Oct
01
ALDS Game Thread: Rays @ Rangers
ByHow will Jamie Shields follow up Matt Moore’s stellar performance in Game One? Meanwhile, Derek Holland will be charged with keeping Texas out of a two-zip series hole. Game is scheduled to start at 7:07pm ET on TNT, and you can talk about it right here.
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Shoppach walks, 1-0 Rays.
Jeff Mathis would have caught Shoppach’s foul tip and would have kept the Rays off the board.
Sciosca’d
Rays or Rangers? I’d rather face the Rays. U?
I’d rather face Texas. Shields, Price, Hellickson, and Moore scare the living shit out of me. Plus, they’d be on a huge roll if they make the ALCS.
But their offense is MLB AVERAGE! Texas has the 3rd best in the AL. Plus, WIlson, Holland, Garrison, and Lewis aren’t bad. Did I mention the awesome hitting?
Did you not see last year’s WS?
Giants had an average offense and great pitching.
Valid point.
A great offense can get shutdown by great pitching. Say what you want about Wilson, Holland *Harrison, and Lewis but I think most can agree that:
Shields+Price+Hellickson+Moore>>>Wilson+Holland+Harrison+Lewis
Big Game James CGSHO, you heard it here!
Holland shitting bricks out there.
What % chance of a CG from Shields? Probably 35, at least.
I have no idea the %, but I’m calling a CGSHO!!
Texas went 15-4 against Seattle, 13-6 against Oakland, and 12-7 against Anaheim this year, I believe.
That’s roughly a 40-17 record against a weak division. Inflated record some?
Defiantly. That also applies for the Tigers.
3-6 vs Detroit
2-7 vs New York
5-4 vs Tampa Bay
You can make that 5-5 against Tampa Bay which includes yesterday’s game, but you get the idea.
Rangers must be pissed all their soft groundballs aren’t hits this year.
Rays have a chance to eliminate the two most annoying teams in baseball.
Is anyone else having problems w/ the TNT & TBS HD feeds??
I’m in Cali.
Rays look absolutely dominant right now. Still, I would rather face them in the ALCS than the Rangers.
Doug Fister is basically Brandon McCarthy.
Think I would have preferred Smoltz’s career to 9 Alexander wins.
Hah. Of all those “Eight ways to have productive AB’s”, how many of those wouldn’t actually count as an AB?
They showed the list quickly, but I saw BB, HBP, sac fly, among others…
Does having a 10+ pitch AB without reaching base count as a productive AB?
This is the basis for the stat I invented this year, the Good At-Bat Average (GABA).
Interesting. Do you know who has the best GABA out of all the MVP candidates? Just wondering.
7 pitch AB was on the list so I assume yes.
actually it was 8 pitch ab, this was the rest of the list:
1. Hit
2. BB
3. HBP/C. Int
4. SAC Fly
5. SAC Bunt
6. Advance Lead Runner Via Out
7. Advance Lead Runner Via Error
8. 8 pitch AB
Team goal is 17. (not sure what that means)
Probably means if your team gets a combination of 17 of those your team is likely to win (of course if your pitching shits the bed then it may be irrelevant).
And oddly enough four of those (BB, HBP, SAC Fly, and SAC Bunt) don’t count as an at bat.
Only 1, 6, and 7 are guaranteed to be AB’s.
I know I’m nitpicking the hell out of this, but it’s just as easy to make a list and say productive PA’s instead of AB’s.
It’s fair to nitpick this because TBS should know that not all of those are at bats. This game is being Nationally televised. They should know the difference between an at bat and a plate appearance.
I think it said “8 pitch AB.” And where’s the cutoff point? Is 7 pitches not productive. Why not 10? Hell… maybe they can go to 11?
/thisisspinaltap’d
I’m guessing the minimum was eight just because it was the eighth item on the list.
Yay for parallelism.
Even though many times those can end up not being AB’s either.
I guess that’s just Texas getting to the head of the Rangers hitting coach, whoever that is.
I fear we many have created a momentum monster in the Rays.
I thought you guys denounced momentum.
It can turn in any AB… but they seem to have it right now.
Better them than the Red Sox.
That monster was created by the Red Sox, back when they met at the Trop.
Blame them. And laugh at them for creating the monster that knocked them out of the playoffs.
wow longoria is a career .195 hitter during the playoffs and they called A-rod unclutch??
I think most of that un-clutch label came from when A-Rod was like 0 for 20 something in the playoffs when there was at least 1 runner on base for a long period of time.
that’s the most obscure and stupid stat i’ve ever heard. The fact that he was judged on that stupefies me
Why? He’s the cleanup hitter that gets paid 20+ and sometimes 30 Mill a year. He should be able to hit with runners on base, not go 0 for 20 something. I’d love to see if Derek Jeter has ever done that in the Postseason.
With ARod “they” (MSM?) basically arbitrarily started counting his stats from Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS
He was mashing up until that game in the ALDS and ALCS but it didn’t fit the narrative (he also hit well before that year in the postseason). It’s bad enough to rely on small samples, but it’s even more ridiculous when you decide to start the sample in the middle of a postseason series because it suits the media’s needs.
The Phillies/Cards game is starting to get interesting…..
2 run dinger for Joyce, a BOMB. 3-0 Rays.
Those Rays really want this…
Still don’t know why there were people who wanted to avoid Texas. They haven’t done anything offensively. Sign me up for Montero, Jones, Swish and Teix from the right side vs overrated Texas lefties any day of the week.
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I wanted the Yankees to play the Rangers this series, bad.
Texas with their best chance to make something of this series right now.
They better make it count.