World Series 2022 -- Houston Astros vs Philadelphia Phillies

Was really hoping the Phillies would tie it up thre

Great play...this should be a fun bottom of the ninth.

Didn't get home till the bottom of the fifth, so I missed the first half. Am I reading correctly that Verlander worked his way out of a couple of jams? Starting pitchers sometimes do that?

Great play, I thought it was gone

oh my god so close

Kissinger needs to die right now so Castellanos hits this out of the park

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Damn

Man, that was a catch.

The Great Mancini

Where is Karl Malone? This thread needs some levity that even my old-man wrong opinions cannot provide.

can’t speak for KM but there is something about your team being bounced from the playoffs prematurely that makes me a bit more distant come World Series time. It’s a long haul until the re-start.

i’m the opposite! what happens to me is i instantly become a fan of the team that bounced me. weird psychology at play there maybe

“Own me, daddy,” - TH

lol apparently

i dunno

part of it is just getting to know these dudes

obviously i would never with the yankees

I want a Game 7

I do too...but I started the series divided, and now I want Houston to win, so tonight would be fine.

This can go one of two ways, 1) Valdez dominates again and is named WS MVP when the Astros win the series tonight, 2) The Phillies go homer happy again and set up an all-time unpredictable, anything can happen Game 7.

The latter. I kinda dont want baseball to end this year!

Yes agree, this years playoffs have been a lot of fun even if my beloved Giants weren't in.

Great turn by Altuve--don't know how he hung in there.

If the Astros win and Valdez only gives up a run or two, I suppose he would win MVP. Short of that, though--or Javier winning a G7--Pena will win.

Love seeing a huge classic curveball--you hardly ever do anymore.

Valdez settling in

I want a game 7 because I can’t watch tonight and also I want the phils to win.

i don't really care who wins the series, but i *would* like a Brad Lidge Moment tonight

I want everyone to tell me--and tell me before it happens--the exact moment when they should take out Valdez.

(Left myself wide open there: "How about we tell you the exact moment when we take out you instead?")

tell us -- before it happens -- the exact moment at which you will no longer be impressed by his performance

There it is

(Not talking about current conversations in this thread)

Yeah--it wasn't me who gushed about his curveball.

(It amuses me that after a decade of being ridiculed by ILX's patron saint as a wide-eyed naif, you've decided I'm jaded because I wasn't thrilled three relievers pitching three hitless innings.)

No way he leaned into that.

Wow

Ditto...I think Alvarez has only been so-so since the Mariners HR, but what a flair for the dramatic.

I want everyone to tell me--and tell me before it happens--the exact moment when they should take out Valdez.

Just needling...not sure your post was necessary in the middle of this great inning.

Don’t needle if you don’t like getting it back. Also, don’t read ilx during the game if you get annoyed at being replied to while play is happening?

Oh my goodness--you sound far angrier than any of my posts.

My basic point was that everybody decided pulling Verlander was the right move after he gave up the two runs. No one posted beforehand. So I was saying, "Okay, this time tell me beforehand." Twice Thomson has removed his starter this series and had it blow up. In G5, Baker left Verlander in to get out of a couple of jams, and that time it worked.

It's baseball--anything can happen, and there's no right answer.

fwiw i would not let valdez start the seventh

93 pitches, three straight righties to face (not that i know his splits, of course)

Great! That's all I'm asking for. I think that's reasonable around 90 pitches. I'd give him a baserunner before pulling him--we'll see.

dusty otm (until the phillies run amok, of course)

No one posted beforehand. So I was saying, "Okay, this time tell me beforehand."

gentlemen, can we simply enjoy the mystery that is baseball? it’s been a great series (also, valdez out this inning)

gyac is no gentleman

If the Astros do hang on, Valdez vs. Pena is a pretty interesting MVP call.

Peña mvp for me

Gyac, I can be stubborn about my opinions. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying there's room for a difference of opinion there.

I think I'd go with Pena too.

bothers me that espn resets all the individual stats for each series while mlb dot com shows cumulative playoff stats

espn is wrong, but i guess it's useful for mvp-ness

If he hadn’t already gone out, this would have been a great time for Nick Castellanos to have homered.