The Cleveland Scenario
Ok, yeah. I forgot (thanks Steve) to mention that the Tigers are 4.5 games back of Cleveland, but that they have a viable chance to sweep them.
If that does indeed happen, the Tigers will only be 1.5 games back of the Tribe, and the Indians are MUCH more fallable than the Yankees...at least at this point.
There will only be 9 games left at that point, but I'll take 1.5 over 4.5 any day.
We'll just have to see.
If that does indeed happen, the Tigers will only be 1.5 games back of the Tribe, and the Indians are MUCH more fallable than the Yankees...at least at this point.
There will only be 9 games left at that point, but I'll take 1.5 over 4.5 any day.
We'll just have to see.
2 Comments:
Oh, woe is the bullpen!! 'Sparky' Leyland pulls Rogers after holding the Tribe to just five hits. Rogers, who doesn't need a pitch count and was around during Biblical times, could've thrown 200 pitches!! I just don't get this fascination with the bullpen, not only by the Tigers, but the rest of baseball.
Adam, thank you for letting me vent and since you're talking baseball now, I just have to throw in my two cents.
Baseball will never see another 300 game winner again. Above average starters like Verlander would have to pitch 20 years at 15 wins a year to reach that number. When they do have opportunities to win, the 'pitch count' comes into play and the bullpen is called upon to hold or save the win. What happened to the 'complete game'....? If there wasn't so many specialty pitchers there would be more room on teams for utility players as well as the money available to pay them.
The DH was put in to actually help the managers make less decisions to pull a pitcher for a pinch hitter. They don't even have to bat or run bases and they still can't pitch nine innings!!! What happened to the four man rotation, a pitcher getting forty starts and pitching 300 innings in a season...??!!!! And they make all this money!!! Aaaaghh!! I can't take it anymore!!!
Sigh.....
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