10-07-2011, 01:18 PM
Pam wrote:
Yep. The Tigers were lucky. For Nova, Jeter, Texeria, Granderson, and Cano to all be off at the same time is something. They were really off their normal stride the whole series.
It's called "choking" in post-season terminology. I'm not totally convinced of that sort of psycho-baseball thinking, but it does seem to happen to teams that are under increased pressure to win.