Really? It's baseball after all. Teams win games all the time they have no business being in. Against pitchers they have no business beating. If this were a regular season matchup and the Phils won, no one would think twice about it.
Well I was being a tad bit melodramatic and you called me on it. But you have to remember that Garza was 2-0 in the ALCS and was voted the MVP, without him, it is Boston that is in the WS instead of Tampa. And Moyer's one start in the NLCS ended in disaster. I mean it is possible and I have seen crazier things happen but this match-up reminds me of Game 4 in the ALCS when Wakefield went for Boston. You just had a bad feeling he was going to get bombed and he did as he was unable to get out of the 3rd inning.
I certainly think Tampa will win that game..and be favored to win that game. But I won't be the least bit surprised if it goes the other way. Shocking was watching the 1990 Reds dismantle the A's in 4 games. That was the most shocking baseball event I can recall from my lifetime. The 2004 ALCS would be on that list. But not any one game.
Looks like the critics (mostly the ESPN types) were wrong...The series doesn't look like it will be the flop that it was made out to be... http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/2...inds-csi-ny-and-world-series-lead-night/6716/ http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000003/#ni0589957
This isn't just about one hanging slider to Pujols. The Edmonds walk before that was even more of a Cardinal sin considering who was on deck. Even with Edmonds being an Astro killer, you HAVE to pitch to him. Stats are nice, but would stats tell you he couldn't control his fastball, so he had to throw a slider almost exclusively, contributing to Pujols guessing slider and smashing it?
The stats absolutely would tell you. If a pitcher couldn't control 1 of his 2 pitches, at least one of two things would happen. One, his walk rate would go up, based on an inability to regularly throw that pitch for a strike. Two, his hit rate, and thus runs allowed, would also go up, due to opposing batters having an idea of what was coming. Since Lidge's overall walks allowed as well as hits allowed, strikeout rate, and ERA all remained constant for the second half of 2005 compared with the first half of 2005 and all of 2004... the stats tell you that Game 5 was not at all part of a trend. Yes, he shouldn't have walked Edmonds, but that happens sometimes. Even the greatest pitchers in the history of time give up a walk now and again, even in a very inopportune spot.
Brett Myers, Just stop, it's not working, you are embarrassing yourself, you need to take a break. You don't know what you are doing. Just stop. STOP! -Sam Fisher
nah, trust me, he hustled to 2nd base when Worth made the error,but at the end of the 7th inning he didnt hustle to beat out that double play.
Moyer, the ageless wonder is defying all odds tonight while the ALCS MVP is leaving fatties over the plate.
I'm rootin for the Rays but I feel lousy for Moyer there. What an incredible play by both him and Howard getting taken away by an awful call.
I don't watch baseball very much. Is anyone else sick of the non-stop spitting all over the place? Yuck! Great running by B.J. Upton to almost single-handedly tie the game with the 2 stolen bases.
Don't know why Longoria went for it looked like it could have gone foul there was no way he would have got Bruntlett out on a slow roller like that.
