AL Wild Card Game: 10-5-21 Yankees @ Red Sox 8:08 pm EDT

[Kinsm]

Caesar's Sportsbook
$ Line: NYY -125
O/U: 8

Televised on ESPN

Yankees
1B Anthony Rizzo
RF Aaron Judge
DH Giancarlo Stanton
LF Joey Gallo
2B Gleyber Torres
CF Brett Gardner
3B Gio Urshela
C Kyle Higashioka
SS Andrew Velazquez

SP Gerrit Cole

Red Sox
DH Kyle Schwarber
CF Kiké Hernández
3B Rafael Devers
SS Xander Bogaerts
LF Alex Verdugo
RF Hunter Renfroe
CF Kevin Plawecki
1B Bobby Dalbec
2B Christian Arroyo

SP Nathan Eovaldi

[Kinsm]

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[Kinsm]

Rob Brantly isn't good enough to play in the majors during the regular season in the opinion of 30 ballclubs, but is suddenly good enough to make a post season roster....smh.

[cumberlandreds]

Rob Brantly isn't good enough to play in the majors during the regular season in the opinion of 30 ballclubs, but is suddenly good enough to make a post season roster....smh.

He will play the role of Bucky Dent and break Sawks fans hearts.

[KeefeCato]

Wish there weren't playing each other. Because I wanna see both lose. I hope Dusty wins the world series and retires. The GM in Houston wants him gone. So win or lose I would say Dusty will be out in Houston.

[Roy Tucker]

Weird seeing Rizzo in a Yankee uniform.

[Roy Tucker]

Bucky Dent is a brave man attending this game at Fenway in NY hat and jacket.

[757690]

Weird seeing Rizzo in a Yankee uniform.

Not for me. A Star Wars stormtrooper uniform would be the best fit, but this is pretty close.

[Tom Servo]

Yankees could use Luis Cessa right about now.

[mhs95_06]

Statcast version on ESPN2 is excellent. Why does Houston GM want Dusty gone?

[Ron Madden]

Rizzo in a Yankee uniform is enough reason for me to root for Boston.

[757690]

An ominous sign for the Red Sox…

The Massachusetts Lottery numbers for today were 1-9-7-8.

[Kinsm]

I’m watching Sex Education on Netflix…notify me when the Yankees have lost.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Bucky Dent is a brave man attending this game at Fenway in NY hat and jacket.

That is moxy.

[Roy Tucker]

Nice relay by the Red Sox to cut down Judge at the plate.

[Ron Madden]

Helluva Relay Throw!

[mhs95_06]

Judge hustled to first to get a hit. Then thrown out at home on a deep hit to LCF off the monster. Judge got caught not hustling in the first when he hit it off the wall and held at first. Apparently, he values beating out a single over getting a double by hustling to 2nd from home when he hits it off the wall.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Lead back to 3…

[Ron Madden]

Add on runs are good

[Roy Tucker]

Big hit by Verdugo to drive in a run. Red Sox 4-1.

Raucous crowd at Fenway. I’ve been to a couple Sox-Yankees games there and there is no love lost. First game I went to was in the early 80’s and I wasn’t used to East Coast bad blood crowds. As a midwest guy, I was like like “jeez, these people are serious”.

[mhs95_06]

Helluva Relay Throw!

The throw in from the outfield was perfect to hold the tying run(Judge who loafed to 1st thinking he just hit a game tying HR) to 1B as first priority, then Bogaerts looks up and hes he's got a good shot at home and whips it there for the big out and the tying then moves back a base as it was then the hitter up with now 2 out! Big play in the game!

[SomeCallMeTim]

Just how many nanometers does ESPNS Kzone measure when it come to strikes?

Why again are we using the same humanoid methodology since the mid 19th century?

https://media0.giphy.com/media/11LzSkQjmVXSa4/giphy.gif

[Roy Tucker]

Kzone

https://www.sporttechie.com/espn-committed-k-zone-every-pitch

“Guéziec mentions that there are three subsystems that produce the shaded, virtual box during broadcasts. The camera pan-tilt-zoom encoding subsystem calibrates cameras in real time. The measurement subsystem detects the pitch’s flight, measures the stance of the batter, and calculates if the end result is a ball or a strike.

The trajectory, or measurement component, is perhaps the most important of the three subsystems. Guéziec informs that ball’s flight data is sent to computers running a unique algorithm from three separate cameras around each Major League ballpark. These sensor cameras are typically located down each foul line and above home plate.”

[SomeCallMeTim]

Here is tonights trivia question I’ve been pondering. (Meaning I don’t know)

The AL east had 4 90 win teams this year.

Has that ever happened in any division since the 3 division system?

[Ron Madden]

Phil Nevin crushed by Yankees fans over costly decision:

The Yankees had something cooking in the top of the sixth inning in the AL Wild Card Game. They scored their first run of the game on an Anthony Rizzo home run to make it 3-1 Boston. Then Aaron Judge reached on an infield single, bringing Giancarlo Stanton to the plate with one out and the Red Sox leading 3-1.

Stanton, who crushed a ball in the first off the Green Monster, hit an absolute bullet off the wall in deep center. Nevin, who is the Yankees’ third base coach, sent Judge. Judge was easily thrown out at home by a nice relay from the Red Sox.

Given how hard Stanton hit the ball and that Judge was on first, Nevin should have known to hold Judge at third. Instead, he sent the big man to the plate, and the Red Sox got him out easily for a huge save.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/phil-nevin-crushed-by-yankees-fans-on-twitter-over-costly-decision/ar-AAPbeJM?ocid=BingNews

[Ron Madden]

Double Post

[Roy Tucker]

Here is tonights trivia question I’ve been pondering. (Meaning I don’t know)

The AL east had 4 90 win teams this year.

Has that ever happened in any division since the 3 division system?

‘78 AL East but that was when MLB was 4 divisions, not 6.

https://baseballcloud.blog/2021/09/24/divisional-diversity-4-90-win-teams-2-100-win-teams-0-90-win-teams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=divisional-diversity-4-90-win-teams-2-100-win-teams-0-90-win-teams&amp

[Ron Madden]

It's always nice to watch Rizzo strike out

[Roy Tucker]

Stanton is absurd.

HR to make it 6-2.

[Ron Madden]

Red Sox Win!!!

[Tom Servo]

Is this the end for Aaron Boone in the Bronx

[SomeCallMeTim]

‘78 AL East but that was when MLB was 4 divisions, not 6.

https://baseballcloud.blog/2021/09/24/divisional-diversity-4-90-win-teams-2-100-win-teams-0-90-win-teams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=divisional-diversity-4-90-win-teams-2-100-win-teams-0-90-win-teams&amp

Thanks Roy. Actually surprised to see that 3 90 win teams in a division has happened 8 times since the 6 division format.