You can romanticize about baseball only so much until people think you are a lunatic. Then, last night happens. And you realize no words can do it justice. And no amount of romanticizing will feel wrong. There have been 119 World Series before this one. Guys named Babe Ruth and […]
Finally, after what seems like a month of downtime, Game 1 of the World Series is tonight. This is the twelfth time these two teams have met in the World Series. The first seven matchups were when both teams were in New York, between 1941 and 1956. The Yankees won […]
Last year, the Rangers showed that a team could win the World Series with only three hitters. Corey Seager, Adolis Garcia, and Marcus Semien carried the team offensively. Seager had an OPS of 1.137, with three home runs and six RBIs. Garcia had a 1.100 OPS with a whopping .500 […]
In the 1981 season, major league players staged a strike on July 12, right before the All-Star Game, that lasted until the end of July, splitting the season in two halves and generally making a mess of baseball. My beloved Reds were one-half game out of first when the strike […]
It’s more than likely the MVP winners will be Shohei Ohtani in the National League and Aaron Judge in the American League. Both players have led their team to the World Series. So, when was the last time the two league MVPs matched up in the Fall Classic? 2012, when […]
Tommy Edman hits a two-run homer to seal his MVP award. Like it or not, it’s the Yankees and the Dodgers in the World Series. It’s good to see the high payroll teams have a chance for once. This World Series will feature the two probably league MVPs in the […]
Baseball can be so frustrating. The life of a fan is excruciating at times. Cleveland fans might have it worse than anyone else. They’ve gone the longest of any fanbase without a World Series win. It’s been 76 years since Cleveland won it all back in 1948. There were only […]
While the American League series has been wonderful baseball, the National League series has been void of drama. Game 1, the Dodgers won 9-0, taking an early 6-0 lead that took away any question of who would win. The Mets won Game 2 by the score of 7-3, erasing any […]
The Guardians have life. The Mets are on life support. What a difference a day makes. Down two games to none, Cleveland had to win Game 3 to avoid the death knell of being down 3-0 in a best of seven. When Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton hit back to […]
Shohei Ohtani has seventeen hits in this last twenty at-bats with runners in scoring position. Talk about a clutch hitter. It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. First, he became the first player to start as both a pitcher and a hitter in the same season. (Babe Ruth, of […]
