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Kansas City Royals Might Benefit From Giants’ Luck

By Brandon Tobias

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Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

NLCS Game 4: Giants 6 – Cardinals 4

I know you’re going to be shocked here, but in this game the Cardinals’ defensive miscues (gasp!) helped the Giants come from behind and win the game 6-4.  After building a 4-1 lead in the third inning, aided by another Wong home run in the third, STL squared its shoulders and really focused on how to give the game away. Again.

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    • The rally started in the bottom of the 3rd frame with SF pushing across two runs to cut the deficit to 4-3.  Cue 1B Matt Adams who gladly stepped up to the metaphorical plate ready to be the next goat for St. Louis in the 6th. With runners at second and third, Adams first fumbled a ground ball and threw errantly to the STL catcher allowing the tying run to score.

    On the very next batter, Adams tried to turn a difficult double play, instead air mailing the ball to second allowing the Giants to take the lead. While SF did tack on another run in the deciding frame, those two bad back-to-back throws proved to be the difference.

    Granted, the Giants’ spurt came in the 6th inning leaving plenty of time for the Red Birds to make a run.  In this game, though, the shut-down SF bullpen returned to form working 6 scoreless innings after starter Ryan Vogelsong was yanked in the third inning. Vogelsong needed 60 pitches to get nine outs and allowed seven runs and all four STL runs. He’s also expected to bring his 5.19 postseason ERA to the mound in Game 4 on Saturday.

    And your point is?

    So, two games in a row the Giants gave the Cardinals manageable leads and two games in a row St. Louis squandered them with poor fielding and sophomoric throwing.  Hey, the Giants are in the World Series for the third even-numbered year in a row, so they are obviously doing something right and poor teams are unprepared to take advantage of another team’s miscues. The Giants are not a poor team. Still, how much different would the series have been if not for these mistakes?

    If it sounds like I’m beating a dead horse, then let me know what that sounds like as I’ve never really understood that analogy. Regardless, the more you look at the Giants success against STL the more you see a lot of lucky plays working out in their favor over the course of a five-game series. This simply isn’t sustainable.

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