Sedao's Insight

With the NLCS coming to a close and the dodgers losing the I-5 series isn’t going to happen.  As awesome as it could have been it won’t happen this year.  The dodgers worked the count better but the phillies were the ones that scored.  Jason Werth delivered some crucial hits this series.  Getting 3 home runs but when he isn’t hitting homeruns he is back in the dugout.  Ryan Howard had an rbi in every game except the last one proving to be a strong force in the philly stronghold.  But a player I would like to bring up as possibly the mvp of the nlcs is Shane Victorino.  With a .368 Ba for the team and getting multi hit games in 3 of the 5 games he was a batter. It’s hard to say the pitching was good when in only 2 games you could say that the pitchers pitched well games 2 and 3 besides those games they gave up at least 4 runs.  Ultimately it came down to how well the hitters could hit and not the pitchers pitch.

Secondly why it will probably be an I-95 series is because the Yankees are 3-1 and with A-rod hitting as many homeruns this post season as in all his post seasons combined the Yankees best hitter is finally hitting how a 33 million player should hit. This post season Arod is hitting .407 with an rbi and a hit in every game.  Paired with 5 home runs he is unstoppable.  Arod has as many hits as rbis also.  With him in their lineup it is hard to see the Yankees losing 3 more games.
This postseason the Yankees haven’t scored less than 4 runs a game, and teams have only scored more than 4 runs against the Yankees once and that is the only time a team has beat them.  The pitching is stellar and the hitting is just as good.  If the Angels wish to beat the Yankees the hitters are going to have to score more than 4 and the pitching is going to have to stop A-rod.