Speculation last night in Game 1 of the ALCS about whether Tiger manager Jim Leyland would pull Anibal Sanchez following the sixth inning after 115 pitches.
After all, they noted, he had a no-hitter going.
They forgot to mention that a group of jellyfish is called a smack. And that the average February temperature in the Nunavut territories is minus-28 degrees. And that bookkeeper is the only word in English with three consecutive double letters.
All of these are facts. All of them are irrelevant to Jim Leyland's decision to pull a pitcher whose arm was coming off in Game 1 of the playoff series whose winner plays for the World Championship.
The Fox announcers decided Sanchez could go because he had only completed six innings, not eight. He wasn't close to completing the no-hitter.
Memo to them: Jim Leyland would have pulled Sanchez with two outs in the ninth and two strikes on the batter if he thought it would improve his chances of winning the game. Jim Leyland's sole concern right now is to win a World Series in Detroit. An Anibal Sanchez no-hitter is as much his concern as sales of the next Killers' album.
And that is why Jim Leyland is managing a team in the ALCS and Tim McCarver is an announcer on Fox.
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