2017 ALCS - New York Yankees vs Houston Astros

First bludd

wind-aided cheapass crap

(it's finally autumnish in NY tonight)

i'd like to visit this Replay Fortress on 19th Street

they take forfuckingever

my main question coming in was whether former pirates great charlie morton would get out of the third

imagine this team *without* verlander

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Jon Sciambi (sp?) on radio pointing out what a shitty framer Sanchez is.

yeah it's interesting, he looks really bad by the eye test but the numbers say he's actually pretty good

goddammit, Correa

Verlander is obv a big postseason asset, when frontline pitching gets more work, but Astros did Ok w/out him for 90 games or so.

Morton's been decent aside from the discount HR

SO WAHT

damn altuve showing some defensive skills tonight

Verlander and Keuchel and pray to St Michael

Romine catching Gray. https://t.co/YmKc5seQwN

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 17, 2017

TROUBLE

yuli

Not sure why Gurriel thought it was so important to advance to third on that play, but I guess the damage was already done.

it seems conceivable that he was trying to draw a throw -- i thought there might be a close play at the plate -- but i'm guessing he was just over-aggressive. and third is a nicer place to be with one out

The Astros completely blew the rundown there.

I'm still not sure why Devenski was pulled so quickly -- do the Astros have any middle relievers who are better?

giles sux fam

BROTHERS GONNA WORK IT OUT

I'd say it's a stunning collapse, but considering the state of the Houston bullpen, it's not all that surprising.

:)

glad i missed most o' that shit

do the Astros have any middle relievers who are better?

They haven't used Peacock in relief yet

Hinch saving him for Game 8

can't believe i'm gonna be rooting for the team with the biggest payroll in MLB to beat the yankees

almost like your reasons for hating the yankees are kind of arbitrary!!

lol

their history of evil is a given, kev

a Cubs-Yanks WS would be Hillary-Trump all over again

i'd rather root for the cubs but i'd have much less confidence in them

the yankees winning the pennant at all this year is just disgusting to think about

i do not & will never want the yankees to win anything but this team is likeable to me i see it

qualx, shame on you for giving up on this series already, you must be one of those Momentum clowns!

btw before he redeemed himself with the batting heroics, Judge nearly making 3 outs on the basepaths in one inning was LOL.

if the astros ended up winning the series...

last time two 100-game winners faced each other in the world series was...1970? reds vs o's?

it's kind of crazy to see how often, in the last 20 years, 100-game winners have been eliminated before reaching the WS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_100_win_seasons

that's baseball, etc etc

Scrolled through, and you're right--1970. A number of times one side was one or two wins short. Tried searching most-total-wins for a Series, but you need the right search term or you just get the Yankees for most total Series wins.

w/out looking it up i know that the year before, the Mets had 100 and the Orioles... 107? (looksup; 109)

I also remember that I was wearing a junior-size Mets jacket in 1970 and a nun in my parish who was from Baltimore japed at me, "You better get a jacket with the Orioles on it."

excellent and true jape

it's been weird listening to the astro's radio feed of these games and hearing ads for churches

btw I really hate hearing from raspy white journeymen like Todd Frazier after postseason wins every year. "The Yankee gods must've been watching over us." May his decline phase come soon.

saw someone touting him for the mets next year -- if only to give player-manager david wright an occasional day off

plz no

I remember Astro pitching coach Brent Strom as a Mets rookie in '72

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4325/35973930825_82bff7eb1c_c.jpg

fuck fox's homer Yankee kru

happily i watched 3 innings last night in a gay bar w/ bad music on

Astros' 2nd shows a PRODUCTIVE OUT sometimes doesn't produce.

can't stand the hyping of the yankee stadium crowd by the announcers , as if it were more special than any other baseball crowd.