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ALCS Live Thread: Cleveland Indians vs. Boston Red Sox
10-12-07
Posted on 10/12/2007 12:34:23 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
Game 1 @ BOSTON:
WEATHER:: Forecasts for tonight predict that the rain will cease enough to get the game in, certainly. It should be cloudy, with temperatures dipping to the mid-50s. Starting Pitchers
C. C. Sabathia (19-7, 3.21 ERA) vs. Josh Beckett (20-7, 3.27 ERA)
Game 1 LINEUPS

1. Grady Sizemore, CF
2. Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B
3. Travis Hafner, DH
4. Victor Martinez, C
5. Ryan Garko, 1B
6. Jhonny Peralta, SS
7. Kenny Lofton, LF
8. Franklin Gutierrez, RF
9. Casey Blake, 3B

1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Manny Ramirez, LF
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Bobby Kielty, RF
7. Jason Varitek, C
8. Coco Crisp, CF
9. Julio Lugo, SS
NOTES: This is the first time since the start of the three division era that the two LCS series have each matched the two best records in their league (96-66). Computer baseball sim Imagine Sports/Diamond Mind Baseball ran the 2007 ALCS 1,000 times, and the Red Sox won 59% of the time. If the Red Sox won game 1, they won the series 72.5% of the time, and if Cleveland won, the Indians won 59% of the time.
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: americasgame; baseball; indians; mbl; mlb; redsox; yankeefreealcs; yankeeslostsoxwon; yankeessuck
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To: Petronski
1,241
posted on
10/16/2007 7:32:55 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Can we start calling Fred "44" now, please?)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
Gotta love Manny’s walk as he admired his homer.
To: big'ol_freeper
Three homers in a row....!!!! Oh man, the baseball gods are up to something....
(No offense to the One True God, but baseball does have its own invisible agents...:)
1,243
posted on
10/16/2007 7:33:23 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Where were you when the world stopped turning...)
To: mylife
OK...they can stop now...I liked it better when we were up 7-0...
1,244
posted on
10/16/2007 7:33:26 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Can we start calling Fred "44" now, please?)
To: La Enchiladita
3 in a row, time for Byrd to go.
1,245
posted on
10/16/2007 7:33:37 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
To: big'ol_freeper
Pennsyltucky....
I been there. Its beautiful
1,246
posted on
10/16/2007 7:33:38 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
3 in a row? Very odd. But I’ll take it!
To: mylife

Manny's got a lot of stupid in him, hotdogging like that.
1,248
posted on
10/16/2007 7:33:54 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
To: mylife
Im Worried about the Rockies
The Indians haven't won yet. LoL!
Calm down....
To: mylife
Manny..being Manny!! This is big for game five.....
1,250
posted on
10/16/2007 7:34:12 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: RockinRight
1,251
posted on
10/16/2007 7:34:47 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: RockinRight
I’m almost three times further away than you are, and still a Tribe fan.
1,252
posted on
10/16/2007 7:34:53 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
To: RockinRight

North. Climb and keep climbing.
1,253
posted on
10/16/2007 7:35:27 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
To: La Enchiladita
Ain’t over yet!!! Go sox!
To: Red Steel
Actually I am kinda puzzled by the Rockies...usually expansion teams only make the World Series when they can beat the Yankees. < grin>
1,255
posted on
10/16/2007 7:36:22 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Petronski
So you’re a mountain man?
1,256
posted on
10/16/2007 7:36:46 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
To: Petronski
1,257
posted on
10/16/2007 7:36:49 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Red Steel
Calm down? I just telling it the way it is
1,258
posted on
10/16/2007 7:37:53 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: big'ol_freeper
Or the Tribe...
See Florida Marlins in 1997
1,259
posted on
10/16/2007 7:38:06 PM PDT
by
misterrob
(Six down, 13 more til the Pats win the SB again.)
To: Petronski
Is he in that bad shape (surgery at earliest possible moment), or is that a head fake? I doubt it's fake, cortisone shots do wonders for pain.
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