The right teams are going to the Fall Classic

Posted by Zealous032 on October 21st, 2013

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The right two teams are going to the World Series.

The Red Sox and Cardinals each won 97 games during the regular season, the most in the majors. It will mark the first time since 1999 — Braves vs. Yankees — the teams with the best records in each league will play for the title.

And just to verify it all, Boston and St. Louis have been the best clubs in the postseason. The most complete. The least flaws.

In some ways, the 109th World Series will also answer who is the team of the past decade, since the Red Sox (2004, 2007) and Cardinals (2006, 2011) have won it all twice in that period, and no club has won it three times.

To capture the AL pennant, the Red Sox had to outdo a Tigers squad that appeared determined to reach the World Series on the arms of its rotation. Detroit had an edge nowhere else. The Tigers fielded and ran the bases inelegantly — especially compared to the Red Sox — and the battle of the bullpens was the great mismatch of this series.

It was a tribute to Anibal Sanchez, Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander and Doug Fister this series was so tightly fought, so tense and dramatic. The quartet combined for a 2. 06 ERA, a. 189 batting average against and 55 strikeouts in 39 ¹/₃ innings.

But all series, the game within the game was if Boston hitters could work the Tigers starters hard enough to get them out of the game.

“We don’t take an at-bat off, ” Boston hitting coach Gregg Colbrunn said. “And the playoffs magnified it. ”

Scherzer held the Red Sox to one hit in seven at-bats with runners in scoring position through six innings. However, that wore on him and when he put two on in the seventh with one out and reached 110 pitches, Tigers manager Jim Leyland went to his untrustworthy pen.

Drew Smyly actually induced what could have been an inning-ending double play. In the top of the frame, Boston shortstop Stephen Drew had made a lunging, run-scoring play to keep the score 2-1. But now Jose Iglesias, the only above-average defender on the field, booted the ball. That loaded the bases and brought on Jose Veras, who had the right initials for this Tigers relief corps — J. V.

Shane Victorino had pretty much given up switch-hitting in early August when a hamstring injury made it too painful to hit from the left side. So he was right on right, and fell behind 0-2. Then Veras hung a 0-2 breaking ball and Victorino sent it over the Green Monster.

“The right side is his natural side, but that is not easy, ” Drew said. “You don’t know how this will play out. It is remarkable. ”

Victorino’s was the second grand slam by a Red Sox hitter in this series off a Tigers reliever. The first, by David Ortiz off closer Joaquin Benoit, with two outs and Detroit leading 5-1 in the eighth inning of Game 2, was the most important moment in the ALCS. The Tigers were within four outs of taking a two-games-to-none lead and heading back to Detroit.

Instead, the Tigers’ lack of relief became the latest reason why the franchise has been the close-by-no-cigar leaders of this era. In the last eight years, Detroit has lost in the world Series twice and the ALCS twice.

Conversely, Boston’s pen yielded just one run in 21 innings in this ALCS — none in four innings in the clincher. Closer Koji Uehara was named the series MVP (three saves, no runs in four games and six innings).

The Red Sox will find an equally stingy Cardinals pen in the world Series. And it will also face a St. Louis offense that should get the clutch Allen Craig back to be a DH — making it an NL lineup that would look just fine in the AL. Boston had 57 more runs than any AL club, the Cardinals 77 more than any NL squad.

This feels right, too: In a year and a postseason dominated by pitching, the best offenses are going to play in the Fall Classic. But really, the two most complete teams now, fittingly, are the last two standing.

It sets up a terrific World Series — champions of 2013 and of the past decade on the line.

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