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ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Mets Willets Point Oct 05 2017 09:20 PM

Chris Sale has some post season yips and gives up back-to-back HRs to Alex Bregman & Jose Altuve in the first but has settled down since. Red Sox manufacture a run in the 2nd. Top of the 4th, HOU 2 - BOS 1.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 05 2017 09:24 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

I find that I have to root for Boston here if, for no other reason, than I don't think a National League team should win the American League pennant. I'll feel differently, of course, if the next round has Yankees vs. Astros.

Mets Willets Point Oct 05 2017 09:25 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I find that I have to root for Boston here if, for no other reason, than I don't think a National League team should win the American League pennant. I'll feel differently, of course, if the next round has Yankees vs. Astros. I’m with you there. I stubbornly believe the Astros (and the Brewers) should never win a pennant in both leagues.

Frayed Knot Oct 05 2017 11:08 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Chris Sale -- 7 runs on 9 hits over 5 Innings -- joined the parade of under-performing aces in these early playoffs. Verlander is so far the only starter out of the first three games to come out with any glory as he lasted 6 innings while holding the BoSox to 2 runs / 6 hits / 2 walks 8 - 2 Astros in the 8th

Mets Willets Point Oct 06 2017 12:50 AM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Well, that sucked...

MFS62 Oct 06 2017 01:59 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Why is Mr. Incompetent (Angel Hernandez) umpiring a playoff game? I recall that he was rated the third worst umpire in the majors. There were higher rated options. Later

Mets Willets Point Oct 06 2017 06:32 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck....

Mets Willets Point Oct 06 2017 06:52 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Keuchel’s getting some generous strike calls from Angel.

Frayed Knot Oct 06 2017 07:52 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Price out of the bullpen saves the game from being a total disaster for Boston (two pop-outs w/bases loaded) but they still have to figure out a way to get to Keuchel. 4-1 Houston in mid-4th (nearly two hours into the game - ugh!)

d'Kong76 Oct 06 2017 08:01 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Verizon keeps turning FS1 off on me with a screen that I'm not authorized. Then I change channels and go back and it's on again. Hi tech!

Ashie62 Oct 06 2017 10:29 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

I like the Astros and don't care for the Red Sox. Go Astros!

Lefty Specialist Oct 07 2017 11:26 AM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

I'm still grappling with the fact that the Astros are in the American League.

Frayed Knot Oct 08 2017 09:48 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Boston looks like they're going to survive to fight another day despite another case of a one-inning outing by a starter (Foster this time) but, holy shit, every other pitch in this game is followed by a mound conference!! - it's either the catcher, an infielder or three, the pitching coach, or the manager. 7-3 Sox with two on and still no one out in the bottom of the 7th, but in a game that has already left the three hour mark in the dust.

MFS62 Oct 08 2017 10:28 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

10-3 is the final. I never thought I would be able to use the word "final". The game seemed like it was going to go on forever. Later

Lefty Specialist Oct 08 2017 10:37 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Keith is having fun on the post-game show. Helps that he's working with Kevin Burkhardt again, but he looks comfortable doing this. And he's got his big scorecard, too. Hope he had all his colored markers.

Frayed Knot Oct 08 2017 11:14 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 09 2017 02:36 AM

I've only seen about 30 seconds of that crew on their set, and my only reaction is that, even standing amongst large-ish guys like Keith & Burkhardt, and the significantly large ARod and Papi, Frank Thomas looks like a building.

Mets Willets Point Oct 09 2017 01:51 AM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Yay! The Sox will not be swept. My hopes for Boston at this point is that they can do better in the Yankees, so if Cleveland can just win tonight, that small wish will be fulfilled.

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2017 07:32 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Game 4 in Fenway has taken a few some interesting turns. It's just 2-1 Astros in the 5th. The starters each threw a ton of pitches but obviously got out of most of the jams they created. But now, even with heavy rain predicted and a probable stop of the action in the next inning or so, the managers have turned to Chris Sale and Justin Verlander for middle relief! One would have assumed that those guys would be the Game Five matchup but not in today's game. It's Verlander's first ever relief appearance and he's just celebrated that by giving up the lead.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 09 2017 09:27 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Always cool to see an inside the park home run in the bottom of the 9th inning but Boston falls a run short.

G-Fafif Oct 10 2017 07:46 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

The series-ender was a classic, but hard to believe a 5-4 game that took nine innings needed 4:07 to conduct. By comparison, the Astros' predecessors in 1986 lost a series to the Mets in an afternoon game that took 16 innings, yet went only 35 minutes longer. Or, from a Red Sox point of view, Boston lost its divisional tiebreaker playoff by the same score in 1978 in 2:52.

Frayed Knot Oct 10 2017 08:50 PM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

G-Fafif wrote: The series-ender was a classic, but hard to believe a 5-4 game that took nine innings needed 4:07 to conduct. By comparison, the Astros' predecessors in 1986 lost a series to the Mets in an afternoon game that took 16 innings, yet went only 35 minutes longer. Or to look at it another way: the 1986 game saw 123 batters come to the plate and yesterday's game just 82, or right around 50% more at bats in just 14% more time.

Mets Willets Point Oct 11 2017 04:17 AM Re: ALDS IST - BOS vs HOU

Alas.