Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - See Ya, Wouldn't Want To Be Ya!

I wouldn't want to be the Detroit Tigers today. The hero of the American League Central Division one game playoff captures the highly coveted Batter's Box POTD honours..

The beauty of baseball is anyone can be a hero, especially in the post-season. Casilla's batting average just two points below the Mendoza Line coming into yesterday's game. His game-winning hit in the 12th that plated Carlos Gomez put his average two points above .200. I don't know about you but I thought Casillia beat Ryan Raburn's throw in the bottom of the tenth inning. Granted, the ball arrived at the plate in plenty of time but I don't think Gerald Laird got the tag down in time. Anyways, until yesterday's hit, Casilla's 2009 season has been a disappointment in the Twin Cities as he drove in just 17 runs without a homer. That's after the 24 year-old switch-hitter from the Dominican batted .281 last season with seven bombs and 50 RBI.

Thanks to Casilla's heroics, the Twins are in New York tonight to take on the New York Yankees in the American League Divisional Series. It's a battle of lefties as the Twins go with Brian Duensing against the Yankees C.C. Sabathia at 6:07 ET. Boston and the L.A. Angels don't play until Thursday in Anaheim.

The playoffs get underway at 2:37 p.m. ET in Philadelphia as the defending World Series Champion Phillies take on the Colorado Rockies in an NLDS rematch from 2007. Lefty Cliff Lee toes the rubber for Philadelphia and Ubaldo Jimenez goes for Colorado. Can the Wild-Card winning Rockies derail the Phillies again? That's the $64,000 question.

At 9:37 ET tonight, the Los Angeles Dodgers host the St. Louis Cardinals. N.L. Comeback Player of the Year Chris Carpenter gets the ball for the Cards while lefty Randy Wolf starts for the Dodgers.

I hope this will be a great post-season to help make up for the lack of good races during the regular season. Play Ball!

Posted by #2JBrumfield on Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 01:02 PM EDT.

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Magpie - Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 01:24 PM EDT (#207173) #

And the Twins' reward for their heroics (was that some ballgame or what?) is a trip to the Bronx, where the Yankees await. Tanned and rested.

Rob Neyer directs us all to an interesting piece on exactly how Derek Jeter made the remarkable transformation from a defensive liability into a legitimately good major league shortstop. Which he has indeed managed to do, and at age 35 no less. It turns out that Jeter himself was well aware of what exactly were his weaknesses (what, he didn't believe the McCarvers of this world?) as a defensive player and put in a lot of work to address them.

He wants to play "well into his 40s" - which means he's going to make a very, very serious run at 4,000 hits.

Mike Green - Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 03:05 PM EDT (#207186) #

The article suggests that it was the Yankee management which brought the issue clearly to Jeter's attention, but his dedication which made the thing happen. Better late than never.

John Northey - Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 05:01 PM EDT (#207198) #

I could live with Jeter catching up and passing Rose should that happen. Don't care for the whole Yankee stuff and massive man-love the media has for him but at least then we'd stop hearing about how Rose is the 'hit king'. Of course, we'd also have to deal with at least a year or two of intense 'Rose should be in the HOF' junk too :P

jerjapan - Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 05:11 PM EDT (#207200) #

Interesting article - Jeter is truly remarkable. And what a ball game last night! Rayburn throwing the runner out at home is about as dramatic as it gets.

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