27 thoughts on “2019 Championship Series: Day 2”

1. Two more no-hit innings for the Nationals. Cardinals must be feeling the pressure with Scherzer pitching.

   1. And another. Scherzer at 51 pitches through three so I don't think he finishes even with zero hits.

      1. Now four innings.

2. I'm listening to the Cardinals announcers. I don't know if Mike Shannon is always this bad or if he's just having a bad day, but he's really struggling to give a coherent broadcast of the game.

   1. You caught him on a good day.

      1. This is somewhat of an exaggeration, but it seemed like almost every other word was "uh".

         1. He has lost several MPH off his fastball

3. a base runner!

4. a hit!

   1. Emphasis on the "a".

   2. I thought the outfielder could've caught it, but I can see why he didn't want to take the chance of the ball getting by him.

5. Hard to believe Taylor missed that ball. I'm sure it's not as easy as it looks, but for a big league outfielder that should've been a pretty easy one. You might say that was a Taylor-made double.

   1. Nice

6. Who needs a bullpen when the starters pitch seven and in relief.

7. If MLB wants to reduce offense, they should definitely consider adding alternating shaded and sunlit sections over every pitcher's mound. These guys are dealing today anyway, but earlier in the game, the lighting definitely made it tough on the hitters.

   1. 40% strikeout rate for everyone.

8. Game time of 2:53. Next game could double that.

9. Wonder if the dead ball kept Judge's fly ball from going out of the park.

   1. Another Yankee home run lost to the dead ball.

10. I assume they mentioned this on TV, too, but the Astros don't have a left-handed pitcher on their ALCS roster. That seems really strange to me.

    1. I think for one thing, the Yankees only have three guys who would bat from the left side (Gardner, Gregorius, and Hicks) and this season Pressly and Harris both had reverse platoon splits. That and the only lefty they had before was Miley, and he hasn't been very good lately.

11. Excellent snag by Bregman.

12. My dad always enjoyed a good pitchers' duel. He'd have loved these LCS games so far.

13. Not just the Twins that can't get anything going against the Yankees.

    1. Not just the Twins getting pwned by Gleyber Torres.

    2. [getting way ahead of ourselves] Not that I really want the Yankees to sweep the Astros, but I feel like NYY hypothetically sweeping the Astros should change the narrative on the Twins’ ALDS, but it would be too late and the LOLTwins narrative has already taken hold.

       1. I'm not really liking that NYY narrative, though. Wait, I'm not liking the current narrative as it is.

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