IST ALCS 2019: HOU vs MFY — Astros R Us

[Frayed Knot]

Between the fielding errors (4), the inability to hit w/RiSP (0-7), plus the HBPs (1) & Wild Pitches (2) it's amazing the effect the YSIII crowd had on the game.

Oh wait, you mean those were the stats from the home team?!? ... never mind!



You KNOW that had those been Houston stats (they made one error) the "raucous crowd", along with assorted 'ghosts' would have been cited not just as A cause but as THE cause.

But, instead, the home teams are 1-3 in this series and sub-.500 overall during these playoffs as a whole.





btw, how those WPs (on Loaisiga) weren't charged as passed balls to Sanchez is a mystery.

I guess they figure that, with Sanchez, balls that hit his glove on a fly aren't necessarily destined to be caught.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: You KNOW that had those been Houston stats (they made one error) the "raucous crowd", along with assorted 'ghosts' would have been cited not just as A cause but as THE cause.

Speaking of "raucous crowd":

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/yankees-fans-zack-greinke-social-anxiety-032417563.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/sports/yankees-fans-zack-greinke-social-anxiety-032417563.html

Weren't we taught to not make fun of the afflicted?



Later

[Centerfield]

Stay classy Yankee fans.



I wonder if they would make taunt an opposing player with cancer. I wouldn't put it past them.

[Ceetar]

I would assume the Yankees are going to whine about the ball if/when they lose this series, like employing lumberjacks in a tiny stadium isn't basically a juiced environment already.

[Lefty Specialist]

It would behoove the Astros to win it tonight, as Game 6 would likely be a bullpen game with Gerrit Cole going on full rest in a potential Game 7.

[Centerfield]

I had no idea that Houston only had three starters. I guess they left Wade Miley off the roster. Just now found out Lance McCullers had Tommy John. And Charlie Morton is no longer on the team. This is how little I pay attention to the American League.



Does Nolan Ryan still pitch for them? How about Mike Hampton?

[Willets Point]

Brad Peacock started 15 games this season and is on the roster.

[Frayed Knot]

I had no idea that Houston only had three starters. I guess they left Wade Miley off the roster.

Yeah, Miley was the next guy in line but a poor September -- if you can call: 5 starts with 11.1 combined innings while giving up 21 Runs on 28 Hits "poor" -- left him not only out of the rotation

but off the roster entirely.

Peacock last started in late June with only some time off (injury I assume) and a handful of relief appearances since then.

Their 'bullpen day', if they need one, will probably involve 24 y/o Mexican rookie Jose Urquidy who they're apparently high on and who made a couple of starts prior to the Greinke trade then was called

back up in September.



Their plans for avoiding a bullpen game apparently involves hitting grounders to Yanqui infielders as a method for padding their run total.

And if that's not enough they'll probably go back to just hitting drunks in the outfield grandstands with batted balls.

[Guest 41Forever]

Yankees fans are savages, too! Horrible.



https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/yankees-fan-mock-zack-greinke-for-social-anxiety-disorder/https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/yankees-fan-mock-zack-greinke-for-social-anxiety-disorder/

[G-Fafif]

Justin Verlander currently letting down a nation.

[Frayed Knot]

Anytime that the rookie Alvarez, or Gourriel at 1B, or even the supposed MVP Bregman for that matter, feel like maybe joining this series they'd be a welcome addition.

[Frayed Knot]

Well that was a bit of an odd game.

[G-Fafif]

“Bullpen game” sounds like “spa day”.

[Frayed Knot]

Brad Peacock and Chad Green are to be the starting mound opponents in this [CROSSOUT]spa day[/CROSSOUT] bullpen game.

Either that or they're the remaining suspects in some baseball-themed version of CLUE, I haven't figure out which.



Brad Peacock ... on the mound ... with the baseball is to start tonight's affair at precisely 8:08 EDT

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That's one.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

(Houston leading 4-2 in the 9th, 1 on, 1 out, Lemhieu up)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Motherfuck

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Altuve!! MFYs walk home

[Frayed Knot]

Little Big Man!!





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Edited October 19, 2019 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Each teams wife-beating closer surrendered a two run homer

[Gwreck]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Screw you, Chapman.

[Frayed Knot]

Ken Rosenthal finally finds someone his own height to talk to.

[Double Switch]

Glad not to have to endure an MFY-Nats WS. Because I would not have.

[G-Fafif]

Luv, luv ya 'tuv!

[LWFS]

Double Switch wrote: Glad not to have to endure an MFY-Nats WS. Because I would not have.

I mean, we swallowed '09, and MFYs-GDPhils was much more straining on the constitution. But I'm still GDglad we didn't have ta.

[Frayed Knot]

Thus ends a decade of Yanqui-less World Series (the first since the nineteen-teens) ... and yet the sport survives.

Edited October 20, 2019 by Guest

[Fman99]

Missed the ending because of tired-old-man-itis, but, happy to see how it turned out.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ken Rosenthal finally finds someone his own height to talk to.

Altuve may be the shortest player in the major leagues, but today he doth stand astride the world like a Colossus.



Later

[Frayed Knot]

=Fman99 post_id=24793 time=1571571559 user_id=86]
Missed the ending because of tired-old-man-itis ...

[bmfc1]

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