2017 ALDS: Boston Red Sox vs. Houston Astros

that's what you get for walking Altuve

RIP

probably doesn't matter much, but john farrell is not covering himself in glory here

not sure why price couldn't still be in tbh. smith? really?

i'm guessing that price needs longer to warm up and wasn't ready

sure but why wasn't he warming before? i'm just bummed that these guys are suddenly so sloppy. they've been such a tight team.

idk things unraveled pretty quickly in the third for pomeranz + price isn't used to warming up multiple times, so better be sure?

awright - so what would you have done differently then

this is just brutal

oh, i don't think there's really a good answer when your starter only goes 2+

for the other stuff, starting marrero with the team desperate for power seemed iffy despite keuchel's lefty mastery and pinch hitting with moreland against devenski, who has killer reverse splits, was odd (although moreland did have a couple hits off him in the past)

but pretty much everything went wrong except price and some fortunate innings where the astros left the bases loaded

That single improves Carlos Beltran's average in the postseason with the Astros to .447 (21-for-47).

— Tim Britton (@TimBritton) October 6, 2017

lmaoo doug fistet starting gm3

*fister

#fisted

Price was actually one of the very few things going well for the Red Sox.

yes! so he had to be taken out immediately obv

If he's really a reliever now then they did have to take him out when they did so he can pitch again in the series.

Angel and Joe west are the worst men I've interacted with in my baseball life . Always trying to flex like they're bigger than the game

— Dontrelle Willis (@DTrainMLB) October 6, 2017

Already 1-0 for the Astros.

Already 3-0 for the Astros.

With Carlos Correa's two-run homer, the Astros have now scored seven first-inning runs in this ALDS. The Red Sox have scored a total of four runs in this ALDS.

a new postseason tradition: removing your starter before the third inning

50-ish rich and/or connected Sox fan almost fucked up Mookie making that play, which would have cost 2 runs iirc

hey baseball fans YOU'RE NOT IN THE GAME

Remember when Boston traded for Sale and were going to dominate with their otherworldly rotation? Doug Fister (added on waivers mid season) just lasted 1.1 innings in a must win playoff game.

it's cool, they have two cy young winners in the bullpen

hey red sox try swinging the bat

station to station: 3 hits + 1 walk = 1 run

it's cool, they have two cy young winners in the bullpen

― mookieproof, Sunday, October 8, 2017 3:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was really confusing i had no recollection of porcello winning a CY

If they were planning to let Price go four innings and 60 pitches then maybe he should have been starting.

tremendous game

No clue why McCullers started that inning, I think it was macho posturing vs Price ("if he's pitching for innings then so will I")

Four

lol reddick

nice assist

how do these guys get such wet hair

it is unpleasantly humid, tbf

Credit to Boston for hanging in this game when it looked like it would be over by the second inning.

In the seventh they had a soft hit against the shift to load the bases, a two run bloop single off a great changeup six inches of the plate, and a three run homer at the Pesky pole off the fielders' glove. Contact!

quite a game for hanle y

the weei guys are saying the last time a red sock got 4 hits in the playoffs was..... spike owen

devers needs to calm tf down, be smart guy

Cameron thinks Sale should start today

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-case-for-starting-chris-sale-in-game-four/

rick porcello is

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/5/5d/StevenontheEdge.png

as is charlie morton

Ok, I give up. I'm in on the pitch clock. Three innings, 96 minutes and the radar...

— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) October 9, 2017

what a terrible send

Red Sox's brain trust are reading fangraphs. Sale on the mound.

Porcello’s 2 runs in 3 innings lowered the Sox rotation’s ERA from 15.12 (worst of all time) to 12.71 (5th worst).

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) October 9, 2017

Sale will be lucky to go 2 before a multi hour rain delay

the sooner his offseason starts the sooner he can get back to work on his go fund me for drake laroche

cameron was definitely not calling for sale to come on in relief today...