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.

[GraniteStateConservative]

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[La Enchiladita]

I’m not rooting for either team. I enjoy seeing a good game.

[mylife]

Yall know There is to much money involved for this to end tonight dont ya?

[pending]

radio..
“the pitch..stri..ball? that pitch has been a ball all night.”

that should have been

“the pitch..stri..ball? that pitch has been a strike all night.”

radiofeed,kicks TV buttheads butt,bigtime
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[mylife]

Perez~(chief Wah00) takes the mound

[La Enchiladita]

Is Beckett going to go the distance tonight?

[misterrob]

JD Bleepin Drew?????

[GraniteStateConservative]

He’s a bases on balls machine!

[La Enchiladita]

What’re they doing, what are they banging on the dude’s legs... too funneee....

[mylife]

Perez is throwing wild in the dirt

[Red Steel]

I’d stay with him until completion.

[pending]

nobody goes there anymore,it’s too crowded

[La Enchiladita]

That’s amazing, being in the playoffs and all.
But they say he has a chance for the Cy Young...

[mylife]

Here comes Koo Koo Whiff

[La Enchiladita]

Mama! Bobbled the blooper...

[GraniteStateConservative]

Coco needs all the help he can get. Thanks Perez!

[raccoonradio]

Crispy Critter almost hit into an inning ending double play.
It was luck that got him on.

[mylife]

Here comes Koo Koo Whiff

I’ll be damned! That looked like a Sox play

[llevrok]

We're not a bunch of effete Frenchmen.

[dancusa]

Here comes Koo Koo Whiff.

Every once in a while a blind squirrel finds an acorn.