{"id":14487,"date":"2017-10-14T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2017-10-14T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:54:44","slug":"lcs-pitching-match-ups-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14487","title":{"rendered":"LCS Pitching Match-ups and predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick look at projected SP match-ups for the LCS and predictions:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the broadcast schedule with probables listed where known:\u00a0http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/postseason-schedule .\u00a0 I&#8217;m assuming the Game 5-7 match-ups would be the same as 1-4<\/p>\n<p>ALCS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game 1: NYY@Houston: <strong>Tanaka<\/strong> vs <strong>Keuchel<\/strong>. Both guys were solid in their ALDS appearances, may be a run prevention effort.<\/li>\n<li>Game 2: NYY@Houston:\u00a0<strong>Severino<\/strong> vs\u00a0<strong>Verlander<\/strong>: Verlander has been great since moving over, but Severino was no slouch in his ALDS start.<\/li>\n<li>Game 3: Houston@NYY: <strong>Peacock<\/strong> vs <strong>Sabathia<\/strong>: Sabathia&#8217;s career renaissance continues; he was dominant in the ALDS.\u00a0 Peacock is an enigma; advantage NYY here.<\/li>\n<li>Game 4: Houston@NYY: <strong>Morton<\/strong> vs <strong>Gray<\/strong>: you&#8217;d have to say advantage NYY here; Morton struggled, as did Gray, but Gray&#8217;s ceiling is higher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like Houston in 6 here.\u00a0 I think they win first two games at home, get one game in NYY then win game 6 behind Verlander.<\/p>\n<p>NLDS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game 1: Chicago@LA: <strong>Quintana<\/strong>\u00a0vs <strong>Kershaw<\/strong>: Kershaw should dominate &#8230; of course his post-season stats are awful, but Lackey is Chicago&#8217;s 5th starter for a reason.<\/li>\n<li>Game 2: Chicago@LA: <strong>Lester<\/strong> vs\u00a0<strong>Hill<\/strong>: tough match-up of lefties; if Chicago were to steal a game, it&#8217;d happen here.\u00a0 But Hill puts several big Chicago bats into neutral, and if he&#8217;s on he&#8217;s nearly unhittable.<\/li>\n<li>Game 3: LA@Chicago: <strong>Hendricks<\/strong>\u00a0vs\u00a0<strong>Darvish<\/strong>: I don&#8217;t see Hendricks taming the Chicago bats, fired up for their first home games of the NLCS.<\/li>\n<li>Game 4: LA@Chicago: <strong>Arrieta<\/strong> vs\u00a0<strong>Wood<\/strong>: Is Arrieta healthy?\u00a0 who knows.\u00a0 I think LA gets to him and steals this game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Cubs had to empty the bullpen to get through the NLDS.\u00a0 And i&#8217;m not entirely sure Wood is the LA 4th starter; it could be\u00a0<strong>Kenta Maeda<\/strong>, who threw two relief innings in the NLDS.\u00a0 \u00a0I also like LA in 6 here, maybe even 5.\u00a0 I could see LA winning both LA games, then dropping game 3, getting to Arrieta in game 4 and then having Kershaw shut them down in game 5.\u00a0 And as we saw in the Washington series &#8230; the Chicago bullpen getting from the starter to the closer is &#8230; suspect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Predictions<\/strong>: Houston in 6, LA in 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick look at projected SP match-ups for the LCS and predictions: Here&#8217;s the broadcast schedule with probables listed where known:\u00a0http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/postseason-schedule .\u00a0 I&#8217;m assuming the Game 5-7 match-ups would be the same as 1-4 ALCS: Game 1: NYY@Houston: Tanaka vs Keuchel. Both guys were solid in their ALDS appearances, may be a run prevention effort. Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[1912,35,47,2020,426,2593,2329,221,1335,44,2912,2915,2166,2773,2028,300],"class_list":["post-14487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-season","tag-alex-wood","tag-brad-peacock","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-charlie-morton","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-dallas-keuchel","tag-jake-arrieta","tag-jon-lester","tag-jose-quintana","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kyle-hendricks","tag-luis-severino","tag-masahiro-tanaka","tag-rich-hill","tag-sonny-gray","tag-yu-darvish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14495,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}