WORLD SERIES 2010
Oct 26, 2010 Baseball
Posted by
Dick Ourada
A Cactus League Matchup in the World Series. Both the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers play in Arizona for spring training, and now will face each other in the Fall Classic. The folks in Dallas and San Francisco share their excitement with the snow birds of Scottsdale and Surprise Arizona who have seen these teams play each other over the last several spring training seasons in the sunshine of the southwest.
Throw all the stats out the window on this one, and look for magical moments for this all new World Series beginning tomorrow night in San Francisco. There have been a lot of years combined since any of these teams have won the big one. Texas is here for the first time in history, and the Giants haven’t won since they were in New York a half century ago.
Juan Uribe has had some major plays made in the field, and his clutch hitting has been as good as anyone this post season. He and teammate Aaron Rowand had both played for the 2005 champion White Sox, and have a good idea how to come up big in the moment. The Rangers have Vladimer Guerrero who has a ring with the 2002 Angels and provided key hits against the Yankees in the ALCS this year. But in the the series, its going to come down to pitching with both clubs having excellent staffs at the right time of the year. Lee and Lincecum are both big time aces and have brought their clubs this far and I can’t see either of them letting up.
I see this series going into November for sure, with a game 7 of greatness from one of the clubs, I don’t know which one though. My heart says Giants. I was a little league coach this summer for the Giants, and I left my heart in San Francisco.
Today both teams are practicing and getting ready to face each other tomorrow night on FOX. Get ready here they come.
