Bronx bombing over Correa: Yankees vs Astros ALCS Thread

Who wins the AL Pennant?

  • Yankees

    Votes: 32 47.8%
  • Astros

    Votes: 31 46.3%
  • The Red Sox :mjlol:

    Votes: 4 6.0%

  • Total voters
    67
  • Poll closed .

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I don't understand why the Astros are starting Morton over McCullers.
Yes, the entire staff (sans Verlander) will be available tonight, but this just doesn't make much sense.

There was a good stretch during the season where McCullers was Houston's best pitcher.
The only thing I can think is that Morton held lefties to a .172 batting average this year. Or that McCullers may not be 100% healthy.

But McCullers induces far more ground balls than Morton and he misses more bats.

In any case look for the Astros to throw a shyt ton of curveballs tonight, particularly away.

As for Sabathia, he's had great success lately with his slider, but I think Houston's RHHs will be looking to turn on it quite a bit...particularly with that joke of a left field fence (what is it? 310 feet or some shyt?)
Sabathia might consider tossing in a few more change ups tonight in lieu of his sinker.
 

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Looking back, if there's one thing I think Severino needs to add to his game it's the brush back.

I don't think I saw him throw a little chin music to anybody last night (or really, all season). And I certainly would have thought he'd do it to Correa and Altuve.
When you're a 3 pitch guy (FB/SL/CH) you need to establish a little fear because there's not a lot of tricks in the bag. And Severino's slider doesn't have much sweep. There's very little right-to-left movement on it. It's closer to a splitter the way it drops down so if you're not getting that lateral movement...then the way to create it is to get players to fear being hit.
 

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