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2018 Red Sox vs. Yankees ALDS Gameday Thread
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Post by James Dunne on Oct 5, 2018 8:08:56 GMT -5
10/5 Red Sox (LHP Chris Sale 12-4, 2.11, 158.0 IP, 237K:34BB) vs. Yankees (LHP JA Happ 17-6, 3.65, 177.2 IP, 193K:51BB) 7:32 pm ET, TBS/WEEI 10/6 Red Sox (LHP David Price 16-7, 3.58, 176.0 IP, 177K:50BB) vs. Yankees (RHP Masahiro Tanaka 12-6, 3.75, 156.0 IP, 159K:35BB) 8:15 pm ET, TBS/WEEI 10/8 Red Sox (RHP Nathan Eovaldi 6-7, 3.81, 111.0 IP, 101K:20BB) vs. Yankees (RHP Luis Severino 19-8, 3.39, 191.1 IP, 220K:46BB) 7:40 pm ET, TBS/WEEI 10/9 Red Sox (RHP Rick Porcello 17-7, 4.28, 191.1 IP, 190K:48BB) vs. Yankees (LHP CC Sabathia 9-7, 3.65, 153.0 IP, 140K:51BB) 8:07 pm ET, TBS/WEEI (If Necessary) 10/11 Red Sox (LHP Chris Sale 12-4, 2.11, 158.0 IP, 237K:34BB) vs. Yankees (TBA) 7:40* pm ET, TBS/WEEI*Times of games 3, 4, and 5 subject to change based on early completion of other Division Series MLB StandingsRed Sox Hitting StatsRed Sox Pitching StatsMLB ScoreboardMLB TransactionsA note regarding moderating of the gameday threads in 2018: As the disclaimer has always said, in the past, we have been very liberal in moderating the Gameday threads. They're meant to be a lot less formal than other threads on the forum, so to moderate them the same way would be silly. However, we do ask posters to maintain a certain level of decorum in these threads, and we plan on moderating the Gameday threads a little more actively this season. In particular, we ask that posters refrain from being overly repetitive with their posts (if you've made your point, let it go), refrain from monopolizing the discussion (if you are making more than a couple posts in a row, you probably need to slow down a little bit), and of course, follow the Ground Rules ( link). The point is to make these threads worth participating in and fun for all posters, from our long-time fixtures to people just signing up today. -The Management
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Post by soxfanatic on Oct 5, 2018 8:23:44 GMT -5
It is happening!
So weird. You'd think after a 108 win season you'd feel more confident than Johnny Bravo on a good day, but I'm not.
Anyway, postseason baseball ya'll.
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Post by fenwaydouble on Oct 5, 2018 8:33:46 GMT -5
I'm really, really nervous..but I know that our boys aren't. I have a feeling that we're going to see some Mookie magic these playoffs.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 5, 2018 8:48:26 GMT -5
I have completely changed my standards in this year's run to winning it all to just beating this other team.
Just don't lose to the Yankees please.
Game 1 is important. Chris Sale is your biggest advantage here. There is no better pitcher in the modern ERA of baseball at facing the Yankees than Chris Sale. He owns them. He has to keep owning them for at least 2 more games if necessary. He's got to beat these guys, velocity or no velocity.
Porcello and Price could show up or might not show up, flip a coin. Hopefully Eovaldi keeps his mojo against the Yankees going too. I hope luck doesn't change either. Wright, Brasier, and Kimbrel can't blow leads at all either.
The one thing I hope for ONCE IN MY LIFETIME IN A SERIES WITH THE YANKEES is that the umpires call AT LEAST a fair and even strikezone with both sides. At least instant replay should fix the Chuck Knoblach/Jose Offerman phantom tag plays. The strikezones is the one wildcard.
