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Originally posted by TXJIM:
My sister had two extra tickets last night and invited me to bring one of my boys.. Unable to choose between the boys, I decided to take them both. I drove them over to Houston, had my sister and her husband escort them to their seats and then meet up with them after the game and walk them out. I watched the game across the street on TV. We got home to Austin at 4:00 AM.
For 11 and 13 year old boys that both love the game, they got one heck of an experience. I hope that long after I am gone my son's will talk about going to that game together when they were kids.

That's a money move dad.


As a hard core Giants fan, I want to see the Dodgers lose. I hope Verlander and the Astros can wrap it up in game 6. I don't want to see Kershaw pitch game 7 even on short rest. Astros need bullpen work. But goes to show that with good drafting you can go from really bad to 27 outs away from WS champs in a few seasons. With this young team and maybe another starting pitcher and some bullpen studs they could be good for a few years and put a good run together. Like the Giants in the first half of this decade.

I'll be the dissenting voice. It is not the kind of baseball I like.

I prefer baseball where there is more baseball, and less home run derby. More pitching, strategy, base running, and careful batting. A 4 to 2 game seems right to me.

Maybe some of that is because I watched a lot of baseball in the Astrodome, which was 400 feet to center field, and 340 to left and right. There weren't many home runs.

It was fun to watch, but isn't my favorite style of baseball.

Go Astros.

It was a great game, but it was brutally long. At the conclusion of 9 innings, the game was 5 hours long. I was among those who watched that long, but couldn’t stick it out for the extra innings.

I expect a World Series game to run long—every run could decide the game and then the Series, but jeez...

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I'll be the dissenting voice. It is not the kind of baseball I like.

I prefer baseball where there is more baseball, and less home run derby. More pitching, strategy, base running, and careful batting. A 4 to 2 game seems right to me.

Maybe some of that is because I watched a lot of baseball in the Astrodome, which was 400 feet to center field, and 340 to left and right. There weren't many home runs.

It was fun to watch, but isn't my favorite style of baseball.

Go Astros.

I agree with that, but these are the style games that are emphasized these days, long ball hitters, not much hit and run, or base running.

The score last night might have been for Sunday Night Football.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I'll be the dissenting voice. It is not the kind of baseball I like.

I prefer baseball where there is more baseball, and less home run derby. More pitching, strategy, base running, and careful batting. A 4 to 2 game seems right to me.

Maybe some of that is because I watched a lot of baseball in the Astrodome, which was 400 feet to center field, and 340 to left and right. There weren't many home runs.

It was fun to watch, but isn't my favorite style of baseball.

Go Astros.

Also prefer a quality pitching duel.
Happy with the outcome though.
AND even though I am not a Texan fan > FUCK those inmates!
Tired of the NFL shit ~ good to see baseball again.

The second-longest World Series game in history is also the second highest-rated Game 5 since 2003.
Sunday's Game 5 of the World Series — the last to be played in Houston and the second-longest on record — climbed again on Sunday night, trouncing NBC's typically dominant Sunday Night Football in the process.

Early indicators have the Astros' 13-12 win taking the No. 1 spot for primetime — averaging a 12.8 overnight rating among households. That's off 16 percent from the comparable Game 5 in 2016 but still the second-biggest Game 5 since 2003. It also easily ranked as the biggest World Series game of 2017 thus far.

Last year's Game 5, which kept the Chicago Cubs in the running for their ultimately historic World Series win, averaged an initial 15.3 households rating in early returns. That number translated to 23.6 million viewers, a series best at that point, and an enviable 6.7 rating among adults 18-49. The 2016 Game 5 managed to topple the NFL by a stunning margin, pulling in 32 percent more viewers.

As for Sunday Night Football, the Pittsburgh-Detroit game had little chance of improving on the previous week's appearance from the New England Patriots. The game dropped to a 9.4 overnight rating. That's also down significantly from the comparable weekend a year ago.

What's particularly incredible about Sunday's World Series game is the stamina the audience had, even with the bloated run-time. The game ran a whopping 5 hours and 17 minutes — stretching well past midnight on the East Coast. Viewership, it seems, did not drop off after 12 a.m.

The series, now 3-2, returns to Los Angeles on Tuesday night with the Astros now within one win of their first World Series victory.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I'll be the dissenting voice. It is not the kind of baseball I like.

I prefer baseball where there is more baseball, and less home run derby. More pitching, strategy, base running, and careful batting. A 4 to 2 game seems right to me.

Maybe some of that is because I watched a lot of baseball in the Astrodome, which was 400 feet to center field, and 340 to left and right. There weren't many home runs.

It was fun to watch, but isn't my favorite style of baseball.

Go Astros.

I agree with that, but these are the style games that are emphasized these days, long ball hitters, not much hit and run, or base running.

The score last night might have been for Sunday Night Football.

As a Titans fan, our team only wishes they had that much offense.

