At the end of game one
of the Series, Fox announcer Joe Buck said it was good to see rookie reliever
Hunter Strickland back on track after pitching a scoreless ninth inning with
the Giants ahead by six runs. Strickland
hadn’t been doing too well, what with giving up four homeruns to
eighteen batters faced in the postseason.
Two strikeouts in mop-up duty can make a big impression on some people.
Like Buck’s buddy
Harold Reynolds. In the sixth inning of
game two, Strickland came in with the Giants down a run, two runners on and one
out, KC catcher Sal Perez batting. After
the first or second strike, Reynolds said Strickland’s arm angle made it hard
for right-handed hitters to pick up the flight of the ball. Of course, that was before Perez hit a
two-run double and before Omar Infante clubbed a two-run homer for a Royals’
7-2 lead and eventual win.
If he keeps it up, Buck
will surpass his performance in the 2005 White Sox-Astros Series, when he
started talking about the Chicago Stock Yards, as if they were still in
operation; they’d been closed down since 1971.
As for Reynolds, every coherent comment—not to be confused with every comment—is
cringe worthy. And they wonder why
ratings are so low for the Fall Classic.
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