The 2021 World Series: Braves vs. Astros

SemperFidelisSox · Oct 30, 2021

Ok, so Trump released a statement earlier saying Manfred and Randy Levine invited him. Now Maggie Haberman of the NYT is saying Trump invited himself.

Edit. Just wanted to correct my last post with this one. No more politics.

bosockboy · Oct 30, 2021

E5 Yaz said:
Folks, I know it's going to be next to impossible, given the circumstances, to keep politics away from the thread tonight. But please remember the warnings of the mods.

Yep my bad. Noted.

deythur · Oct 30, 2021

What time do they need to announce starting pitchers and/or lineups?

absintheofmalaise · Oct 30, 2021

No posts about Trump or politics. We have a place for that. There will be no warnings.

SemperFidelisSox · Oct 30, 2021

Dylan Lee is starting for Atlanta. 1st pitcher to make his 1st career start in the World Series.

CarolinaBeerGuy · Oct 30, 2021

View: http://twitter.com/MLBStats/status/1454556493596987394

Zack Greinke is just the 2nd pitcher to hit above 9th in the lineup in the #WorldSeries.

The other is Babe Ruth in 1918 (Game 4), who hit 6th.

h/t: @SlangsOnSports https://t.co/GqYP3McMmJ

absintheofmalaise · Oct 30, 2021

Braves line up:

absintheofmalaise · Oct 30, 2021

Astors line up:

54thMA · Oct 30, 2021

InsideTheParker said:
Wasn't it Bob Ryan who wrote in the Glob that it was a shame that Everett or someone like that broke up the Mussina no-hitter at Fenway? I've hated that guy ever since.

Hated who; Everett for breaking up the no hitter or Ryan for what he wrote in the Glob?

mauidano · Oct 30, 2021

CarolinaBeerGuy said:
View: http://twitter.com/MLBStats/status/1454556493596987394

Zack Greinke is just the 2nd pitcher to hit above 9th in the lineup in the #WorldSeries.

The other is Babe Ruth in 1918 (Game 4), who hit 6th.

h/t: @SlangsOnSports https://t.co/GqYP3McMmJ

What does this say about Maldonaldo?

mauidano · Oct 30, 2021

What a different world to have a guy making his first Major League start in the World Series and expected to go two or three maybe tops.

Write the story Dylan Lee and have a night!

E5 Yaz · Oct 30, 2021

View: https://twitter.com/DRLee45/status/1454522634167721986

Ale Xander · Oct 30, 2021

mauidano said:
What does this say about Maldonaldo?

I said it 2 weeks ago

worst position player hitter in the AL
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and worse than several pitchers including ZG

InsideTheParker · Oct 30, 2021

54thMA said:
Hated who; Everett for breaking up the no hitter or Ryan for what he wrote in the Glob?

Ryan, in this case. Everett is hateable for many reasons, although perhaps he's nuts. I am a Red Sox fan. How on earth could I want Mussina to get a no-hitter against them?

staz · Oct 30, 2021

E5 Yaz said:
View: https://twitter.com/DRLee45/status/1454522634167721986

First MLB start in the WS strikes me as a really bad idea (divine intervention not withstanding).

Another team was up 2-1 on these guys recently, you know...

InsideTheParker · Oct 30, 2021

Jason Castro is off the Astros roster with a positive Covid-19 test. Has Fox mentioned that?
Edit: the language does not say positive test, it says off b/c of "Covid protocols." Can be cleared to return, unlike an injured player. So maybe it's contact?

SemperFidelisSox · Oct 30, 2021

This may have been a bad idea.

rajendra82 · Oct 30, 2021

Love that Bregman face.

staz · Oct 30, 2021

Ug-Lee

mauidano · Oct 30, 2021

mauidano said:
What a different world to have a guy making his first Major League start in the World Series and expected to go two or three maybe tops.

Write the story Dylan Lee and have a night!

Not good Dylan, not good.

rajendra82 · Oct 30, 2021

Who brought over a Red Sox pitcher?

Petagine in a Bottle · Oct 30, 2021

Great job starting this guy.

canderson · Oct 30, 2021

The lord can follow him into the clubhouse early, I guess

AB in DC · Oct 30, 2021

Yikes.

mauidano · Oct 30, 2021

canderson said:
The lord can follow him into the clubhouse early, I guess

Jesus needs to take the wheel.

patinorange · Oct 30, 2021

E5 Yaz said:
View: https://twitter.com/DRLee45/status/1454522634167721986

God watching Notre Dame tonight.

