Por lo general los analistas del juego apuntan a las estad\u00c3\u00adsticas de pitcheo y bateo a la hora de hacer sus comentarios en referencia a los juegos del pasado y el futuro. Nadie discute la importancia de los lanzadores y los bateadores en los resultados que arroja el b\u00c3\u00a9isbol.<\/p>\n
Sin embargo existe una faceta del juego que deben rendir todos los equipos cuando saltan al terreno de juego. Hablamos del desempe\u00c3\u00b1o defensivo de los jugadores, el cual puede tener tanta incidencia en el desenlace de un juego como lo que puedan hacer los pitchers o los bateadores.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0La Serie Mundial ha comprobado la importancia de la defensiva que deben tener los equipos tanto para llegar a ella como para conquistarla. Todos los cultores del juego saben que si Sandy Amor\u00c3\u00b3s hubiese dejado de atrapar la l\u00c3\u00adnea de Yogi Berra en la Serie Mundial de 1955, quiz\u00c3\u00a1s el ganador del torneo iba a ser otro equipo. Que si el guante de Brooks Robinson hubiese sido vencido por todos los roletazos y l\u00c3\u00adneas que atrap\u00c3\u00b3, quiz\u00c3\u00a1s los Orioles se quedan con las ganas de acariciar el t\u00c3\u00adtulo en la Serie 1970. Lo mismo con la atrapada de Joe Rudi en el cl\u00c3\u00a1sico de 1972 entre Oakland y Cincinnati, y tambi\u00c3\u00a9n el excelso juego del camarero Dick Green. Ni hablar de la atrapada de Willie Mays en la Serie de 1954 o la de Dwight Evans en la Serie de 1975.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0En la historia de los Cl\u00c3\u00a1sicos de Octubre la gran mayor\u00c3\u00ada de los equipo campeones ha contado con una defensiva notable que ha contribuido de manera\u00c2\u00a0 determinante en la conquista del t\u00c3\u00adtulo. Quiz\u00c3\u00a1s uno de los equipos de m\u00c3\u00a1s excelsa defensiva sean los Cardenales de San Luis de 1982. Darrell Porter, Keith Hern\u00c3\u00a1ndez, Tom Herr, Ken Oberkfell y Ozzie Smith s\u00c3\u00b3lo cometieron 53 errores en la temporada. La Gran Maquinaria Roja de 1975 con Johnny Bench, Tany P\u00c3\u00a9rez, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose y David Concepci\u00c3\u00b3n; cometi\u00c3\u00b3 56 errores.\u00c2\u00a0 Los Orioles de Baltimore de 1970 (Elrod\u00c2\u00a0 Hendricks, Boog Powell, Dave Johnson, Brooks Robinson, Mark Belanger) incurrieron en 62 errores. Estos equipos demostraron que al mantener un rendimiento apreciable de la defensiva, independientemente de si la ofensiva era de poder o habilidad, s\u00c3\u00b3lo<\/p>\n
necesitaban un pitcheo aceptable para alcanzar la victoria.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Los Rangers de Matt Treanor, Justin Smoak, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young y Elvis Andrus cometieron 49 errores en la temporada 2010. Los Gigantes de Buster Posey, Aubrey Huff, Freddy Sanchez, Pablo Sandoval y Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Uribe incurrieron en 33 errores durante la temporada. En principio San Francisco\u00c2\u00a0 tendr\u00c3\u00ada ventaja teorica respecto a profundidad defensiva, sin embargo habr\u00c3\u00ada que tomar en cuenta que el catcher actual de Texas<\/p>\n
es Bengie Molina y el short stop y el tercera base de los Gigantes son Edgar Renter\u00c3\u00ada y Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Uribe respectivamente.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0La informaci\u00c3\u00b3n aportada por los n\u00c3\u00bameros defensivos tambien ratifica la paridad de fuerzas existente entre Rangers y Gigantes.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n
English translation<\/p>\n
The baseball analysts generally point to the pitching and batting stats when they made their comments about the past and future games. Nobody discusses the importance of pitchers and batters on baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s results.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0 But it exists a facet of the game that all teams should accomplish when they jump to the field. We are talking about the defensive performance of the players, this can have so much incidence on the game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final score as the pitching or the batting.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0The World Series has been a great scenery to prove how great should be the defensive side of a team in order to get the championship. Every follower of the game knows that if Sandy Amoros hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t caught Yogi Berra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00c2\u00a0shot to left field in the 1955 Series, maybe the winner could have been a different team. That if Brooks Robinson hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fielded all those shots around the hot corner in the 1970 Series, probably the Baltimore Orioles couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have won that contest. The same for Joe Rudi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s catch in the 1972 Series besides the great defensive performance of second baseman Dick Green. Not to mention Willie Mays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 catch in the 1954 Series or the Dwight Evans catch in the 1975 Series.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Through the history of the World Series most of the champions have had a magnificent defensive performance that have been decisive to get the victory. Maybe one of the teams with an extraordinary defense was the St Louis Cardinals of 1982: Darrell Porter, Keith Hern\u00c3\u00a1ndez, Tom Herr, Ken Oberkfell y Ozzie Smith just made 53 errors dujring the season. The Big red Machine of 1975: Johnny Bench, Tany P\u00c3\u00a9rez, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose y David Concepci\u00c3\u00b3n only had 56 errors. The 1970 Baltimore Orioles: Elrod\u00c2\u00a0 Hendricks, Boog Powell, Dave Johnson, Brooks Robinson, Mark Belanger, just made 62 errors. Those teams showed that by keeping a solid defensive performance, they just needed an average pitching to reach the wins, no matter if they had the long ball batting or the ability one.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0The Rangers of Matt Treanor, Justin Smoak, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young and Elvis Andrus, made 49 errors during the 2010 season. The Giants of: Buster Posey, Aubrey Huff, Freddy Sanchez, Pablo Sandoval and Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Uribe, made 33 errors. At first sight this would give some edge to the Giants. But we have to remember that Bengie Molina will be the catcher for the Rangers in the Series and that the Giants short stop and \u00c2\u00a0third baseman will be Edgar Renter\u00c3\u00ada and Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Uribe respectively.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0All this defensive info about the teams arrives to the fact, again, that this will be a very tight Series.<\/p>\n
Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n
Alfonso\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work has been featured in Venezuela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also written three books and biographies for SABR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BioProject.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sin embargo existe una faceta del juego que deben rendir todos los equipos cuando saltan al terreno de juego. Hablamos del desempe\u00c3\u00b1o defensivo de los jugadores, el cual puede tener tanta incidencia en el desenlace de un juego como lo que puedan hacer los pitchers o los bateadores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5989,1946,9581,9782,11973,1934,11970,11972,5013,4947,3107,11974,11971,9783,9787,1829,11536,8820,56,414],"class_list":["post-8952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-boog-powell","tag-brooks-robinson","tag-camarero","tag-cardenales-de-san-luis","tag-darrell-porter","tag-dwight-evans","tag-elrod-hendricks","tag-excelso","tag-guante","tag-joe-rudi","tag-johnny-bench","tag-ken-oberkfell","tag-lanzadores","tag-los-cardenales","tag-orioles-de-baltimore","tag-ozzie-smith","tag-tany","tag-tom-herr","tag-willie-mays","tag-yogi-berra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}