Pressure shifts to Rays
A rain delay, a five-man infield, a ridiculous beard, hijinks on the basepaths, a vintage Jamie Moyer start, back-to-back homers (of which Comcast apparently deprived some viewers), throws that bounced off shoes and backstops and sometimes just sailed into open spaces, chants of Eva, a clock that read 1:47 a.m., the spirit of Tug McGraw.
Even Ryan Howard was part of it.
Not to mention, Reading, Pa., native Taylor Swift stuck around to do the national anthem.
Most people in America probably didn’t see it, but the Phillies won Game 3 of the World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays to take a one-game edge.
And it is the Rays who are under pressure now. Game 4 tonight is a must-win for them. They may be comeback kids, they may be better than the world gives them credit for, but they don’t want to go down 3-1.
The pressure is off Joe Blanton, the Phillies’ Game 4 starter. You know him, he’s the fat one in whom nobody had any faith until he delivered big in the clutch — winning both his postseason starts (including that clincher in Milwaukee) while allowing just four combined runs. He’ll face Andy Sonnanstine, who’s also 2-0 in October.
Werth-less: What Jayson Werth has accomplished — hitting and fielding his way into the everyday lineup — is admirable, but is he the stupidest baserunner ever to exist? What was he doing getting picked off of second with one out in the eighth? All he had to do was not get picked off. That was his first job, and it wasn’t difficult. Yet he got picked off. And Werth is the same guy who got doubled off of first for no good reason in Game 2.
A sort of homecoming: Souderton, Pa., native Jamie Moyer, who spent the bulk of his major league career with the Mariners, still keeps his main home with his wife and kids in Seattle (although he frequently visits family in the Philadelphia area, even before he joined the Phils). He’s friends with Bill Gates and loves it out there in the Great Northwest. But Moyer said Saturday night’s big-stage
“homecoming” in Philly, where he received an enormous ovation as well as lauditory postgame chants from the fans, was the pinnacle of his career to date. If the Phillies seal the deal — and that’s still an
if — he might just find himself spending more time in his
hometown.
Rays still chillin’: The Rays’ clubhouse is
loosey-goosey during this World Series, even though Series veteran Cliff Floyd hopes his young teammates don’t take their experience
for granted. Still, some Rays fans are wondering why their club’s power
has disappeared, fretting that maybe the Rays’
magic is dissipatting. And Game 3′s ninth inning
is haunting Tampa fans.
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