ALCS Live Thread: Cleveland Indians vs. Boston Red Sox

10-12-07

[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.

[pending]

Familiar from this season
We got to see Ellsbury

nope.

[Boston Blackie]

...and the do nothing part of the order is up.

[andy58-in-nh]

Frustration will do that to a team. The guys that are hitting the ball well are hitting the ball right at someone or just missing a hit. The guys that aren’t hitting....still aren’t hitting (JD Cocolugo).

[mylife]

Crisp is a speed guy.....NOT

[GraniteStateConservative]

Beckett has to keep it up to overcome the Red Sox gremlins.

Beckett will take care of business himself. He knows that all he has to do is pitch 4 more innings of scoreless ball and he has won his start. He's not counting on any help from the offense.

[GraniteStateConservative]

[pending]

I would love to see becket pull it off.
Then
Credit an emotional surge to the bimbo anthem.
Thank the Indians for giving him a little emotional edge
in the postgame
I am picturing all this, to make it happen.

So everyone can stop worrying now.

[GraniteStateConservative]

[Red Steel]

I would love to see becket pull it off.

Beckett is about as close to pulling this out as one can get. A dominant 6th.

[big'ol_freeper]

iPod!!!!!

[GraniteStateConservative]

3-1

The worm has turned. We're getting the good luck now.

[big'ol_freeper]

YOUK!!!!!

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Ugly, but we will take it.

[raccoonradio]

run scores—Sizemore has ball go off his glove—he may have had it but checked to see if Gutierrez was going to get it
3-1 SOX

[raccoonradio]

CC’s out, Papi and Manny coming up

[mylife]

3~1 Sox

Get CC off the mound

[raccoonradio]

he came out of the game right then and there...was over
100 pitches—still was sharp last inning but that was vs.
the anemic bottom of the order. Now hits by Pedroia
and Youkilis have chased him.

[misterrob]

wedgie left CC in too long

[andy58-in-nh]

Ugly, but we will take it.

Sounds like 2:00am when the bartender rings the bell. Not that I was ever in that situation.....

[GraniteStateConservative]

Lady Luck was getting bored with this series. She wants it to go 7.