Game One: Yankees at Astros, 5:08 PM PDT, TV: Fox
Two righthanders go at one another: Masahiro Tanaka for the Yankees and Zack Greinke for the Astros. Tanaka’s career postseason ERA is 1.54. Greinke has not been his usual dominant self in recent postseason appearances: he’s got a 9.49 ERA in his last three.
Game Two: Yankees at Astros, 5:08 PM PDT, TV: FS1
LHP James Paxton takes the hill for the Yankees. He’ll try to match innings with the Astros’ RHP Justin Verlander. Paxton faced the Houstonians twice during the year, giving up five runs in an April game but just one in a game in July. Verlander beat the Yankees twice in the 2017 playoffs, but of course that was a different Yankee team. He made two starts against them in 2019 for a total of 13 innings, giving up six runs and going 1-0.
Game Three: Astros at Yankees, 1:08 PM PDT, TV: FS1
The Series is tied at one game apiece. The Astros give the ball to RHP Gerrit Cole, who’s been virtually untouchable in his first two postseason starts, giving up six hits and only one run in two wins against the Rays in the ALDS. The Yankees counter with RHP Luis Severino, who went four scoreless innings against the Twins in Game Three of the Yankees’ side of the ALDS. Four innings, oddly, is the average length of the seven postseason outings he’s made in his career, posting a 1-2 record with a 5.33 ERA.
Game Four has been postponed until Thursday at 8:08 p.m. ET due to inclement weather.
Game Four: Astros at Yankees, 5:08 PM PDT, TV: FS1
The Astros send RHP Zack Greinke to the mound in the Bronx to face the Yankees’ RHP Masahiro Tanaka, who, thanks to yesterday’s rainout, will be pitching on regular rest. He’s been spectacular in his postseason appearances: 1.32 ERA over 41 innings in seven starts. Despite a quality start in Game One, Greinke was the loser as Tanaka shut out the Astros over six innings and the bullpen did the rest.
Game Five: Astros at Yankees, 4:08 PM PDT, TV: FS1
This is a rematch of Game Two with the Astros’s Verlander going against the Yankees’ Paxton. That game displayed a stark difference in the teams’ pitching philosophy: Verlander went 6 2/3 innings while Paxton came out after 2 1/3, not because he was injured or tipping pitches or getting shelled (one run on four hits), but because Yankees manager Aaron Boone trusts his bullpen more than he does most of his starters.
Game Six: Yankees at Astros, 5:08 PM PDT, TV: FS1
Both managers are calling this a bullpen game, so no “starters” have been named by either side. It’ll be a surprise!
In the face-off between domestic abusers, Chapman managed to outdo Osuna.
That was an exciting finish.
I’ll put up a World Series post tomorrow.
Astros leap out to three-run lead, Yankees get one back in Game Six.
You misspelled “Minute Maids.”
Brandon McCarthy sums it up… https://twitter.com/BMcCarthy32/status/1185768007018012672?s=20
The home team has done nothing since the first. They’re letting the New Yorkers back in.
Well then. Off to Houston for Game Six.
I watched the highlights. Both the Yanquis’ dingers were cheapies.
The Yankees are just disastrous right now. So sloppy!
Honeycutt news in non-game post above.
Astros are pulling away, big time. Yankee fans must not be pleased, to put it mildly.
Neither team is deserving.
They’re both excellent teams, each with some great players.
They may both be excellent, but neither one is deserving because both have truly odious players on their rosters. I didn’t watch a single pitch, but I note that the box score indicates that the Yanquis were a hot mess.
Four errors, all of them costly. And now it’s starting again.
Springer with the three run homer. Greinke must be thrilled.
As shaky as he looked in the first inning, I’m sure he’s pleased.
Non-game thread post above.
In happier times… https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1184182126230589440?s=20
Didn’t watch a single pitch but, perusing the box score, I notice that the teams’ DHs combined for six K’s and 10 LOB. Maybe Sabathia and Greinke could’ve occupied those spots in the order?
Interesting top of the eleventh. Ump missed a strike three, calling it a foul ball, then called a ball strike three right after, as if to balance the scales of baseball justice.
ESPN’s SportsCenter guys were amused by the apparent makeup call.
Little more of a game tonight than last night, at least thru five innings.
It’s a tight one for sure. Verlander was great. Let’s see if the Astros can score one more and hold the Yankees to two. Because I am now rooting for the Nats, I would love this series to go seven. Therefore, would like the Yankees to lose tonight. Not that I am that invested, just lightly so.
I see nobody cared enough about the Minute Maids and Yanquis to bother commenting.
Couldn’t watch or even follow. Grandbaby-sitting! Will watch tonight. I need to wean myself off of baseball.