Astros at Dodgers, 5:09 PM PT, TV: Fox
It’s lefty versus lefty in Game One, as Dallas Keuchel (14-5, 2.90 ERA) takes the hill for the Astros and Clayton Kershaw (18-4, 2.31 ERA) does the same for the Dodgers. Keuchel is 2-1 in three starts this postseason with a 2.60 ERA, while Kershaw is 2-0 in his three starts this postseason with a 3.63 ERA.
I didn’t realize the two managers worked together in San Diego and are good friends.
This is the first time two 100-win teams will face each other in the Series since the Reds and Orioles in 1970 (the Series Roger Angell of The New Yorker called “The Baltimore Vermeers”).
Today in baseball history:
- 1972 Jackie Robinson, weakened by complications of heart disease and diabetes, dies of a heart attack in his home in North Stamford, Connecticut. The 53-year-old nearly-blind baseball pioneer and social activist’s death comes nine days after his appearance at the World Series, where he threw the ceremonial first pitch before Game 2 at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium.
- 1987 The Twins, amidst the deafening crowd noise of the hanky-waving fans in the Metrodome, stave off elimination when the team scores a total of eight runs in the fifth and sixth frames of Game 6 to beat the Cardinals, 11-5. Minnesota’s southpaw-swinging Kent Hrbek hits a sixth-inning grand slam off left-handed Ken Dayley to put the contest out of reach for the Redbirds.
- 1992 In Game 6, Canada wins its first-ever World Series when the Blue Jays beat the Braves at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, 4-3. Forty-one year-old Dave Winfield’s 11th inning double is the key hit in Toronto’s victory.
Lineup:
#ThisTeam // #WorldSeries Game 1:
Taylor CF
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Puig RF
Hernández LF
Seager SS
Forsythe 2B
Barnes C
Kershaw P pic.twitter.com/tpSMliW0cN— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 24, 2017
NPUT
Bittersweet story of the Dodgers’ pennant this season from SI.
There are many good things about the ‘Stros, but none of them is good enough to justify a Houston Series victory.
Sports Illustrated on Game One & Kershaw.
Heh. Thou Shalt Not Disobey Sandy Koufax.
I felt a bit sickly during the day, from what I don’t know, but this game re-energized me.
AGon on Sportsnet with Orel, Nomar, and Co!!!
Right here.
The Baton goes to youRBI — take them to a win tomorrow
Got it.
Jackie Robinson would have liked that, and I am sure that his wife, Rachel, and their children, who were all there, did.
Many others with Jackie shirts as well as mine
I said Smoltz had the postseason K record with 199. Kershaw now has 133.
I wouldn’t mind at all if he doesn’t get another chance to pitch this year
Smoltz in 209 innings, so 8.6 rate. Klayton in 113 innings for 10.6 rate.
Same time tomorrow.
with the same result
One down.
You watching delayed? 🙂
Just enjoying.
Oh games, not outs. 😉
Right
Woo-HOO!!! !!!! !
Love this!
Give yourself an upvote RBI and our lineup will be complete.
Done!
Kershaw – so so in playoffs.
Amazing in the World Series.
Congrats Bob!
and finished before classes started 🙂
Woot!
Wow!
Fastest WS game in past 25 years.
Three more to go!
oh yea
Thank you
We won!
Future person delivers!
And we win!
Puig with the two-handed!
one more
2 away.
If Belli and Puig collided. 🙁
Be scary to be a ball and have Puig chasing after you.
Jansen up in the zone.
Looking a bit wild.
That’s one!
1 away.
Not hitting the catcher’s mitt.
As well as the catchers.
Kenley Jansen.
Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap
Top of the order. Hold on to your hats!
Hope it’s quick, I have classes in 15 minutes
You had me at game
Here we go, remember to breathe everyone
Breathe? What is this breathe?
Respirar…
There is only waiting to exhale hey RBI.
😉
On to the 9th.
Come on JT, let Belli see a righty
Hey CT – how do you feel about bookend HR’S?
Nevermind.
Couple more runs would be nice.
One more inning!
Kenley time!
Let’s add first and make his appearance redundant
Where is your sense of the dramatic?
Mine is in hiding.
Quique!
Two good plays
Whew,
My exact thought.
Foul all the way.
Carried much farther than I thought
Stress time.
No to cheap HR
What an incredibly fast gain, even with the extended commercial breaks
Bullpen needs to be their dominant selves!!!
Time to go (to)Morrow!
Barnes being patient.
Ethier on deck.
A simple single will do
Logan with the BB.
Here come the pen, do do do do dah…
Let’s work them over.
Battle of bullpens now.
Well that partially makes up for the error.
Kershaw. conquers the 7th inning.
And the sixth
Player of the game thus far.
Yes, until Turner hits another homer. They then share the honor.
Who was on base when Turner hit his HR?
Mike Davis.
Nope
1988 reference.
I was guessing of that possibility .
Cool.
CT
He’s in the discussion
Kershaw is a gunslinger.
It’s the middle of the seventh, and time to mute GBA.
I am with you there.
Seems very american
Dog bless America
Hound that I love
Stand beside him and guide him
With the leash that descends from above.
Very American, just not necessary at a sporting event.
Where would be better?
Fourth of July concert.
Trump’s impeachment
Probably Kershaw’s last inning?
Would assume so.
Hugs you n the dugout, so yeah.
Kersh, way to go.
‘Stros have their own Cuban Y-guy. Saw him play in WBC in DF.
Seagrrr!
He’d make a great DH!
Fixed your picture, sir. See below.
Hoping to have returned the double play favor
Altuve is a good hitter.
Altuve deserves respect.
just back from teaching classes, great to see our lead restored
JT!!!!!!!!