I'll probably be done talking about baseball until April if the Sox lose to this team. It'll be so upsetting. Hoping for the best though. This could be the best Sox team in the modern ERA of baseball. Time to prove it.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 5, 2018 8:49:12 GMT -5
It is happening! So weird. You'd think after a 108 win season you'd feel more confident than Johnny Bravo on a good day, but I'm not. Anyway, postseason baseball ya'll. I hear you. Don't have a clue what they get out of Chris Sale. But what concerns me, too, is that the Yankees look different than the team the Sox humiliated in August. That team had a hole at 1b and LF and didn't have Judge. McCutchen in an upgrade over Gardner and Shane Spencer (I mean Voit) is a huge upgrade over Bird. I think Voit played in that series but he wasn't Luke Voit yet. And Happ has been a huge addition for the Yankee and has pitched well against the Sox, although oddly he has given up 2 grand slams to them this year (the last one wouldn't have happened under normal circumstances - he would have been pulled from the game). With the Yankees, the key is to make sure they're only solo homers that they hit. The fact of the matter is they're quite capable of hitting homers on the road as their 123 homers attest to. They're not good at getting hits other than HRs. They have one really good hitter in Andujar who of course has extra base and HR power. The rest of the lineup are a bunch of guys who are basically 3 true outcome types of guys, so the key is not to walk guys in front of the HRs. The Yankees don't have team speed and their defense behind the plate and 3b is kind of jagged. The Sox aren't much better at 3b defensively themselves, but the Sox defensively have the all-world defense in the outfield. Basically pitching, speed, and defense will have to carry the day for the Sox to win. They need dominant Sale and the pen to hold his lead. I worry about the Sox lineup because it is so top-heavy. The Yankee lineup right now has no holes in it except for perhaps Sanchez who has serious power and is hardly the automatic out that Sandy Leon is. The Sox need their platoon guys in the infield to hit consistently. I was really hoping Oakland with their joke of a starting rotation would somehow beat NY. Instead the Sox will have the gauntlet thrown at them right away. If the Sox can somehow beat NY I think they Sox could take Houston or Cleveland and win the Series, but if NY beats the Sox, it wouldn't shock me to see them go all the way. This series has no middle ground. Lose and the season gets a bit of that Patriots 2007-08 vibe where the 16-0 regular season doesn't mean as much because all that anybody remembers is the ending and them losing to a NY team. Otherwise beat the Yankees, and then go all the way, and this Sox team could lay claim to being the greatest Red Sox team ever (unless you think the 1912 team should retain that title). OTOH, if the Yankees win, they spoiled the greatest Sox season ever and avenged their August Fenway Fiasco. But if they lose, then the Yankees have treated their fans to the most miserable 100 win year ever. Get swept by their hated rivals in the Fenway Fiasco. Watch their hated rivals spill champagne in their toilet (possibly twice), and if the Sox go all the way.....well that's the worst the Yankees will have felt since 2004. Like I said, a lot riding on this for both teams.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 5, 2018 8:54:28 GMT -5
I'm really, really nervous..but I know that our boys aren't. I have a feeling that we're going to see some Mookie magic these playoffs. 2018 would really be the year of Mookie if that was the case then. Batting title, MVP, playoff hero. God I hope so.
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Post by James Dunne on Oct 5, 2018 8:55:19 GMT -5
Mookie, what are the Yankees chances in this series?
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 5, 2018 9:06:56 GMT -5
I remember 2007 Beckett. I remember seeing Game 1 in the playoffs where he threw a 2 hit complete game shutout. I remember Josh Beckett throwing 98-100 mph in the first inning and settling into 96-98 mph with a hammer curveball from hell. This was Beckett showing the world why he was the best big game pitcher at that time and no one was going to beat him. I'll always appreciate Beckett for this moment at least.
I want similar to this from Sale tonight. I want to see 97-100 mph in the first inning and telling the Yankees "thanks, but no thanks for coming" and dropping at least 7 shutout innings.
It's all I want for Christmas now.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 5, 2018 9:21:20 GMT -5
The one thing I hope for ONCE IN MY LIFETIME IN A SERIES WITH THE YANKEES is that the umpires call AT LEAST a fair and even strikezone with both sides. At least instant replay should fix the Chuck Knoblach/Jose Offerman phantom tag plays. The strikezones is the one wildcard. I'm already holding my breath...
