2017 ALDS: Boston Red Sox vs. Houston Astros

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...

well if you squinted real hard you could read the last sentence that way

what's a start and what's relief in this post season anyway who knows

Managers in regular season: "I believe in all 12 pitchers." Managers after three playoff games: "I really only trust like three of them."

— David Schoenfield (@dschoenfield) October 9, 2017

well that did not work.

:D

Alex 'cries and whispers' Bregman!

Man.

i guess you can't blame this one on farrell?

just tuning in, why Farrell tossed?

i'm sure he's calling the shots from his watch.

he intervened as pedroia was trying to get himself thrown out for arguing a third strike call

They play "Telstar" at Fenway?

ruh roh Redsox

the bell tolls...

sale/kimbrel blowing it is enjoyable

what an at-bat from carlos . . . beltraahhn

and the at-bat from reddick was monumental

You can use all the pitchers some of the time, and you can use some of the pitchers all the time, but you can't use all the pitchers all the time.

— W.M. Akers (@ouijum) October 9, 2017

what a game

hahaha, I still want HOU to win, but that was great

man, what a stupid old ballpark

yea this game has been fun