Old Time Family Baseball

7:57 ET:

Texas Rangers (C. Lee 12-9 3.18) at San Francisco Giants (T. Lincecum 16-10 3.43)

2,430 regular season games and 27 postseason games have all lead to tonight’s game. At roughly three hours per game, that’s over 7,300 hours of baseball with all roads converging at Lee and Lincecum.

Predicting individual baseball games is a fool’s errand in the best of scenarios, but there’s no way to even begin picking a team to win tonight. On one side is this generation’s greatest postseason pitcher in Cliff Lee going up against the two-time defending NL Cy Young Award winner. Unless we are treated to one of those cruel high scoring bullpen matches, this game is going to come down to one mistake: a fastball that tails over the heart of the plate; an overthrow at first base; a little bloop single inside-outed to right field; or even a gust of wind at precisely the wrong moment.

Rooting interests aside, go home and watch two of the premier players try and give their team the advantage in the Fall Classic. Because when you want to watch good baseball, it gets no better than this.

Edge: Don’t even bother.