O/T Congrats to the Astros

[bobbyw8469]

Just to play devil's advocate, and not to take anything away from the Astros, but why the &*#$ did the Dodgers NOT start their Ace, Clayton Kershaw??? He is the best pitcher in baseball. Boneheaded move.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Just to play devil's advocate, and not to take anything away from the Astros, but why the &*#$ did the Dodgers NOT start their Ace, Clayton Kershaw??? He is the best pitcher in baseball. Boneheaded move.

I gotta disagree with you, Bobby. On 2 days rest? His last outing was hardly great - 4-2/3 IP, 6 ER

Edited to add: The Dodgers gave him a 4 run lead. He couldn't hold it. Then they gave him a 3 run lead. He couldn't hold that either.

[CollectingAmericasPastime]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Just to play devil's advocate, and not to take anything away from the Astros, but why the &*#$ did the Dodgers NOT start their Ace, Clayton Kershaw??? He is the best pitcher in baseball. Boneheaded move.

See 2016 Corey Kluber.

[Louieman]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Just to play devil's advocate, and not to take anything away from the Astros, but why the &*#$ did the Dodgers NOT start their Ace, Clayton Kershaw??? He is the best pitcher in baseball. Boneheaded move.

Easy to say after the fact. Yu Darvish, while not at the level of Kershaw, is still a top tier pitcher. He had a bad outing after a bad outing, on the platform of the world series so it's bad timing. Rumor is that he might have been tipping his pitches, too. But Kershaw clearly had not developed a reputation as a reliable pitcher in the playoffs, so it's very reasonable to expect Darvish to pitch well in that situation. You give the starter a chance, especially when the starter is very good like Darvish typically is. If you want to argue it was boneheaded to leave him in that long, I wouldn't disagree with you there.

[Leon]

As a native Houstonian I was glad the Stro's finally brought home a World Championship. I even watched quite a bit of several of the games including most of game 7 I think I missed the first two innings LOL....

[tschock]

As a long time Giants fan, I was pulling for the Astros all the way, of course. To be fair, I was regardless of the Dodgers. And ya just gotta love Correa's proposal.

[ValKehl]

2018 will be Washington Nationals' year!

[JollyElm]

Congrats to all the Astros fans out there!! I still think of them as an NL team, though. I will never get past that.

[ecRich]

Sorry Val, but my Dodgers will be back. My pain from game seven should be over by next spring.

[Jdoggs]

Congrats Houston Astros well deserved!