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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on Oct 18, 2019 11:25:16 GMT -5
Yanks have a tough assignment. They need the bullpen to beat Verlander. And the a bullpen game tomorrow, following an overnight flight.
If game 6 is one-sided, they could get 5 innings out of Happ. Otherwise, they're depending on the weaker half of the relief corps.
One could argue that the Astros are in a similar situation. But Verlander is likely to give more strong innings than Paxton ... and Urquidy seems more solid than Happ.
Edit: RHP Heller replaced Sabathia. Age 28, career IP 25.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 11:30:41 GMT -5
There was also a team down 3-1 and came back on the road in 2004. I know you were watching that one! OMG, I might have seen that one!! Even if I've forgotten! LOL!! It's funny. I never associate the 2004 Red Sox as being down 3-1 like I do the 2007 Red Sox, but yeah, you're absolutely right, technically they WERE down 3-1 to the Yankees who failed to win the last two games at home. When it comes to the 2004 Red Sox, I always associate it as 3-0 (rather than 3-1), and every time in sports a team goes down 3 games to 0, they show THE GRAPHIC in which the 2004 Red Sox are mentioned overcoming the 3-0 deficit to the Yankees. I was excited about the Nats going up 3-0 over the Cards just for that reason. I knew we'd see THE GRAPHIC one more time!! It's the gift that keeps on giving!! By the way, soxcentral, if there had been some sort of heart button to say I love your post, I would have hit that button, but I had to settle for the thumbs up button to like your post instead. I remember being so scared for game 7 that they had come back from 3-0 to force it and found an even better way to torture Red Sox fans. But the Damon grand slam finally let me believe.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 18, 2019 13:00:42 GMT -5
OMG, I might have seen that one!! Even if I've forgotten! LOL!! It's funny. I never associate the 2004 Red Sox as being down 3-1 like I do the 2007 Red Sox, but yeah, you're absolutely right, technically they WERE down 3-1 to the Yankees who failed to win the last two games at home. When it comes to the 2004 Red Sox, I always associate it as 3-0 (rather than 3-1), and every time in sports a team goes down 3 games to 0, they show THE GRAPHIC in which the 2004 Red Sox are mentioned overcoming the 3-0 deficit to the Yankees. I was excited about the Nats going up 3-0 over the Cards just for that reason. I knew we'd see THE GRAPHIC one more time!! It's the gift that keeps on giving!! By the way, soxcentral, if there had been some sort of heart button to say I love your post, I would have hit that button, but I had to settle for the thumbs up button to like your post instead. I remember being so scared for game 7 that they had come back from 3-0 to force it and found an even better way to torture Red Sox fans. But the Damon grand slam finally let me believe. I didn't believe until Bellhorn smashed the right field foul pole in the 8th inning. Pedro came into the 7th inning and made me very, very nervous. He took a quiet 8-1 game where Yankee fans were itching to get home and breathed new life into him. They hadn't hit off Derek Lowe all game and suddenly Matsui and Williams were smashing loud doubles and Lofton singled in another run and stole 2nd. It was 8-3 and feeling closer. Fortunately Olerud looked rusty in his AB as he was pinch-hitting and injured, and that long fly ball Pedro gave up that Nixon caught in the corner was kind of scary, and it was little Miguel Cairo who hit that ball. Glad they didn't have some power bat on the bench - I guess they had Sierra, but they were saving him for the last out, I guess.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 18, 2019 13:03:04 GMT -5
That's fine. We all have cold takes from time to time and if I jinxed the Yankees with my statement, then fine, I'd rather be wrong and the Yankees lose than be right and the Yankees win. I just feel awful that I had defended Joe Kelly to my Dodgers fan friend and told him you'll experience the Jekyll and Hyde of him but come post-season you can count on him and sure enough I pointed that out to him after the 9th inning of Game 5 NLDS. So what happens, the Dodgers get Hyde Kelly in the 10th and season over and sure enough I get a message from my Dodgers fan friend saying, "F*** Joe Kelly. Send him back to Boston!!" Man, did I feel bad! I have thought all along that Houston IS the best team in baseball and should win this series, but I honestly believe if the Astros had let Game 2 slip away they wouldn't have walked into NY and won 2 or even possibly tonight. I think it would have been a very different series. I think thus far Carlos Correa's HR in Game 2 was the biggest hit of the series - the momentum changer. I think it's still reasonably possible that the series isn't over yet. If the Yankees somehow win tonight, it wouldn't surprise me to see them win the Severino/Urqidy game in Houston and force Game 7. If the Yankees do win, they'll have earned it, but I hope Houston is Houston and the Yankees are deflated enough that they're put away in NY. Bringing back Joe Kelly was totally on Roberts. Kelly had the knuckle curve working in the 9th, and in the 10th he couldn't throw it for a strike. I'd just as soon see Houston win the pennant tonite. I am anxious to to the match ups in a Houston V. Washington, D.C. series. After the way the Yanks have played they don't deserve to advance (which is fine by me). Yeah, Roberts waited too long. The thing is he only threw 10 pitches and was dominant, but when he walked Adam Eaton, I could see his pitches weren't doing anything and I knew they should yank him right there and then. When Kelly walks batters, trouble soon follows and then Roberts left him in to give up the double, the intentional walk and then the grandslam. The funny thing is that if they weren't using the dejuiced baseballs, Will Smith's long blast in the 9th would have been a walk-off HR for the Dodgers and Joe Kelly would have been the winning pitcher and a hero. I could have sworn off the bat, the ball was gone, but Eaton caught it right at the wall.
