The Giants Win the Pennant!
October 24, 2010
Somebody needs to remind Ryan Howard that if the pitch is THAT close to being a strike, he needs to be swinging at it. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the tying run on second, and the winning run on first, Howard watched the 3-2 pitch go by for a called third strike. What he also watched disappear was the Phillies’ chance at heading to the World Series for the third year in a row.
What we have now is a series of the improbable. First, the Rangers beat the tar out of the defending champion New York Yankees to advance to their first ever World Series, and now my hometown Giants have joined them.
I think my favorite thing about the Rangers’ series victory over the Yankees is the fact that the final pitch was a called strike three to Alex Rodriguez. When you consider the fact that the Rangers still owe millions of dollars to Rodriguez, as a result of that huge contact they gave him in 2001. He only played for them for three years (2001-2003), yet was still the Rangers’ biggest creditor at their bankruptcy hearings recently. I think it’s fantastic that they beat him.
