2019 ALCS: Houston Astros vs New York Yankees

[TylerD]

So it’s looking more and more like a rainout on Wednesday. That is a 100% win for the Astros. The more I look at this, this would be the outcome

 

10-14 Severino vs Cole

10-15 rainout

10-16 Tanaka vs Greinke

10-17 Bullpen vs Bullpen

10-18 Paxton at Verlander

10-19 Severino at Cole

 

The reason why this is absolutely horrible for the Yanks is that a rainout in game 4 puts the Yanks on 4 straight games. If this thing goes 7, our pen will be horribly overworked and we’ll have Sevy on the mound. The lost off day also means zero chance of Tanaka coming back in game 7 as anything but an inning or two pitcher.

Don’t make us excited lol.

 

I honestly think this series is too hard to predict. Been a good one so far.

[jacksonianmarch]

We are on Cole. Made him work harder than he’s worked in months and we still get no f***ing runs. Sevy was ok. Cole has to be coming out. Can we hold them and see our offense get a few? Hope so

[jacksonianmarch]

Why the ever living f*** is Boone putting Ottovino in against Springer. What is wrong with you???

[jacksonianmarch]

Ottovino is cooked. Why the f*** is he in this game??? f*** you Boone!

[redsoxrules]

That's what happens when your starting rotation is weak

[jacksonianmarch]

You have to be f***ing kidding me. Wild pitch? What the hell

[jacksonianmarch]

That's what happens when your starting rotation is weak

 

No, this is what happens when your f***ing idiot manager doesn’t know when to use his fading reliever. Awful managing from Boone. Absolutely horrendous

[jacksonianmarch]

Ottavino has been struggling. He is especially bad vs Springer. So why the ever living f*** do you bring him in TO FACE SPRINGER?

[redsoxrules]

No, this is what happens when your f***ing idiot manager doesn’t know when to use his fading reliever. Awful managing from Boone. Absolutely horrendous

 

You only have so many weapons in the bullpen. When your starters don't make it through 5 you have to use everyone else. If their starting pitching wasn't weak and make it through at least 6 innings, they wouldn't have to put it ottavino in. Look at Houston, Cole and Verlander go 7 so they only need to go with Harris and osuna. Yankees don't have studs that can do that.

[jacksonianmarch]

That’s not really the case here. We are built to use those weapons. The sequencing of use is absolutely critical. He uses Kahnle vs the bottom of the order and Ottovino vs the top. Springer has struggled vs changeups and hard fastballs which is Kahnle’s arsenal yet crushes sliders. This is the second f***ing game in a row where he’s brought Ottovino into the game to face Springer! Why!

[Carpin]

Finally!!! Gleyber with the big hit

[jacksonianmarch]

We need 3. I’d punt today with our pitcher for the 9th, if we hold fine. Tomorrow (or more likely Thursday) will be absolutely critical. We have to win EVERY game not pitched by the two titans and take just one vs the paired aces.

[TylerD]

Wow 4-1. Just tuning in.

[moonslav59]

Go Astros!

[TylerD]

Astros take game 3!!!

[bkzwhitestrican]

Glad I was working. Ottavino is anti-clutch

[d-money]

Yankees fans throwing trash on the field. That’s why i can’t stand those pricks amongst many other things.

[d-money]

Astros take game 3!!!

 

Hope they go for the throat in game 4. Tomorrow could be a rainout thought. It means it could be tanaka and Greinke for game 4.

[Bellhorn04]

Boone and Ottavino are taking their lumps from the Yankee faithful on their forum. The negativity there is actually mind-boggling.

[Bellhorn04]

Yankees fans throwing trash on the field. That’s why i can’t stand those pricks amongst many other things.

 

Classy, huh?

[redsoxrules]

Nats looking good to sweep the cards tonight. So they'll have their 3 studs rested up for the WS.

[jacksonianmarch]

Boone and Ottavino are taking their lumps from the Yankee faithful on their forum. The negativity there is actually mind-boggling.

 

Boone should be getting skewered. You're going up against a team with a decided advantage in the rotation. Your advantage is in the pen. You HAVE to know your pen. You HAVE to know your opponent. The fact that he has brought in Ottavino TWICE to face Springer shows a complete ignorance of the analytics that he was brought in to use and enact. And it isnt like the inning droned on and he faced Springer. No, the FIRST f***ING BATTER OTTAVINO FACED WAS SPRINGER!! Might as well have kept Girardi if we are gonna go by feel. Ottavino is struggling and I get wanting to try and give him a jump start. But he is a breaking ball pitcher. Why the ever living f*** do you bring him in against the guy who had the 3rd highest batting average against breaking balls IN ALL OF BASEBALL!!! It isn't like it's a f***ing secret. Fox has it broadcast everywhere. To beat the Astros in a short series you either need to hope they are off (like they were during last year's ALCS) or you have to be perfect. Boone has been anything but.

