2019 World Series -- Houston Astros vs Washington Nationals

Jesus is this Giants Tigers 2012

― Van Horn Street

It feels like it. Verlander game 1 and Scherzer pitched in game 4. Giants swept.

All of Houston Tonight:

https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E15/MhVhlYv5y6gLG6vUEJWXuqAq8f0=.gif

Maldonado with the clutch HR, I was laughing by the end my poor Astros

verlander now 0-5, ERA just under 6 in six world series starts

I thought the IBB to Soto was the right call

I just find it weird that the Astros had a strategy that they steadfastly committed to all season, only to change their minds in the most important game of the season.

Isn't that the way with postseason, though? You improvise according to the situation, and do things (obviously, bullpen-use especially) you wouldn't normally do. Soto's killing them, Kendricks is hitless. I still haven't looked at the play again, but I thought Houston more or less got what they wanted from Kendricks.

singular Kendrick

like George Hendrick

Teams might improvise new roles for players (especially pitchers), but not new strategies.

I always get Howie and Jimi Hendrick confused...I think we'll just have to let that one drop, NTBT.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/10/18/who-should-throw-ceremonial-first-pitches-nats-world-series-games/

I love the idea of José Andrés throwing out a first pitch but I doubt that one will happen. Chad Cordero to Brian Schneider tomorrow night.

Just announced: The Astros have fired assistant GM Brandon Taubman and apologized to Stephanie Apstein of https://t.co/u9r82n3M5N.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 24, 2019

thoughts and prayers

nats need to sweep these chumps a.s.a.p

always good to do the right thing when the other options have been tried

President Trump said Thursday that he plans to attend Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park on Sunday if the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros are still playing, though he did not confirm if he had been asked to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

“I don’t know. They’ve got to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor — I’ll look too heavy,” he responded when a reporter asked him about whether he would take the mound. He appeared to be making a reference to a bullet proof vest that presidents sometimes are required to wear by Secret Service when they are amid large crowds.

Trump’s attendance at the 41,000-seat stadium in Southeast would mark a rare time he has ventured into the District’s entertainment and nightlife scene, other than his occasional visits to the Trump hotel a few blocks from the White House. It could also mean increased security restrictions at the ballpark for what is expected to be a standing-room-only crowd.

I have to believe the Astros would be happy to cut ties with Osuna, too--he's far from irreplaceable, if you ask me. He's not a free agent till 2022, so I guess they'd have to trade him.

I definitely hope Trump throws out the first pitch. The booing would be deafening, and I bet he throws the most perfect strike ever five feet wide and ten feet too high.

Or, more realistically, one that bounces a third of the way to the plate.

Astros GM Jeff Luhnow was asked whether he had personally reached out to @stephapstein to apologize.
Luhnow said he’s been busy and hasn’t had the time.

Stephanie was sitting in the room.

— Hazel Mae (@thehazelmae) October 24, 2019

what a horseshit organization

and not least because they've made me earnestly root for a dc team

same

it appears they haven't solved this

I love the idea of José Andrés throwing out a first pitch but I doubt that one will happen.

hahahaaaaa, he's throwing out 1st pitch Sunday, the game Trump is going to.

allegedly

will prob stay home w/ 2 bags of Doritos if there is a game

i def would love to cheer for the Nats but, not unlike the braves where i do an about face every time i see them doing the chop, i will instantly go back to loathing them the second i see some corrupt war criminal mother fucker clapping and having a grand old time cheering for them. i may be able to subdue these feelings if they can restrain themselves some having any of the worst that city has to offer throwing out the first pitch or being involved at all in any official capacity.

u can probly find a corrupt war criminal rooting for most teams south of Toronto

José Andrés will be throwing out the first pitch for game five (if it happens). I am back in the fold.

Stephanie Apstein met with Jeff Luhnow in the dugout just now. She asked for a retraction to the team’s first statement suggesting she fabricated her story. He didn’t commit to issuing one.

— Ben Strauss (@benjstrauss) October 25, 2019

btw pre-Astros, Taubman was a "derivatives valuation expert."

#Bernie2020

Fangraphs has a Nats title at 64.5% which sounds right.

Is Alvarez in the lineup?

The anthem singer’s name is D.C. Washington. What are the odds?

Need a Game 6 for Thelma Houston.

Alvarez sits

Fantastic catch, especially on replay.

put a circle around that one

thought 2-2 pitch was indeed low

kinda rooting for HOU til Greinke exits

like Chris Singleton on the radio, I think the Astros expected something more than a simple sacrifice out of that Greinke bunt. what did Buck & Suck say?

Tomorrow I guess it’ll be, “Look, can we even be sure Stephanie Apstein exists? One can never truly be sure of anythjng.”

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 25, 2019

I would rather know a player’s horoscope than his BvP numbers.

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 26, 2019

man, Soto in the corner looked like Dave Kingman

tbf he's old now

i'm glad Buzz Aldrin didn't break a hip falling off the mound

Battle of the suckas is what this shit is

so you say whilst mixing weak drinks

Normally I'd be happy for a sweep but I want game 5 to happen...

1:22 to play the first three bcz of course

WmC i'm betting Orange Shithead aint showing up for G5

A quick follow-up on this: Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, and Aníbal Sánchez all pitched in the World Series *on the same team.* The 2012 Detroit Tigers

Those Tigers are the 2nd team since 1921 to have 3 pitchers all go on to start WS games in the same year for different teams https://t.co/soTt6W0LQC

— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) October 26, 2019

"How about that?!"

That wasn't a strike.

WmC i'm betting Orange Shithead aint showing up for G5

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),

I agree. I want him to get the clowning he'll deserve when he bails out.