The Yanks may be playing as well as anyone in baseball at the moment, still high on whooping the Red Sox in the fiver. The Tigs are obviously struggling to score runs, but it remains to be seen whether this is temporary or a fatal flaw in the lineup.
On the bright side, the Tigs ditch their itchy-trigger-finger strategy come the 9th Inning, take pitches and make people pay. Too bad they can't be more patient in the preceding eight frames.
Pitching is very strong, howevs. So it's a matter of just putting it all together and that slump will be gone. Perhaps better to struggle in early Sept than breeze into October. Learn the lessons of the Mariners.
Anyway you look at it, this man is worth his money.
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The '05 White Sox slumped late; it's not fatal if your team has the right makeup.
I'm gonna pretend you didn't just make that comparison. I'm gonna try real hard.
Your bigger concern should be the overall losing record against teams above .500. That's a little scary for the playoffs.
That's a weird stat. I'm guessing it's against a handful of teams -- (Sox, Yanks). The Tigs have dominated everyone else as far as I recall. I'm gonna do some digging.
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