2023 ALDS: Houston Astros vs. Minnesota Twins

Astros in four, it has been fun for the Twins but will be lucky to win more than one.

I dunno, astros went 12-14 and the twins 18-10 in their last month. the Stros just did well to get most of those wins against the right teams to sliver their way past the wildcard.

Voted twins in 5

Astros in 4. I'm still a fan of Verlander, Alvarez, and Brantley; sort of on the fence with Altuve.

Twins in 5

Astros in 3

Twins get swept and start their streak anew.

It's weird: there are players (and managers) I root for on every remaining team except, I think, the Twins. Nothing to do with them beating the Jays--I just don't know their personnel that well. (I was excited about Correa when he came into the league, less so now.)

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watching with a doomer Astros fan

- I TOLD YOU, THEY’RE NOT GOOD AT MINUTE MAID
- what is Verlander doing that was a mile above the zone
- I can’t watch this

Verlander throws 23 pitches but gets out of the jam unscathed, he is very happy but assures me “the Astros can’t hit”

Adam Wainwright talking about how good the Twins pitcher is cut off by Altuve sending a bomb into left field

Woop

Ok, now we might have a game

What

Back to back and have scored four, so far

Hector Neris disasterclass, love to see it

God, I love watching Yordan Alvarez hit.

holy shit that throw

gotta credit correa on the decoy

correa’s hit had triple written all over it but he can’t run. would have been home already if he could.

Astros looked as good as I thought they would

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Heard yesterday that Correa and Jeremy Pena have the same birthday, Sept. 22--that's quite the coincidence. Correa is only three years older.

wish we had gotten this valdez in the world series last year. maybe he's too afraid to use sticky stuff today

bye

Never knew that about having to declare stretch or wind-up.

i learned about that from this jomboy video earlier this year

Clemenza why are you mean to the Twins?

Huh? You lost me.

Okay, I see what you mean now...I wasn't putting them down--they just embarrassed the Jays--just saying that I didn't know their players very well.

Big from Sonny Gray to keep Alvarez from scoring. Twins gotta wake up.

Let loose. They hit fastballs. Javier throws em.

But he is being very coy with them today, it's weird

I love Rocco so much

Bases loaded 1 out and the Twins come away with nothing? That, unfortunately, is baseball, Suzyn!

Feels as good a day as any for the Twins to get eliminated in a 12-1 rout

(Seriously tho, three wins in the postseason is something I was convinced I’d never again see in my/our collective lifetime)

Twins up early, really don't know why they overlap games

Houston winning would make Ted Cruz happy so I'm gonna have to cheer for the Twins here

Damn, tie game

Bah.

Astros win again

I wanted Houston to win, but part of me wanted to see Correa come up.

Dusty Baker, big smile on his face: "Now, me and Bruce Bochy need to battle."

Two ex- Giants managers. Love them both for that reason alone.

https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-simulated-game-ahead-of-alcs

God, I'd love a Scherzer-Verlander match-up (with all the attendant hype guaranteeing they'd both be chased after three innings).

Lol definitely the most likely situation

The Astros have been so comically dominant against the Rangers this season I feel that streak has got to end some time.