World Series Report: Two Games In
After watching the first two games of the World Series, it seems more and more likely that the Red Sox are going to have an easy time claiming their 2nd title this decade over the Colorado Rockies. Not only is Boston up 2-0 after two games, they have dominated Colorado’s mighty sluggers. In the first two contests, the Rockies have only managed a total of 11 hits and 2 runs. On the flip side, the Red Sox have had 23 hits and 14 runs (though to be fair most of that production came in game 1.)
This is pretty much what any reasonable baseball fan would have expected. The Red Sox have the better starting pitching. Both Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling are proven post-season performers with championship rings under their belt already. And the Boston bullpen is just nasty. Jonathon Papelbon, Hideki Okajima, Mike Timlin, and Eric Gagne is better than what any other team has.
To regain some degree of momentum in this series, Colorado has to go back to its one game at a time philosophy and forget about the early losses. The fact of the matter is that they lost two road games and are going home. If they can manage to win all of their home games, they will have a great shot to take the series in Boston. And even if they do end up losing this series, they should not be disappointed or unhappy with their season. No one, and I mean no one, would have picked this team as a World Series team. I can’t stress enough just how impressive their late season run has been.
Overall this has been a pretty good series so far. Game 2 was an incredibly close contest that was won by the superior, if only by a slight amount, pitching staff. I do expect Colorado to put up a fight before they go down, however. Expect a very different effort offensively from the team as they face the end of Boston’s four man playoff rotation.
And on a final note, if the Red Sox do win the title…can we all agree that Boston fans have no right to complain about futility for the next century? Between the Celtics in the 80s, the Patriots dynasty a few years ago, and the Red Sox, the team has had more success than any other city in sports. Add in the fact that the current Patriots are tearing up the NFL and that the current Celtics are the talk of the NBA, and it would be hard to ever take a disgruntled Boston fan seriously for the foreseeable future.
