chw42

This Home plate umpire is blind.

Don't put your batting gloves in your back pocket anymore...

Does the batting glove count as part of Semien's body?

The Sox couldn't get him out either. If you don't get the bottom of this Astros lineup out, good luck.

Bradford constantly pumping in 90 MPH fastballs to Yordan and Abreu certainly was a choice...

The Rangers are gonna lose these last 2 games cause they couldn't get Maldonado out.

Scherzer's stuff looks decent. This is probably as good as you can hope for if you're the Rangers.

Snell is going to win the NL Cy Young and Montgomery earned himself a ton of money by pitching well in the postseason. We're not sniffing either of those 2 pitchers.

Hedges might become useless once they have automated strike zone calls. Guy is an absolute black hole in the lineup, but frames well and plays good defense. Perez would benefit massively from not having to frame pitches, but might also be too old at that point.

I thought Lucas was for sure done with us, but seeing how badly he struggled without Katz as his pitching coach might change his mind.

I think the series will depend on how many good innings they can get from Scherzer. If he goes out there and pitches well for 4 or 5 innings today and they win, the series is theirs.

To be fair, he wasn't very good on the Dodgers last year and they definitely have good coaching and player development.

Astros are bad at home this year, but being down 2-0 is something the Astros aren't used to.

This Rangers bullpen is gonna be that team's undoing. I really don't get pitching around Abreu that much. He didn't get a single fastball.

Chapman still doesn't have a K yet this postseason

Damn the Astros pulled a NOBLETIGER

Carter saved that game for the Rangers. Big of them to win against Verlander.

We also would have had 300 meatballs call into sports radio saying Bagent should start over Fields even if Fields is healthy.

Haha and he shows the lack of arm strength.

Yup the quick release maybe let's him hang around as a back up.

Well this outta put the Bagent talks to rest. Guy doesn't have an NFL arm.

Only if Giolito pitches like he did with us and not like he did with the Angels and Guardians and Montas actually returns to form. And provided the bullpen isn't a dumpster fire. That's a lot of ifs.

The Diamondbacks and Phillies advanced cause they hit homers. Hell the Dbacks hit 4 in one inning. The Rangers and Astros advanced cause they hit homers. Homers in playoffs = good cause it's hard to string hits together against good pitching. Three true outcomes approaches work well in the playoffs. Outside of the 2015 Royals very few teams single their way to a World Series.

I feel like the Astros are pretty much a lock to win it all if they beat Texas.

For as good as the Braves lineup is their season really just got decided by Pillar, Rosario, and Grissom.