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Title: World Series Game 5 Preview: It’s now a best of three
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URL Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ml ... ree/ar-AAJq8Jg?ocid=spartanntp
Published: Oct 27, 2019
Author: Craig Calcaterra
Post Date: 2019-10-27 17:56:54 by BTP Holdings
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World Series Game 5 Preview: It’s now a best of three

Craig Calcaterra 9 hrs ago

Before Game 1 last Tuesday the World Series was tied and Max Scherzer and Gerrit Cole were set to face off. Today, before Game 5, the World Series is tied and Max Scherzer and Gerrit Cole are set to face off. Only now, instead of a best of seven, it’s a best of three.

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The Game: World Series Game 5: Houston Astros vs. Washington Nationals

The Time: 8:07 PM Eastern

The Ballpark: Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.

The Network: Fox

The Starters: Gerrit Cole vs. Max Scherzer

The Upshot:

I imagine there will be talk about “momentum” on this evening’s broadcast, but I really wish we’d avoid that sort of thing.

Washington had momentum after Games 1 and 2 and that didn’t help. The Astros will be said to have “momentum” now, but if the Nats take two out of the next three what will that have mattered? Momentum is largely a b.s. talking point in baseball, used broadly to describe streaks that are better explained by more granular concepts such as, I dunno, “Nationals batters going 1-for-19 with runners in scoring position over the last two games.” Which has, amazingly, happened.

Hits happen. Or they don’t. The top and middle of your order — looking at you, Trea Turner, Anthony Rendon, and Juan Soto — can go completely cold over the course of two games. Your MVP candidate — looking at you Alex Bregman — will, almost always, come up big eventually. Some of it is about luck. Hitting a hard line drive right at someone instead of right past someone or getting proper hold of one instead of getting under one. The balls fell for the Nats in Games 1 and 2 and they’re not now. Likewise, the Astros bats have heated up. It’s just baseball happening. Two good teams neutralizing each other’s strengths at various points.

The only good thing anyone has ever said about momentum in baseball is the old adage about “momentum being your next game’s starting pitcher.” So let’s talk about those guys.

Max Scherzer got the win, but he was kind of a mess in Game 1. He had no command whatsoever but has such stuff and such a will that he managed to avoid major damage. We’ve seen this from him before, and quite often after that kind of outing he comes back and is the Cy Young caliber Scherzer we’ve all seen so many times. Nats fans may be feeling pretty bad today, but the game plan for tonight is pretty clear: Max Scherzer is Max Scherzer, the one silver lining from last night — Dave Martinez not needing to use Daniel Hudson or Sean Doolittle — works to their advantage, the hits that have not been falling over the past two nights actually fall, and Washington rides three pitchers and just enough offense to victory. It’s an eminently reasonable scenario.

Also reasonable, though, is the idea of Gerrit Cole not being as bad tonight as he was in Game 1.

Cole gave up five runs on eight hits over seven innings on Tuesday and the Nats should not expect that to happen again. I mean, he had allowed just one earned run in his previous three postseason starts, covering 22.2 innings and hadn’t lost in ages, so it was a tad out of the ordinary. Houston will also hope that their offense, which has been resurgent over the past two games, keeps rolling. José Altuve and Michael Brantley each have multiple hits over the past three games. Robinson Chirinos has homered in back-to-back games. It’s a talented group of hitters who, if they encounter a less-than-sharp Scherzer again, will likely make him pay this time.

Scherzer against Cole. Then Strasburg against Verlander. It ain’t about momentum. It’s about strength against strength. It’s about which of two very evenly-matched teams with evenly-matched starters and big weapons on offense execute better.

It’s about two out of three for the World Series title.


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With two home games left the Astros might make it two World Series in a row. Do we have a new dynasty?

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

From 2010 to 2014 only 2 National League teams went to the World Series, The SF Giants and the St Louis Cardinals. The Giants won the Series 3 times. But never became a dynasty. Sports is set up to help the poorest tems at Draft Time.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2019-10-27   19:42:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse, BTP, 4 (#1)

Yes, but thanks to Mr. October, free agency still favors those with the fattest wallets.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2019-10-27   22:27:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Lod (#2)

Salary caps did in teams. In the Glory Days of the 49ers, the owner was the son of a Mafia Don. He had a way around salary caps. He would put players in million dollar homes (at 1985 prices) and made millions in real estate speculation in the biggest Gold Rush in California since 1849, the real estate boom of the 80s and 90s.

Some small market teams have to play under the caps. That is what the draft is for. Get those young players and work them for a few years when they are most productive. Then trade them away. Several NFL teams are trading quality players to get under the salary caps.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2019-10-27   23:04:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

8th inning. Houston 5 to 1.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2019-10-27   23:05:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Horse (#4)

Houston 5 to 1.

Payback for the crowd chanting "Lock him up" when Trump arrived?

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2019-10-27   23:22:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Lod (#5)

Should have gone to Houston. DC fans are all civil service. Nobody else can afford a ticket to the World Series.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2019-10-28   9:22:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Horse (#6)

d.c. ticket prices

www.washingtonian.com/201...ickets-but-itll-cost-you/

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2019-10-28   9:38:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Who gives a rats ass????

Darkwing  posted on  2019-10-28   13:54:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Darkwing (#8)

Who gives a rats ass????

Only your hairdresser knows for sure. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2019-10-28   21:37:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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