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Feel like he should have known that he'd get nothing but curves.

Either our righties hit his sinker or our lefties hit the curveball. That's how we're gonna beat him. So far, not so good.

First one was a called strike right? That pitch was low.

He has the curve so far, but the slider hasn't been as good.

Yaz looked awful against McCullers in game 1. He hasn't thrown a curve yet I think. he'll go heavy curve against Grandal.

He's hittable so far, we need to score here.

McCullers leaving that slider over the plate so far.

Only 4 pitches through 3 batters isn't good...

Yoan sees McCullers better than the rest of the team.

Carlos does that all the time. He tries to throw strike 1 and doesn't go full effort on the first pitch or the game.

That was a good pitch to attack, TA just got under it.

The fears about this crowd were greatly exaggerated. They're still rowdy af today.

Had our starters just repeated their 1st innings this series we would have swept them already.

Alright now we gotta make sure he doesn't pull a Cease and lose all his adrenaline the rest of the game.

AMPED

Throw the slider. A fastball on 0-2 like that in the zone is risky.

99 There we fucking go

I'd play the infield in here against McCullers. Runs will come at a premium.

Crowd seems fine to me.

Altuve ambushed Carlos, just like some predicted.

Let's face it, if Carlos can't throw hard on the first pitch in front of a home crowd in the playoffs, his shoulder is fucked. If anything, the adrenaline alone should make him throw 95+.

What a throw by Kiermaier. Honestly, I thought going on Martinez's fly out to RF was a better bet than running on Kiermaier there with 1 out already. You don't have a whole lot to gain to get on third with 2 outs.

I hate when people say he only throws fastballs. Yeah, they're variations of a fastball, but a cutter and a 4 seamer are very very different. You'd think he's up there like Jake McGee or Richard Rodriguez throwing 94 MPH 4 seamers every pitch with the way some people talk about it, but that's not what's happening at all.

Houston was 10th in wOBA against sinkers, 2nd against the cutter, and 5th against the 4 seam fastball. It could explain why he was throwing his sinker so much in game 1, but he kept missing with it.

I hadn't seen the emails were beyond the remarks that leaked a few days ago. Must be weird to have a homophobic head coach if you're Carl Nassib.