BaseballJones · Oct 30, 2021

According to ESPN's gamecast, the first pitch to Alvarez was a strike, and the 2nd and fourth were borderline. Also it shows that pitches 1, 2, and 5 to Brantley were strikes. It shows that the 2nd pitch to Brantley was called a ball and the 3rd pitch was in exactly the same spot and called a strike.

So an IF single and two walks that appear (by ESPN's gamecast) to be loaded with missed calls by the ump.

Accurate?

AB in DC · Oct 30, 2021

How did Atlanta get to 88 wins without a 4th starter they can trust?

BaseballJones · Oct 30, 2021

BaseballJones said:
According to ESPN's gamecast, the first pitch to Alvarez was a strike, and the 2nd and fourth were borderline. Also it shows that pitches 1, 2, and 5 to Brantley were strikes. It shows that the 2nd pitch to Brantley was called a ball and the 3rd pitch was in exactly the same spot and called a strike.

So an IF single and two walks that appear (by ESPN's gamecast) to be loaded with missed calls by the ump.

Accurate?

patinorange · Oct 30, 2021

BaseballJones said:
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Want to speed up the game? Start calling these pitches strikes.

BaseballJones · Oct 30, 2021

patinorange said:
Want to speed up the game? Start calling these pitches strikes.

I haven't been watching the game live. Were they strikes? ESPN's gamecast thinks they were. Some by pretty considerable margins.

If so, then Lee got totally screwed by the umps.

Sprowl · Oct 30, 2021

AB in DC said:
How did Atlanta get to 88 wins without a 4th starter they can trust?

The same way the Red Sox got to 92.

Ted Cox 4 president · Oct 30, 2021

Well, that could’ve been a whole lot worse.

staz · Oct 30, 2021

This game will be over about 2:00... 2:30ish

InsideTheParker · Oct 30, 2021

Well, that was exciting. The Astors seem to have cooled off the way the Sox did.

patinorange · Oct 30, 2021

BaseballJones said:
I haven't been watching the game live. Were they strikes? ESPN's gamecast thinks they were. Some by pretty considerable margins.

If so, then Lee got totally screwed by the umps.

Looked like some missed calls to me. He was getting squeezed.

AB in DC · Oct 30, 2021

BaseballJones said:
I haven't been watching the game live. Were they strikes? ESPN's gamecast thinks they were. Some by pretty considerable margins.

If so, then Lee got totally screwed by the umps.

GameDay says Ball 4 to Brantley and Ball 1 to Alvarez were right on the edge of the zone. The rest weren't.

54thMA · Oct 30, 2021

The Astors score one whopping run and don't even get the ball out of the infield.

Their bats have fallen asleep.

I've seen this movie before.

AB in DC · Oct 30, 2021

Sprowl said:
The same way the Red Sox got to 92.

If Atlanta had Jake Pivetta this would be a much different game.

BaseballJones · Oct 30, 2021

If he was getting the borderline calls, everyone would be saying how Lee is coming out and painting. But he doesn't get them, so he's wild and they have to pull him.

staz · Oct 30, 2021

AB in DC said:
If Atlanta had Jake Pivetta this would be a much different game.

Since there's no MLB pitcher by that name, you might be right.

BaseballJones · Oct 30, 2021

AB in DC said:
If Atlanta had Jake Pivetta this would be a much different game.

Who the heck is that guy? I don't see him on baseball-reference.

E5 Yaz · Oct 30, 2021

BaseballJones said:
Who the heck is that guy? I don't see him on baseball-reference.

Nick Peavy's identical cousin

AB in DC · Oct 30, 2021

Jake Greinke pitching well so far.

Archer1979 · Oct 30, 2021

AB in DC said:
If Atlanta had Jake Pivetta this would be a much different game.

Big Snake Jake!

staz · Oct 30, 2021

Jake smoked that.

staz · Oct 30, 2021

This may be the last time we ever see a baserunner wearing a warmup jacket.

Sprowl · Oct 30, 2021

AB in DC said:
If Atlanta had Jake Pivetta this would be a much different game.

I don't know Jake (although I'm sure he's an asset).

Most soshers didn't give Pivetta the benefit of the doubt until after he was called on in extra innings. Expectations were pretty low for every starter except Eovaldi and Sale.

Sale didn't exactly meet expectations, but the rest overperformed.

Harry Hooper · Oct 30, 2021

Buck, "Despite being a left-handed hitter..." What? Ah, reverse split.

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