Cardinals Go For Two In Texas
Written by Christopher Corazon, Sunday October 23 2011
Sometimes, people mix sports metaphors, like when they say someone hit a home run in a football game. In Texas, where it is clearly football country, this low scoring World Series had a football score. St. Louis just happened to make the two point conversion.
The St. Louis Cardinals scored four runs in the first two games of the World Series. Then in one game, they scored four times as many runs. The 2011 Series was supposed to be a match between two offensive teams. The first two games produced eight runs. After three innings in game three, the score was 1-0 in favor of the Cardinals. There were nine runs in the first 21 innings of the Series. The next six innings there were 22 runs.
There were several reasons for the lower scores in St. Louis. The pitchers hit and there was no DH. It was colder, and the pitching match-ups were better. But what is very clear in this series if the contrast of the two parks. The Ballpark in Arlington is clearly friendly to the hitters while St. Louis favors the pitchers.
The Cardinals scored 4 in the top of the fourth to take a 5-0 lead. It was not enough for Kyle Lohse. On ESPN radio, Orel Hersheiser announced that “Lohse was on a short leash”. He did not get an out in the inning. It went back and forth for a few innings. Texas got three in the fourth, and the Cardinals got three in the fifth. Texas got those runs back in the bottom of the inning. Eventually, St. Louis pulled away.
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