(Editor note: Ha; I forgot to publish this prior to last night’s game. \u00a0I would have been right \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Well, I was 4-for-4 leading up to game 5 predictions … and was wrong. \u00a0I thought St. Louis could break out against the weakened\u00a0Clay Buchholz. \u00a0<\/strong>But they couldn’t do anything against a clearly laboring Buchholz, doing nothing against mid 80s fastballs throughout the night. \u00a0Wainwright<\/strong> made some mistakes that cost him (0-2 hanging curve in the 1st, then not pitching around\u00a0David Ortiz<\/strong> being early, simple examples).<\/p>\n In the end, perhaps trying to predict either Game 6 or a possible Game 7 is fools-gold; I think we now see that Boston is the superior team and has worked around its own offensive deficiencies and a stitched-together rotation. \u00a0They get\u00a0Mike Napoli<\/strong> back in the middle of their lineup now that they’re back in the AL park using DH rules, and at some point this will make the difference.<\/p>\n Game 6:\u00a0Michael Wacha<\/a><\/strong> versus\u00a0<\/a>John Lackey<\/strong><\/a>; Simply put, I think Wacha’s amazing run of unhittable-ness may end tonight. \u00a0You have to think Boston’s going to go back to the film, look for a weakness, and try to exploit it. \u00a0Lackey probably puts in his typical quality start; 6 innings, 2 or 3 runs. \u00a0It just seems that fate is going to go Boston’s way after they clawed 2 of 3 in St. Louis.<\/p>\n I’m going with Boston closing out the series tonight in a memorable night for Boston fans, finally clinching a World Series on home soil. \u00a0Oritz is your obvious World Series MVP and bolsters his eventuall Hall of Fame case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Editor note: Ha; I forgot to publish this prior to last night’s game. \u00a0I would have been right \ud83d\ude42 Well, I was 4-for-4 leading up to game 5 predictions … and was wrong. \u00a0I thought St. Louis could break out against the weakened\u00a0Clay Buchholz. \u00a0But they couldn’t do anything against a clearly laboring Buchholz, doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[346,319,605,306,1953,626],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","category-mlbpitching","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-clay-buchholz","tag-david-ortiz","tag-john-lackey","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mike-napoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045","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=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}