Mariners vs. Astros ALDS Thread

McBride11

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Wow that was hammered. Goddamit. Losing the prior two at 2 strikes is the crime. But Damn Sea stealing game 1 in Hou would have been huge. Sea be lucky to get to 5 now sadly
 

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Gotta question going to Ray. He's not used to a situation like that and he hasn't been that good this year.
 

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What a stupid decision to put him in for his first relief appearance in 3 years, after he completely shit the bed 3 days ago. That's a fireable offense in some markets.
 

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What a stupid decision to put him in for his first relief appearance in 3 years, after he completely shit the bed 3 days ago. That's a fireable offense in some markets.
Servais is gonna be explaining that very shortly. Really bad move obviously. Just wow.
 

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What a stupid decision to put him in for his first relief appearance in 3 years, after he completely shit the bed 3 days ago. That's a fireable offense in some markets.
I say this every year. Teams spend a whole year piecing together wins with their normal bullpen and then throw that all in the garbage by putting random starters in random late inning positions that they aren't prepared for. It's insane to me. Robbie Ray closing games is bananas.
 

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think going to Ray is indefensible. They already burned Brash and Munoz, the latter of whom let them down, and Sewald was losing it. The only other lefty option out of the pen was Boyd I think? I mean if one of your aces is going to keep getting shelled every outing, you're screwed anyway.

Edit: Should have done my homework, this would appear to be a key point, though I'm not sure who the preferred righty is after the relievers they already used

 

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think going to Ray is indefensible. They already burned Brash and Munoz, the latter of whom let them down, and Sewald was losing it. The only other lefty option out of the pen was Boyd I think? I mean if one of your aces is going to keep getting shelled every outing, you're screwed anyway.
They said Alvarez hit .321 against lefties this year. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
 

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Would have better off bowling the ball to the plate four times than have Ray pitch to Yordan.
 

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think going to Ray is indefensible. They already burned Brash and Munoz, the latter of whom let them down, and Sewald was losing it. The only other lefty option out of the pen was Boyd I think? I mean if one of your aces is going to keep getting shelled every outing, you're screwed anyway.

Edit: Should have done my homework, this would appear to be a key point, though I'm not sure who the preferred righty is after the relievers they already used

As good as he is against lefties he's still better against righties. He's just really really good.
 

bosox188

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As good as he is against lefties he's still better against righties. He's just really really good.
Oh I know, I'm not sure whether the Mariners still had a righty relief option they'd trust, rather than forcing a lefty/lefty with Ray. I'm pretty sure they'd already used up their best relievers, putting yourself in that spot with Yordan up is pretty much a nightmare scenario.