Anyone catch catch the cubs last night?
Yeah, it was really disappointing to see the Giants blow that game. But their fatal flaw all season was their bullpen.
At least the Giants won a couple games in the playoffs. They had one glaring flaw but were competitive otherwise.
The Sox simply got crushed. They didn't belong.
I mean the Red Sox did lose 2 of the games by a run and I believe in both the games they had the tying and/or go ahead run aboard in the 8th and 9th innings. They didn't get any of the breaks in those series but 2 base hits there and they could be still playing up 2-1.
Don't get me wrong I was incredibly disappointed and a sweep is a sweep, but I wouldn't say we didn't belong on the field against the Indians. We were 2 pretty evenly matched teams throughout the season and in the playoffs.
They didn't have a standout performance from a single player, that I can think of. Benintendi, I guess?
You're right that it's not as though they were blown out in three straight games. At the same time, their calling card was supposed to be offense and they didn't have a single inning where they scored more than a run, and in one game they were held scoreless. On the other side of things, none of their three starting pitchers had a good game. The bullpen didn't exactly blow anybody away, either.
To me, the Red Sox "lost in all phases of the game," to borrow a phrase from Belichick. That's why I say they didn't belong.
It's such a small sample size, though. The MLB regular season is far too long, and the playoffs are much too short. I'd much rather the MLB season end after 120 games or so, and they make the playoff format a full four-round, 16 team tournament, like the NBA playoffs.