Are we seeing a rigged World Series?

I'm asserting it's a real possibility now after this scoreline and a re-examination of last night.

This was the fifth inning, within which the Cards took a 3-2 lead and made it a 5-2 lead:

Feldman has just come in to relieve Harrison here.

Theriot grounds out. 1 out.
Craig walks.
Pujols is hit by a pitch.
Berkman sacrifices the runners to 2nd and 3rd. 2 out.
Freese gets the intentional walk.
Molina walks in a run for 4-2.
Wilson relieves Feldman, and PLUNKS Furcal to force in a second run.

2 runs, NO HITS, 3 walks, 2 HBP.

The game is now 5-2 in the bottom of the 7th, and I do not anticipate Texas coming back.

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So why is this beyond just bad pitching and that I'm questioning whether it's a rigged World Series?

Let's go back to last night and these clips from MLB.com:

David Freese, ninth inning: Down two runs, and one strike from victory, the pitcher serves up an absolute down-the-middle meat-ball -- on 1-2 no less, which Freese drives to right.

But that's not all! The Texas right-fielder, if you watch, makes NO REAL EFFORT TO TRACK DOWN THE BALL. With a decent amount of hustle, he makes the catch and the Texas Rangers win the World Series four games to two.

Even if he believes he IS burnt, the runners are going on the hit, but the second run has to score all the way from first base! If he's burned, he can play the ball off the wall and probably hold that second runner to third, leaving probably runners at the corners.

His half-assed non-effort turns probably a single off the wall into a two-run "triple" (at best, that's a three-base error!) and extra innings.

Berkman in the 10th: Down, a second time, to their final strike for a championship (the count was 2-2, so there was no immediate walk here), the Texas pitcher serves up a pitch just above the knees over the heart of the plate -- hit to center, tie game again.

Freese, AGAIN, in the 11th to win it: Leadoff batter, tie game. This pitch, about the same level as the "triple" he blasted in the 9th (right about at the waistline), only about a ball's width off the absolute center of the plate...

And if you really don't think there's an interest in Mr. $elig in all of this, someone asked him about it last night! Listen for yourself, and we'd like to congratulate the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals, who are about to be openly awarded a World Championship.

Do I think they rigged the Series? They certainly rigged it to go 7 -- and I think they did rig the result!!