10-23-12 NLCS Game #7
Oct 23, 2012 Baseball
Posted by
Dick Ourada
Just as the runs poured in early for the Giants, the rain poured down late on the Cardinals season and chased them back to their nests. I don’t want to say I told you so, so I’ll write it. At the start of this year’s playoff games there were 10 teams and I predicted the final two spots being San Francisco against Detroit, look it up.
The Giants behind their great pitching with Matt Cain and hitting by Marco Scutaro find themselves in the World Series, hosting games one and two in San Francisco at AT&T Park on Wednesday night. The Cardinals were pegged early with hits and more hits that eventually lead to their demise after a great post season. I am not taking anything away from St. Louis, they played their tails off to get to this point, but the pitching of San Francisco, both starters and relievers did an outstanding job. Manager Bruce Bochy had a great plan going into this series and it worked out just as it did in Cincinnati. How about that Marco Scutaro? What a story! First he gets nailed at second by the Cardinal’s Matt Holiday who slid right at him knocking him from game #1 and missing game #2, and Scutaro comes back and makes the final out by catching Holiday’s pop fly. Storybook ending to the NLCS. Oh by the way, Scutaro gets the MVP of the series.
St. Louis with a new manager and without Albert Pujols deserves high praise. Nobody thought back on July 15th that the Cardinals had a chance to make the playoffs. I think some folks were thinking Atlanta, the Dodgers and even the Pirates were going to go to post season, but you never can count the redbirds out. Good job St. Louis you should be proud, and definitely even more so than the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, & Cincinnati Reds. Those three teams felt and played like they were owed a trip to baseball’s biggest dance… you were just one victory shy and did a nice job trying to defend your crown.
I’m so looking forward to this World Series, I really like both the Tigers and Giants chances. Find out tomorrow how I think things will shake out between these two clubs who will face each other for the first time in post season.
