Has the Dynamic Changed After One Game?
by Stephen Jones
The Giants and the Tigers . . .
To the critics the Tigers are showing rust
and now after just one game are showing bust.
Rust-or-bust? Rust got a team to a World Series?
No, it arrived by smart play, heart and chemistry.
I’m not jumping on a West Coast bandwagon
just yet. The Panda stung Detroit – Kaboom!
But one game doesn’t make a legacy.
Much less a “given” – World Series history.
Shake Off the Lay-Off
by Hilary Barta
Detroit’s pitching seems iffy, not trusty.
Their hitting, once spiffy, looks rusty.
Are the Giants that loose?
Is it Tigers’ disuse,
Motown’s dugout a little bit musty?
World Series, Game 1
by Stephen Jones
The San Francisco Giants seem like
they’re on a mission. Rawhide glove
& bat – they are owning a ball park tonight,
no matter what Detroit brings.
Spence and Cain and It Looks Like Rain
by James Finn Garner
Hunter Pence showed how it’s done
Hitting three times instead of one
Earning a futile “Whazz-muh–?”
From an addled Peter Kozma.
And from the mound, young Matt Cain
Gave the Cards a Giant pain.
The contest called by Buster Posey
Came up smelling like a rosey.
So it’s the Coasts, both West and Third.
No more miracles for the Birds.
Plus, TV watchers praise their luck:
Coitus interruptus for McCarver and Buck.