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Post by Don Caballero on Oct 18, 2019 13:19:02 GMT -5
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 18, 2019 13:32:46 GMT -5
talk about "unhinged". lol
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 17:11:06 GMT -5
No one seems to remember these things when they make fun of Philly fans for throwing snowballs at a drunk guy dressed up as Santa making a fool of himself.
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Post by p23w on Oct 18, 2019 17:59:26 GMT -5
Bringing back Joe Kelly was totally on Roberts. Kelly had the knuckle curve working in the 9th, and in the 10th he couldn't throw it for a strike. I'd just as soon see Houston win the pennant tonite. I am anxious to to the match ups in a Houston V. Washington, D.C. series. After the way the Yanks have played they don't deserve to advance (which is fine by me). Yeah, Roberts waited too long. The thing is he only threw 10 pitches and was dominant, but when he walked Adam Eaton, I could see his pitches weren't doing anything and I knew they should yank him right there and then. When Kelly walks batters, trouble soon follows and then Roberts left him in to give up the double, the intentional walk and then the grandslam. That's the thing with Kelly. Dominance one inning, no command the next. The walk to Eaton told the story. Read more: forum.soxprospects.com/thread/5272/league-championship-series-gameday-thread?page=6#ixzz62kVRcxvI
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 18:18:30 GMT -5
If Gary Sanchez were on the Red Sox and catching like this in a playoff game, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs to put the defensive catcher in.
An average catcher blocks that wild pitch (on top of the passed ball).
Bregman's 346 foot fly ball to LF would have been a HR in Houston.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 18:30:54 GMT -5
355 foot little league home run for LeMahieu and an amazing 78 mph double for Torres.
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 18, 2019 18:36:16 GMT -5
verlander sucks
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 18:37:19 GMT -5
And there's the 347 foot 3 run HR.
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 18, 2019 18:38:33 GMT -5
And there's the 347 foot 3 run HR. cheap homer, but an objectively terrible hanging curveball that did nothing but sit at the top of the zone
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 18:41:21 GMT -5
And there's the 347 foot 3 run HR. cheap homer, but an objectively terrible hanging curveball that did nothing but sit at the top of the zone I really didn't think the Yankees had any more souls to sell. You don't normally get 2 home runs with an average distance of 351 feet in one inning. Probably an expected number of 0.1 home runs.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 18, 2019 20:05:53 GMT -5
Ottavino time.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 20:09:56 GMT -5
Wow, that was almost a 2nd Aaron Boone moment, leaving a pitcher in one batter too long.
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Post by incandenza on Oct 18, 2019 20:12:26 GMT -5
These batters who keep ambling out of the box admiring their warning-track shots should probably try to remember that the ball is different now.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 18, 2019 20:19:48 GMT -5
Law of averages says kahnle has to have a bad game right?
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 18, 2019 20:26:04 GMT -5
Law of averages says Britton has to have a bad game right?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 18, 2019 20:28:24 GMT -5
Ottavino has been the law of averages.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 20:33:47 GMT -5
Did anyone see the Astros fan that lifted his jacket or jersey up to show his giant lettered "Joe Buck Sucks!!!!" t-shirt right behind home plate in the front row? I laughed.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 18, 2019 20:48:06 GMT -5
Verlander did a hell of a job in this game after the 1st inning.
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 18, 2019 21:13:59 GMT -5
For a guy who hit like Mike Trout in the regular season, Yordan is getting a bit exposed by the Yankee pitching staff.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 18, 2019 21:21:02 GMT -5
The good news is, one more day of baseball added to the stack.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 18, 2019 21:30:05 GMT -5
Now we head to Game 6 and what is it? A bullpen game? Who goes for both teams tomorrow? Is it Urquidy for Houston? Does Happ get the nod? Astros have killed lefties so I wouldn't think so, but who else do they have? Loaisaga?
Both teams didn't score after the 1st inning so after about 8 shutout innings for each I'd expect the damn to burst open tomorrow and it'll be a high scoring affair and it could lead to a Game 7.
Today's game was disappointing. The Astros had Paxton on the ropes and he got away with 1 run. I thought that Bregman (I think) hit a ball in the leftfield corner that had a shot at being a double or a HR, but it died at the warning track. And then pitching with a 1-0 lead and a chance to set the tone, the Yankees hit a couple of big HRs (even if they weren't moon shots, they still count). And then nothing. I thought Chirinos had one out in the 7th after Boone got really lucky keeping in Paxton in too long. Obviously he was saving his bullpen.
Meanwhile, I'm surprised Verlander wasn't pulled a little quicker, and his innings given to a lesser pitcher. I'd think they'd want to have Verlander available for an inning or so if the series goes to 7. I'd guess that Cole, Greinke, and Verlander should be available for Game 7 although I suppose Greinke could go an inning tomorrow if need be.
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