Posted on 10/08/2011 1:35:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek
Now that’s weird...Game 2; Cruz hits a home run in the 11th; Rangers win, 7-3. Game 4; Cruz hits a home run in the 11th; Rangers win, 7-3.
I have to question the Tigers using Valverde in a non-save situation like that....now he probably isn’t available for tomorrow, and even Benoit has to be questionable.
;) I still can’t believe they walked Beltre. He usually chokes, he did tonight as well. Oh well happy for me Texas fan.
...and where did THIS Scott Feldman come from? Better than last year’s model...
I still have hope. Remember ALCS 2004.
I guess we are losing Theo in Boston-——just on news——going to Cubs.
It’s a very tentative 3-1 lead......but Verlander needs to be sharp tomorrow, especially with the limited availability of the bullpen, they need a CG out of him.
I saw that. Rumor is Boston was a mess in the clubhouse at the end of the year. A few post on this thread about it.
I don't think he had anybody(worth 2 cents)left in the pen(bombs-away Perry??).
5 hits in 11 innings...not going to win many games like that.
It is easy to second-guess many of Leyland's decisions in this series(some were really boneheaded), but there's not much you can do when half your line-up(especially your front-line players)go into a hitting slump.
Tig's really could have used Guillen, Mag's and Boesch's bats in this series...
Thems the breaks...
The Cardinals are starting to scare me, they are eerily reminiscent of last year’s Giants.
Texas will have to play much better than they have in this series to beat them.
What really sucks is that once again because of the stupid All-Star Game, the Rangers/Tigers will not have home field advantage in the World Series.
If it does end up Cards vs. Rangers...I'll be pulling for the Rangers(just to see Nolan-boy get one).
...should be a good series though, both teams with a great balance of power/pitching.
Boston, Phillie and Yankees and the Networks don't think so.
I find it refreshing not to have teams from either coast.
Me too. Still, listening to Joe Buck and Tim McCarver do the play-by-play when the Cards are in the post season...is almost as bad as listening to East/West coast bias broadcasters.
Hell of a deficit to overcome. Not impossible but not too likely.
A win is pretty likely today with Verlander on the mound but keeping that momentum going is gonna be tough.
For all of the drama last night, I sure thought that Detroit had a lot more than 5 hits.
“Still, listening to Joe Buck and Tim McCarver do the play-by-play when the Cards are in the post season...is almost as bad as listening to East/West coast bias broadcasters.”
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Funny, those of us in St. Louis, feel both bend over backwards (to a fault), in distancing themselves from the Cardinals.
McCarver was a long-time Met broadcaster anyway, and though he played for the Cardinals in the sixties, he has long been a firmly entrenched east-coast guy.
The big Tiger bats just haven’t been there in the post season. I think they were pretty much used up with the season ending 12 game winning streak.
However all games at this point are among the best of the best and nobody has any reason to be ashamed of getting this far.
Okay, lets do this boys! Go Rangers! and then lets bring it Red Birds....
Okay, lets do this boys! Go Rangers! and then lets bring it Red Birds....
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