Could?What a gutsy win. Wheeler tomorrow and then 3 straight in Philly where the crowd will be nuts. Astros could be in trouble here.
He hasn't all year basically because of his arm injurySo why doesn’t Harper play the field?
Normally he does, but he needed elbow surgery earlier this season so he can't play outfield right now.So why doesn’t Harper play the field?
Elbow injury. Universal DH for the win!So why doesn’t Harper play the field?
As I said earlier in this thread, Dusty is basically the inverse of Tito. Great regular season manager but horrible in postseason.Could?
5-0 with the generations best regular season pitcher and a great bullpen but they have dusty
Yeah, all I could think of was he was trying to get the W for Verlander. Absolutely wrong decision. Think of the team first.Astros' offense has been questionable all year. I think the numbers are still good, but Altuve and Bregman, at least to my eye test, past their primes offensively. Deadline acquisitions did not help.
The rest of the Astros' rotation could still go off and it won't matter.... Dusty should get heavy criticism for not going to his pen at 5-3.
Did they already give him a battery of tests?That elbow surgery btw will probably cut into the 2023 regular season now for Harper. No one in Philly will care, though.
If you're just going to refer to a guy who put a 160 OPS+ as past his prime and not even mention Alvarez and Tucker, any lineup would sound suspect.Astros' offense has been questionable all year. I think the numbers are still good, but Altuve and Bregman, at least to my eye test, past their primes offensively. Deadline acquisitions did not help.
The rest of the Astros' rotation could still go off and it won't matter.... Dusty should get heavy criticism for not going to his pen at 5-3.
2-2 if managed by Dusty Baker. To make it even worse, the 2002 Giants erased an early 5-run lead by the Angels in Game #2, only blow their own lead late in the game and lose.
Maybe he sees the ball better coming out of that Seattle color scheme than the Philly one.Yordan 3-25 in last 6 games. Astros simply can’t afford him being this quiet.
Holy crap.Carl Erskine is still alive.
Kershaw barely escapes that list (38.1 IP 4.46 ERA).Can't be that many pitchers with 30 IP in the WS.
He got absolutely lit up in the 15-14 game 4 (another blown 5-run lead in the WS) but was probably the biggest* reason the Blue Jays had a chance to win Game 6. He stopped the bleeding after the Phillies rallied for 5 runs in the 7th and took a 6-5 lead. Dave Stewart and Danny Cox faced 8 batters that inning and retired 1 of them.Leiter pitched in three WS (93 with the Blue Jays, 97 with the Marlins, and 00 with the Mets). I completely forgot he pitched out of the pen for the Jays in the 93 Series
Also the shitty announcers, which make it hard for me to take postseason baseball as seriously as I should.The only downside was the game lasting so long into the night which, even on a Friday, might have kept the casual baseball fan from sticking with it