2019 World Series -- Houston Astros vs Washington Nationals

At 3-0, I thought Scherzer was intentionally non-intentionally walking Springer...lucky, lucky.

Springer tattooed that pitch. The Astros have had a lot of hard hit outs in the series.

Scherzer is throwing hard but hasn't had good command. He was lucky to give up only the one run.

His fastball control is okay, the slider is eluding him.

man, you got to step out, or anything, before you let Greinke have that quick an inning.

Rooting interest aside, I loved when Correa poked that single through the shift; he set up what could've/should've been a big inning.

That strike 2 96mph fastball on Bregman was dope.

Scherzer is Fistering.

The Nats are lucky that the ball is dejuiced in the postseason.

I usually don’t care about ‘left on base’, it’s a weird broadcaster obsession, but tonight i’ll take it.

I'm watching the Buck Martinez feed, which has very lively audio (twice as loud as the Smoltz feed for some reason)--don't remember hearing a pitcher grunt like Max. I'm watching Wimbledon.

Greinke’s grunting loudly too. Enjoying this grunt-off.

Greinke has good stuff tonight, too

valiant effort by Scherzer but given the hard-hit balls and lack of swings and misses, probably time to Max out

— Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) October 31, 2019

Zack Maddux

Greinke -- the one man infield.

Greinke catch was dope.

Just tuned in.

Let's go Nationals

gotta have a guy ready vs Altuve here

Playing with fire.

They have 5 innings left with Corbin/Hudson/Doolittle in the pen. Dunno about keeping Scherzer.

Greinke’s grunting loudly too.

Noticed that the next half-inning and felt stupid. Have I just been oblivious to that all these years?

We see so many great pitchers have their postseason troubles, it'd be nice to see both these guys leave with the score 1-0 or 1-1.

If the Astros lose, these blown chances to score are going to haunt them.

Home teams now 4-48 with RISP.

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 31, 2019

Bunt to win.

Give me a break on these Zimmerman calls.

yeah the second strike was way off.

paging robots

Did Scherzer threaten Martinez’s life?

Cole I hope you have the energy of game 7 2016 Jon Lester and not of game 7 2014 Bumgarner.

WAKE UP DAVEY

The strikeout pitch to Bregman was the best pitch he's thrown all game.

Rendon was so freaking close

Damn

this is not good

Last batter Scherzer pitches to, please

Washington's lucky it's only 2-0. (And unlucky Cole awaits.)

I'll regret these words, but I can't envision Osuna getting the last out in a 7th WS game. If I were Hinch, I'd be working towards Cole closing out the game and using Osuna earlier.

I want Osuna to get Chapman'd

Take a pitch.

ZG lookin invulnerable right now

he doesn't need help w/ the goddamn strikes

Gotta hand to the woman in the astronaut costume with a giant Greinke face

Remember: the first rule of baseball is, baseball is very strange!

This is turning into the signature moment of Greinke's career, the kind of game that will be mentioned in every bio when he's on the HOF ballot.

Lefty Corbin labouring hard here

if Nats are gonna get to him, I like this inning

Those two strikes were balls

Not a third tho

YES

Here we go

Only the second hit

Rendon is such an amazing player.

We won't be seeing a Maddux in the WS after all.