Hello friends! Tomorrow night the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers will wage battle with a trip to the Fall Classic at stake! NLCS preview tomorrow night but right now let's focus on the ALCS shall we?
Detroit Tigers vs. Texas Rangers
Despite being outscored 28-17 in their Division Series against the New York Yankees the Tigers were still able to win the series in 5 games. Now despite their ace and future AL Cy Young winner Justin Verlander getting roughed up a bit by the Yanks in Game 3 of that series it was the surprisingly solid outings from Max Scherzer and Doug Fister along with the solid outings from closer Jose Valverde that kept the Tigers in those games and allowed their bats to produce some clutch and timely hitting none more so than the offensive hero of that series for me anyways Delmon Young who smacked 3 HR's in the Tigers ALDS win including 1 in the clinching Game 5! On the other side of the coin the Rangers knocked off the Tampa Bay Rays in 4 games to defeat them in the Division Series for the 2nd year in a row despite being outscored by the Rays 21-16! In terms of offense both ballclubs are evenly matched but for me I give the slight edge to Texas because of the clutch hitting of their 2 offeseason acquisitions Mike Napoli and Adrian Beltre's 3 HR's in the clinching Game 4 against Tampa! Pitching wise Detroit definitely has the edge not just because of Verlander but also because they have 2 other quality starters in Scherzer and Fister. Closer wise slight edge to Detroit because of how dominant Jose Valverde has been as of late even though Neftali Feliz is no slouch either! Now for Detroit to win they need Verlander to be the dominant starter he has been all year long and will also need their offense to jump all over the Rangers good but not great starting pitching. For the Rangers to repeat they need their offense to outslug the Tigers potent offense not to mention get to the immovable object that is Justin Verlander and they also need their starting pitching to produce a quality start or 2. So who wins? Well Detroit won the regular season series 6-3 so advantage Detroit there. Boy this is really tough to call because my gut tells me to go with Texas while my heart tells me to go with Detroit. Tough call like I said but I am going to go with my gut and go with Texas to repeat as AL champs in 6 games on the strength of their dangerous offense which oh by the way was the key in their 6 game series win over the New York Yankees in last year's ALCS!
Winners: Texas Rangers 4 games to 2
OK friends that concludes part 1 of this 2 part LCS preview thanks so much for reading along and I will be back tomorrow night with my NLCS preview so until then you know the routine everybody. Thumbs up talk to you later! YEAH!!! Bye for now!
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