Playoff Gameday Thread #16: Happy Back to the Future Day!

1:07 pm FS1. Game 5: Royals lead 2-1.

Edinson Volquez LHP, 13-9, 3.55

Marco Estrada RHP,  13-8, 3.13

Alcides Escobar - SS	Ben Revere - LF
Ben Zobrist - 2B	Josh Donaldson - 3B
Lorenzo Cain - CF	Jose Bautista - RF
Eric Hosmer - 1B	Edwin Encarnacion - DH
Kendrys Morales - DH	Chris Colabello - 1B
Mike Moustakas - 3B	Troy Tulowitzki - SS
Salvador Perez - C	Dioner Navarro - C
Alex Gordon - LF	Kevin Pillar - CF
Alex Rios - RF	Ryan Goins - 2B

Both Championship series could be over by the end of the day, with nothing to watch before a Royals-Mets World Series starts next Tuesday. Damn. That kinda sucks.

Whoops. Guess who who got distracted and lost track of the time?

5:07pm, TBS. Game 3: Mets lead 3-0.

Steven Matz LHP, 4-0, 2.27

Jason Hammel RHP, 10-7, 3.74

Curtis Granderson - RF	Dexter Fowler - CF
David Wright - 3B	Jorge Soler - RF
Daniel Murphy - 2B	Kris Bryant - 3B
Yoenis Cespedes - CF	Anthony Rizzo - 1B
Lucas Duda - 1B	Starlin Castro - 2B
Travis d'Arnaud - C	Kyle Schwarber - LF
Michael Conforto - LF	Javier Baez - SS
Wilmer Flores - SS	Jason Hammel - RHP
Steven Matz - LHP	David Ross - C

In case you weren't aware - I dunno, maybe your Internet was down, and this was the first place you checked after it came back up, in which case I respect that - today is Back to the Future day, commemorating the date, then far in the future, to which Marty McFly traveled in Back to the Future II. It's been getting a lot of play, not least because of its
"prediction" the Cubs would win the World Series [though quite how they manage to "sweep in five" kinda throws the whole thing into question]. Even more impressively, they do it over Miami, who didn't even have a baseball franchise at the time of the movie.

However, looking at the other predictions made by the newspaper, it's clear the makers were not in possession of an actual time-machine. "Washington prepares for Queen Diana's visit"? Oops. Call that one a bit of a swing and a miss, considering we're a separation, a unfortunate encounter in a Parisian tunnel and the apparent immortality of QE2 from that coming to fruition. And "President says she's tried..."? Possibly just a little ahead of the curve on that one, depending on what happens comes next November. Though given Geraldine Ferraro had become the first female Veep nominee by a major party in 1984, that one was perhaps not so far-fetched.