Astros-Royals ALDS

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice job by Colin McHugh tonight. Hafta say I'm impressed with how the Astros have played so far this postseason.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Loose, well-taken ABs, solid starting, great relief and baserunning... they're looking like their early-season selves, only with the ability to not poop themselves on the road.

And Rasmus is looking as much like a postseason superhero as he looked like a cartoon supervillain the other night.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Oliver Perez relieving Scott Kazmir for the Astros in some sort of bizarro world where former Mets you'd think would be retired by now are still pitching for a playoff team.

[Guest themetfairy]

Yes, that's the Ollie Perez we remember so well....

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

themetfairy wrote: Yes, that's the Ollie Perez we remember so well....

LOL! I was just going to write "Yep, that's our Ollie..." after he loaded the bases.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh man!
Carlos Gomez, in to pinch-run, down by a run with one out in the 9th, gets picked off 1st before a pitch is even thrown to the next batter.
Doesn't help that the batter was Altuve, Houston's best contact hitter.

[Frayed Knot]

And Altuve grounds out - and just like that the series is tied 1-1

[TransMonk]

A. J. Pierzynski is annoying no matter what he is doing.

[Frayed Knot]

Hmmmmm, turns out that a ball off the roof of the Dome in Houston is a live ball.
Rasmus just singled off the rafters in RF for the Astros.

[Frayed Knot]

Royals become the latest team to get screwed by a replay catching a runner's foot coming off a base for a split second as he came out of his slide.

3-2 Houston, bottom 7

[Frayed Knot]

In the meantime, KC was down 6-2 but put up a 5-spot in the 8th and are now looking to close out the Astros in bottom 9

oe: whoops, it's still top-9 and KC isn't done tacking on.

Edited October 12, 2015 by Guest

[Gwreck]

Hosmer homer pushes it to 9-6.

[Frayed Knot]

Lots of times, especially with these AL playoffs, I don't have a rooting interest going in but as things get towards the end I find myself pulling for one side or the other.
I just discovered tonight that I'm pulling for the Royals in this one. Not sure why, but I am.
And conveniently "my team" has just taken the lead.

[Frayed Knot]

The Cueto trade looked shaky for much of the second half of the season, but it paid off tonight.

Blue Jays at KC for the AL crown starting Friday night.