The cheers for him became the loudest of the night since Vinny took over after CTS home run
Hold on, Clayton!
Bridge to Kenley
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Thanks again.
The two out walk always comes back to bite!
JT!!!!!!!!
Not quite the shot that Taylor’s was, but it’ll do.
Please sir, may we have some More?
JT!!!
Turner!
Woohoo.
Turner with the dinger!
Two out walk is a good way to beat the double play!
We are watching a classic World Series game, with good pitching on both sides.
What is this 1915?
1963, 1965, 1967, 1968.
I was thinking those same years!
Come on, Justin!
Klayton trying the Yu approach
Let’s get some runs, hmmmm?
199 career postseason Ks for Smoltz. Wow.
Well when you make it in 14 out of 15 years in a row…
True.
Chauffeur terrier indeed.
DPs are killing us.
Are you there?
No. Babysitting grandchildren so my son can be. Tomorrow!
Waiting for the bullpen. Waiting for the bullpen. Waiting for the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mXK2ohPRo
As long as it is not waiting for Godot.
Doggone it!!
Seager on. Let’s not do the double play thing again please.
They didn’t listen
Grrrumph!
I like the five pitch three out innings.
Including a K!
I like the one pitch one out at bats.
The breaks between innings have been longer than the innings themselves.
We need to you have more to cheer about and wave our towels because that creates a breeze
Astros are helping with their swing and misses
Lots of K’s but one bad pitch.
That did look like ball 4.
Make up for earlier miss that got Doc up on the steps.
Try this picture:
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Thanks Link
Es no problema.
*No es ningún problema.
Grins. I was waiting for your help.
Looks familiar
Back to square one.
Sugar!
Bunt defense nothing like the Cubbies. Don’t think they get much practice
Joe Buck’s utterly ignorant – this is the likeliest time for excessive heat in Southern California.
Yes shade.
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Wish we were there with you Bob!
When is your cap from?
Gift several years ago. Have a new one but gotta be consistent with postseason
You need to rotate your tires, too.
I think the fault lies with Disqus.
3 or 4 innings more like that would be just fine!
And more runs
Yes let’s score more.
There goes the no-hitter.
Saves Doc from some questions down the road.
It is HOT and muggy!
Looks like it.
Do you have shade?
Nuts.
That YouTube sign is a bit disconcerting. I keep wanting to touch the screen
Press play.
I want a game so one-sided that everybody but Dodgers tunes out.
Nice and easy.
19 P count.
I thought we were going to try and work the count. 😉
Work the process Taylor.
That’s what they thought as well.
Certainly making a statement with that first pitch
CT!
CT, oh boy!
Ha. I just psyched myself out for half a moment. When they went to break, I wondered to myself how the other baseball series was going.
Nope this is the only game around Dave.
Breezing through the first.
Good inning
Nice start.
You can say that again
Two easy outs!
Hoping that Springer can keep his streak intact.
K!
Here. We. Go.
Let’s get this done.
Sadly, we have to suffer Joe Buck.
Awesomely sung SBB
Fans are in blue.
And Puig with blue hair.
Buck and Smoltz wearing blue as well.
Puig gives Ward a kiss during introductions. 🙂
Does anyone cook “stadium food” on game nights like this one? Hot dogs, burgers? We’re having pizza because I can’t be bothered cutting and slicing and standing over the stove.
At this hour, I’ll have cheese and crackers, and a glass of Sauvignon Blanc (it’s hot here in the Bay Area, but not so hot as LA).
One of these days I’ll make it to LA to that French Dip place: Phillippe’s?
No idea. I only rarely visit LA, usually to catch a flight south.
We had pizza at my house as well!
I am wearing one of my two Jackie Robinson T-shirts today, not realizing that he died 45 years ago today.
I’m wearing mine as well. I’ve worn it to all five of the postseason games I’ve seen and they won four of them so far.
Bob, let’s keep that winning percentage and T-shirt wearing going. Speaking of Jackie Robinson, below is a link to a free-lance story that I did on him in 2013 for a local weekly on the Monterey Peninsula. If I shared it with you all before, please forgive me. It begins on Page 26 A and continues on Page 28 A.
http://pineconearchive.fileburstcdn.com/130426PCA.pdf
I look forward to reading it – – perhaps on the red-eye bus back tonight!
Very good reminiscence. Thanks!
You’re welcome.
Great atmosphere riding the Dodger Express to the stadium. Now in a humongous line to get into the store. I may just order my t-shirt by mail.
Dodgers in 6.
That’s what I was thinking. I think it will be 1-1, but then we will win 2 out of 3 in Houston, before winning game 6 back at home
Are we doing predictions before it all starts? (Or do we not want to Jinx things)
I like the the lineup, interesting order with Seager at 6, but I like it
Just saw the roster. Seager (yay!) and McCarthy in. Granderson and Farmer out.
Surprised about McCarthy. He hasn’t pitched in a long time. I guess he would be long relief guy if needed.
Also – I have been so excited to be corresponding via email and telephone with Scooplew over the last few weeks.
He very generously bought a Dodger shirt and sent it along with some items from the playoff game he went to this year. Check out what my son will be wearing tonight as we watch the game together tonight!
Thanks again Scoop for your kindness and thoughtfulness!!
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Next time, rotate your tires…
They were upright when I attached them.
WinnipegDave: Thanks for the shout-out. Always glad to bring joy to young baseball fans, even those who are not rooting for the Dodgers (but being a Dodgers fan adds to the pleasure). I expect you and your son to root the Dodgers to victory from Manitoba!
So exciting. I have been getting ready for this one by reliving moments from 1988. I used to love the video montages networks would do at the end of World Series (and other sports championship events). Here is the one from 88 – featuring Whitney Houston’s song (done for the Seoul Olympics that summer).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_u5SGNvXg