007

Sweep avoidance is not a winning proposition. You are playing a struggling team against a loose team and the odds generally move toward the team trying to salvage the last game of the series.

cincy_ · Aug 27, 2007

Stabler12 said:
Sweep avoidance is not a winning proposition. You are playing a struggling team against a loose team and the odds generally move toward the team trying to salvage the last game of the series.

The only situation in which I play the anti-sweep angle is when a team has used their closer and set-up man two straight days and they are unavailable ... that means they might be going to some loser in the 8th and 9th ... and that is what happened with Pittsburgh today. They lost the lead in the 8th because Capps was unavailable.