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Bad loss for the Astros today.  Led 4-0 heading into bottom of the 7th and lost 6-4.  Big momentum shift in favour of Yankees as they have tied the best of seven series at 2-2 and host game 5 tomorrow.  Astros looking to game 1 winner, Dallas Keuchel, to right the ship.

Dodgers doing a number on the tired Cubs pitching staff - lead series 3-0

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Big fan of Clayton Kershaw and he is easily the best pitcher in baseball during the regular season, but has come up short in the post-season in the past.  If the Astros batters can show good plate discipline (I think they had the lowest strike-out rate in baseball this season) then an upset could be on the cards.  

 

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The WS has taken a bit of a turn the past two games.  As Casper predicted, Clayton Kershaw dominated the Astros to win game 1 for the Dodgers.

Dodgers led game 2 by 3-1 after seven innings.  Astros scored one run in the 8th but still trailed by 3-2 heading in to the 9th.  This season, prior to this game, the Dodgers were 98-0 when leading after 8 innings.  Astros were three outs from heading home trailing by 2 games to NIL.  So you can guess where this is going.  Up steps Marwin Gonzalez, who has been pretty ordinary in the postseason, and hits a solo homer off Kenley Jansen - one of the games premier closers.  Game goes into extra innings and Astros win 7-6 after a few more twists and turns.

Back to Houston for three games and today the Astros won game 3 by 5-3 with nice pitching performances from their third starter (McCullers) and their long relief guy (Peacock).

Astros lead 2 games to 1 with game 4 coming up tomorrow.  No doubt plenty more momentum shifts to come.

The extract below copied from the TAB website  just now shows that the Dodgers are paying $101 to win the series by 4-1.   With the Astros having won 2 games you'd probably want slightly longer odds than that :unsure:

 

Option 2961

World Series Correct Score

No.
 
Selection
Odds
 
2 LA Dodgers 4-1 101.00  
3 LA Dodgers 4-2 6.00  
4 LA Dodgers 4-3 4.00  
6 Houston 4-1 3.75  
7 Houston 4-2 3.60  
8 Houston 4-3 5.00

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55 minutes ago, Kundalini said:

TC ...watching game 4...is it the best of 7 ??

Need to go to Yankee Stadium with 3-1 lead

Of course it won't be Yankee Stadium.....been there done that...

Home run in the 6th.......

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I said there'd be a few more momentum shifts - didn't realise they'd all come in game 5.  Wow that was some game - one of the more remarkable games in World Series history.

Dodgers led 4-0 behind Kershaw, Astros tied it 4-4

Dodgers led 7-4, Astros tied it 7-7 (three run shot from AL MVP Altuve)

Dodgers led 8-7 (error from Springer), Astros tied it up 8-8 - no doubter from Springer to atone for his error

Astros led 11-8 (Altuve double and Correa dinger)

Dodgers close to 11-9, but McCann replies with a solo homer to make it 12-9 Astros

Dodgers score three runs in top of the 9th to tie it at 12-12.

Astros win it 13-12 with a walk off single to Alex Bregman in the bottom of the 10th inning.  Bregman with an RBI in his first 5 World Series games.

Still one or two games to go and lots of very tired pitchers in both bullpens.  Could be plenty more runs and lots of twists and turns.

 

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1 minute ago, tonkatime said:

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and putting your neck on the line with some predictions. It was an enjoyable read. 

Cheers - I love play-off baseball.  I got my predictions horribly wrong with the Indians and the Dodgers (sorry Gruff), but glad the Astros prevailed.  

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