04/19/24
October 27, 2010
Giants Beat Rangers in Game 1: The San Francisco Giants handed Cliff Lee his first postseason loss, defeating the Texas Rangers in game 1 of the World Series 11-7. The game matched up two Cy Young Award winners in Lee and the Giants' Tim Lincecum, but it was Juan Uribe's three-run home run and Freddy Sanchez's three doubles that were more decisive than pitching. The game 1 winner has won six of the past seven World Series championships.
Who predicted there being 18 runs with Lincecum and Lee as the starters? This thing should be fun.
posted by boredom_08 at 01:20 AM on October 28, 2010
That is not the game I was expecting to watch.
posted by bperk at 10:01 AM on October 28, 2010
It didn't wind up mattering a bit, since the Giants were tearing the ball apart last night, but can anyone tell me what the heck Lincecum was thinking on that play in the first where he was running the baserunner back to third and never threw the ball so the guy could get tagged out (I think it was Michael Young, but I'm not sure)? I've never seen anything like it in a rundown play.
posted by dyams at 01:28 PM on October 28, 2010
I've never seen anything like it in a rundown play.
It's the pitcher getting confused about how many men are on base. I'm guessing he thought there was a runner going to third as well, and he would have the easy "double-tag" option and get one person out.
Or, you know, he was high.
posted by grum@work at 01:33 PM on October 28, 2010
Not that it decided the game, but Guerrero is going to kill Texas in right field.