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 5, 2018 9:31:39 GMT -5
yea, the yankees starting lineup is likely to feature 8 players who had at least a 120 wrc+ this year.....the one below average hitter, Sanchez, had a low babip and over his career has a 124 wrc+. That's the deepest lineup in baseball, because they somehow got best case results out of all of Gleyber, Hicks, Didi, Andujar, Voit, and Cutch.
This is not going to be easy, and it's not the same team we swept in August (that team had no Judge and featured guys like Romine and Shane Robinson playing...Greg Bird was still getting playing time at first base).
On our side, we are gonna need Mookie, JD, Xander, and perhaps Benny to carry the offense.
But Sale is the key -- if Sale is Sale, I'm pretty confident we can beat Happ in game 1 and set the tone for the series.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Oct 5, 2018 9:50:07 GMT -5
What is the deadline for Cora to finalize the playoff roster? I've not seen any news about it yet this AM
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Post by mredsox89 on Oct 5, 2018 10:07:08 GMT -5
Barnes Brasier Eovaldi Kelly Kimbrel Porcello Price Rodriguez Sale Workman Wright
Leon Swihart Vázquez Bogaerts Devers Holt Kinsler Moreland Núñez Pearce Benintendi Betts Bradley Jr. Martinez
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Post by mredsox89 on Oct 5, 2018 10:10:36 GMT -5
So they run with three catchers (not a huge surprise), both Devers, Nunez, & Holt (minimal surprise), no Pomeranz (not much of a surprise), Workman & Kelly as the last two guys over Hembree and Poyner (was kind of a toss up), and no real long/swing man, opting instead for Wright, Rodriguez, and maybe Workman to go multiple innings if needed.
So nothing major. Biggest decision was presumably Kelly or Poyner
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 5, 2018 10:25:11 GMT -5
Not 1 prime time game for the Astros / Indians. The rest of the country is going to hate us even more.
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Post by sarasoxer on Oct 5, 2018 10:37:40 GMT -5
It is happening! So weird. You'd think after a 108 win season you'd feel more confident than Johnny Bravo on a good day, but I'm not. Anyway, postseason baseball ya'll. I hear you. Don't have a clue what they get out of Chris Sale. But what concerns me, too, is that the Yankees look different than the team the Sox humiliated in August. That team had a hole at 1b and LF and didn't have Judge. McCutchen in an upgrade over Gardner and Shane Spencer (I mean Voit) is a huge upgrade over Bird. I think Voit played in that series but he wasn't Luke Voit yet. And Happ has been a huge addition for the Yankee and has pitched well against the Sox, although oddly he has given up 2 grand slams to them this year (the last one wouldn't have happened under normal circumstances - he would have been pulled from the game). With the Yankees, the key is to make sure they're only solo homers that they hit. The fact of the matter is they're quite capable of hitting homers on the road as their 123 homers attest to. They're not good at getting hits other than HRs. They have one really good hitter in Andujar who of course has extra base and HR power. The rest of the lineup are a bunch of guys who are basically 3 true outcome types of guys, so the key is not to walk guys in front of the HRs. The Yankees don't have team speed and their defense behind the plate and 3b is kind of jagged. The Sox aren't much better at 3b defensively themselves, but the Sox defensively have the all-world defense in the outfield. Basically pitching, speed, and defense will have to carry the day for the Sox to win. They need dominant Sale and the pen to hold his lead. I worry about the Sox lineup because it is so top-heavy. The Yankee lineup right now has no holes in it except for perhaps Sanchez who has serious power and is hardly the automatic out that Sandy Leon is. The Sox need their platoon guys in the infield to hit consistently. I was really hoping Oakland with their joke of a starting rotation would somehow beat NY. Instead the Sox will have the gauntlet thrown at them right away. If the Sox can somehow beat NY I think they Sox could take Houston or Cleveland and win the Series, but if NY beats the Sox, it wouldn't shock me to see them go all the way. This series has no middle ground. Lose and the season gets a bit of that Patriots 2007-08 vibe where the 16-0 regular season doesn't mean as much because all that anybody remembers is the ending and them losing to a NY team. Otherwise beat the Yankees, and then go all the way, and this Sox team could lay claim to being the greatest Red Sox team ever (unless you think the 1912 team should retain that title). OTOH, if the Yankees win, they spoiled the greatest Sox season ever and avenged their August Fenway Fiasco. But if they lose, then the Yankees have treated their fans to the most miserable 100 win year ever. Get swept by their hated rivals in the Fenway Fiasco. Watch their hated rivals spill champagne in their toilet (possibly twice), and if the Sox go all the way.....well that's the worst the Yankees will have felt since 2004. Like I said, a lot riding on this for both teams. You nailed it big guy. The Yankees did incredibly well with their pickups and, if there was a gap, they closed it. Take Happ and Voit (who'd a thunk it) out and I could watch. Being the coward I am, I'm taking the wife to dinner.
