2015 American League Wild Card Game - Astros @ yankees

Knock them the hell out of here, bearded guy.

I want to see the place half empty by the 7th

go colby rasmus' flowing mane

Rassros

go 'stros go

i like Kuch over anything the Yankees can throw atop the mound.

obv would like him lots more at home, on longer rest

Please let this be the Astros but I have a bad feeling about this game.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-al-wild-card-game-should-be-a-bullpen-affair/

#Yankees just put out a statement saying Sabathia is going into alcohol rehab and will not be available to the team in postseason

good luck to him

were they going to have him start any games? seems like odd timing, but probably serious enough to stop me from casting aspersions

well, not if they wanted to win

I think they prob had hopes of like a 5-7 inn'g damage control and turn it over to the pen start; he'd been pitching @ least serviceable recently

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

fuck, just missed the poll. Going for my (kinda) hometown Astros!

how many hometowns do you have?!

neither, go KC. was late anyways.

how many hometowns do you have?!

― mookieproof, Monday, October 5, 2015 9:45 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was born in Houston, childhood there, moved to Montreal, parents born in Europe. So lots?

i guess!

Chris Young in LF, Ellsbury on pine

didn't realize keuchel is going off of 3 days rest for this one (first time in his career)

threw 99 pitches in 21-5 game

smdh

i didn't really pay attention to that at the time because i didn't realize it would have any bearing on his readiness for this game, but wtf?!

SHIT

He really only pitched one extra inning, what looks to be an uneventful 14-pitch top of the 6th; obviously he was going to pitch five, and 11 of the runs were scored after he left the game.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI201510020.shtml

but...why would he be sent out to pitch the bottom of the 6th, his team already ahead 10-2 at that point? if some sort of Quality Start record was involved i am going to barf

One inning too many, agreed--21-5 is a little misleading, though. I can only guess they had half-an-eye on the Cy Young, although even there, I think he'd clinched it the start before.

gattis said he does squats w altuve on his back

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQqunz_UAAAnyBF.jpg

Cripes

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQqunz_UAAAnyBF.jpg

I think the more scrubs in the lineup the better the Yanks chances of winning as they historically seem get a bunch of dumb luck hits and games out of last dudes on their bench. Small sample size or what but Beltran has been pretty darn good playoff player over his career too.

I think Houston seems a bit better club at this point but pretty even. In a one game playoff it's all or nothing. I'd think they would have better luck against KC than the Yanks as they got a bit deeper bullpen than NY.

literally forgot oakland was in the wc last yr til that montage

Post-season won't be better than Chris Archer in a suit being an analyst. Peak reached.

haha, i had the same thought. love that guy

I saw a pic of his hair on fb and am better for it

can espn put hologram 2pac in that 3d zone graphic pls

chris archer is the best

game is going the way i want it to

yea archer is actually adding value imo

gomez destroyed that ball

keuchel just doesn't miss

gotta love one game playoffs after a 162 game season

haha

i was putting the dinner dishes away, who's the pitcher who et all the pies?

Archer was the best analyst in the booth, but that was not a herculean task.

I admired AND hated Whitey Herzog, but i don't think he would've tolerated that in-game interview shit. ("I'm tryin' to work.") They coulda put up a still photo of Girardi and any of us would've been able to pipe in the answers.

Altuve! love that lil dude

i support bringing in fresh power arms

...next frame

kev k, u seem like a good guy for a stankeefan, but yr team hasn't hit in 5 weeks.

Kruk is *sometimes* OK on specific points, gets in trouble with big picture/psychology cliches

kev k, u seem like a good guy for a stankeefan, but yr team hasn't hit in 5 weeks.

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 10:08 PM (5 minutes ago)

yeah and running into kuechel for a 1-game playoff was pretty bad luck

looks pretty good to me

Jessica Mendoza's mic is mixed so much lower than the other 2 , it's frustrating to try to catch what she's saying.

it's okay guys the Royals will win it all we can't stop it from happening

how many altuves

add George Springer to list of hot players with haircut atrocities

from BP game chat:

oldbopper (New Britain, CT): I remember when I was young, real men like Lew Burdette and Sandy Koufax would pitch complete game shutouts in WS Game 7 on 2 days rest.

AL Wild Card Game Chat: It was a very different era, and probably everyone on both of these teams would take Burdette deep on two days rest. - JP

beeyootiful strike 3 on Birdman

oh man how are you not sitting on a FB there bird

ESPN remote from Manhattan is Foley's bar on 33rd Street, where there was a playoff FAP last year!

Boring game IMO, but in a good way -- Yanks haven't gotten anything going, Astros pitchers are shutting down everything they see.

http://images.cbssports.com/u/photos/baseball/mlb/img10899665.jpg

With a whimper--wow.

well there's a result i can get behind

stros/kc profiles as a fun series

"It's baseball. Baseball is crazy."

gomez pronounced keuchel as geico <3

i came in in the 7th, i'm guessing they didn't mention pitch framing at all? castro was excellent, he deserved credit for strike 3 to bird

ESPN remote from Manhattan is Foley's bar on 33rd Street, where there was a playoff FAP last year!

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 10:44 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a friend from college just posted a screencap of her in frame at this place, lol

they took the lifesize Don Zimmer cardboard statue out of the men's room tho; maybe that's a plus.

pitch framing was mentioned! first time hearing Jessica M at length, not bad at all.

i'd say i was lookin fwd to deGrom-Rasmus mane-off in the World Series, but Colby not in Jacob's league.

did i see Kissinger in the front row instead of his usual box? vell, he vill have to dream ov Cambodia and napalm tonight...

i came in in the 7th, i'm guessing they didn't mention pitch framing at all? castro was excellent, he deserved credit for strike 3 to bird

― qualx, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 11:24 PM (5 minutes ago)

that was a strike iirc

he fooled the umpire in all of us, amen

http://i.imgur.com/87KF9SH.jpg

there is a pic of Wet Colby Rasmus, very '80s Wrestler, that i am unable to embed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQry21jWoAAwcjs.jpg

felt it was a pretty low class move to boo the shit out of the yankee players in the 8th and 9th but I cant say my team is above that sort of thing either..

ty mook

If Keuchel benefited from strikes that fell outside the zone’s malleable borders — and he did, though most of the calls were far from egregious — it wasn’t an aberration that can be blamed on one ump. Keuchel’s command is the best in baseball, and the combination of his edge-expanding locations and Jason Castro’s strong receiving has yielded extra strikes all season, less a sin specific to Eric Cooper than one endemic among umpires. Keuchel threw rulebook strikes less often this year than all but two other starters, and the Yankees chased rulebook balls less often than any other team. But respecting the rulebook is only so useful against a pitcher who routinely rewrites it.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-playoffs-houston-astros-beat-new-york-yankees-al-wild-card-game/