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Detroit stars never really shined in 4-game World Series loss to Giants | Redux

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Detroit stars never really shined in 4-game World Series loss to Giants

[Edward McCall presents a silver basket of flowers to New York Giants manager John McGraw at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)] (LOC)
[Edward McCall presents a silver basket of flowers to New York Giants manager John McGraw at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)] (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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It ended with Cabrera at the plate, watching the third strike that finished Detroit's season. So close to their first championship since 1984, the Tigers were vanquished in a sweep few saw coming, losing four straight to the San Francisco Giants. The finale was 4-3 in 10 innings. Cabrera homered in Game 4 on Sunday night, but Fielder's struggles persisted, and Verlander never had another chance to pitch after he was knocked around in Game 1. "You remember this feeling all winter, and it makes you want to come back and try this again," Verlander said. "I've lost twice, and it doesn't get easier. It gets harder. I don't want to do this a third time." Detroit lost in five games to St. Louis in the 2006 World Series. This showing was even worse.

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Cabrera

Overall Sentiment: -0.123884

Relevance: 0.923104

SentimentQuote
0"We could not find our game in the World Series," Cabrera said. ...
-0.0433816"We could not find our game in the World Series," Cabrera said. "We were looking in the whole series to get ahead, but they pitched good, they pitched great and they beat us."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0433816
  • Mean: -0.0216908
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Fielder

Overall Sentiment: 0.0987749

Relevance: 0.627739

SentimentQuote
0.134461"It is unfortunate, but we played as hard as we could. Losing to the World Series champions isn't too bad," Fielder said. ...
0.0456827"It is unfortunate, but we played as hard as we could. Losing to the World Series champions isn't too bad," Fielder said. "We played good baseball, but they just beat us. We had a great season to get to the playoffs, and we played well to get to the World Series. You just don't get to write your own script."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1801437
  • Mean: 0.09007185
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Verlander

Overall Sentiment: -0.0813022

Relevance: 0.34595

SentimentQuote
0.0348206"You remember this feeling all winter, and it makes you want to come back and try this again," Verlander said. ...
-0.186191"You remember this feeling all winter, and it makes you want to come back and try this again," Verlander said. "I've lost twice, and it doesn't get easier. It gets harder. I don't want to do this a third time."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.1513704
  • Mean: -0.0756852
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Jim Leyland

Overall Sentiment: -0.108212

Relevance: 0.300934

SentimentQuote
0.169825"I'm a little bit flabbergasted to be honest with you," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said.
-0.165148"I'm a little bit flabbergasted to be honest with you," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "In both of those series, I never would have thought that we would have swept the New York Yankees, and I never would have thought that the Giants would have swept us, but it happened. It's a freaky game."
-0.343262"I'm disappointed for Mr. Ilitch. We wanted this bad for him," Leyland said. ...
-0.251823"I'm disappointed for Mr. Ilitch. We wanted this bad for him," Leyland said. "But when you've been in the game a long time, somebody wins and somebody loses."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.590408
  • Mean: -0.147602
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Mr. Ilitch

Overall Sentiment: -0.173799

Relevance: 0.287028

Marco Scutaro

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.249

Bruce Bochy

Overall Sentiment: -0.132858

Relevance: 0.242252

SentimentQuote
-0.0514295"For us to play like we did against this great club, I couldn't be prouder of these guys," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0514295
  • Mean: -0.0514295
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Delmon Young

Overall Sentiment: -0.423938

Relevance: 0.229114

Buster Posey

Overall Sentiment: 0.0970712

Relevance: 0.224987

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

City: Detroit

Overall Sentiment: -0.153111

Relevance: 0.831168

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Organization: Tigers

Overall Sentiment: 0.135152

Relevance: 0.819798

Organization: San Francisco Giants

Overall Sentiment: -0.112305

Relevance: 0.652898

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