DonKnock Presents: We Doing, Big Pimpin up in N.Y.C. [HOU - NYY] ALCS Thread

[Michael's Black Son]

Gary Sanchez, fukk you
Edwin Encarnacion, fukk you too

this is a game you steal and immediately hop on the plane like a thief in the night.

all I know is these bytches better be swinging for the fences like they are under attack by mosquitos in these next 3 games.

And Boone, fukk you too for trying to be the manager extraordinaire with these pitching moves. shyt almost worked out but backfired in the end.

And for the fans in games 3 and 4 especially, this shyt needs to be a hostile environment. When I went to game 1 in the ALDS motherfukkas were damn near rabid. We need that x 1000 on Tuesday.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Split the first two games and comeback home. All you can ask for

 

[wtfyomom]

Boone blew the game by not letting Greene finish the inning and therefore being able to skip ottavino. thats first of all, second fukk correa, all that antics running around the bases, not even dudes like manny act like that this aint fukkin wrestling. and its game 2 , its not game 7 shyt

 

[THASTUNNA]

Boone blew the game by not letting Greene finish the inning and therefore being able to skip ottavino. thats first of all, second fukk correa, all that antics running around the bases, not even dudes like manny act like that this aint fukkin wrestling. and its game 2 , its not game 7 shyt

" Let the kids play"

 

[jflores]

Only questionable move was not letting Chad Green start the inning, he was at 22-25 pitches and was dealing. All things considering Happ did a good job, he got out of a tough situation in the 10th.
Not having German and Betances sucks.

We need to get some runs off of Cole and early............Sevy needs to give us 6 innings.

Sanchez/EE don't give me any confidence they can deliver

 

[THASTUNNA]

Only questionable move was not letting Chad Green start the inning, he was at 22-25 pitches and was dealing. All things considering Happ did a good job, he got out of a tough situation in the 10th.
Not having German and Betances sucks.

We need to get some runs off of Cole and early............Sevy needs to give us 6 innings.

Sanchez/EE don't give me any confidence they can deliver

Green was throwing nothing but strikes. That's what I noticed from Green/Khan Le/Ottavino and Chapman. Our hitters were steady behind in the count and made it more stressful at bats.

Ottavino just left a hanger for Springer and he did what he was suppose to.

 

[Mike809]

Sooner or later , we about to find out how both Sanchez and Encarnacion been playing hurt. That's the only logical explanation for how bad they been this post season.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Sooner or later , we about to find out how both Sanchez and Encarnacion been playing hurt. That's the only logical explanation for how bad they been this post season.

They’re likely not 100%, but this isn’t a case of that. They’re swinging at pitches a foot outside the zone, six inches above the zone, and down by their feet. Encarnacion has a really good series against Minnesota too.

 

[Nero Christ]

brehs I woke up madder than a muthafukka about this L

I mean this 1 was right there for us and 2/3 of the lineup couldn't do shyt swinging for homers wit 2 strikes, no discipline at the plate, guys looking real uncomfortable up there while Astros hitters came up seemingly applying pressure every inning really the same sort of stuff that's been plaguing this team for the past couple of years.

It's not just that we took the L (beating the Astros wasn't going to be easy) but it's the way we lost...the worse habits showed up and did us in

 

[Crack Daniels]

Let’s celebrate how the pitching has proved literally everyone wrong against two potent offenses instead of harping on the loss. We all know this team will go as far as the offense takes us. Reverting back to 17/18 form is discouraging but we’re heading back home where we haven’t lost a series damn near all season. I’ll panic if we’re down 3-1



Its still fukk Ottavino though. On crip.

 

[BK360NATL]

Quick wrap-up. Kudos to Houston for persevering and pulling out the win. Correa's antics don't bother me. He won them a must-win game at home.

On to the Yankees. We need a better hitting approach. I liked the aggressive nature vs. Verlander, but it appeared that there wasn't a consistent approach in our at-bats. Once he left the game, it seems like everyone just breathed a sigh of relief and started swinging for the fences, rather than working deep into counts. In that sense, we beat ourselves. Game 1 showed how we could beat good pitching. The HRs came naturally, rather than hacking at every pitch. We need to get back to that.

Our pitching has been more than effective, holding the Astros to 4 runs in two games at their home. That's a win. In hindsight for me, pulling Paxton was the right move. However, pulling Green at that time was not. Boone needs to watch the game as it occurs and not rely so so heavily on analytics. Green, as did Tanaka in Game 1, had the game well under control, when Boone injected himself into the game. Allowing Green to finish up that inning, would've allowed for a better management of the bullpen down the line. Because you carried 13 pitchers does not mean that you need to use every single one of them in every game. As luck would have it, Ottavino's first pitch got smoked to tie up the game. Happ did his job in shutting down the rally in the 10th, but he's been susceptible to HRs, and he gave up another. Wonder what Boone's binder said about that.

Now, on to the Bronx, where we need to close out this series. We'll need all hands on deck vs. Cole. So, Sanchez, Encarnacion, Stanton, Hicks, Gardner, Didi, Urshela and Maybin all need to contribute something. No need to swing for the fences. Get his pitch count up to 100-110 by the 6th inning, and we get into their bullpen again. This time, we capitalize.

I'm going 4-1 Yankees to end this series and move to the World Series.

 

[THASTUNNA]

Astros are 10 - 43 with RISP this whole post season. This really has to change in NY.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Watching the replay of extra innings because I missed the end of the game and I just saw the strike 3 call on Gary Sanchez to end the 10 inning. What an awful call.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Watching the replay of extra innings because I missed the end of the game and I just saw the strike 3 call on Gary Sanchez to end the 10 inning. What an awful call.

It was a clear make up call. He whiffed badly on a pitch in the dirt the one before and the umpire called a foul tip when it wasn’t close.

 

[BK360NATL]

Watching the replay of extra innings because I missed the end of the game and I just saw the strike 3 call on Gary Sanchez to end the 10 inning. What an awful call.

It was a makeup call. Check out the pitch before when Sanchez swung and missed and the ump agreed with Sanchez' protest. There was zero contact and it wasn't even close. I guess the ump thought better of it, or the 3rd base ump told him that he didn't see any contact. Either way, the next pitch close to the plate was being called a strike regardless. Gary should've been swinging. That's on him.

He may have blown his benefit of the doubt with the umps, going forward in this series. I'm hoping it doesn't carry over to them not giving him borderline strikes framed for our pitchers. Yall know baseball is a vindictive sport, esp. the umpires.