The Ol' Ballfield

Quick Thoughts on WS Game Four

1) Kudos to Tony LaRussa for bringing Adam Wainwright in when he did. Man on third in the eighth with a one-run lead was the situation where they needed their best reliever, and that was what Tony gave them.

2) This marks the fourth throwing error in this World Series by a Tiger pitcher, and the third with huge connotations. Take your time, boys.

3) David Eckstein finally had a game that could be acceptably fawned over by sportswriters. Too bad they will praise the sac bunts of the game instead.

4) Speaking of sac bunts, that's what Placido Polanco should have been doing in the eighth. Runner on second with no outs is one of the only situations in which it is even sabermetrically acceptable to sac bunt, and Polanco swings into an easy groundout. What has Jim Leyland doing in this series? Is there any chance this will all come out later as a retroactive scandal, like much of the Kennedy administration?

posted by Carnival @ 10/27/2006