Astros-Braves NLDS thread

[Frayed Knot]

Yes, it was Justice.

The other thing about '86 vs Sunday's game (besides the fact that you had less emotional investment) is that this one was a round earlier in the process. A win to get into the LCS is lesser than one to WIN the LCS.
Other than that, what yesterday lacked was the back & forth in extra innings stuff. Teh catch-up was obviously great and dramatic but after that, not only were there no runs scored until the Burke blast (not that scoreless innings are uneventful) but there just weren't all that many chances. A lotta 1-2-3's and near 1-2-3's for both sides. Great pitching but it came at the expense of a little bit o' drama.

[metirish]

Yup that was the very man.

[Zvon]

I gotta say this was one hell of a game.
I cant say I was rooting, but I wanted the Asstros to move on and the Braves to go home.
Considering the Mets werent in it and the emotional involvement was pretty much self manufactured , I totally enjoyed this classic.
Yes, it was a classic baseball game.

Put it in perspective....
The Asstros were 15-30 in May, went 73-43 the rest of the way and clinched the NL wild card on the last day of the season.
They were the first team since the 1914 Boston Braves to make the playoffs after being 15 games under .500 in the same season.
Just like the season, Houston was shot down early, battled back, and won it dramatically.
And against the Braves!

As far as its place in post season history......
Top 10?
Nah,......1st round.
Top 25?
Sure. In my lifetime anyway.
Everythings relative.
Imagine if you were an Asstros fan watching that game.
Your team starts to look out of it......you prepare yourself for the end.
Berk delivers a late inning granny and recharges the crowd.
Ausmus hits highly improbable and borderline homer with 2 outs in the 9th to tie.
To the naked eye, it looked to be extra bases but the ump twirls his fingers and makes a great HR call. Ive seen those kinda calls get blown all the time!

The Asstros used all 25 players on their roster except Pettitte and Oswalt.
Clemens comes in to pinch hit!
The lack of extra innings fireworks did not make it any less dramatic, for me. I knew that a healthy poke was probobly gonna win it.
All that great Houston relief pitching was a thrill to watch and a BIG part of the story.
Especially playing in that cute lil shoebox of a stadium.
I think it ended perfectly.....classically.
Burke, who ran for Berkman and who was not considered a HR threat, goes yard.
If it went many more innings Jason Lane would have been pitching and Clemens would have been playin the outfield(and that, I did not care to see....).

And it sent the Braves home.......

It was a great baseball game, and thats what I hope to see in the post season.
And it was inevitable that when the 16th inning rolled around they would talk about the Mets.
They even showed afew clips. :)

Yep, that was a classic game in my book.

[G-Fafif]

Zvon wrote: The Asstros were 15-30 in May

Every time I see that record, I think back to the end of May 1977. That was the record that got Joe Frazier fired. Those Mets were 15-30. They were buried. Not even Joe Torre winning his first seven of eight could save them. Nor could that impending swift acquisition of a middle infielder, a starting pitcher and two top outfield prospects for some guy.

That a team could be 15-30 and in the League Championship Series in the same year has to be one of the most remarkable feats of our time.