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Maybe it was the end of that 23-game, season-long series against the Orioles that finally ground down the Yankees. The O's never let up in their late-season pursuit of the AL East title and when they lost that – but not the regular season head-to-head series between the two teams, cheap kilkenny jerseys which finished 9-9 – Baltimore caused just as many postseason concerns. The Bronx Bombers finally won through, winning the fifth game of the playoff series and the 23rd game of the season, to claim a spot in the ALCS. But that victory was mostly won on the back of the pitching of CC Sabathia and it left the Yankees looking exhausted, heading into the ALCS the very next night.
So, the St. Louis Cardinals have taken game one of the NLCS, thanks to a poor start from the San Francisco Giants' Madison Bumgarner and a remarkable job from their bullpen. More than that, in forcing Bruce Bochy to go with Tim Lincecum out of the bullpen, they may have ensured that Barry Zito gets a start in this series. Not a bad job.
But it's just game one. cheap knock off jerseys It's anybody's series here, especially since the Giants can live on the road. Splitting at home, however, would do a lot to improve San Francisco's chances of making sure this is a series. Game 2 of the NLCS will be tomorrow at 8pm EST. Of course, the Guardian will be covering it (and every game remaining in the MLB postseason) and we invite you to follow along with us. Thanks to everybody who followed along with both games of today's baseball double-header, especially those who helped us out by contributing.Those who follow my Twitter feed know my appetite for both baseball and politics. I find the two have many things in common, and this connection was cemented in my mind Friday evening.
The Washington Nationals took the field against the St. Louis Cardinals in a Game 5 elimination playoff. The hometown Nats seemed impossible to stop. They scored three runs in the first inning and tacked on another three in the third to lead 6-0. cheap kobe jerseys You wouldn't have been alone in thinking the game was over. No team had ever come back from a five-run or greater deficit in a sudden-death playoff game in major league history.
Twenty days earlier, I thought another contest involving Washington was heading towards a fairly clear conclusion. President Obama held a three-point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for president. The lead wasn't particularly large, but it was consistent and was growing. I wrote at the time: "There hasn't been a single candidate to come back after trailing by three points this late in the campaign in the past 60 years."
Indeed, Obama's lead would actually expand to about four to five points, at its peak. cheap laker jerseys The fact that many, though not all peers of mine (Jay Cost and Sean Trende are good exceptions), felt similarly only boosted my confidence. Once Obama's approval rating crept two to three points above his disapproval it was a clincher, in my mind. How could a president who always polled better in a match-up against Romney than his approval indicated lose now?Then the debate happened. I actually expected Romney to win the debate, yet thought it wouldn't make a big difference – that was what history had taught me. Challengers have always performed strongly in the first debate. They usually close the gap a little, but not by large margins. I believed Obama would still lead, unless he said he wanted to punch Mickey Mouse in the face.
I should have known better. I wrote an article in April entitled "Why the 2012 election is set to break all the rules". The basic premise was that there are a lot of rules in politics that aren't as iron-clad as they seem and some were bound to be broken in 2012. I didn't have a section on late leads, which I probably should have. I ended my piece by saying "rules are rules in politics… until they aren't rules anymore." How prophetic that line turned out to be. cheap liverpool jerseys This of course means that I can cite another rule: no president has won re-election in the past 60 years when trailing in October. So either this rule or the one about three-point leads in September will be broken. It's a great lesson that no rule in politics is perfect, except for perhaps one that also applies to baseball "it ain't over till it's over".
Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, apparently forgot that rule on Friday Evening. In a tweet that speaks to the allegory of the Nationals' game to this election, cheap philadelphia 76ers jerseys he wrote: "At Nats game and, man, they came out of the gates like Joe Biden! 6-0 in the third!"Axelrod was putting the cart before the horse, as many covering the presidential campaign did. The problem for him and all those rooting for the Nationals was that the Cardinals had other ideas.
