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Oct 20, 2017 - 10:31 AM
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ANZALDIMAN
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The Yankees have the momentum going in. But ALCS game 6 is back in Houston, and their fans are going to be up for a bounce back tonight. The Astros better be ready or they'll go home and The Yankees will advance on to play the Dodgers in the 2017 World Series. These short series are notorious for strong lineups cooling off. It's a long season to begin with and the pitching just gets better and better as you advance. Houston needs to find the business end of the power cord and plug it back in early. If not, they'll go down as yet another favorite going in that winds up having a huge letdown season. You just don't know when or if you'll get back into this position again. Houston will be under an enormous amount of pressure to grab the early lead tonight. It's an elimination game for the Astros if they lose but they put themselves in this position. I'm sure they're already well aware of that. So many things change from year to year in baseball. Free agency, down years, and injuries, injuries, injuries. The Dodgers soundly beat the Cubs in the NLCS to advance to the World Series. They deserve it. They had the best record in baseball and stepped it up in the playoffs after springing a leak toward the last lap of the regular season. A solid club all around top to bottom. The game last night was a Dodger blowout from the start. If it were a fight, it would have been stopped after the Dodgers were up 7-1. To their credit, the Cubs fans sat through the blowout until the bitter end. They wanted to show how much they appreciated their team and what they accomplished last season. The 2017 Cubs were not the 2016 Cubs. They looked tired in the postseason and Joe Maddon said as much after the game last night. They had to fight their way back into the race after a rocky start and it was a struggle they did not have to face last year. They were fortunate to get past the Nationals in the Division Series. The Cubs will go into 2018 with a lot of questions about their starting pitching and bullpen moving forward. But they made it through their window last season in grand style to win it all and reverse the dreaded Curse of The Billy Goat. That is off their backs now. A memorable year for all time for scores of long suffering Cubs fans. This year not so much. It was announced today that the Washington Nationals have fired manager Dusty Baker. The Nats will now join the list of teams looking for new field managers. The Mets are one of them. Although Terry Collins still remains with the organization with the title "assistant to the General Manager". Baker, like Matt Williams before him was not able to lead a talented Nationals squad to the World Series after several seasons at the helm.
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