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WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« on: October 28, 2019, 12:02:42 am »
The Nationals lost Max Scherzer for Game Five due to his neck locking up enough to keep him from moving his right arm.

The Astros send Gerrit Cole to the mound to battle . . . Joe Ross.

Ross isn't exactly a Joey-come-lately, not with a 3.02 ERA in nine starts down the stretch and two spotless innings in Game Three.

But he's not Max Scherzer. He's not Gerrit Cole. And the Nats hope Ross channels his inner Howard Ehmke, Johnny Podres, Don Larsen (well, a perfect game would be two things: difficult and impossible), or Moe Drabowsky: the least likely men to pitch the biggest baseball of their lives to keep a World Series team from the brink of death. Maybe a combination of the four.

If the Series went to Defcon Three for the Nats after Game Four, and Scherzer's locked neck pushed it to Defcon Two-Five going into Game Five, the Astros would love nothing more than pushing it to Defcon One before the set goes back to Houston and they can finish the job.

Game Five is about to get underway in Washington . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2019, 12:14:02 am »
Springer works an 0-2 count for a BB...here we go again.

But, first pitch to Altuve goes for a 6-4-3 DP.

Whew.....
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2019, 12:16:50 am »
And after a leadoff walk, Joe Ross gets Jose Altuve to dial Area Code 6-4-3 before Michael Brantley hits a smash right into the shift and he's thrown out for the side.

No score, middle first.
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2019, 12:27:08 am »
Three and three for the Nats including a high liner chasing Springer to the edge of the track for the catch.

No score after one full . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2019, 12:28:18 am »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 28, 2019, 12:27:08 am
Three and three for the Nats including a high liner chasing Springer to the edge of the track for the catch.

No score after one full . . .

Adams' barrelling up...we'll take as a good sign!    :laugh:

Got Cole's attention....
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2019, 12:35:27 am »
First WS start in DC, Yordan Alvarez hits a one-out two-run homer to left center, it's 2-0 Astros in the top of the second . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2019, 12:38:49 am »
Ross gets two quick outs after the bomb but it's 2-0, Astros, middle of the second . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2019, 12:48:12 am »
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2019, 12:49:02 am »
Quote from: DCPatriot on October 28, 2019, 12:28:18 am
Adams' barrelling up...we'll take as a good sign!    :laugh:

Got Cole's attention....

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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2019, 12:49:12 am »
Same old song and dance for the Nats: back-to-back singles to open, strikeout and Area Code 6-4-3 to follow.

2-0, Astros after two full . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2019, 12:59:14 am »
Two-out broken bat single puts Altuve one shy of the single-postseason hit record but the Astros don't cash him in.

2-0, Astros, middle third . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2019, 01:04:40 am »
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2019, 01:05:49 am »
Three and three for the Nats, the Astros still lead it 2-0 after three full . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2019, 01:22:48 am »
Two outs and Carlos Correa hits a two-run homer into the left field seats!!

4-0 Astros, top of the fourth . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2019, 01:36:38 am »
A one-out walk to Rendon comes to naught.

4-0 Astros after four full . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2019, 01:46:47 am »
Ross shakes off a one-out walk and gets Altuve to dial Area Code 4-6-3 for the side.

4-0 Astros, middle of the fifth . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2019, 01:52:54 am »
You might have missed it if you blinked, but the Nats went a fast three-and-three and Cole is in cruise control . . .

4-0, Astros after five full . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2019, 02:09:37 am »
The Astros also went in a blink in the top of the sixth but they still lead 4-0 . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2019, 02:21:49 am »
Sean Doolittle surrenders a leadoff hit, gets a quick 5-4-3, surrenders a two-out walk, but that's all . . .

But it's still 4-0 Astros at the seventh-inning stretch . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2019, 02:31:27 am »
Juan Soto finally hits one out with one out in the bottom of the seventh, 4-1 Astros . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2019, 02:38:04 am »
A two-out walk and a called strikeout end that threat . . . it's 4-1 Astros after seven full . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2019, 02:40:05 am »
. . . and just for the record, the umpiring behind the plate has sucked for both teams just about all Series long . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2019, 02:51:46 am »
George Springer, a leadoff double, takes third on a ground out, scores when Yuli Gurriel shoots one past a diving Turner at shortstop . . .

5-1 Astros, middle eighth . . .
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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2019, 02:55:12 am »
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. . . and just for the record, the umpiring behind the plate has sucked for both teams just about all Series long . . .

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Re: WS Game Five: Astros vs. Nationals, live thread
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2019, 03:16:18 am »
And George Springer hits a two-run homer into the left field seats, it's 7-1 Astros, top of the ninth!!
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