The Cards scored one in the fourth inning, two in the fifth, one in the seventh and one in the eighth to close the gap to 7-5. The Nationals struck back and had the Cardinals down to their final strike twice in the 9th. Both times, however, the Cardinals didn't give in and eventually they loaded the bases. A single by Daniel Descalso tied the game and one batter later Pete Kozma plated two more to give the Cardinals a lead they would never relinquish.
So, the St. Louis Cardinals have taken game one of the NLCS, thanks to a poor start from the San Francisco Giants' Madison Bumgarner and a remarkable job from their bullpen. More than that, in forcing Bruce Bochy to go with Tim Lincecum out of the bullpen, they may have ensured that Barry Zito gets a start in this series. Not a bad job.
But it's just game one. cheap knock off jerseys It's anybody's series here, especially since the Giants can live on the road. Splitting at home, however, would do a lot to improve San Francisco's chances of making sure this is a series. Game 2 of the NLCS will be tomorrow at 8pm EST. Of course, the Guardian will be covering it (and every game remaining in the MLB postseason) and we invite you to follow along with us. Thanks to everybody who followed along with both games of today's baseball double-header, especially those who helped us out by contributing.Those who follow my Twitter feed know my appetite for both baseball and politics. I find the two have many things in common, and this connection was cemented in my mind Friday evening.
The Washington Nationals took the field against the St. Louis Cardinals in a Game 5 elimination playoff. The hometown Nats seemed impossible to stop. They scored three runs in the first inning and tacked on another three in the third to lead 6-0. cheap kobe jerseys You wouldn't have been alone in thinking the game was over. No team had ever come back from a five-run or greater deficit in a sudden-death playoff game in major league history.
Twenty days earlier, I thought another contest involving Washington was heading towards a fairly clear conclusion. President Obama held a three-point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for president. The lead wasn't particularly large, but it was consistent and was growing. I wrote at the time: "There hasn't been a single candidate to come back after trailing by three points this late in the campaign in the past 60 years."
Indeed, Obama's lead would actually expand to about four to five points, at its peak. cheap laker jerseys The fact that many, though not all peers of mine (Jay Cost and Sean Trende are good exceptions), felt similarly only boosted my confidence. Once Obama's approval rating crept two to three points above his disapproval it was a clincher, in my mind. How could a president who always polled better in a match-up against Romney than his approval indicated lose now?Then the debate happened. I actually expected Romney to win the debate, yet thought it wouldn't make a big difference – that was what history had taught me. Challengers have always performed strongly in the first debate. They usually close the gap a little, but not by large margins. I believed Obama would still lead, unless he said he wanted to punch Mickey Mouse in the face.
I should have known better. I wrote an article in April entitled "Why the 2012 election is set to break all the rules". The basic premise was that there are a lot of rules in politics that aren't as iron-clad as they seem and some were bound to be broken in 2012. I didn't have a section on late leads, which I probably should have. I ended my piece by saying "rules are rules in politics… until they aren't rules anymore." How prophetic that line turned out to be. cheap liverpool jerseys This of course means that I can cite another rule: no president has won re-election in the past 60 years when trailing in October. So either this rule or the one about three-point leads in September will be broken. It's a great lesson that no rule in politics is perfect, except for perhaps one that also applies to baseball "it ain't over till it's over".
Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, apparently forgot that rule on Friday Evening. In a tweet that speaks to the allegory of the Nationals' game to this election, cheap philadelphia 76ers jerseys he wrote: "At Nats game and, man, they came out of the gates like Joe Biden! 6-0 in the third!"Axelrod was putting the cart before the horse, as many covering the presidential campaign did. The problem for him and all those rooting for the Nationals was that the Cardinals had other ideas.
The Cards scored one in the fourth inning, two in the fifth, one in the seventh and one in the eighth to close the gap to 7-5. The Nationals struck back and had the Cardinals down to their final strike twice in the 9th. Both times, however, the Cardinals didn't give in and eventually they loaded the bases. A single by Daniel Descalso tied the game and one batter later Pete Kozma plated two more to give the Cardinals a lead they would never relinquish.
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