World Series Game 4: Day 2
posted in World Series, link roundup |I still don’t know how I feel. Numb? Should it be of any consolation that I keep reading this is a game everything went right for St. Louis and nothing went right for Detroit? That’s almost an excuse. Something you want to hear. Something to make you believe in superstition and curses and baseball gods, which are all nice to talk about, but, yeah, I’m going to say, none … of … them … exist. Because, in the end, a loss is a loss. Maybe it lessens it slightly if you can believe it was, well, in the cards. Or not our year. Or any of that other stuff. But let’s face it, no game-of-inches stuff made Tigers pitchers create four errors in four games. Resigned. That’s how I feel.
Deadspin: It seems silly to say this now, but had the Cardinals not come back and won last night’s Game 4 against Detroit, it’s difficult to imagine them winning this series. Not only would it send the home field back to Detroit, and not only would it put St. Louis in an extremely tough pitching position, but, well … the Cardinals would have lost a game in which they caught every break possible, and then a couple extra impossible ones. … It was a night where the Tigers seemed cursed; as mentioned, we can’t imagine how difficult that must have been to watch.
The part that hurts the worst, of course, is blowing a 3-0 lead that made you believe this series was headed back to Detroit, and even if the series was 3-2 in St. Louis’ favor, it was going to be all right. The Tigers just played so good in October, it was impossible to think they could give up a 3-0 lead when they looked like the team we’ve come to expect.
CNNSI’s John Donovon: OK, so maybe the rain that soaked the turf at the new Busch Stadium in the last couple of days, making the outfield play like the 18th green at the Lost City of Atlantis Country Club, had something to do with it. Still, it took something like that, something from above, something almost otherworldly, for the Detroit Tigers to lose Game 4 of the World Series on Thursday night and for the Cards to climb to the unlikely threshold of a championship. Game 4 was so weird, with so many turns going the Cardinals’ way, it was almost enough to make you believe that St. Louis is somehow predestined to win this thing.
I guess that’s why people talk about small moments from 21 or 38 years back. But, there’s no what-ifs. You can’t do that to yourself. The players shouldn’t do that to themselves. We’re not the lovable losers in Chicago. We’re not the cursed team in Boston. We’re the Tigers, and we’re only going to be better after this painful stretch. Take the good — a flag raising in April — take the bad — that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach today. It’s been ups and downs all season. And, even though I don’t expect this, it’s possible the world could come crashing down on St. Louis’ and Detroit could win three straight games. But for that to happen, the Tigers are going to have to stop beating themselves.
But, who knows. It’s baseball. Don’t even try to figure it out.
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