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Post by incandenza on Oct 5, 2018 11:13:11 GMT -5
Dreamt the Sox were losing a blowout after Sale gave up a couple homers into the swamp out past the center field wall. Hopefully that was just my unconscious sweeping out the bad karma...
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 5, 2018 11:14:14 GMT -5
Brothers.......this is it !!! These are the moments that make Red Sox history. I can't contain my fervor. We are going to stick it to these mutha's. I will be watching with my MFY fan nephews for a bit tonight and tomorrow will be at a wedding in NJ surrounded by MFY college friends and I am not afraid !!!! If you dont hear from me....that is why. I ain't missing not a GD thing.
Our bond must remain strong. No overarching negativity. We need all the positive karma the Universe will allow. LET US FRIGGIN DO THIS !!!!!!!
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 5, 2018 11:37:28 GMT -5
We seem to be festering in nattering nabobs of negativism.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 5, 2018 11:41:31 GMT -5
We seem to be festering in nattering nabobs of negativism. Not me. After 2004, I've been playing with house money the whole time. If we win, great. If we lose, life goes on. Although, the first pitch will make me turn into a raving lunatic.
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 5, 2018 13:15:01 GMT -5
So they run with three catchers (not a huge surprise), both Devers, Nunez, & Holt (minimal surprise), no Pomeranz (not much of a surprise), Workman & Kelly as the last two guys over Hembree and Poyner (was kind of a toss up), and no real long/swing man, opting instead for Wright, Rodriguez, and maybe Workman to go multiple innings if needed. So nothing major. Biggest decision was presumably Kelly or Poyner Poyner was never on the radar. First they used him in lower leverage than everyone else, then they had a chance to use him in his expected role (turning Walker to his worse side, which is also Poyner's better split) in a meaningless game, when he was warmed up, and chose not to.
Once they decided they wanted the last two guys to both be short men (a decision I disagree with and hope does not come back to bother them), eliminating Johnson and Velazquez, it came down to Kelly, Workman, and Hembree, chose two. I think the last spot was Workman over Hembree based on the latter's release point and/or shoulder strength.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 5, 2018 13:21:27 GMT -5
Orsillo and Eck for Houston/Cleveland. We was robbed.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 5, 2018 13:45:56 GMT -5
Thru 2, Verlander, Kluber have a combined 2 K's.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 5, 2018 13:46:05 GMT -5
Orsillo and Eck for Houston/Cleveland. We was robbed. I'm guessing that they don't want homer announcers broadcasting playoff games.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 5, 2018 13:58:29 GMT -5
Orsillo and Eck for Houston/Cleveland. We was robbed. I'm guessing that they don't want homer announcers broadcasting playoff games. Makes sense but I wonder who we will get. The wildcard game was 3 colormen, Eck, Darling, Anderson.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 5, 2018 14:02:10 GMT -5
At first I was really nervous not because they are better than us but because losing to these guys really suck. But as game time gets closer im getting pumped. After the offseason everyone and there mother was gushing over the yankees. This 2018 sox team didn't blink an eye and had the best regular season. We have a special team on hand. Lets get this!!
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