Just now, Capn12 said:

At some point, Grandal has to shake the Postseason hex he seems to have. I knew he was bad, but I didn't know it was .120/.283/.293

Yeah, but his last atbat looked good. Fraction of an inch from making the game 6-4

1 minute ago, joesaiditstrue said:

roof closed

is that it? I have no idea.

3 minutes ago, Soxbadger said:

Having a sub 3 era earns you playoff starts. There is no legitimate argument that Lynn wasnt starting game 1 or 2. It just wasnt happening. 

Yes, but look at his home/road splits vs the Astros. It wasn't reasonable to think starting him at Houston would produce any different result than what we got.

There's no reason it couldn't have gone Giolito/Rodon/Lynn/Cease and have Kopech and Lopez to back up Rodon.

3 minutes ago, HakunaMachado said:

Happy to help bud. Now we need to win tomorrow. I need to fly in from Florida and can’t book on a moments notice!

Yup.  I’m actually in Vegas on Sunday, but plan to fly into Chicago if the timing works rather than fly home to Chicago.  Just got to hope we win tomorrow so we can plan accordingly.

Why is Pressly in this game?

1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

is that it? I have no idea.

Open or closed, Grandal's hit wouldn't have been a homer in any stadium except maybe Coors. He hit it hard, but not hard enough to hit it out with a 20 degree launch angle. 

The Astros using Graveman and Pressly is the smallest possible win in a nightmare of a game.

Just now, Marqhead said:

Why is Pressly in this game?

Astros bullpen is ass outside of him. They probably don't want us scoring anymore. 

Lynn: 3 2/3, 5 runs

Bullpen: 4 1/3, 1 run

 

We can absolutely win this series but we need to hit.

So many weak hits 

Honestly,  this all goes back to @Heads22 not making the game thread.

4 minutes ago, chw42 said:

That was all about timing. He should have read the room. You can make that trade when the other team isn't in the opposing dugout. IIRC, they had also just came back against them the night before. Just really bad timing. 

I agree with you. That was the Mariners first move of the trade deadline, too. If they dealt Graveman *after* acquiring Castillo and Tyler Anderson then the reaction to that trade would have been a lot different.

We've had quite a few duck snorts the last 3 innings.

Here we go boys.

Luis keeps hitting..........keep it going big man

Fear our potential upcoming 7-8-9, Pressly!

7 minutes ago, Capn12 said:

At some point, Grandal has to shake the Postseason hex he seems to have. I knew he was bad, but I didn't know it was .120/.283/.293

?

Is Eloy drunk?  What the hell was that?

I hope the best hitter on the Sox isn't batting 5th tomorrow

 

2 minutes ago, WhiteSoxFan1993 said:

Yes, but look at his home/road splits vs the Astros. It wasn't reasonable to think starting him at Houston would produce any different result than what we got.

There's no reason it couldn't have gone Giolito/Rodon/Lynn/Cease and have Kopech and Lopez to back up Rodon.

If you want to ignore Rodon's health issues, sure. But with his arm right now Lynn was going game 1 or 2.

Chase city for Eloy

4 minutes ago, WhiteSoxFan1993 said:

Yes, but look at his home/road splits vs the Astros. It wasn't reasonable to think starting him at Houston would produce any different result than what we got.

There's no reason it couldn't have gone Giolito/Rodon/Lynn/Cease and have Kopech and Lopez to back up Rodon.

My next 2 pitchers would be Giolito and Cease at this point. No party no disco. No fooling

At least get one run of Pressly to shake his confidence a bit.

Man up Eloy!