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ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« on: October 18, 2019, 11:21:51 pm »
The Astros are too kind to say the Game Four Yankees looked like they had Abbott catching Costello, the four Marx Brothers in the infield, the Three Stooges in the outfield, Charlie Chaplin coaching first base, Buster Keaton coaching third, and the cast of legendary radio dumb fest It Pays to Be Ignorant in the bullpen. With Allen Funt (Smile! You're on Candid Camera!) managing them.

Whom will the Yankees resemble in Game Five? Will it be sock-it-to-me time in the south Bronx with the Yankees throwing their own buckets of water over each other? Maybe they'd pratfall to the mound, the bases, the outfield, hollering "Live from New York---it's Friday night!!"

Will James Paxton pitch or serve up cloudy with a chance of meatballs? And will tonight's Justin Verlander be the Hall of Famer in waiting who enters Game Five with a lifetime 2.89 ERA when he faces the same team twice in a postseason contest and a lifetime 1.05 ERA in three previous lifetime shots at closing out a postseason series before his short-rest division series fourth game?
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2019, 11:22:52 pm »
Well, the Astros are already in the lead thanks to a little Yankee slapstick---an infield hit that could have been called a Yankee error, a one-out walk, a passed ball, a wild pitch, and it's 1-0 Astros, middle of the first . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2019, 11:27:18 pm »
Sigh.
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2019, 11:38:34 pm »
A leadoff bomb by D.J. LeMahieu and a three-run bomb off the foul pole by Aaron Hicks . . . and suddenly the Yankees look like the Yankees again.

4-1 Yankees, still hitting in the bottom of the first.
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2019, 11:41:23 pm »
Swinging strikeout, pop out to the infield, side retired, but Justin Verlander isn't looking good and the Yankees look like their old selves.

So far.

4-1, Yankees after one full . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2019, 11:47:13 pm »
Paxon's stuff not impressive from the centerfield camera...the STROS aren't finished.

Have a custom sign hanging in my pool room that says "4 to 1 don't mean sh*t 'round here!"  (in races to 7)   :smokin:

Same for Game 5
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2019, 11:48:46 pm »
@EasyAce

Who are you rooting for?    happy77
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2019, 11:53:40 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 18, 2019, 11:41:23 pm
Swinging strikeout, pop out to the infield, side retired, but Justin Verlander isn't looking good and the Yankees look like their old selves.

So far.

4-1, Yankees after one full . . .

Hurray!
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2019, 11:56:58 pm »
Leadoff walk and a two-out single but that's all the Astros get out of it.

4-1 Yankees, middle second . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2019, 12:04:04 am »
First three-and-three half inning of the night.

But still 4-1 Yankees after two full . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2019, 12:13:25 am »
A two-out, bullet line single by Alex Bregman, but a terrific tumbling catch on the foul track by LeMahieu over from first retires the side.

4-1 Yankees, middle three . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2019, 12:21:22 am »
The Yankees go three and three but still lead 4-1 after three full . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2019, 12:30:21 am »
Carlos Correa nails a first-pitch leadoff line single but that's all the Astros get.

4-1, Yankees, middle fourth . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2019, 12:39:18 am »
Two-out dying-quail single to left but that's all for the Yankees.

Verlander since the first has looked more like Verlander. Paxton for the Yankees since the first looks more like the guy who pitched up big enough down the stretch.

4-1, Yankees, after four full.
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2019, 12:50:45 am »
A one-out walk to Jose Altuve comes to naught.

4-1 Yankees, middle five . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2019, 01:00:35 am »
Three and three for the Yankees, two more punchouts for Verlander, but still 4-1 Yankees after five full . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2019, 01:11:31 am »
Carlos Correa walks with one out . . . Robinson Chirinos barely misses hitting one out as Brett Gardner catches his inning-ending drive at the left field wall . . . James Paxton throws 112 pitches tonight, the most he's thrown in any game all year long.

And it's still 4-1 Yankees in the middle of the sixth . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2019, 01:20:16 am »
A leadoff foul pop out to first . . . then Verlander strikes out Stanton and Hicks swinging back-to-back on three pitches each!

But it's till 4-1, Yankees after six full . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2019, 01:34:19 am »
A one-out base hit and a walk give the Astros two runners but they can't cash in.

4-1 Yankees at the seventh-inning stretch . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2019, 01:49:09 am »
Two more strikeouts for Verlander and Josh Reddick staying in the game to play right makes a run on a long fly to the right field corner and makes a basket catch before he might hit the wall to finish the frame!

Verlander now has nine strikeouts and hasn't walked a batter all night. But that four-run first . . . oy!

But it's still 4-1 Yankees after seven full . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2019, 01:55:42 am »
Leadoff groundout, back-to-back swinging strikeouts by Zach Britton, and it's still 4-1 Yankees, middle eighth . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2019, 02:02:44 am »
Brad Peacock makes his first postseason appearance and zips through the Yankee eighth in order . . .

But it's still 4-1 Yankees going to the ninth . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #22 on: October 19, 2019, 02:10:34 am »
Aroldis Chapman works the ninth . . . . strikeout, fly out, ground out, and we'll see you back in Houston for Game Six!

4-1 your final from Yankee Stadium, the ALCS is now 3-2, Astros . . .
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #23 on: October 19, 2019, 03:15:32 am »
Trivia: Game Five is the first time in 1,609 total major league postseason games that both teams scored in the first inning without scoring another run the rest of the game.
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Re: ALCS Game Five: Astros vs. Yankees
« Reply #24 on: October 19, 2019, 11:58:21 am »
Yankees won, but they won’t win the series. Let’s face it. Since this century started they don’t play so well. IMHO.
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