Pitching coach Dave Righetti admitted that the Giants would discuss alternatives for their potential Game 7 starter after Jonathan Sanchez's struggles in Game 3.
Sanchez's velocity has been down and he's given up six runs over his last 6 2/3 postseason innings. The Giants have three alternatives for Game 7, and none of them are very enticing. They could go with youngster Madison Bumgarner on short rest, fake an injury to someone and start Barry Zito, who hasn't pitched since October 2, or go with Tim Lincecum on two days' rest for a few innings before going to the bullpen. Ultimately, we would expect the Giants to stick with Sanchez and hope he turns it around. Oct. 31 - 8:46 am et
I liked what I saw on paper for today's game and glad it came to fruition. Go Giants we need one more win to the bring the World Series title to the City!!!
Damn... my buddy has tickets to game 5 tonight, and offered to give me one if I flew down to go to the game. Lee/Lincecum and it could be the clincher for the Giants. I really wish the airlines couldn't gauge the pricing on flights.
Damn... my buddy has tickets to game 5 tonight, and offered to give me one if I flew down to go to the game. Lee/Lincecum and it could be the clincher for the Giants. I really wish the airlines couldn't gauge the pricing on flights.
wow how much is the flight? I would of done it in a heartbeat.. but it is my team playing
Cant beleive Giants are only 1 game from winning the world series
wow how much is the flight? I would of done it in a heartbeat.. but it is my team playing
Cant beleive Giants are only 1 game from winning the world series
Just hope Tim Lincecum handles game 5 a lot better than he did game 1, that is Cliff Lee he's going up against and odds are Lee won't have back to back bad post-season starts.
Just hope Tim Lincecum handles game 5 a lot better than he did game 1, that is Cliff Lee he's going up against and odds are Lee won't have back to back bad post-season starts.
I think Cliff Lee and Lincecum will both have solid games tonight... cant see either one pitching bad games back to back... I wonder who will come up with the huge clutch hit for the Giants tonight, Gm 1 it was Uribe, GM2 was Renteria, Gm4 it was Huff.. who will it be tonight
I couldn't figure out why I don't like Cody Ross. He seems like a nice guy and I wanted to like him. It's because he looks like Brad Childress. So I guess we're cool now. I wish he'd stop getting huge hits. Then we'd be cooler.
Bud considering adding 2 more Wild Card teams, starting in '12 season.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig gave his strongest indication yet that two extra wild-card teams will be added to the playoffs for 2012.
"I like it enough, so we'll seriously consider it," he said Sunday night before Game 4 of the World Series. "Is eight out of 30 enough? Is that fair? And that's the basic question here, at least for me."
Asked his opinion of 10 playoff teams, Selig responded: "It's more fair than eight."
"Two more would give us 10, and 10 out of 30 I still think is a rational mix," he said. "But then the next question is how do you do it and what form does it take?"
Selig said this is not the first time he's contemplated adding more playoffs teams, but that baseball's television partners previously weren't receptive.
"We studied this three or four years ago, and I was really quite convinced we need two more and became unconvinced the more we talked," he said.
Any change in the playoff format would be subject to agreement with the players association, and union head Michael Weiner said last week players were open to considering a larger postseason. Selig said his staff will start examining more wild-card teams in mid-November and wasn't sure there was time to get a plan in place to expand the postseason for 2011.
He also said the 162-game regular season will not change. Clubs do not want to lose ticket money and broadcast revenue from regular-season games.
"You can be assured the clubs do not want a shorter season. No sense misleading each other about all that," he said. "I'm a devotee of a shorter season, but they're not, and I understand it. Especially as global television ratings have gone up, you're talking about a lot of money."
If each league had two wild cards, they could meet in either a one-game or best-of-3 playoff to advance to the division series. There is sentiment against a one-game playoff, but Selig is worried about the postseason extending toward Thanksgiving.
"I've had some managers tell me we can't play 162 games, wind up in a playoff for one game," Selig said. "So you're going to get both sides of the argument, and they're very strong in that opinion, by the way."
Selig did not sound as if he favored expanding the division series from best-of-5 to best-of-7.
"There's something about a five-game as opposed to seven, where there's more tension. There's more drama," he said.
Some other stuff:
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• He is not upset by those who don't believe him when he says he intends to retire at the end of 2012. "I have owners calling me all the time telling me the same thing. I thank them for calling, and that's the end of the call."
• He thought the commissioner's office loaning money to the Texas Rangers before the team was sold in August was "absolutely the right thing to do. ... It's all been paid back, and they did very well."
• There is no timetable for his committee studying options for a new Oakland Athletics ballpark, a group appointed by Selig in March 2009. "The committee is hard at work. They're going to be reporting back to me sometime after this [the World Series] is all over."
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