One last thought about the World Series. What we need are more Steve Pearces. More regular guys winning the World Series MVPs. More longshots and underdogs. More Rudy stories and Hoosiers stories and 1980 US Olympic hockey team stories. That is what makes baseball so amazing. Everybody has a shot. If you […]
This one was effectively over after the third batter of the game. Steve Pearce, who would go on to win the World Series MVP, hit a two-run homer in the top of the first inning off hard luck Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw to put the game away. From that […]
Maybe it’s appropriate that it’s Halloween season and the Boston Red Sox offense is like the villain Michael Myers from the Halloween movies. You cannot kill him, no matter how many times you try. It looked like the Red Sox were on the ropes yesterday. They lost that heart-breaking 18-inning […]
The longest World Series game in history ended after seven hours and twenty minutes, and after eighteen innings. It was long. Long enough for two seventh-inning stretches. Long enough for two complete games. Long enough for Boston to burn through three starting pitchers. And Boston reliever Nathan Eovaldi to pitch […]
You might not be a Boston fan. You may in fact be a Boston hater. But there’s no denying this is a fun team to watch. And no denying that, for the survival of the universe and everyone who loves baseball, the Red Sox must win. Boston hits, hits in […]
Dave Roberts can’t help himself. He read a book called How to Manage in the Age of Analytics and cannot manage any other way. He cannot let the action on the field dictate his decision making. He cannot use his eyes. He can only use the data given to him […]
Imagine you pay for a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. It’s being advertised as an epic. You plunk down your hard-earned money and go to the theater to see it. After the first act, both characters are killed off and the leads are now played by Ashton Kutcher […]
This is the 114th World Series. And it feels just like the second one. Literally. Who doesn’t still remember that classic matchup of these two storied franchises way back in 1916? The Dodgers were in Brooklyn. And the Red Sox were called the Americans. But everything else was exactly […]
The Red Sox led all of baseball in wins, runs scored, hits, doubles, runs batted in, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS. It’s a powerhouse offense. The Dodgers are the first World Series team to have had more strikeouts than hits. But they sported the second-best team ERA […]
In the Year of Bullpenning, the Milwaukee Brewers found out the hard way that you live with the bullpen and you die with the bullpen. What works in a series against the Padres in July doesn’t work in a playoff series against Los Angeles in October. Even with bullpen […]
