Jayson Stark Tweeted today that, in the past 60 years, there have been only three World Series that have started out with three straight games decided by just one run (1972, 1974, 1995). Will we see another such event tonight?
It has been a great Series so far, but I suspect that we’re going to start seeing more runs scored now that the venue has moved to Arlington, Texas.
Glancing at the line ups, it appears that Cardinal Manager Tony LaRussa has implemented a limit of just one former Twin in his starting line up for any one game. Thus, with Kyle Lohse on the hill, Nick Punto rides the pine.
| CARDINALS |
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RANGERS |
| Furcal, SS | Kinsler, 2B | |
| Craig, RF | Andrus, SS | |
| Pujols, 1B | Hamilton, CF | |
| Holliday, LF | Young, M, DH | |
| Berkman, DH | Beltre, A, 3B | |
| Freese, 3B | Cruz, N, RF | |
| Molina, Y, C | Napoli, 1B | |
| Jay, CF | Murphy, Dv, LF | |
| Theriot, 2B | Torrealba, C | |
| _Lohse, P | _Harrison, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| St. Louis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 15 | 0 |
| Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
In a game that brought back some chilling memories for Twins fans (Kyle Lohse’s evil twin “Lyle” made an appearance in the 4th inning for the Cardinals), the big story was Albert Pujols hitting not one, not two, but three home runs. You KNOW somewhere in the back of his mind, he’s thinking, “Wow, it might be fun to play half my games in this bandbox.”
Anyway, worst case scenario now for the Cardinals is that they’ll get to play more baseball in St Louis, even if they drop the next two games to the Rangers… and I think we can dispense with all of the “these games are too low scoring” crap.
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