The Fox commentators agreed before the game that it would not be a pitching duel…yet it was, after the Giants bounced Hernandez, after which not another run was scored.
Would Bonds be walked intentionally? What for? He never came up in Game Seven with anyone on base in front of him. His one walk came from a pitcher who was overly careful about giving him the ball right down the pike (worked him to 3-1 and then walked him). Bonds never got a pitch-out in this game.
I found it to be an exciting game. There’s nothing quite like the ninth inning of Game Seven with two men on and the tying run at the plate, a monster hit almost all the way to the wall, and a beautiful catch to end the season.
But could they shut up the damn commentators, for Chrissake? Geez. And those stupid green-screen ads behind the plate are really stupid, and frankly distracting from what’s going on at the plate.
Next year: Cubs in the Series! (OK, fine, hope springs eternal.)
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)