The MLB Thread

[Trumo]

The Astros won game 7 4-0 against the Yankees, and are now going to face the Dodgers in the World Series.

[Trumo]

The World Series is currently tied at 2-2. Both sides have managed an away win.

[Allan]

The World Series is currently tied at 2-2. Both sides have managed an away win.

 

Kershaw vs Keuchel in game 5 tonight.

[Trumo]

Kershaw vs Keuchel in game 5 tonight.

 

I think most people would like to see Kershaw vs Verlander but you can understand why the managers wouldn't go for it.

[Allan]

I think most people would like to see Kershaw vs Verlander but you can understand why the managers wouldn't go for it.

 

Kershaw vs Verlander in game 7 would be the ultimate pitching contest.

 

Rich Hill vs Verlander in game 6 will be good. Hill is a very underrated pitcher.

 

Darvish vs McCullers penciled in for game 7 if the rotations stay as they are. Though I'd imagine that every pitcher, other than Hill & Verlander, would be available out of the bullpen if needed, so we could possibly see Kershaw take the ball in the middle/late innings to get to Jansen.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Cuban lad who did the slant eye gesture escaped a ban for the WS.

 

Got a five game ban to start next season

[Trumo]

What a game 5! The Astros won it 13-12 with a walk-off single in the 10th inning and now lead the World Series 3-2. Next game is on Wednesday morning back at Dodgers Stadium, with the Astros one win away from claiming a maiden title.

[TheHowieLama]

Do the Yankees have a rep as drug cheats / roid heads?

[Trumo]

This is going down to a game 7 decider after the Dodgers won 3-1 last night.

[Trumo]

The Houston Astros are World Series champions! They beat the Dodgers in the deciding game 5-1 to win their maiden title. Just like in 2013 when the Red Sox gained extra motivation and their fanbase was galvanised following the Boston Marathon bombing, the Astros have gained extra motivation following the extensive damage to Houston following the recent hurricane.

[Trumo]

The cover of Sports Illustrated from June 2014, tipping the Astros to win the World Series in 2017 and George Springer for stardom. He was announced as the World Series MVP, scoring a home run in 4 straight World Series games.

 

[Bjornebye]

The Houston Astros are World Series champions! They beat the Dodgers in the deciding game 5-1 to win their maiden title. Just like in 2013 when the Red Sox gained extra motivation and their fanbase was galvanised following the Boston Marathon bombing, the Astros have gained extra motivation following the extensive damage to Houston following the recent hurricane.

 

 

The Saints won the Super Bowl not long after New Orleans was flooded too didn't they? 

[Lee909]

The Saints won the Super Bowl not long after New Orleans was flooded too didn't they? 

 

4 years later

[Trumo]

The Saints won the Super Bowl not long after New Orleans was flooded too didn't they? 

 

Yep. I mentioned it recently.

 

So often in sport, a team can be galvanised by a tragic event on their doorstep. I think the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl not long after Katrina, and the Red Sox rode the wave of 'Boston Strong' sentiment following the marathon bombing, to claim the World Series that year. Given what's happened in and around Houston with Hurricane Harvey, this could end up being the Astros' year.

[Trumo]

Post-season time again.

 

In the AL, the Yankees and the A's will play the Wild Card game for the chance to face the Red Sox in the Division Series (ALDS). In the other ALDS, last year's World Series champions the Astros will play the previous year's World Series runners-up the Indians.

 

In the NL, the World Series champions of 2 years ago - the Cubs - will face the Rockies in the Wild Card game, with the winner going on to face the Brewers in the NLDS. In the other NLDS, the Dodgers (last year's World Series runners-up) take on the Braves, who've had quite a turnaround from the past few years when they were among the shittest sides in MLB.

 

The AL has home field advantage again for the World Series (the AL champion will play at home in games 1, 2, 6 and 7 while games 3, 4 and 5 would take place at the NL champion's home) having won the All Star Game in July. For the first time in 15 years though, the NL won more inter-league games than the AL.

 

The Red Sox actually set a new club record for regular season wins (108 out of 162), and that was the best record in the whole of MLB this year. Indeed, 3 of the 5 AL teams to qualify for the post-season recorded 100 wins or more, whereas none of the NL sides achieved this feat. The Yankees and the A's both had better records than any of the NL's post-season qualifiers and yet they are playing for a Wild Card game because they still finished behind the Red Sox and the Astros in their respective divisions.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Go Tribe !

 

One correctiion though mate, last year we didn't finish runners up, we were dumped out in the 1st round by those roided up smack cheats the Yankees.

[Josef Svejk]

Baltimore edged out, were they?

[Trumo]

49 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Go Tribe !

 

One correctiion though mate, last year we didn't finish runners up, we were dumped out in the 1st round by those roided up smack cheats the Yankees.

 

Read it again. I said the Dodgers were runners-up last year. Cleveland were runners-up the previous year, ie the year before that.

[Trumo]

31 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

Baltimore edged out, were they?

 

It was close. They would have won more if the other sides weren't allowed to use bats.

[Josef Svejk]

16 minutes ago, Trumo said:

 

It was close. They would have won more if the other sides weren't allowed to use bats.

You reckon?

 

I'm not convinced...

[Trumo]

The Yankees won their AL Wild Card game and will face the Red Sox in the best-of-5 ALDS. The Rockies beat the Cubs in the NL Wild Card game and will face the Brewers in the best-of-5 NLDS.

[Ian Sea]

I’ve gotten into baseball this year, been watching the Yankees and Red Sox in the past couple of months. Still not sure of all of the rules like but still, I’m really enjoying it.

 

The Yankees play the Red Sox tonight in the ALDS game 1. Let’s go Yankees! 

[Carvalho Diablo]

FOAD Yankees.

[Scooby Dudek]

22 minutes ago, Ian Sea said:

I’ve gotten into baseball this year, been watching the Yankees and Red Sox in the past couple of months. Still not sure of all of the rules like but still, I’m really enjoying it.

 

The Yankees play the Red Sox tonight in the ALDS game 1. Let’s go Yankees! 

Some background for you;

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankees–Red_Sox_rivalry

 

 

Go Sox

[Carvalho Diablo]

Corey Kluber and the Indians go up against Justin Verlander and the shithouse Houston Astros. 

Verlander is shagging that slapper Kate Upton, I hope Frankie Lindor snaps his bat off Verlander's face. 

Go Tribe.