Prom Week For Tigers, And Pimples Are Breaking Out
This is prom week, and the Tigers look in the mirror and what to they see?
Ack! A pimple -- Curtis Granderson and his rusty gate of a swing. Gasp! More acne -- Pudge Rodriguez and his 0 for 19 slump. Yikes! Is that another blemish? Yes -- in the form of suspect hitting with RISP.
The Tigers have acne, and this is a bad week for it.
The fact that the team is tied with the Cardinals, 1-1, in the World Series, is encouraging, but the Tigers have exactly 24 hours to find their offense.
You're not going to win too many games leaving as many runners on base as the Tigers did in Game 2. Walks will haunt you defensively; leaving RISP will do the same offensively.
Unless you have Kenny Rogers pitching for you, that is.
Rogers' scoreless streak in the postseason now stands at 23 innings, and had he not been on the mound last night, a tied Series would not be a given this morning. At one point, the linescore read: Detroit, 3 runs, 10 hits; St. Louis, 0 runs, 1 hit. Yet the Cardinals were not going away, mainly because the Tigers didn't shoo them away. You see it all the time, in every team sport: Team A dominates for most of the game statistically, yet can't deliver the knockout punch. Team B gladly accepts the new life and steals the game at the end. Just ask the Arizona Cardinals after their Monday Night Meltdown against the Bears.
Granderson, who's done a marvelous job of cutting down his strikeout frequency in the postseason, has been a non-factor in Games 1 and 2. Same with Pudge, who is all messed up right now. But both are due, and if the law of averages is just that -- a law -- then let's hope it's still on the books, for the Tigers will not win three more games with Grandy and Pudgey gathering more collars than a lucky policeman.
The World Series is tied, but it feels like the Tigers are slightly behind. I still believe they'll win two of three in St. Louis, and finish it off at home in Game 6. But I'd sure feel better about that prediction if some folks would get off the schneide.
Ack! A pimple -- Curtis Granderson and his rusty gate of a swing. Gasp! More acne -- Pudge Rodriguez and his 0 for 19 slump. Yikes! Is that another blemish? Yes -- in the form of suspect hitting with RISP.
The Tigers have acne, and this is a bad week for it.
The fact that the team is tied with the Cardinals, 1-1, in the World Series, is encouraging, but the Tigers have exactly 24 hours to find their offense.
You're not going to win too many games leaving as many runners on base as the Tigers did in Game 2. Walks will haunt you defensively; leaving RISP will do the same offensively.
Unless you have Kenny Rogers pitching for you, that is.
Rogers' scoreless streak in the postseason now stands at 23 innings, and had he not been on the mound last night, a tied Series would not be a given this morning. At one point, the linescore read: Detroit, 3 runs, 10 hits; St. Louis, 0 runs, 1 hit. Yet the Cardinals were not going away, mainly because the Tigers didn't shoo them away. You see it all the time, in every team sport: Team A dominates for most of the game statistically, yet can't deliver the knockout punch. Team B gladly accepts the new life and steals the game at the end. Just ask the Arizona Cardinals after their Monday Night Meltdown against the Bears.
Granderson, who's done a marvelous job of cutting down his strikeout frequency in the postseason, has been a non-factor in Games 1 and 2. Same with Pudge, who is all messed up right now. But both are due, and if the law of averages is just that -- a law -- then let's hope it's still on the books, for the Tigers will not win three more games with Grandy and Pudgey gathering more collars than a lucky policeman.
The World Series is tied, but it feels like the Tigers are slightly behind. I still believe they'll win two of three in St. Louis, and finish it off at home in Game 6. But I'd sure feel better about that prediction if some folks would get off the schneide.
posted by Greg Eno at 10/23/2006 12:43:00 PM
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