Red Sox at Astros, 5:07 PM PDT, TV: Fox
LHP Chris Sale (5-1, 3.16 ERA) tries to bounce back from a one-inning five-run outing in Game Two of the ALDS against the Rays. He’ll face the Astros’ LHP Framber Valdez (11-6, 3.14 ERA). His last outing was about as bad as Sale’s, although he lasted into the fifth inning of Game Two of the ALCS against the White Sox. He gave up four runs on seven hits in that game (which the Astros came back to win).
Today in baseball history the Yankees won their first World Series in 1923, Enos Slaughter scored as “Pesky held the ball” in Game Seven of the 1946 World Series and Ron Swoboda’s diving catch kept the Orioles off the scoreboard in the 1969 World Series:
Kirk Gibson hit a memorable HR for the Dodgers in Game One of the 1988 World Series:
And in 2017 the Dodgers’ Justin Turner emulated Gibson and hit a three-run walk-off home run against the Cubs in the twelfth inning of Game Two of the NLCS:
Lineups when available.
Red Sox:
Finally game day. pic.twitter.com/Oxew1KHI6V
— Red Sox (@RedSox) October 15, 2021
Astros:
Game 1.#ForTheH x @NationalPro pic.twitter.com/6VdmaCCjCO
— Houston Astros (@astros) October 15, 2021
Sawx coming undone in the eighth.
Things getting sadly worse, but not out of reach.
The *Asterisks* are at it again.
BoSox signed Kiki for 2 years/$14M. They got a heck of a bargain.
Not exactly what we had anticipated but, in the end, the Gnats did at least regress sufficiently. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/27606497bb19eedc320d503e1ef8f6f303b50fe6ffcc1f9589c1f21a6c8f4204.png
NPUT @ 0800 HST, 1100 PDT, 1400 EDT
Well, that was a letdown. I guess Kiké can’t pitch as well as everything else.
In the end, the Sawxpen blew it.
Quique qeeps it alive, but misses the cycle.
To digress from the matter at hand, Roberts has managed brilliantly so far in the post-season.
Yes I agree. He has really improved with experience.
Every moved has worked out. There’s always some luck involved, but you can’t quibble with the results.
In the fourth inning, Quique lacks only a triple for the cycle.
He’s hitting .632! A one-man band.
https://twitter.com/DanielBrim/status/1449187606579879939?s=20
Go BoSox.
Altuve error scores another one.
Would love for him to be the goat (not the GOAT).
Kiké!!!
Kiké rules! What a catch.
It won’t be easy to root against him in the Series.
I am all in for him.
And now he ties it up!
Quique makes a great diving catch, with bases loaded, to save at least two runs.
https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1449167206747553795?s=20
Quique starts it off!