The Astros were not a stolen base team during the regular season. Rays outfielder Manuel Margot overslid the bag in ALDS Game 3. One of the four caught stealing wasn't even a real caught stealing either. Through the League Championship Series, runners are 38 for 42 - 38 for 42! - stealing bases, an incredible 90 percent success rate. This is the postseason of the stolen base. To be a little specific with this prediction, I'll say Game 5 is our chaos game, and we see 23 total runs scored and eight combined home runs. Consider this more of a hope than a prediction.
So, predicting a chaos game in this year's World Series is not necessarily bold, but I'm going to predict one anyway. Point is, just about every World Series we can expect to see one truly chaotic game with a ton of action and lead changes and a memorable finish. The 2018 World Series did not have a true chaos game, though it did have an 18-inning game, the longest World Series in history, and that's a pretty good substitute. 2016 World Series Game 7: *gestures at everything*.2017 World Series Game 5: Astros beat Dodgers 13-12 in 10 innings.2019 World Series Game 7: The Howie Kendrick game.2020 World Series Game 4: The Brett Phillips game.Some recent World Series chaos game examples: The opposite of a pitchers' duel, basically.
What do I mean by chaos game? I mean lots of offense and lead changes, memorable plays, and just all-around entertainment. Perhaps this bold prediction doesn't qualify as bold, because there seems to be at least one chaos game every World Series. The Astros and Braves have a postseason history, sure, but it is irrelevant to the 2021 World Series.Īnyway, with the World Series set to begin Tuesday night, let's lay out some bold predictions. There are different players now, different managers, different styles of play, the works. Those series were an eternity ago in baseball years. Of course, what happened in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s has no bearing on what happens in 2021. Thanks to all those years the Astros spent in the National League, these two clubs do have quite a bit of postseason history. The World Series will begin Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
The Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves are meeting in this year's Fall Classic after knocking off the Red Sox and Dodgers in six games in the League Championship Series, respectively.