10-26-12 Game #2 World Series
Oct 26, 2012 Baseball
Posted by
Dick Ourada
Pitching, pitching, pitching… Both pitchers did a great job in game #2 of the World Series, but Madison Bumgarner was better than Doug Fister. Bumgarner gave up only two hits in seven innings to lead his Giants to a 2-0 victory over Detroit. Doug Fister pitched great also, along with taking a baseball off the side of his head the wound up going into center field. There weren’t three home runs hit in this game, no theatrics, but just an old fashion baseball game that one team scored two runs in, and the other nothing.
It could of been very different. In the first inning Prince Fielder was trying to score from first base on a Delmon Young double with nobody out. Marco Scutaro took a rely throw from left field and fired a perfect throw home to Posey who tagged Prince on the bottom of his foot just before he could touch home plate. I don’t know why third base coach Gene Lamont sent him with nobody out, especially a guy who is as big as an actual tiger. If Fielder scores and Young is on second with nobody out in the first, this game could of been wide open from the start.
I watched the game with my buddy who is a huge Detroit fan, and he was amazed at the decision. But baseball is like life in where sometimes you just have to take a chance. This time it failed.
Detroit and San Francisco take the series back to Motown for game #3 on Saturday with the hopes of winning 2 if not all three games in front of their fans. Let’s see if they can make this a series, I do and think that they can. Remember as in life and baseball, there is always hope.
