So far, the World Series has played out the way I thought; St. Louis up 2 games to 1 (albeit on rather odd circumstances last night) and heading into the most difficult match-up to predict: game 4.<\/p>\n
Starters: Clay Buchholz<\/a><\/strong> versus Lance Lynn<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Neither guy has pitched well this post season (both have identical 5.40 ERAs this post-season).\u00a0 Neither guy looks like he’s going to be able to keep the opposing offenses down.\u00a0 And I sense this game is going to be a 4.5 hour marathon going deep into each team’s bullpen and likely featuring early appearances for 5th\/neglected starters for Boston such as Ryan Dempster<\/strong>, Felix Doubront<\/strong>.\u00a0 Meanwhile St. Louis’ forgotten man Shelby Miller<\/strong> has thrown a grand total of 1 inning this off-season; against the Pirates on October 4th.\u00a0 Could he possibly now feature more than three weeks later in a pivotal situation?<\/p>\n For all the grief the 2012 Nationals got for voluntarily sitting Stephen Strasburg<\/strong> … why has there not been similar outrage for the Cardinals removal of their #2 starter all year from their post-season plans?\u00a0 If the Red Sox bomb Lynn tonight and end up taking the series, is there going to be similar outrage facing the Cards’ management that Mike Rizzo<\/strong> took for sitting Strasburg and “costing” his team in the playoffs?\u00a0 Because clearly Lynn is the Card’s #5 pitcher, the starter that normally wouldn’t even be on some post-season rosters and clearly wouldn’t be getting a post-season start.<\/p>\n How much will Buchholz’ “shoulder fatigue” play in to tonight’s game?\u00a0 How much will Lynn’s hittability factor in?<\/p>\n I see a slugfest, and I see Boston coming out on top tonight.\u00a0 Which is good for Boston, because I can’t see them beating Wainright<\/strong> tomorrow night and they need this game to get the series back to Boston for games 6 and 7 (where Wacha<\/strong> looms for a possibly classic Game 7, if they can get there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So far, the World Series has played out the way I thought; St. Louis up 2 games to 1 (albeit on rather odd circumstances last night) and heading into the most difficult match-up to predict: game 4. Starters: Clay Buchholz versus Lance Lynn.\u00a0 Neither guy has pitched well this post season (both have identical 5.40 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[346,319,2023,897,1953,129,838,1333,38],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-season","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-clay-buchholz","tag-felix-doubront","tag-lance-lynn","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mike-rizzo","tag-ryan-dempster","tag-shelby-miller","tag-stephen-strasburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}