SAN FRANCISCO ? The Detroit Tigers deserve to win a Bay Area baseball Mr. Congeniality award.
When talking about what they expect from the AT&T Park crowd, many Tigers managed to compliment both Giants and A?s fans in the process.
?Hopefully that Oakland series prepared us for this,? Austin Jackson said. ?Just watching [the NLCS] on TV it was loud, so I can?t imagine how it?s going to be live.?
ALCS MVP Delmon Young compared the scene in Oakland during the Division Series to an international soccer match.
?If they?re anything like Oakland, it?s going to be a crazy series because that was the most intense scene I?ve ever seen. That was like playing in FIFA World Cup soccer. The only thing that separates them is a bridge so I think it?ll be crazy.?
The noise at AT&T Park during Games 6 and 7 forced Fox announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver to raise their voices during the game broadcast and the auxiliary press box in the third deck would shake during big moments.
Tigers catcher Gerald Laird is expecting more of the same, or worse, in the World Series.
?We expect the worst. We see how the Bay Area is. It?s loud. Oakland was great; it was a great atmosphere. We expect the same here in San Francisco.?
Laird said he was really impressed while watching the end of Game 7 by the fans that embraced a strong rain like it was a hot shower.
?You can tell last night no one left and it was a downpour for the last out. So we know how much they love their baseball here. But after going through Oakland, we feel like we can play in any stadium because it was probably the loudest we?d been in all year.?
The Giants helped their crowd get loud in Games 6 and 7 of the NLCS because they scored early in each game. Marco Scutaro, the NLCS MVP, was a big reason why the fans had something to cheer about early, whether it was the age-old ?Let?s go Giants!? chants or the ?MVP! MVP!? encouragement for Buster Posey when he came up with ducks on the pond.
So how do the Tigers plan on keeping Scutaro, who hit .500 over 28 at-bats in the NLCS, off base in front of Posey?
?It?s tough; you?ve got to pitch to your pitcher?s strengths,? Laird said. ?We felt like the Cardinals made a lot of mistakes to him and he didn?t miss it. That?s what good hitters do. We have to execute pitches to him, we?ve got to make him feel uncomfortable in the box and I feel like we have the right-handed pitching to do that.?
Game 1 starter Justin Verlander has been known to quiet opposing crowds with his electric stuff, but even when he was cruising through the A?s lineup in Game 5 of the ALDS, the crowd in Oakland was relentless.
The Giants and their fans will likely still be riding the high from a Game 7 win, and the Tigers are well aware of that.
?They?re definitely going to have some momentum going into this next game,? Jackson said. ?I think it?s going to be a good matchup. I really think it?s going to be a tough battle for both teams.?
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