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End of season potpourri
Well, that was a fun World Series, eh? The Washington Nationals won their first championship (as either the Nats or the Expos), the Astros were denied bragging rights, and weirdness abounded—the road team won every game (unprecedented); the umpiring was comically bad at times; an assistant GM got fired; Gerrit Cole lost a game; Justin Verlander lost two games; and on a team with Cole and Verlander, the best start for Houston came from a rookie most of us had never heard of.Solid. Too bad it was one of the lowest-rated ever in terms of TV viewers. People missed out.
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on November 3, 2019 at 7:18pm | Permalink |
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Game 6: Nats win despite potentially critical blown call
Well. Ask for an interesting World Series game and the baseball gods provide.
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DC duds
A great first game. A good second one until it got silly in the late innings. A decent contest, if not a really exciting one, in Game 3. And two snoozers.
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Game 2: The schizophrenic game
For six innings, Game 2 of the World Series was much like Game 1: a tight, well-executed battle between two outstanding pitchers and pennant-winning defenses. With the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros tied at 2-2 since the first inning, every hit was tense, every baserunner potentially pivotal, every defensive play important.
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Game 1: Surprising, yet as expected
Hey, that was fun, wasn't it?
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on October 23, 2019 at 12:58am | Permalink |
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World Series primer
And then there were two.
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on October 22, 2019 at 3:08am | Permalink |
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