{"id":8015,"date":"2013-10-24T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2013-10-24T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:53:19","slug":"world-series-game-2-pitching-matchup-and-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8015","title":{"rendered":"World Series Game 2 Pitching Matchup and Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game 1 went as I thought;\u00a0<strong>Adam Wainwright<\/strong> may be unbeatable at home, but he&#8217;s shown that he&#8217;s vulnerable on the road (see the Nationals&#8217; destroying of him in last year&#8217;s Game 5 start). \u00a0Boston jumped on him early and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/video\/mlb\/20131024\/world-series-game-1-boston-red-sox-st-louis-cardinals-tom-verducci.sportsillustrated\/\">cruised to an 8-1 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t know what that <a href=\"http:\/\/thebiglead.com\/2013\/10\/24\/jon-lesters-glove-contained-a-green-substance-was-he-cheating\/\">green substance<\/a> was on\u00a0<strong>Jon Lester<\/strong>&#8216;s glove &#8230; but i&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re going to a) be reading all about it and b) it won&#8217;t be there when he pitches again in Game 5).<\/p>\n<p>Game 2:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/probable_pitchers\/index.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_news\"><strong>Michael Wacha<\/strong>\u00a0vs <b>John Lackey<\/b><\/a>. \u00a0 Without doing a bunch of analysis, as badly as St. Louis hits lefties is as well as they hit righties. \u00a0Wacha has been unbelievable this post season (a 0.43 ERA). \u00a0Lackey has been competent but not un-hittable. \u00a0I feel like St. Louis gets a split and goes home with the series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>I think\u00a0<strong>Carlos Beltran<\/strong> will be fine. \u00a0I think all the nerves and errors we saw in Game 1 will go away. \u00a0St. Louis has been here before and should be able to rebound from the series of bone-head plays that led to many of Boston&#8217;s runs.<\/p>\n<p>(btw; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/wp\/2013\/10\/24\/what-if-the-nationals-had-drafted-michael-wacha\/\">interesting piece in the Post today<\/a> about Wacha, who was drafted a few picks after the Nats took\u00a0<strong>Lucas Giolito<\/strong>. \u00a0Lots of second-guessing going on by everyone who skipped him in the 2012 draft. \u00a0It is what it is; you setup a draft board, and if you get to your pick and Giolito is ahead of Wacha you pick him. \u00a0<strong>Albert Pujols<\/strong> was a 13th round pick; sometimes you miss on amateur guys. \u00a0 Per the story, if Giolito had been gone the team would have taken him).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game 1 went as I thought;\u00a0Adam Wainwright may be unbeatable at home, but he&#8217;s shown that he&#8217;s vulnerable on the road (see the Nationals&#8217; destroying of him in last year&#8217;s Game 5 start). \u00a0Boston jumped on him early and cruised to an 8-1 victory. (I don&#8217;t know what that green substance was on\u00a0Jon Lester&#8216;s glove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[346,123,260,306,221,852,1953],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-albert-pujols","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-john-lackey","tag-jon-lester","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-michael-wacha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}