Ken Rosenthal documents the Tigers lack of selectivity at the plate and gets Andy Van Slyke's reaction:

The Tigers' well-documented impatience actually is less of a concern for Leyland and his staff, even though the team is averaging only 3.38 pitches per plate appearance in the Series.

While the sample size is ridiculously small, the Tigers' average is down from 3.86 in the ALCS, according to STATS, Inc., and far below the Giants' major-league worst average during the regular season, 3.59.

"Our problem is that we're not being aggressive in hitters' counts," first base coach Andy Van Slyke said. "If we're not aggressive, we're not going to score. We're like an NFL team running a two-minute drill with no timeouts. Our OBA (on-base-average) means NTU -- nothing to us."

Van Slyke wasn't demeaning the importance of on-base percentage; he merely was describing the nature of the Tigers' offensive attack, which isn't going to change until the team acquires different hitters.

Of course, you can't be aggressive in hitters' counts unless you take a couple of pitches to get into those counts. Leyland did change the order yesterday to put Monroe, Guillen, Ordonez and Casey together. That should help the offense.