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Originally Posted by moon
I am not sure why you are focusing on wins so much. Awesome the team won when he pitched that tells us about 0 about his actual ability or what he did in those games.
Cardinals should be able to easily beat him if they want to go to World Series but they appear to not care all that much as shown by their pathetic effort tonight. Not sure it will matter much because if this is the best the Cards have to offer then the Tigers will be easily walking away with the Title this year anyways.
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I focus on wins, because that's the most important stat. Seriously, what stat in baseball is ranked higher than wins? The team that wins four games first in the LCS goes to the World Series. That's the only stat that matters. Right now Zito is giving his team a chance to win. Tonight he pitched phenomenally, especially getting out of the jam in the second. When a pitcher shuts down the Giants I commend the pitcher, realize it's a long season and understand the game of baseball. I've seen how you react to the Flames, so I'm not surprised in your analysis. Zito beat St. Louis in the one game he faced him during the regular season. Was that pathetic too? Sometimes, and some games, one team is just better. St. Louis was easily better in game four of the LCS. The Giants weren't pathetic then; St. Louis was simply better that game and overpowered the Giants.
Since you were concerned over Zito's ability, tonight he pitched 7.2 innings of shutout baseball. On August 7th when he beat St. Louis he pitched 6.2 innings and allowed two runs. In the two games against him He had 14.1 innings and an ERA of 1.26. In the current 13 game team win streak of Zito starts has a 3.60 ERA. If he gave up 10+ runs in the first 3 innings as you suggested, he'd have an ERA of 30.00 or so.
Fun stats: In the 162 regular season games and 11 post season games, St. Louis scored 10+ runs in 13 plus games. The earliest they got to 10 runs was the third inning once against the Brewers on April 27. Other than that they got 10 runs twice by the 7th inning. Including the playoffs, 4 of the 13 games were against the Nationals. The other 9 were against non-playoff teams. It just goes to show, that it isn't easy to get 10+ runs in a few innings, especially against playoff teams and a pitcher that has won a Cy Young before, and is currently on an excellent win streak.