Thursday, October 02, 2008

Sabathia loses

MLB playoffs is in full swing and in 2 days we have seen a little bit of everything and a lot of bad defense by the Cubs! The Cubs kicked the ball all over the yard and did not give the Z-man any help. Zambrano is a shaky "concept" at best and he did not have a great day, but then with the kind of work the Cubs did on the field, he had no chance. The Cubs have not won a single game since the Bartman game. Poor guy, he is still shouldering the blame for all of the Cubs ineptitude. Dodgers are sitting pretty at 2-0 and going back home. Man-Ram is crushing a home run a day and life is good in Torre-land.

Philly is also up 2-0, but they have to now go on the road to Milwaukee. The Brewers are really struggling and their savior CC finally came down to earth. It was bad timing for the Brewers as they need him to win a game or 2 in this series to advance. Sabathia didn't get past the 4-Th inning and wife-beater Brett Myers won the game for Philly after Cole Hamels did the same yesterday, only Hamels did it with a even more impressive showing. Brewers need a shot of energy from the home crowd to turn this around, but I hope the team doesn't show up expecting the crowd to do all the work. Brewers have a lot of work ahead of them and they need a spirited performance to stay in this thing.

Both AL series are at 1-0 with Boston winning behind a superb performance by Jon Lester. This is what I love about the playoffs. - you get to see the best pitching out there every day. Jon continued his great regular season with an even better game 1. Game 2 tomorrow should be interesting. In Tampa, Evan Longoria showed us once again he is an absolute stud. The 3-Rd baseman went 3-3 and hit 2 HRs to stop the 2-game "almost-playoff" winning streak of the WhiteSox.

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