Have you noticed that in all four playoff series this year, the losing team outscored the winning one?

Margins of victory

Advancing teams

Texas: +2, +1, +1.

Detroit: +2, +1, +1.

Milwaukee: +3, +5, +1 (extra innings).

St. Louis: +1, +2, +1.

Eliminated teams

Tampa Bay: +9.

New York: +6, +9.

Arizona: +7, +4.

Philadelphia: +5, +1.

The advancing teams won squeakers -- the Brewers had one comfortable margin -- and the eliminated teams needed blowouts.

Keep the bats quiet and, no surprise, winning might be tension-filled but does result in wins.

What an oddity great sleuth work. I wonder how often or if this has happened before. I grew up being in awe when I read how Pittsburgh got outscored 2 to 1 in the WS by the Yankees but won the darn thing. I believe this was 1960 the Maz HR.

Innnnteresting! In every series, the losing team had one or two games where they blew the other team out, yet they couldn't win the close contests. I'm kinda with you, I have no idea if this is a significant trend, or just an anomaly. I know in basketball, the conventional wisdom is that good teams don't win close games, good teams gets such a comfortable lead that the game is never close. Obviously that might not apply in the playoffs.

To the fellow who said the advancing teams won squeakers, I don't really consider the Rangers and Rays as squeakers...

Actually Arizona did win two.

thats cause they score runs when they dont need them in those blowout games and then when they do need them in the important games, they dont get that big hit

It means none of the winning teams were deserving

I hadn't noticed that. Very, very interesting.