 

Also, why the f***ing reluctance to use Romine. Sanchez cannot hit right now. He is in one of his cold spells and we need a guy who can at least make some f***ing contact. Sit his ass down and see if a benching gets his bat going. Why even have Stanton on the damn roster if he cannot run. I get not wanting to burn him for the world series, but we aren't getting there if we have to carry his dead weight. Tauchman is ready to return, bring his ass in. Also, why waste our time with the corpse of Sabathia. He's now a situational lefty against a team with only one good lefty. Not worth it. Bring in Voit and see if he can do better than EE, who has sucked it hard this series. We have to shake it up a bit. We will have a rainout tomorrow and hope to get s*** going game 4. We have to be perfect the next 2 games at home. No choice at this point. Then we hope we can take one in Houston vs the twin titans. I said at the beginning that we need to sweep the games Greinke pitches and the BP games and just take one vs Cole or Verlander. That hasn't changed. This bitch is gonna go 7

[Slasher9]

Yankees fans are the worst fans on the planet.

Disgusting

[moonslav59]

Classy, huh?

 

It's what they do in their parks, their yards and their homes.

 

It's second nature.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

It looks like the Nats might win in 4. I have a trivia question. In the history of MLB, only one team has lost a 7-game series after being up 3 games to 0. Name the team and the year. Hint: Yankees and Red Sox fans should know the answer to this awesome trivia question.

 

 

Yankees fans are the worst fans on the planet.

Agreed, they showed no class by throwing things on the field after the replay showed he was out at 1b.

 

 

You only have so many weapons in the bullpen. When your starters don't make it through 5 you have to use everyone else. If their starting pitching wasn't weak and make it through at least 6 innings, they wouldn't have to put it ottavino in. Look at Houston, Cole and Verlander go 7 so they only need to go with Harris and osuna. Yankees don't have studs that can do that.

Bingo, you have nailed it. Boone isn't the problem. Brian Cashman is the problem--he is the one who failed to provide Boone with a championship caliber starting staff. The Yankees need their relievers to be perfect, but that isn't going to happen if your starters only pitch 4 innings.

 

If the Yankees get past the Astros, the Nats will be difficult to beat--the Yankees starting staff can't compete against studs like Sherzer, Strasburg, and Corbin. Relief pitchers are relief pitchers for a reason--they couldn't make it as starters. Trying to defeat a stud starting staff with a bullpen doesn't work, but Brian Cashman hasn't figured that out yet.

Edited October 16, 2019 by Fan_since_Boggs

[Fan_since_Boggs]

Hope they go for the throat in game 4. Tomorrow could be a rainout thought. It means it could be tanaka and Greinke for game 4.

 

If there is a rainout tomorrow, I would go with J.Urquidy against Tanaka on Thur and save Grienke for the Yankees bullpen game (some mixture of Green and Happ) on Friday. Sure, the Yankees will have a huge pitching advantage in Tanaka over Urquidy but, in turn, the Astros will have a huge advantage on Friday with Grienke against Green/Happ.

 

And beyond that, the Astros will have a huge SP advantage in games 6 and 7.

[jacksonianmarch]

If there is a rainout tomorrow, I would go with J.Urquidy against Tanaka on Thur and save Grienke for the Yankees bullpen game (some mixture of Green and Happ) on Friday. Sure, the Yankees will have a huge pitching advantage in Tanaka over Urquidy but, in turn, the Astros will have a huge advantage on Friday with Grienke against Green/Happ.

 

And beyond that, the Astros will have a huge SP advantage in games 6 and 7.

 

I'd prefer they do that to be entirely honest. The Yanks can have trouble vs rookies with good stuff. Urquidy runs it up there 93-94 and shows pristine command. The Greinke who shows up in the postseason isn't the guy who throws during the year. He was shelled twice in the postseason and was throwing 88mph in game 1 vs the Yanks. I'd be pretty confident with a Yankee stadium game in the playoffs vs a diminished Greinke with whomever we throw, pen game or not.

[moonslav59]

It looks like the Nats might win in 4. I have a trivia question. In the history of MLB, only one team has lost a 7-game series after being up 3 games to 0. Name the team and the year. Hint: Yankees and Red Sox fans should know the answer to this awesome trivia question.

 

 

 

Agreed, they showed no class by throwing things on the field after the replay showed he was out at 1b.

 

 

 

Bingo, you have nailed it. Boone isn't the problem. Brian Cashman is the problem--he is the one who failed to provide Boone with a championship caliber starting staff. The Yankees need their relievers to be perfect, but that isn't going to happen if your starters only pitch 4 innings.

 

If the Yankees get past the Astros, the Nats will be difficult to beat--the Yankees starting staff can't compete against studs like Sherzer, Strasburg, and Corbin. Relief pitchers are relief pitchers for a reason--they couldn't make it as starters. Trying to defeat a stud starting staff with a bullpen doesn't work, but Brian Cashman hasn't figured that out yet.

 

Wait, aren't we supposed to follow the Yankee rebuild model?

 

Isn't Cashman the genius?

[bkzwhitestrican]

It's what they do in their parks, their yards and their homes.

 

It's second nature.

 

It was a low-class move for sure by those fans, but are we judging whole fanbases by their worst fans now? If so I'm pretty sure the Red Sox would win the title for most racist fans in baseball (just ask Adam Jones). BUT I'm not going to apply that moniker to a whole fanbase because obviously those few *******s don't represent the majority.

Edited October 16, 2019 by bkzwhitestrican

[Slasher9]

they are all scumbags.

typical example: