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.

[raccoonradio]

>>Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Norwich, Connecticut. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Connecticut Defenders minor league baseball team. It was built in 1995 and has a seating capacity of 6,270. It is named for Eastern Connecticut native Thomas Dodd who was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut, and the father of U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd.

[mylife]

Love it! Thats a speecey spicey dawg

[dancusa]

Tom Dodd was a big-time crook. The Senate censured him in 1967.

[mylife]

Chicago has the best dawgs on the planet

[#1CTYankee]

"Schilling is at 65 pitches in 5 innings. Looks like he could go 7 if he holds up."

Schill did good, even being a Red Sox fan I expect this one is over.

Expect Dice K will be on a very short leash and the bullpen warming by the 5th.

[mylife]

Whats happened to sizemore?

[mylife]

Our bats and field are better than this.

I think Cleveland is setting Boston up for a fall tomorrow

[dancusa]

Think we'll see Gagne in the 9th?

If Francona brings him in, he could get the Grady Little bums rush out of town.

[mylife]

And this game aint over

[AGreatPer]

Shoot, I think the Steeler/Denver game is on at the same time as the baseball tomorrow. Oh well, I guess that’s why God gave us two eyes.

[SamAdams76]

Bottom of the 8th. The Red Sox might actually have a playoff game that ends before midnight.

I was just thinking, the Cleveland Indians must have the stupidest logo in all of pro sports. That grinning "Indian" looks like he's been drinking too much of the white man's rum.

BTW, those Miller High Life commercials are pretty lame. Purveyors of swill is more like it.

I heard that Eric Gagne was seen selling hot dogs outside of Fenway tonight.

[dancusa]

Both those games are in Denver. Could be a traffic and parking nightmare.

[mylife]

Steeler/Denver Pthllbbt! I wont be there

[SamAdams76]

That must be it. The Indians are purposely letting the Red Sox slaughter them tonight in order to lure them into complacency for Game 7.

[mylife]

Yeah.. thats the ticket.... Strategery

[SamAdams76]

Red Sox just got that much needed insurance run.

11-2.

[mylife]

Mind you .. the Sox have only Squeeked past the tribe prior to this

[dancusa]

Manny’s 15 game post-season streak has been broken.

[raccoonradio]

>>Both those games are in Denver

It was noted on ESPN Radio’s NLCS coverage that a World
Series game will take place in Denver on a Monday night
the same night that the Broncos host Monday Night
Football, mere blocks away

World Series
game 1 @ Bos or Cle Wed 10/24
game 2 @ Bos or Cle Thu 10/25
game 3 @ Colo Sat 10/27
game 4 @ Colo Sun 10/28
game 5 @ Colo Mon 10/29
game 6 @ Bos or Cle 10/31
game 7 @ Bos or Cle 11/1

[mylife]

This game is a fix.

Just meant to placate the fans in Boston.