There is plenty to appreciate in a high scoring game that began with a CY Young award winner on the bump for both teams. Neither pitcher had their best stuff, they both battled. Both managers used almost every pitcher and position player eligible to play trying to stop the next surge by the other team. There was plenty of strategy, plenty of tough decisions to be made and a whole bunch of clutch hitting under intense pressure. I don't care how long the game went on, it was intense and action packed from the 1st pitch to the last. 1 to 0, 13 to 12......both are beautifully unscripted and no team can sit on the ball and run out the clock.

yeah , great game , but the out fields are 40 feet too short.

the excitement of the game felt much like last years cubs game , to me

It was a brilliant managerial move to insert that pinch runner for the tired catcher (McCann?). That allowed the fresh, pinch runner to score on a close throw to home.

I watched the entire game and I'm neither a big baseball fan nor fan of either team.

Go Stros!

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Originally posted by Russ59:
It was a brilliant managerial move to insert that pinch runner for the tired catcher (McCann?). That allowed the fresh, pinch runner to score on a close throw to home.

I watched the entire game and I'm neither a big baseball fan nor fan of either team.

Go Stros!

Catchers are not generally the fastest guys on the team, tired or not.

I wonder what he would have done if the game had continued. The back up catcher was the DH, and IIRC, can’t be moved to position player.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
It was a brilliant managerial move to insert that pinch runner for the tired catcher (McCann?). That allowed the fresh, pinch runner to score on a close throw to home.

I watched the entire game and I'm neither a big baseball fan nor fan of either team.

Go Stros!

I didn't stay up for the entire game but watched highlight of winning run. I'll assume the pinch runner was who scored the winning run. It seemed stupid that the runner on first during that play didn't just stand on first. If he'd have been put out at second before the run scored, the inning is over.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by Russ59:
It was a brilliant managerial move to insert that pinch runner for the tired catcher (McCann?). That allowed the fresh, pinch runner to score on a close throw to home.

I watched the entire game and I'm neither a big baseball fan nor fan of either team.

Go Stros!

Catchers are not generally the fastest guys on the team, tired or not.

I wonder what he would have done if the game had continued. The back up catcher was the DH, and IIRC, can’t be moved to position player.

The Astros are carrying 3 catchers during the series, with Centeno being the 3rd man. He wasn't used in the game last night so he'd have been the one to take over for McCann most likely.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:


I didn't stay up for the entire game but watched highlight of winning run. I'll assume the pinch runner was who scored the winning run. It seemed stupid that the runner on first during that play didn't just stand on first. If he'd have been put out at second before the run scored, the inning is over.

He can't stand there. He has a runner (the batter) coming up behind him. The force out is in effect at second until he gets there.

pbslinger...there were runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs. Therefore with ANY sound of the ball on the bat, they would be off and running and the likelihood of getting a force out at 2nd or 3rd was practically zero. holdem is correct...first base was occupied so the runner on 1st HAD to advance. Since the play at that point is to home plate, that's where the throw went from the outfield resulting in a safe play and the runner on 1st advancing to 3rd and Bregman going to 2nd. As soon as the play at the plate was safe, though, the game is over and it's a mute point where the runners wound up, hence Bregman just kept running.

BTW, TXJIM.....GOOD ON YA!!!! Man...that's a GREAT dad right there!!!

As a Tigers fan, I hope Justin Verlander gets a WS title. As a baseball fan, I hope he has an excellent complete game shutout.

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Originally posted by TXJIM:
My sister had two extra tickets last night and invited me to bring one of my boys.. Unable to choose between the boys, I decided to take them both. I drove them over to Houston, had my sister and her husband escort them to their seats and then meet up with them after the game and walk them out. I watched the game across the street on TV. We got home to Austin at 4:00 AM.
For 11 and 13 year old boys that both love the game, they got one heck of an experience. I hope that long after I am gone my son's will talk about going to that game together when they were kids.

Well done TEXJIM. Those boys will always remember that game.

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Originally posted by Veeper:
As a Tigers fan, I hope Justin Verlander gets a WS title. As a baseball fan, I hope he has an excellent complete game shutout.

Thanks Veeper, a lot of respect for the above.
There are some former Astros who I wish had been able to get a championship after we foolishly traded them away. Verlander is an amazing talent! I hope he has a great night too!

Go Stros

What a game 5 and game 2!!

HK Ag

I'm a Washington Nationals fan, saddened by their now-annual meltdown. Cubs fans will understand.

So I have no dog in this hunt, but this has been a fun Series to watch. Combine that with my total boycott of anything NFL, I'm cranking up the "I'm gonna binge on Netflix" mode for when it's over.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
pbslinger...there were runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs. Therefore with ANY sound of the ball on the bat, they would be off and running and the likelihood of getting a force out at 2nd or 3rd was practically zero. holdem is correct...first base was occupied so the runner on 1st HAD to advance. Since the play at that point is to home plate, that's where the throw went from the outfield resulting in a safe play and the runner on 1st advancing to 3rd and Bregman going to 2nd. As soon as the play at the plate was safe, though, the game is over and it's a mute point where the runners wound up, hence Bregman just kept running.

BTW, TXJIM.....GOOD ON YA!!!! Man...that's a GREAT dad right there!!!

My baseball brain farted. He needs to get to second before any potential throw, but he rounded second maybe when he should have stayed. Rounding risked a put out if they'd have played him instead of at home. Does it matter if first is occupied if the hitter never arrives as in doesn't run to first? Maybe the batter and the guy on first shouldn't have run since they were insignificant as far as scoring.