Meh, I'm bored.
Starting pitchers:
St. Louis Cardinals
Jeff Weaver : There's some question as to how Weaver (1-1, 1.69 ERA this postseason; 8-14, 5.76 ERA regular season) will respond to pitching on three days' rest, but he has demostrated that he can be as effective as any cardinal pitcher in the post season so far, allowing two runs in 10 2/3 innings. He's had a little more trouble at home than on the road, and there is the issue of short rest.
New York Mets
Tom Glavine: We always feel we're in good hands with Glavine (2-0, 0.00 ERA this postseason; 15-7, 3.82 ERA regular season), and never more so than in the postseason, with his ability to crank it up a notch. His sixth career LCS win in the series opener was Glavone's 14th postseason win, leaving him one away from record-holder and former teammate John Smoltz. Glavine. The question now is how well Glavine responds on three days' rest after making 89 pitches in Game 1. His stuff was alive, his command close to flawless. On his game, in a big game, there's still no one better.
Both pitchers are anxious to take the ball on game 5 and the short rest seems to cause no worries for none of them.
Offense:
St. Louis Cardinals
The Cardinals hit three homers, but they allowed the Mets a quartet of long balls and a six-run sixth inning to lose the lead in the NLCS. Yay!
Nevertheless, the Cardinals have not shown any kind of offensive problems, unlike the Mets who have Cliff Floyd on the DL. But there's one player who has not demostrated to be as good on this postseason as he wanted Tom Glavine to be. And that is Albert Pujols; with a batting average of .286, 0 RBI, 0 Homeruns and 4 hits out of 14 AB is making the upcoming match-up between Pujols and Glavine even more exciting.
The rest of the line up have done their part. On Saturday's game, even the pitcher homered for his cause; players that have not hit many home runs during the regular season are now being the anchor of the cards offense, Ichiro Ta guchi, Yadier Molina, and the team's spark David Eckstein are examples of this.
New York Mets
The so called sleepy monster has woken up. As last night they battered the Card's bullpen 12-5. The Carlos duo has absolutely met the expectations from Met fans, both of them have hit 2 home runs in one game during the series, and the kind of pressure that they put on the opposing pitchers is really what the Mets need to start or keep up a momentum going.
David Wright, despite hitting a home run last night, has been quite during the series with only 1 hit and 1 RBI in 13 AB, hopefully last night reminded all of them, what made them win 97 games in the regular season. They were by far the best team in the National League.
Who I think it's going to win?.....honestly?
NEW YORK METS!!!
Ciao!
