[el ess A]

Pitching has been a bit better than expected from both clubs both starting and the bullpen with generally few pitching mistakes. When you have flamethrowers and ball wranglers out there every inning for both sides, you are going to have some low team batting averages. Still, these are tighter games than anyone expected though and every game so far has been basically imbalanced off by the other team pouncing on the mistakes. Not saying every mistake cost every game, but there were huge ones certainly changed the dynamics of each. (Gm 1: Shoddy Stl defense. Gms 2 and 3: Boston's bad ideas to throw to 3rd and sailing the ball off into space. Gm 4: A Stl Maness sinker that didn't sink and ended up over the wall in LF.)

Isn't this McCarver's last WS games he's going to be involved in? God, I hope so. He is about the most annoying Capt. Obvious analyst I've ever witnessed. Stuff like "The second baseman made a heckuva play just to keep that ball from going into center field and XXX has to stop at second. If the ball gets by the second baseman, XXX ends up on third putting him in better scoring position." or "You can tell he doesn't have his best stuff because he's having a bit of trouble finding the strike zone." Well, thanks for the update, Tim - duhhhh. At least half the game each night I just mute the sound of the TV just to keep from hearing him talk.