2014 World Series thread

Not enough run support.

 

With a record of 4-3 he cannot be considered to be a great playoff performer.

Jack Morris would have got that run support.

 

The Perez-Ishikawa switch had another effect in that it broke up a stretch of lefties in the lineup. Crawford-Ishikawa-Blanco-Panik is L-L-L-L, and I wonder if Yost has a quicker hook and goes to Finnegan right away down 2-0 with that group ahead. That might have changed the entire complexion of the game.

 

The one narrative about the Giants this postseason that has bothered me is treating Joe Panik like some gritty, gutty, scrap-tastic latter-day David Eckstein.

Panik was a first-team All-American in college and a first-round draft pick. He's supposed to be this good.

 

I very seriously doubt that Juan Perez's presence in the lineup would cause any change in pitching plans.

 

He is a rookie a half-season in and he turned in an all-time play. People aren't familiar with him.

People went crazy over Anrduw Jones too, even though those in the know expected him to be a star.

 

Total runs scored by Dodgers in Koufax's three losses in the Series (one each in 1979. 1965 and 1966): One. Also, the 1966 loss was the one where Willie Davis made three errors in center field in the same inning.

 

People really loved that Gregg Jeffries guy.

 

The amazing aspect of MadBum's dominance is that the rest of the rotation, Peavy/Hudson/Vogelsong, was so ordinary, even mediocre in the WS. Hudson went 5+ in Gm. 3 and no one else went past 4 inn. He really had to dominate for the Giants to have any chance to win.

 

But Hudson is a future Hall of Famer.

 

No, he's just better than Morris.

 

Roger Angell, who is old enough to have seen Lefty Grove and Carl Hubbell pitch in the 1930s, on Bumgarner:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/best