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Originally posted by larrymcg421
By the way, Maddux has a 2.09 ERA in 5 World Series starts. Why is he continually maligned as a poor postseason pitcher? His run support in those five games? 2.8
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It is usually ignorance that makes people say things like that. I pointed out earlier where Maddux was just as good in the postseason as Ryan was when that comparison was going on.
Its funny sometimes to see what people pull out for reasons why a team crumbles at certain times. The Braves problem for those years was they did not have the hitting in the postseason to get any further. That led to perhaps some of the best World Series games that i can remember (Twins vs Braves series, Blue Jays vs Braves series, etc) where each game was a close pitcher duel heart breaker for them. Their pitching was not their problem in those series, it was their hitting..
The same people are also usually the ones that say Oakland's failure in the postseason recently is because High OBP does not work in the postseason, you have to play small ball, move the runners around, etc.. Those people neglect to look at the statistics and realize that Oakland's pitching fell apart (or at least one of their pitchers has) in the postseason.