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The Astros beat the Indians to reach the ALCS. The Red Sox lead the Yankees 2-1 and will join the Astros with just one more win, after battering Steinbrenner's lot 16-1 in New York last night.

 

In the NLCS, the Brewers and the Dodgers will face each other after overcoming the Rockies and the Braves respectively.

 

So the possibility of an Astros-Dodgers World Series re-run from last year still exists.

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1 hour ago, chrisbonnie said:

I've been following the results of the red sox this year. 

 

It seems they're spanking everyone. 

 

What exactly has them looking so good this year? 

They have the most complete team in the majors. Top 5 starting pitching and bullpen, plus the best offense. They've just got studs everywhere and they're young too. 

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18 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

They have the most complete team in the majors. Top 5 starting pitching and bullpen, plus the best offense. They've just got studs everywhere and they're young too. 

 

I'm not sure they are the best in any area but the team is more than the sum of its parts. Good hitters, good base runners, good work in the field, and one for the sabermetrics stattos out there, good stats across the board. They had a knock for scoring runs in the first few and last few innings, covering for relatively lean scoring in the middle three innings. The definite weak area is the bullpen, with relief pitchers who are inconsistent (Workman, Kelly), capable of completely unravelling and undoing all the good work by the starting rotation (Pomeranz), along with a closer (Kimbrel) who can make closing a game out a bit of an ordeal.

 

They had the best record in the regular season, and one reason why they got past the Yankees in the ALDS (apart from spanking them 16-1 in game 3!) was that the main thing the Yankees have been great at this season - hitting home runs - never really got going for them in this series. It's one thing saying the bats went cold, but the hits they were making were not being combined with effective base running (possibly because a high percentage of their runs running the season came via home runs) so it put pressure on them to try and slug it out of the park with every at-bat.

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On 10/21/2018 at 8:34 AM, chrisbonnie said:

Oh, 

 

So the red sox are heavy favourites then I'd imagine, seeing as they come from the tougher league, and pretty much spanked everyone en route. 

 

Ill try give them a watch on BT sport. 

The American League has been a joke this season. The National League is the more competitve of the two.

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Red Sox take game 1, winning 8-4. I was surprised to learn that it was Clayton Kershaw's first ever game against the Red Sox. I know the inter-league match-ups change every few years, but either these teams' divisions haven't been matched up throughout Kershaw's career, or he was out injured at some point when they were matched up.

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Red Sox take game 2, winning 4-2. The show moves on to LA where there are 3 games scheduled over the weekend, and the Red Sox need only 2 more to clinch the World Series. Do what they have been doing, and the series won't need to return to Boston for games 6 and 7.

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Red Sox recovered from a 4-0 deficit to win game 4 by 9-6, and they lead the World Series 3-1 now. One win away from winning the title. To win this game from such a deficit (Dodgers had won all their previous 54 games this season after leading 4-0), and after the heartbreak of the previous 18-inning marathon, takes guts. The mental pressure is right back on the Dodgers because they have to win all the games now, and only the next one is at home.

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Red Sox have won the 2018 World Series.

 

The beat the Dodgers 5-1 in game 5, to win 4-1 in the best-of-7 Fall Classic. It's the 4th World Series win under FSG, more than any other team since 2002 when they took over the Red Sox.

 

Fully deserved too because they had by far the best record in the regular season, and they lost only 3 games in the post-season. It wouldn't be wrong to claim it as their best season ever because they won more games than ever before.

 

Under FSG, it's also the 3rd time they've won it with a manager in his first year in the job. Terry Francona went on to win a second in 2007, but John Farrell won it in 2013 in his first year and now Alex Cora has done it. Maybe John Henry should fire him now!

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Red Sox are taking on the Yankees in the first of the 2-game 'London Series' at the London Stadium. It's been an explosive start and both starting pitchers have badly struggled in strange surroundings. Red Sox starting pitcher Rick Porcello has already been subbed after haemorrhaging 6 runs for only 1 out. And now Yankees' SP Masahiro Tanaka has just been hauled off after allowing 6 runs for just the 2 outs.

 

I say explosive start, replace that with 'batshit crazy'. Both teams' line-ups have had at least 1 at-bat in the 1st inning, and it's finished 6-6. The relief pitchers are already in and there are still a minimum 8 innings to go!

 

Boston have been pretty shit this year after being by far the best side last year, having largely stuck with the same players as last year without refreshing the roster. There's a lesson there for FSG not to rest on their laurels because everyone else will undoubtedly strengthen. It's not as though they had the most complete squad last year either, just an awful lot of players in tip-top form.

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Mental game, finished 17-13 to the Yankees. But Red Sox had bases loaded in the 8th and were one home run away from tying it up there and then. The game was less about the hitting (and there was a LOT of it from both sides) and more about the pitchers struggling with the fact they were playing in a completely different stadium - one that wasn't designed for baseball. Porcello and Tanaka just never got going. Most of these guys will be playing again tomorrow and they'll be knackered!

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