Let's all pretend that Houston if full of Trump supporters and get all upset at the Nats.
Posted on 10/30/2019 8:50:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Yes, the great Altuve showed he is human. But he can hold on to that bottom-of-the-ninth homer that sent the Astros to The Series.
It is a fact that the results of the last game played at home by the NFL’s Redskins before a U.S. presidential election foretold the winner of that contest during the period 1936 until 2004. If the Redskins won their last home game before the election, the party that occupied the White House continued to hold it; if the Redskins lost that last home game, the challenger from the out-of-office party unseated the incumbent party. And up until that 2004 election, the Redskins indicator had a rather remarkable record: Since 1936, the earliest presidential election year in which the current Redskins franchise played under that team name, the team’s results had currently predicted the outcome of 17 straight presidential contests.
Look it up!
Or words to that effect. I love it when Riggo turns up on Washington sports rsdio.
Let's all pretend that Houston if full of Trump supporters and get all upset at the Nats.
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One great running back.
He was given an error because it allowed Turner to advance from second to third. The two runs would have scored on the base hit even if he had fielded it cleanly.
Why are the virtues of Trump and the right being
posited as failures and sins by the left?
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Yes, that was great.
Aroldis Chapman, whom Altuve hit that HR off was particularly overpowering in his six years with Cincinnati. He's still pretty frightening out there with N.Y.. But I think he was a little "wilder" then.
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And won all four road games, a Series first!
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Neither team won a home game.
That’s pretty amazing.
When the best fastball pitchers were topping out at 95MPH with an occasional foray into the 98-100MPH range, a guy like Chapman who averaged in the 98MPH range was overpowering. Today, though, when half of this year's crop of relievers are throwing 98-100, Chapman is now only one among many, so the hitters have adjusted.
Chapman, however, is still unique since he's been able to maintain the speed over a long period of time. I'd be willing to bet that most of this year's flame throwers will either be out of professional baseball or having major surgery within a year or two. The difference is mechanics. Chapman's mechanics, like Nolan Ryan's or Tom Seaver's, use the whole body. They don't stress the arm as much as today's kids, who are taught to throw as hard as they can, but not how to do it.
(I guess you know that.)
Have a long cold winter without baseball.
one run would have scored...Robles was held at third ..then sent home after the ball was booted...
Sure but it was before my time. Earliest series I have any recall of is the Amazin Mets championship of 1969. I was actually at game 6 in 1993. I was in the cheap seats and the tix were $30 Canadian back then. No way I could attend these days.
It was the exact opposite of the 1991 world series where the home team won every game.
THIS ^^^^
It's good advice generally.
The last time Washington DC had a World Champion was so long ago that the Nationals’ 94-year-old owner, Ted Lerner, wasn’t even born yet. (It was 1924.)
This is the first best-of-seven series in any sport in which the visitors won all the games.
The Nationals faced elimination fie times. In all five of those games, they were behind at some point, and they won all five.
On May 23, they were 19-32. On the train from New York back to DC, manager Dave Martinez told them “just go 1-0 tomorrow.” Well, “go 1-0 today” became their mantra.
Congratulations, Nationals!
The sabermetrics guys will tell you there is no such thing as clutch. Well, tell it to Howie Kendrick, the best clutch hitter I’ve seen, with the possible exception of Yogi Berra.
When they won in 1924, Coolidge was president. He was re-elected the following month.
As George will once wrote, “Football combines the two worst elements of American life. It’s violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
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