2018 ALCS - Houston Astros vs Boston Red Sox

Rooting for Houston. Boston can fuck off

Altuve can still F off tho

My dad’s rooting for Boston though

Tigers fans watching Justin Verlander vs. J.D. Martinez pic.twitter.com/0q58QTvvGl

— Jon Tayler, Smiling Politely (@JATayler) October 14, 2018

OTM

Don't think I'd go with Sale for much longer--lot of pitches, and when he misses, he's way out there.

Dr. Who's theme for the replay review at Fenway.

Betts, Martinez, and Bregman the top 3 MVP candidates--k3vin k. just kicked over his TV.

gotta sell the game

'2 of the top three 3 have been eliminated! stay tuned!'

Dustin Pedroia: sounding board with chronic knee problems

Verlander making them look like the White Sox.

Justin, Justin...0-2?

Verlander making them look like the Red Sox.

have a good TBS feed, but listening to the excellent radio team of Scaimbi & Mendoza

Verlander and Maldonado are just not working well together.

pitch framing much more valued than blocking pitches these days, it seems

Thought Verlander caught a break on those last two strikes to Benintendi.

that was ball four to benintendi

You're all outta here.

yeah, dumbfuck Bregman, they wanted you to hit you leading off

go Sox

Bregman the new Pedroia

is Angel Hernandez behind the plate?

Joe Kelly seems like someone who would punch a loaf of bread for not being fluffy enough

— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) October 14, 2018

Joe West obvs on Sawx payroll

lol Joe West got drilled at second base.

Joe West with dead cat like reflexes pic.twitter.com/KOwwGI5K28

— The Sports Quotient (@SportsQuotient) October 14, 2018

thought it might just vanish into his body like a black hole

<3 tony kemp

Astros looking good

that was just a weird ass game

Will Price make it through three innings?

that's one

Terrific game through 8 but yeah, it was weird. Two aces who had nightmare innings. The difference was at third - Bregman is just on a different level from Nunez (or Raffy, had he been playing). Until the ninth of course, but somehow it felt over before then.

I like David Price, so I hate seeing this.

we're edging towards last year's template: every ace gets shellacked

Altuve with zero hits against the Red Sox so far... if he was hitting true to form, they'd be winning right now.

Maldonado is a pretty blatant Achille’s heel.

had no idea superteams could have crap catching

I suppose the best catcher left is Grandal.

Someone knows why Stassi is not in the active roster?

TBS a much better broadcast team than the rest.

O_O

Yet another great game!

good game. porcello's 8th was everything i like about him.

Kimbrel really is bringing the Chapman 2016 postseason shivers.

Sale's stomach

https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/chris-sale-hospitalized-with-illness-as-red-sox-earn-split/

this game may go six hours

these fuckin games

Ron darling is about 100% more insightful than the regular suspects at NESN

Hit it to third.

maybe we can do a shift where bogaerts moves over to back up third on every play

Brillant at-bat by Gurriel.

Next item on the pace of play programme: timeouts while Price is pitching.

It was. (x-post)

Think I'd take Price out now--the Guriel AB drove his pitch count up, short rest, the bullpen pitches last night, he's living on borrowed time. He's been great, and if you move on, he's got something to build on. I know he's got the bottom of the lineup coming up--that's the once conceivable rationale I can see for sending him out for the fifth.

"one," not "once"

He a horse tho.

RIP

Whoa!

shit

is price coming back in for the 6th? what could go wrong?

His beard, as mookie pointed out.

(xpost) "David, you get one baserunner..."

hahaha Mookie

Astros can't catch a break

Can we skip to Kimbrel allowing two walks?

Good we need drama.

Lol @ VHS

It's hard to repeat in baseball. I did think they would but not to be

Gotta say I'm just glad we get to see Mookie for another series.

Very happy for Price. He's had too good a career to be treated like a running joke.

weird to see the red sox celebrate somewhere that isn't yankee stadium

Not seeing Red Sox play all that much, got to say their outfield defense looked amazing in the series.

BoSox starting to lay claim to the 21st century in the AL...

may they be swept next week

^^

If it's the Brewers, that's who I'll root for. If it's the Dodgers, I'll root for BOS.

Same. Would be fully behindbghe dodgers if not for machado. *spits*

yeah if there's one more thing Boston fans need is another title

root vs the (M)ass Evil

do fuck off, Morbs, thanks so much

Yeah, jealousy is nagl.

Just for ha-ha's I looked for tickets: $500+ for standing room only. Guess I'm not going to the World Series.

But definitely going to the parade after the Sox win!

so weird to have a great Sox team that's actually pretty likeable

sorry, no, RSN is a pox upon the land

haha jealousy

so weird to have a great Sox team that's actually pretty likeable

this is the "likeable Yankees" mistake of 2017 all over again

but no big deal if you don't share my feelings. Hell, some of you still like Saturday Night Live.

Jay Jaffe:

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/david-price-sheds-an-albatross/

Who's the greatest defender who was ever asked to make a major position change for the World Series in the DH era?

https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-could-use-mookie-betts-at-2b-in-ws/c-299383740