ALCS Game Three, 2021

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Astros at Red Sox, 5:07 PM PDT, TV: FS1

RHP Jose Urquidy (8-3, 3.62 ERA) pitches for the Astros and LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (postseason 0-1, 5.40 ERA) goes for the Red Sox.

Today in baseball history in 1950 Connie Mack retired after 50 years of managing in the big leagues, Casey Stengel was fired for being 70 years old and losing the 1960 World Series to the Pirates on Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run, Reggie Jackson homered in three consecutive at-bats in the 1977 World Series, and David Ortiz singled in Johnny Damon in the 14th inning of Game Five of the 2004 ALCS to beat the Yankees.

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26 thoughts on “ALCS Game Three, 2021”

  2. In this post-season, the next best thing to watching the Dodgers win might be seeing the Asterisks get plastered.

  6. Kiké is 2-for-3 tonight and is now hitting .514 in this year’s postseason at 18-for-35.

  9. The Turners are 10-for-63 in the postseason (.159) with two RBI, 16 Ks and one BB. To every season, there must be a Turn(er); let’s hope it arrives tomorrow.

  10. Jim Gilliam would have turned 83 yesterday. He died nine days short of turning 50 and two days before the first game of the 1978 World Series. Wills has always praised him for taking so many pitches, sacrificing his own batting average, to allow Maury to steal bases. Gilliam’s No. 19 was retired by the Dodgers, the only non-Hall of Fame member whose number the club retired.

      • From Gilliam’s bio on the Society for American Baseball Research website:
        “But James William Gilliam, while mostly ‘Jim,’ collected other names with wild abandon. He played games in the Negro Leagues under a nom de gant, ‘Frank Willem.’
        “The nickname he got from Tubby Scales, ‘Junior,’ was one he carried through much of his major league career, and the one he is best known by, until, as one of the oldest Dodgers, he found it condescending or merely anachronistic.”

  12. Not wildly enthusiastic about the ALCS, but the Sawx will always be the default choice over the Asterisks – especially with two key old friends in the lineup (and for sending Mookie west).

  13. Not wildly enthusiastic about the ALCS, but the Sawx will always be the default choice over the Asterisks – especially with two key old friends in the lineup (and for sending Mookie west).