2017 ALCS - New York Yankees vs Houston Astros

Is Joe Buck calling these? No way i will keep the TV audio on.

I'll say HOU in 6.

go baby bombers

i don't hate this yankees team but i'm rooting 'stros and picked them to win in 6

NY in 7

Agree about Joe Buck, he's one annoying fuck.

I never listen with the commentary anyway. Good time to catch up on music and podcasts.

Rooting for Houston sweep, voted for Houston sweep.

Houston in 5 or 6, but it feels ominous to me that New York beat Cleveland. I don't know how this team matches up to the '96 Yankees, the Series winner that started their last run of dominance, but their seasonal records are almost identical. If anything, the '96 team over-performed by a few games, while this year's differential was much better than their record.

Or Houston could score 8 runs a game and kill them.

I think Houston's got a bit more depth than the Yankees but the Astros will need to get better starts as the NY bullpen is better. I would not be surprised if a couple games break into some softball game scores as both teams have good lineups. I took Houston in six.

Astros till the end now.

buck's not that bad

would still probably prefer joe davis, the teenager who does dodgers/a few fs1 games now

I don't know how this team matches up to the '96 Yankees, the Series winner that started their last run of dominance, but their seasonal records are almost identical.

The comparison ends there, those teams are nothing alike.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

2 more votes for NY than in the Divisional poll. Out yourselves bros!

real fans don't wave hankies

Three scoreless innings? What sport is this?

The comparison ends there, those teams are nothing alike.

One thing that seems potentially similar is that both teams have/had a core group of young players that may be there for a while: Jeter/Rivera/Williams/Posada, Judge/Gregorius/Sanchez/Bird. Longshot, but I can that in broad outline. The '96 team was definitely more in the rent-a-star mold.

That '96 Yankees team had a deep bench of renowned veteran players: Boggs, Strawberry, Mariano Duncan, Charlie Hayes, Cecil Fielder and Tim Raines.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22past+a+diving+gregorius

Imagine the renown Altuve might earn once these games move to a channel people have.

someone tell Bucksuck even the Productive Out purveyors don't use it when it's the second out.

gurriels a good hitter imo

infield of correa / altuve / yuli / bregman is v sick offensively

Houston looks impressive but their fans look like douchebags

Bucksuck

...

They're not going to overturn that.

not Bronxdouchey

too bad the Baby Bombers didn't capitalize dere

Keuchel killing it.

we still have a shot at time of game ~3:00

:0

Is Greg Bird's number a nod to Larry's?

80% of astros fans prob prioritize hs football text updates over this game but w/e

CC looks very comfortable in the post season judging from the cuts to him laughing and palling around

thanks for the update

u r so mad lol

"CC smiles in dugout" would be a great daily news cover to be sure

can't imagine anyone i'd want to have up less than fucking ellsbury right now

yeah was going to say it was game over when Ellsbury came up, could see it in Giles' body language.

i'm taking classes about body language in my mba so now i know about these things.

Giles threw a lot of pitches to get just four outs.

this'll be the first ever soft toss world series

Make that five outs. Point stands though!

I rewatched Marwin Gonzalez's throw a bunch of times this morning -- such an insanely great play that only gets better each time I see it.

HOUSTON JEFFREY MAIER

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 14, 2017

2h20 to play seven innings? It's a playoff miracle!

Verlander's got the good stuff tonight

fortunate to have verlander dealing tonight after giles goes so long last night

Imagine how good he'd be if he had been receptive to Jack Morris' advice!

hinch is dustying

More Verlander ...

He's anti-dustying. Dusty would bring in his 5th best reliever, then his 4th best, etc. unless it's a save situation. Hinch trusts only his closer.

93 strikes?

Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes:
Verlander 25-25-25-18

"500!"

fuck the yankees

just wanted to get that out

McCullers looked good in his start and looks good tonight.

I'm somehow picture Mike Scott or Joe Niekro slowly sauntering into the clubhouse with a nail file palmed to give to the current Astros pitching staff.

