World Series Game 1: YEESH! Reyes stifles Tigers
posted in St. Louis Cardinals, World Series |St. Louis starter Anthony Reyes threw 91 pitches, about the same as Justin Verlander (96). The only problem is, Reyes went into the ninth inning before being relieved with a five run lead. Verlander limped — not literally! — out of the game with no outs in the sixth and a four run gap, which Jason Grilli turned into a six-run deficit. St. Louis went on to win the first game of the World Series, 7-2.
Reyes threw well, for sure. Helped by the Tigers batters, certainly, but he made his own fortune. Bilfer points out that only Magglio Ordonez even went to a three-ball count. Hopefully that whole impatience thing is only here for a game after a long layoff. He threw 67 strikes in 91 pitches and didn’t allow a baserunner from the first inning until Carlos Guillen singled in the seventh.
Verlander, eh, he was not so great. Not real bad. He didn’t get himself into a lot of trouble, but he wasn’t too good. Six hits. Two walks. 59 strikes on 96 pitches. That doesn’t sound like a guy with eight strikeouts, does it? And yet it was. Just kind of demonstrates how strange lines are sometimes, I guess.
Oh well. All good seven-game postseason winning streaks must come to and end, right?
Seems like there was some Tigers rust. I missed a chunk of the game, but the chunk I did get to see wasn’t very pretty. Defense. Hitting. Not pretty. Three errors. Brandon Inge had a few stumbles. Outside of Verlander and Grilli, the pitching seemed fine. But a lead Cardinals lead at that point doesn’t necessarily give us a great judge of much. It didn’t seem like Tigers baseball. That’s a refrain you hear a lot, “We didn’t play our type of baseball.” Maybe tonight, even if the Tigers did play their baseball, it wouldn’t have mattered. But hopefully for the next four-to-six, we see the team we’re used to.
The Albert Pujols homer, that stunk. I mean, he did his job. He hit it great. But I’d rather have seen him standing idle on first base at the time. I guess that’s a personal flavor.
Other than that, not much comes to mind. Long day. Crappy game. I’m sure I’ll be more useful tomorrow. Don’t get too upset over this one. Of course you want to win Game 1, and you want to win games in your own stadium, but everything can change in day. The only thing that’s changed is that St. Louis has a 1-0 series lead. Otherwise, the Tigers maintain all the advantages they had before. Just gotta keep playing games and see if they win out.
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[...] Mack Avenue Tigers: A Detroit Tigers Blog » World Series Game 1: YEESH! Reyes stifles Tigers Don’t get too upset over this one. Of course you want to win Game 1, and you want to win games in your own stadium, but everything can change in day. The only thing that’s changed is that St. Louis has a 1-0 series lead. Otherwise, the Tigers maintain all the advantages they had before. Just gotta keep playing games and see if they win out. [...]