2019 WS - Nationals vs. Astros - Gamethread
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I’m ecstatic about those too, but I meant right here, exactly now. Nats down in games 1-0, on the road, to a supposedly superior team, no way they should win game 2 in a blowout. Jets beating the Patriots in NY would seem more probable than this (except we have those boogeymen, so, nah).
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Now that's something I can get behind.
Especially since Joe Buck seems to not like it.
"This is the World Series, isn't it?" - You wouldn't know it from how you're announcing and Fox plastering advertisements everywhere.
Now that's something I can get behind.
Especially since Joe Buck seems to not like it.
"This is the World Series, isn't it?" - You wouldn't know it from how you're announcing and Fox plastering advertisements everywhere.
He looked horrible in the NLDS and NLCS. Tonight’s game is making every Nat look good.
I love the song ever since I made the mistake of finally listening to it during the Cards series.
Yeah, right — I guess maybe. Even for a year it seems unlikely, which is why I remembered it.
Remaining fans standing and yelling because they fear they won’t see the team again until April.
It is a pretty great factoid that Rodney has been in MLB longer than the Nats, though (if you don't count their prior incarnation obv).
Fox is running ads for Fox Business (i.e the "Lou Dobbs lies to America damaging our democracy" network)????!?!?!!?
I was thinking about that. My nephews and nieces love that song.
Lots of baseball to be played yet.
The 1986 ALCS has chunks of the 2019 NLCS in its stool. Dramatic my ass, it was a face crushing.
This year the Nationals won game 7 of the NLCS after being down 3-1, they tied it with two home runs and won it in extra innings.
The 1986 ALCS had 4 blow out wins, 3 by the Red Sox, 1 by the Angels, the Angels also won game 3 and they won game 4 in dramatic fashion scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to tie it, then they won it in extra innings.
Game 5; one of the greatest playoff games ever, a dramatic win for the Red Sox to force a game 6.
So, both were dramatic in my opinion.
And, coincidentally, the 1986 Astros were involved in another of the most dramatic playoff games ever:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU198610150.shtml
Which was preceded by this one (which I was at. Gooden v. Ryan):
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN198610140.shtml
Don't forget it's the same dude who went berserk on the air about Randy Moss fake-mooning after a TD.
Joe Buck does not like fun unless the squeaky-clean kind.
Not to hijack this thread, but is it really true that Oil Can Boyd when told he was not starting game 7 started hammering down beers and when they went to him to come in in relief, he was too annihilated to pitch?
I also heard some half assed version where he left Shea and went on a search for drugs, but that's how these things go, the story gets more bizarre as time goes on.
If that is true, that would be the most pre 2004 Red Sox thing ever.............other than Bucky Dent hitting that home run in 1978 with a corked bat because he broke his and Mickey Rivers gave him his corked bat.
Let’s ask The Can for his half assed version.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/7879759/dennis-oil-boyd-says-used-crack-entire-86-season
I was at this game too, easily the best baseball game I have ever attended and totally overshadowed by the next one.
I noticed yesterday on a countdown of the best baseball games of all time that three of the top eight were from the 1986 postseason, one from each of the LCSs and one from the WS. That's pretty remarkable, and I think accurate.
Could hear Ryan grunting from the upper deck.
This (and Roger Angell's end of season opus in the New Yorker that year) is the best account I've read on the 86 playoffs:
"When Bucky Dent hit a three-run home run to take the lead in the 1978 Yankees-Red Sox's one-game playoff, Dent became a New York legend and a Boston expletive.
Dent had been hitting .140 with no homers over his last 20 games. For the big hit, Dent borrowed his teammate Mickey Rivers' bat.
After 40 years, the question of whether Dent's bat was corked is still up for debate among fans. A new SI documentary called 14 Back, tells the story of the historic 1978 pennant race and addresses the controversy.
Dent came up to bat in the top of the seventh inning with two men on and two men out. After fouling a 1–and–1 pitch off his leg, Dent used Rivers' bat to belt a the three-run home run off Mike Torrez.
"Mickey Rivers tell him, 'Use my bat I got a good feeling,'" Lou Piniella said of the exchange with a smile.
River said he told the batboy to tell Dent "that it's got a home run in it."
"That other bat, that seemed to have some magic in it," Willie Randolph said laughing."
One of the greatest baseball books I've ever read. The chapter on Donnie Moore is tremendous reporting