by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

KANSAS CITY–The way baseball is structured the Boston Red Sox last season won the World Series, well what happened this year the Sox finished in the cellar. My point there is no team that is a super team, the Giants might win and pitcher Madison Bumgarner might be the best pitcher in the world and he will be the MVP who will win the series.

Still there’s no super team, everybody in baseball has weaknesses and everybody had deficiencies there’s no one team that’s going to be perfect all season that’s impossible to stop. Look at the Giants after pitcher Madison Bumgarner, the Giants acquired Tim Hudson and Jake Peavy who both have below .500 records and who weren’t even there they were acquired during the season.

The Giants stater Ryan Voglesong had a negative record during the season of 8-13 and the Royals James Sheilds is not the same pitcher that he was in Tampa Bay. He can be hit, there’s not a super team out there so this series was bound to go to the end to six or seven games. Of course if the Giants win on Tuesday night in game six they’ll win their third World Series in the last six years but if they lose it will go to game seven.

There’s no team that’s a super team, somebody is going to win this World Series and in baseball right now there’s a lot of parity. What happened to the Red Sox can happen to anybody, the Sox won the World Series last season and then the following year in September your in the tank as the Red Sox finished this sesaon. In baseball there’s a lot of parity and one of the best things that Commissioner Bud Selig did was to structure the Wild Card.

Here are two Wild Card teams nobody expected the Giants and the Royals to be in the World Series that was like a 10,000 to 1 shot. If someone said this year in March in spring training that it’s going to be Kansas City and San Francisco someone would say “what are you smoking?” In this game there is a lot of parity and that’s why this World Series is so even and now it’s a sixth game on Tuesday.

For game six it’s Jake Peavy going for San Francisco against Kansas City’s Yordano Ventura and for the Royals they have to win on Tuesday and if they lose there will be no tomorrow if the Royals don’t win game six. The Giants can’t even use some of the pitchers they have used recently and they want to close it tomorrow. It won’t be a surprise if the Royals win game six and the series goes to a final decisive seventh game.

The death of former St.Louis Cardinal outfielder Oscar Taveras (1992-2014) who died at the age of 22 from a car accident was a true tragedy in baseball. This kid in his first at bat hits a home run in the big leagues and he hit a pinch hit home run and in game 2 of the NLCS against the Giants Taveras hit one out. It was heart wrenching for all the players and people who saw Mr.Taveras play at AT&T Park in San Francisco against the Giants and throughout the NLCS and now he’s dead at age 22.

Mr.Taveras died with his girlfriend Edilia Arvelo 18, they were both driving a 2014 Cheverlet Camaro between the beaches of Sousa and Cabarete in Puerta Plata located 215 miles north of the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. Mr.Taveras was identified by his family he was not carrying any documents that would identify him at the time of the crash said Col.Diego Pesqueira of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the Oakland Athletics and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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