Frok said:

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My thought is that McCann is more hard-headed and would have gone to the mound to tell Harris he's an idiot.

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Oh, definitely agree with that. You just can't throw Judge a fastball in that spot. Not unless you have JV's fastball and placement - which Harris does not have...

I can understand the gamble on Lance. I absolutely think this is a gamble move.

He absolutely has ACE stuff - it's just where is he mentally. We'all know which lance we are getting today the first time a blooper falls.

Also not too worried about the offense. We have smoked the ball for some really hard outs.

Glad it's a day game - hopefully the day game gets George going since he crushes the hall in day games. I think he'll set the tone today.

Yeah, the Maybin thing I didn't understand last night. I felt like Martin was a more dependable option out there than a new young guy.

I guess it was done for offensive purposes and Maybin did hit better than McCann but I don't think we'll see that lineup again.

I'm hoping Lance can get rolling today. Would be nice to see some 0s.

T&P

yep...lets go back to the lineup of games 1 and 2...put Reddick back in there

Maybin as a pinch runner if needed late in games

Beltran/Gattis can be DH

gambochaman said:

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yep...lets go back to the lineup of games 1 and 2...put Reddick back in there

Maybin as a pinch runner if needed late in games

Beltran/Gattis can be DH

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Reddick was in there last night.

New day, new game. Score is back to 0-0.

We let them have their seeing-eye singles, Texas league bloopers, and wall scraping HRs in their little league park yesterday. Morton was throwing some nasty stuff, but they were just hitting him in the absolute perfect places. It happens. Meanwhile we hit about 5 balls to the track and a few more line drives straight at 'em. As others have said, we're due for a break-out offensive game, and I'm encouraged by what we did yesterday with the bats, even if the hits didn't fall in.

They can't continue to be that lucky and we continue to be that unlucky. We mash in day games, so here's to getting back on track and putting several crooked number innings up.

CSWendt said:

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Some of you guys make A-Roid seem ubiased with how orange tinted your glasses are.

I'm not saying I don't have a strong belief in our guys. But the Yankees are a very good team, playing at home. I'd still say the edge goes to them in this game.

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FIFY

what I was thinking. that fence was almost 10 feet in from the one at MMP.

Springer and Marwin concern me...they haven't squared up a ball all series hardly and are violently swinging and trying to kill every pitch.

Reddick has hit a few hard balls but also been relatively quiet. We need some production from those guys ASAP

Good call.

If we lose tonight I could easily see DK game 5 in NY a day Verlander game 6

irish pete ag06 said:

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Also... Remember this. All we need is 1 damn win in New York.


THEN

The Yankees have to come back to Houston and win 2 in a row over DK and JV.

IF the Yankees do that, they absolutely deserve the World Series.



EVEN IF, the Yankees win today. That means this turns into a best 2 out of 3 in which we have DK and JV going in 2 of those.

There is absolutely no reason to panic. Enjoy this man. This is a hell of a lot better than reading about the MLB Draft.

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Anyone know what our BABIP is for the ALCS? I feel like we're getting a fair amount of hard contact, but it just seems to be at people. A lot of loud outs if you will.

Mr.Bond said:

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If we lose tonight I could easily see DK game 5 in NY a day Verlander game 6

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Win or lose that's what we will see. Both would be on normal rest.

The pondering on how this rotation will set up is interesting. It's quite fun to bounce around all the ideas without being the ones who make the decision.

Think about this....If we win today and can pitch LMJ today without using Peacock (maybe a combo of LMJ, Musgrove, back end guys) do you let Peacock take Game 5 and push Dallas and Verlander to 6 and 7?

Pythag and baseruns both had the Yankees with a higher projected win total than the Astros. One could argue that the Yankees were just a very unlucky team during the regular season. They also beat the Indians and could very easily be up on us right now. They're a good team. I do think our team is better, though, and I think we'll ultimately win the series.

I'm also not concerned about our offense. We're putting the ball in play and making a lot of hard contact. We hit several balls last night that traveled further than both Yankee HRs. We also aren't getting any cheap hits like the Yankees got. Based on contact alone, there wasn't much difference in the two teams' performances. There's a lot of talk in the media about our offensive struggles, but the biggest difference between the teams last night was placement, and that's pretty much a luck factor.

Exactly. While it was fun talking about sweeping the Yankees, I think anyone that has watched baseball for more than two weeks should have known that was highly unlikely to happen. We won the two games we needed to at home and are now going into the second of our two questionable games where it's anyone's guess what kind of pitching we get. Even if we drop today, we start back tomorrow with our horses ready to take the mound.

Ag_07 said:

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The pondering on how this rotation will set up is interesting. It's quite fun to bounce around all the ideas without being the ones who make the decision.

Think about this....If we win today and can pitch LMJ today without using Peacock (maybe a combo of LMJ, Musgrove, back end guys) do you let Peacock take Game 5 and push Dallas and Verlander to 6 and 7?

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NO

Why would you want to mess with Keuchel and Verlander?

I love some wild speculation of what we might be thinking today (or would have done yesterday) or what we might do in game 7...

But, again, you don't change anything with regards to Keuchel and Verlander.

AgFan1999 said:

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We took 3 of 4 there during the season. 5 of 7 overall. You shake off the loss, move forward.

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Agreed. And I am confident we can get it done. The same thing happened in Fenway this post season, and this team had to grind it out till the last out to win game 4. It's doable, but not an easy task as some are projecting.

I'm just here to manage expectations.

I agree, but I would prefer Dallas to pitch in MMP and Verlander in Yankee, but that aint happening.

AgFan1999 said:

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We took 3 of 4 there during the season. 5 of 7 overall. You shake off the loss, move forward.

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regular season stats mean nothing in the postseason .... just ask the Indians

While we would all obviously love a win today, I hope y'all remember that the sky won't fall if we lose. Lose today and then you toss out Keuchel the Yankee killer to steal their last home game, then you come home and pitch Verlander with a chance to close the series out. I know we got blasted last night but we still have a pretty nice advantage in the series, don't forget it.