Welcome to Houston, welcome to the land of the designated
hitter and welcome back to the World Series as the Houston Astros and Minute
Maid Park play host to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Three of the 2017 World
Series. The Dodgers and Astros split the two games out in Los Angeles after a
couple of crazy games to kick off the World Series and much of the same is
expected tonight in Houston for Game Three. In Game three of the series the
Astros will send Lance McCullers Jr. to the mound to face off with Yu Darvish,
the first right-handed pitcher for the Dodgers to take the mound as a starter
during this Fall Classic.
Darvish has been the Dodgers second best pitcher this
postseason behind only Clayton Kershaw so every time the Japanese-born
right-hander takes the mound you have to think that Los Angeles is confident
that they are going to win. Darvish has made two starts in this postseason
allowing just two runs while striking out 14. This will be the first time that
Darvish pitches in the World Series though in his Major League career.
McCullers Jr. was a
hero for the Astros in Game 7 of the ALCS against the New York Yankees where
the right-hander threw four scoreless innings in the victory for Houston.
McCullers pitched well in the ALCS overall throwing 10 innings and allowing
just one run and three hits with nine strikeouts consistently keeping the
Yankees bats down.
The game will be played at 8:00 pm ET inside Minute Maid
Park in Houston and can be seen on FOX. Enjoy the game, and FYI my boycott of
this year’s World Series is still going strong despite my feelings of missing
baseball. I just can’t stomach to see the Astros in the World Series after the
Yankees were so close to making it, it’s nothing personal to them. Oh, and I’m
not the biggest fan of Yankees haters like Joe Buck but I feel like I’m not
alone in that sentiment.
I heard one guy refer to John Smoltz as "Kate Upton in the booth". Exactly!
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