ngl, this one hurts.

houston is -225 on 5dimes

Here's why I keep calling you a ****ing idiot.

You keep trying to argue against positions that I did not take and then calling me wrong. You know what that's called? Find me one instance where I said that Encarnacion was good?

lol nice

ha that's awesome

altuve is such a stud

lol

When did the yankees have a man on 3rd and no outs in this series and not score?
Pretty sure it never happened but i could be wrong.

Alverez was 1 for 25 or so and guriel was 1 for 20 before tonight so what the hell are you even talking about?

JOBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It's classic winning bias. People overrate players on teams that won regardless of how they performed. No one is going to remember that Alvarez was an automatic out this series because his team won. And people underrate players on teams that lost and attach false narratives to why they lost.

For the entire series the Astros scored 1 more run than the Yankees, and they only did so because they sequenced their hits better and got the 3-run homerun more often.

For all of LFC's incoherent ramblings about how the Yankees always strike out, the Yankees actually hit .214 this series to the Astros .179, and outhomered them, 10-8. Based on those numbers alone, the Astros would not be expected to win the series. Now of course the Astros had a more talented roster and far superior starting pitching, but that isn't the point I'm making.

Now watch LFC make another strawman about this post.

You're 100 percent right.
Arod would go 1 for 12 while 6 other guys also sucked, the pitching sucked Yankees would lose and he was the biggest choker ever.
Mookie Betts was absolutely terrible for all 3 rounds last playoffs but Boston wins so not a word is spoken of it.

His crap about always striking out w risp in the middle of the game rant was even more absurd bc they had struck out once with risp the entire game and it was on a terrible call.

People also tend to look at things through only the eyes of the team they root for. So EE and Sanchez are trash this series, he says that Houston doesn't have anyone that bad when they had 2 guys just as bad. He also obviously just makes up nonsense about Stanton looking useless this series.

Bregman who is a great player, hit a piddly ground ball with no outs and first and third. This was some amazing accomplishment according to LFC despite the fact the Yankees never stranded anyone they had on 3rd base with 0 outs the entire series.

Bregman was 3 for 18 this series. What would LFC say about him if he was on the Yankees?He'd call him trash who beats up on the Royals and Tigers all year.

Imagine going an entire decade without a World Series appearance

You're right on Encarnacion. I actually said guys like him can have good regular seasons and therefore having a Stanton was not a pressing need.

What I was going on about was when it's painfully obvious guys are having terrible at bats in the postseason you cant just keep putting them out there. Sanchez, Encarnacion and Stanton looked completely lost as did Alvarez who I was calling the easiest out in the series over and over again since like game 2. Neither of those players are all star elite level where they can look that bad and still just be penciled into the lineup every night. That was my point. Not saying you had Encarnacion as an MVP but that you're unwilling to shake things up just because of regular season numbers. Alvarez was a great case of this for Houston. As a yankee fan I always wanted him up in big spots and Hinch appears to have finally recognized that. There were plenty of man on 3rd 1 out they didnt score. And it was pretty much the difference in all the games they didbt win 7-0

Maldonado was the unsung hero framing those pitches to fool the dumbass ump instead of Chirinos bouncing around back there

CLAIM BY LFC_USA

RATING

Mostly False

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED

Yankees plate appearances this series: 228

Yankees plate appearances this series with man on 3rd less than 2 outs: 3

Game 1, top 9th, Yankees leading 6-0, Gleyber Torres vs Bryan Abreu, 2nd and 3rd 1 out. Torres hits RBI groundout to short.

Game 4, bottom 5th, Yankees trailing 3-1, Gleyber Torres vs Ryan Pressly, bases loaded 1 out. (after Pressly had relieved Greinke with 1st and 2nd, 1 out and walked Hicks) Torres strikes out, as does Encarnacion to end the inning.

Game 5, bottom 1st, game tied 1-1, Giancarlo Stanton vs Justin Verlander, 2nd and 3rd 1 out. Stanton strikes out but Aaron Hicks follows with a 3 run homer.

ANALYSIS

LFC_USA's claim that the Yankees failure to score with men on 3rd less than 2 outs "was pretty much the difference in all the games they didbt win 7-0" is dubious at best. Without taking into account the Yankees game 5 victory, which technically was a game they didn't win 7-0, there was just 1 (one) situation in the 4 (four) Yankees losses where this situation arose.

Granted, this was an important situation that factored into their game 4 loss. However, to attribute the series loss to this problem is faulty at best, and some truly **** ass posting at worst.

Perhaps the clanging of the keyboard while posting the same nonsense for 6 straight games affected LFC_USA's cognitive abilities. Or perhaps the masturbation to Austin Romine distracted him and he started fantasizing about Gary Sanchez striking out with the bases loaded no outs to justify his delusional rantings.

Regardless, we hope that LFC_USA gets the help he needs in order for him to become slightly less of a drain on this forum and society at large.

This is a good post. Respect.

But still in the two games that weren't 6-0 the guy up with 1 out and a man on 3rd was 0 for 2 with 0 rbi. Not a huge sample and that wasnt one of my main points just got argued into it but fair. Small sample.

The yankees had men on base all series though and couldn't drive them in. Obviously you don't expect guys to get hits everytime but Sanchez and Encarnacion and to a lesser extent Stanton seemed to come up and look horrible every time they found themselves in that opportunity. They left a combined 22 men on base and struck out a bunch. I know eye test is frowned upon around here but its not just that they made outs in those spots wrt those 2 but that they didnt even look close to making contact or having a good at bat

Brag: lol eddy
Beat: txdome
Variance: go nats

Houston going to a championship while Harden watches and doesn’t play is really the only way it’ll ever happen

so you said it happened plenty of times and it happened twice all series. and it NEVER happened with a man on 3rd and no outs which is the situation brgeman was in when he grounded out. and one of the 2 times it happened the next guy hit a 3 run home run.

this is why the stuff you say is so infuriating. you're just making **** up and ignoring the fact houston players this series were just as worthless as EE and Sanchez.

I mean it's fine to say EE and Sanchez were absolute trash this series. It's not fine to say Houston won bc none of their guys were trash. It's not fine to lie about what Stanton did in his abs. It's not fine to watch the Yankees not get a hit with 2 outs and a man on second and then when Bregman hits a ground ball to score a run with no outs say "see the Yankees always strike out with RISP nand Houston always comes through".It's not fine to say the Yankees never get the run in there when there was never a situation where they didn't score man on 3rd no outs this series.

"There were plenty of man on 3rd 1 out they didnt score. And it was pretty much the difference in all the games they didbt win 7-0"

Literally 1=plenty.

yeah I mean I'm just busting your balls, I agree about the men on base, they were 3/24 over the last 5 games with RISP, cost them against Cole and Greinke, cost them last night. Lot of it was with 2 outs though

On the plus side I doubt we'll see Encarnacion in a Yankees uniform again, although actually my eye test is the reason I didn't 100% hate him because to me it seemed like he had some decent at bats/swings.

Stanton I agree I didn't have a great feeling when he came to the plate, hopefully he can stay healthy in 2020. Although they were 5-0 when he played and 0-4 when he didn't so I guess he was their good luck charm

Having most of the lineup that either strikesout or hits dingers isn't good for driving in teammates who can actually get on base.

haha amazing gif