If you believe Newton’s First Law of Motion applies to postseason baseball, there is no more dangerous team than the Detroit Tigers. They have the best pitcher in baseball, enthusiasm, athleticism, strategic unorthodoxy and an irrational exuberance that comes from being one of the youngest lineups in postseason history. They don’t know any better.
And therewith is the reminder to the Houston Astros and, if the Tigers advance, the Cleveland Guardians about the Law of Inertia as it applies here: A team in motion will remain in motion at a constant velocity and in a straight line except insofar acted upon by an external force.