@Feinsand
Reminder: The Yankees are paying $5.5 million of McCann's $17 million salary this season.

these commercial breaks are so fucking long

TURN BACK YOU POXY RUHLE

"You've gotta execute." -- John Smoltz

at this point i'm starting to suspect Judge enjoys striking out.

What was it? 14 curveballs in a row? last two sings were identical. McCullers must be pinching himself.

No player would benefit from switching to the Astros and their hitting approach more than Judge.

McCullers has literally thrown nothing but curves for the past two innings?

YYEESSS!!

FUCK OFF YANKEES

my guess is altuve and JV could be co-MVPs

GO HOOOOOOOOOOME

This was certainly one way to get around the problem of having a crappy bullpen. Congrats Astros!

super impressive by morton/mcullers

McCullers said "Everyone wrote us off"?!

must be first franchise to win both league's pennants?

Larry Mullen Jr is a god

"We have no problems, Houston." JESUS.

i completely 100% always forget that the astros won the pennant in 2005

i can only ever think of the pujols HR so my brain keeps thinking the cards won

and i have a very clear memory of the white sox winning but not vs houston, it's weird to even imagine them in the WS before now

if you'd sat through the 18 inning ALDS Astros-Braves game you'd remember

oh wait, they were still in the national league then

Lance McCullers finished the game by throwing 24 consecutive curveballs. That is absurd.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 22, 2017

what a performance by former pirate great charlie morton

I did sit through that game! my brain also remembered it being vs the cards and not the braves lol

A-Rod: "How do you say his name, Gur--"
Burkhardt: "Oh, uh, Gattis?"

This is the first matchup of 100-win teams in the World Series since 1970, when the 108-win Orioles beat the 102-win Reds.

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 22, 2017

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the Cards loomed large in the mid-2000s era of Astros baseball

mostly I remember Julian Tavarez breaking his hand punching the phone box in the bullpen

i remember julian tavarez!

must be first franchise to win both league's pennants?

― Van Horn Street, Saturday, October 21, 2017 11:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cards dodgers reds apparently

wait nvm i was thinking of willy taveras

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The great Astros playoff series I remember is their big match up against the Mets in 86. They played arguably the best extra inning playoff game ever in that series and it was the beginning of the legend of Billy Hatcher, who again in 1990 was a huge playoff hero for the Reds.

what a performance by former pirate great braves castoff charlie morton

― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 October 2017 03:44 (one hour ago) Permalink

Between the two of them, Morton and McCullers—two delicate arms whom many teams might not have trusted with postseason starts, or in Morton’s case, a multiyear contract—threw 65 curves in 108 pitches on Saturday, which was easily the highest-ever curveball usage rate (60.2 percent) in a single game. (According to Pitch Info data provided by David Appelman of FanGraphs, the highest previous single-game team curveball percentage in the pitch-tracking era was 52.5 percent, by the Dodgers on May 23, 2015, and no pitcher has ever relied on the curve as heavily in an outing of 50 or more pitches as McCullers did in Game 7.)

https://www.theringer.com/2017/10/22/16515788/houston-astros-beat-new-york-yankees-in-alcs-game-7

Man, I dunno, but watching McCullers throw 19 curveballs in a row makes you wonder whether everybody been doing this wrong for 150 (!) years

— Sam Miller (@SamMillerBB) October 22, 2017

just catching up on this game..... holy shit @ the bregman throw to mccann in the 5th

the courage, the trust, the execution whoeeee

and loooool at springer jumping over marwin for that catch! and marwin just leaning himself against the fence, like sheeeeeeeit

love Houston now. <3 <3 springer catching that last pop-up, holding his glove up with one hand and pointing with the other and shouting "LET'S GO!!"

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http://www.mlb.com/images/3/6/0/259282360/102117_springer_gonzalez_med.gif

still can't believe 28 curveballs to finish the game

yikes, hope they can make it work pic.twitter.com/pKi0lJx02m

— Meg Rowley (@megrowler) October 22, 2017

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my guess is altuve and JV could be co-MVPs

― Michael F Gill

That would have been my pick too. I know they did that for the '81 Dodgers in the World Series (three guys, I think)--maybe they don't do it for the LCS.