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.

[big'ol_freeper]

Alot of fans do not understand the significance of that fact. A good at bat.

[darkangel82]

Carmona scares the heck out of me...much more than Sabathia...he can dominate in the way Beckett can.

At this time last year, I thought I'd never hear those words spoken.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Only if you took too much from his closing appearances. He was great in setup duty. And he was young, so he had plenty of upside to build on.

[llevrok]

Baseball aside - I love saying Julio Lugo after a few beers

[Red Steel]

Alot of fans do not understand the significance of that fact. A good at bat.

10 pitches to Hafner. However, his other teammates have to follow suit to chase Beckett off early.

[Petronski]

That's nice to know, even though I had no idea who that TBS promo guy was before this thread.

He's a very funny new comedian, IMHO.

[big'ol_freeper]

All shirt...err..arm.

[big'ol_freeper]

Lofton is amazing.

[SE Mom]

Just stopping by to say GOOOOO RED SOX!!! :)

[misterrob]

The Sox have a high payroll but you can expect to see that come down. Also look at the fact that 2 infield starters are minor league developed, their closer and one set up guy are home grown and Ellsbury is also a farm system product. Lester, Gabbord (traded for Gag-Me) and Clay Buchholz gave them wins when Schilling and Wakefield got injured and Tavarez fell apart.

Buying players gets you JD Drew, Julio Lugo and Matt Clemment

[Tall_Texan]

Is Stephen King now like the Red Sox version of Jack Nicholson? Do they have to put him on camera every friggin’ game?

[GraniteStateConservative]

[big'ol_freeper]

Papi is due.

[Petronski]

I didn't even know he was pregnant.

[Semper911]

Stephen King

He lives in Maine and goes to a lot of the games. The regular season TV guys leave him alone, but the Fox guys are in love with the fact that he is there. He is also easy to find -- right behind home plate.

[nutmeg]

K from Sesame Street... got it!

I did realize they were for Beckett's strikeouts... ;-)

[nutmeg]

Carmona scares the heck out of me...much more than Sabathia...he can dominate in the way Beckett can.

Same here. And we don't really know how Schilling will be tomorrow. We NEED this game tonight...

[#1CTYankee]

Beckett is looking good, we were eating dinner and I have idea how we went from 1-1 to 4-1. what happened? How freaky is the fact I stopped to pick up some Silver Queen to go with our meal.

When I saw our local farmer planting corn in June I figured he was smoking crack, who knew I'd be eating corn in Connecticitct in mid October?

Go Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Semper911]

MANNY!!!!!!!!!!!

[GraniteStateConservative]

CC should just walk Manny every time up. He owns CC.