Astros now 2-8 all-time at home in the World Series... throw in that fans are more interested in the wave than the actual game... maybe we should have wished for the Dodgers (jk, Braves fans are actually respectable)
Baseball has a way of evening out. Win tonight and steal one in Atlanta. It's not as doom and gloom as everyone is making it out to be......
Its crazy how our starting pitchers have gotten hammered for 4 games where even the scrubs are hitting, then we go to our suspect bullpen and they shut them down. I know they didn't suspect Valdez of tipping but it just doesn't feel right. He's gotten hammered twice already.
I don't think he's tipping now or was he really tipping earlier? Looks to be simple to me. In his bad starts he's not locating, falls behind and they're just sitting in a hitters count waiting or walking.
I was at that game! I had the option of game 4 or game 5. Pretty happy with my pick lol. I have an epic cell phone video of the altuve home run
Totally agree with this. If he was tipping pitches then he wouldn't have had that much success in game 5, given that the same pitch-tipping theory was put forth re: his game 1 ALDS performance. He's just behind every batter the first time through the order, and that affects not only those ABs quite negatively, but forces him to show his out pitches to the other lineup sooner, so the second time through is even more brutal.
This has always been one of the things that bothered me about those saying the Stros only won because of cheating. If they were so dependent on centerfield cameras with a closed circuit to under the dugout why did the Stros perform better on the road than at home? It's not just post season but in 2017 they had a better regular season road record than they did at home.
10 games is a really small sample size in Baseball and if you're in the World Series you are playing very good teams. Valdez had no control last night. He couldn't throw his curve for strikes or locate his sinker down in the zone. He was forced to throw meatballs in hitter's counts. That changeup to Duvall was a bad idea, but I guess he threw it because he figured he couldn't locate anything else.
