World Series Game 4 at Phillie

Altuve's bat is almost as big as Altuve.

Nola pitching for Phillie. Altuve pops up for the 1st out of the game. Nola strikes out Pena, for out #2. Alvarez behind in the count, 1-2.  Evens the count and gets a base hit to right center .

Cristian Javier pitching for Houston. Down goes Phillie.

Tucker with a lead off double.

Astros can't seem to score with a runner in scoring position and two outs.

Must be suiting up a bunch of Brewers.   Oh wait, the Brewers couldn't score with a guy in scoring position and 0 outs.   Unless a home run was involved.

Javier bringing the heat, tonight.

McCormick and Altuve both get hits, with nobody out, and Alvarado is warming up in the Phillies bull pen.

Pena flubs a bunt and then gets a base hit, loading the bases. Nobody out in the top of the 5th inning. Pitching change. Alvarado in for Nola. Yordan Alvarez up to bat and gets hit by a pitch! Houston scores the 1st run of the game. Bregman at the plate.

Bregman doubles on an 0-2 pitch. Two more runs score and it's 3-0 Houston with nobody out. Tucker at bat. Sacrifice fly to deep center scores Alvarez. Bregman to 3rd base. 1 out. Yuli Gurriel at bat.

Gurriel singles to right. Bregman scores. 5-0 Astros. Vazquez at bat. Vazquez strikes out. 2 outs. Diaz batting. Gurriel steals 2nd base. Diaz strikes out. Phillies coming up.

Dusty Baker seems to want his starting pitchers to get 5 innings in, before he pulls them. Javier pitching in the bottom of the 5th to Bohm.

Home plate ump's calls have been on the money. Phillies batters giving him the glare on their strikeouts.

Announcer says Javier has now pitched 5 no hit innings. He does not look tired, at all.

Baseball's "Stand Up To Cancer" event at the end of the 5th inning was powerful. Wish I had two of those signs.

Andrew Bellatti pitching for Phillies, in the 6th. McCormick batting. McCormick strikes out. Altuve up. Hits a towering fly ball to Schwarber in left field.

Pena up.1-3 tonight. Pena ends the top of the 6th flying out to left.

Javier pitching in the 6th. Abreu starting to warm up in the Astro's pen.

This could be Javier's last inning. Looks like he is getting tired, now.

Robertson, pitching for Phillie, gets two outs, walks Tucker and then gets out of the inning on an infield pop up.

Bryan Abreu pitching for Houston in the bottom of the 7th. Realmuto batting. Abreu strikes him out on 4 pitches.

Harper up. Harper strikes out. Castellanos at bat. Castellanos strikes out. To the top of the 8th, we go.

Eflin pitching for Phillie. Strikes out Vazquez. Diaz, 0-3 tonight, at bat. Diaz strikes out. McCormick batting and he strikes out. Montero warming up, in the pen, for Houston.

Montero pitching.  Bohm at bat. Full count. Bohm strikes out. Stott up and flies out. 2 outs. Segura lines one to right field but right to Tucker. End of the inning.

There's obviously been only one no-hitter in World Series history and that was in 1956. It will still be cool to see, but even if it happens it's just not going to be the same as a complete game no-hitter like Don Larsen.

Hand pitching for Phillie. Altuve up in the top of the 9th.  Altuve grounds to Stott, easy out. Pena up. Pena hits it up the middle for a base hit. Alvarez up. Alvarez out on a fly to left center.  Bregman up. Pops up and is out. Marsh, Schwarber and Hoskins due up in the bottom of the 9th.

Ryan Pressly trying to close it out for Houston. Marsh up. Chases one low and strikes out. Schwarber at bat. Full count. Walks. First walk, for Phillie, since the 3rd inning.  No hits yet. Hoskins up. Hoskins flies out to Tucker. 2 outs. Realmuto up. Hits it to Bregman at 3rd base and is thrown out. A World Series No Hitter!! Series now tied at 2 games apiece. Game 5, tomorrow night, in Phillie at 7:00pm CST.

Good stuff, tundra.

@Blair Kiel posted:

Good stuff, tundra.

Thanks, BK!

Get a freaking room

@ammo posted:

Must be suiting up a bunch of Brewers.   Oh wait, the Brewers couldn't score with a guy in scoring position and 0 outs.   Unless a home run was involved.

I don't know how many base runners the Brewers left stranded, this past season, but it has to be a lot. A lot of games lost with runners left on base. The Phillies gets past both the Padres and us, to advance to the playoffs and now the World Series. If the Brewers last half of August and first half of September had been better, things may have been different. The Brewers need a pitching staff and reliever staff like Houston has, to get into the playoffs. Now the talk is that either Burnes or Woodruff may be gone, by next season.

Game 5 has Verlander going up against Synndergard, unless there is a change.

@mrtundra posted:

Bregman doubles on an 0-2 pitch. Two more runs score and it's 3-0 Houston with nobody out. Tucker at bat. Sacrifice fly to deep center scores Alvarez. Bregman to 3rd base. 1 out. Yuli Gurriel at bat.

These are 2 AB's you would have never seen from the Brewers.  Bregman shortening his swing on 0-2 and lining a hit to right field - Brewer hitters would have been swinging for the fences even if it's an 0-2 count.   Sac Flies weren't real big with the Crew this year either.

@mrtundra posted:

I don't know how many base runners the Brewers left stranded, this past season, but it has to be a lot. A lot of games lost with runners left on base. The Phillies gets past both the Padres and us, to advance to the playoffs and now the World Series. If the Brewers last half of August and first half of September had been better, things may have been different. The Brewers need a pitching staff and reliever staff like Houston has, to get into the playoffs. Now the talk is that either Burnes or Woodruff may be gone, by next season.

You need to get really lucky and get a bunch of these types of pitchers pre-free agency on the same staff. The Brewers had Hader, D. Williams, Burnes, and Woodruff all at the same time on cheap deals and couldn't get it done. There are a lot of things that contributed, but the key date was September 10, 2019. That's when Yelich fouled that ball off his knee. He's never been the same since and the Brewers ceiling cratered. Sure, they had a good season in 2021, but I never felt the way I did watching them like I did in 2018-19.

It happens to other teams as well, but when your best player becomes a shell of himself in his prime and you budgeted 20% of your salary cap on him to be a superstar, this is what results. The Brewers title window is probably closed as long as the Yelich contract is on the books. At least Cain's contract is off the books now, because over 40 million for Cain and Yelich last year likely helped drive the Hader trade.

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