Here’s your morning
baseball briefing for Friday, October 18, 2013.
Thursday
Results
Game 5 A.L.C.S. (best of seven)
| RESULT | WIN | LOSS | SAVE |
| Boston 4, at Detroit 3 | Lester (1-1) | Sanchez (1-1) | Uehara (2) |
Mike Napoli went 3-4 with a home run and double as Boston beat
Detroit in pivotal Game 5. The Red Sox
are just one game away from reaching the World Series. Game 6 in Detroit is Saturday.
Boston Leads
Series 3-2
Today’s
Schedule (Times EST)
8:00 pm – Game 5 American League Champion Series
Boston Red Sox (Lester) at Detroit Tigers (Sanchez)
Series tied 2-2
Prediction: Detroit
Playoff Predictions
Overall: 16-15
Friday
8:30 pm – Game 6 National League Championship Series
Los Angeles Dodgers (Kershaw) at St. Louis Cardinals (Wacha)
Prediction: Los
Angeles
Saturday
4:30 pm – Game 6 American League Championship Series
Detroit Tigers (Scherzer) at Boston Red Sox (Lester)
Prediction: Detroit
8:30 pm – Game 7 (if necessary) National League Championship
Series
Los Angeles Dodgers (Ryu) at St. Louis Cardinals
(Wainwright)
Prediction: St. Louis
Sunday
8:00 pm – Game 7 (if necessary) American League Championship
Series
Detroit Tigers (Verlander) at Boston Red Sox (Lackey)
Prediction: Detroit
News
& Notes – Texas Rangers CEO and Hall of
Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan retired his position effective immediately.
The Colorado Rockies re-signed manager Walt Weiss to a
three-year contract despite another last place finish in the N.L. West.
History
2011 World
Series – Texas Rangers vs. St. Louis
Cardinals
The
2011 World Series featured the repeat A.L. champion Texas Rangers against the
St. Louis Cardinals. The Rangers
appeared in their second consecutive World Series, having lost in 2010 to San
Francisco, while the Cardinals opened their new stadium in April and appeared
in their 18th World Series, and third in the last eight years, having won last
in 2006.
St. Louis had
home field advantage, and the first two games at the new Busch Stadium were
close, with the Cardinals winning 3-2 in Game 1 and the Rangers winning 2-1 in
Game 2.
The middle
games in Texas weren’t as close but were equally exciting. The Cardinals trounced the Rangers 16-7 in
Game 3 behind one of the greatest hitting performances in World Series history. First baseman Albert Pujols joined Babe Ruth
and Reggie Jackson as the only players to hit three home runs in a game. He tied records for most HRs (3), most hits
(5), and most RBIs (6) in a World Series game, and established a new record
with 14 total bases. St. Louis led the
series 2-1.
In Game 4 Texas started silenced the
bats with shutout baseball from Derek Holland and the Rangers evened the series
at two with a 4-0 win.
Texas scored two runs in the eighth
inning of Game 5 to pull out a 4-2 win and suddenly the Rangers led the series
3-2 and were one game away from their first World Series title.
Game 6 in St. Louis was arguably one
of the greatest and most exciting World Series games ever played. The Rangers led 7-5 in the ninth inning and
were one out away from winning their first World Series when Cardinals third
baseman David Freese tripled in two tying runs that sent the game into extra
innings. Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton
but Texas ahead in the tenth 9-7 with a towering two-run home run, but in the
bottom of the tenth, St. Louis was within one strike of losing the World Series
when outfielder Lance Berkman singled home the tying run to save the Cardinals
season and tie the game 9-9. Freese led
off the bottom of the eleventh with a walk-off home run over the centerfield
wall and St. Louis celebrated a dramatic come-from-behind victory that tied the
series 3-3 and forced a Game 7.
In Game 7, Freese doubled home two
tying runs in the first inning and broke the postseason RBI record as St. Louis
was on the board. Pitcher Chris
Carpenter became the first player in ten years to start three World Series
games, and he allowed just two runs in six plus innings as he and the Cardinals
won 6-2 for their eleventh World Series title.
St. Louis Wins
4-3
For
the series, San Francisco outscored Texas 38-30, but were outhit 60-56.
Monday: 2012
World Series – Detroit Tigers vs. San Francisco Giants
Trivia
Today’s
Question: The 2011 World Series was just one of two in baseball
history in which a team, one strike away from elimination, came back to win the
game and the Series. When was the other?
Yesterday’s
Question: Of the top 10 all-time
pitchers with the most postseason wins, number seven on that list is the only
one who played before postseason expansion in 1969, meaning all his wins came
in the World Series. Who is he?
Answer: Whitey Ford, who pitched for the New York
Yankees from 1950 – 1968, and holds a record 10 World Series wins.
House
Bet
Today: Over/Under
8 strikeouts by Clayton Kershaw
Friday against the Cardinals.
Yesterday: Over/Under
8 hits by Detroit batters tonight.
Result: Over. Detroit had 10 hits.
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