Cleveland is in trouble. Not because they are down 2-0 in the best-of-seven series. Not because they have a rookie manager who inserts Austin Hedges into critical offensive situations where he is totally outmanned and pulls his best starter after one out in the second inning. Cleveland is in trouble […]
In place of the American League playoff game, TBS decided to air a Little League game. It was vintage Little League. Walks and wild pitches. Walks and wild pitches. That first year where the kids are pitching, that’s the game of Little League. A kid walks. He’s wild pitched to […]
Maybe the Mets figured this Mets Magic thing was real. Maybe they honestly thought they were invincible. In the first game of the playoff series to get to the World Series, they start a guy in Game 1 who pitched five innings in the regular season. They figured they would […]
What happened to all that whining about how unfair the new playoff format is? Remember how the teams that earned a bye in the Wildcard round were put in such a disadvantage because they had to sit out and get cold and it wasn’t fair? This year, three of the […]
All of a sudden, Padres swagger was replaced by Padres stagger. After scoring six runs in the second inning of Game 3 to take a 6-1 lead, the Padres. The Padres mugged to camera, preened around the field, and generally acted like impetuous jerks. Then the baseball gods stepped in. […]
The Guardians win on a suicide squeeze. You gotta love baseball. David Fry hits a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the sixth to put Cleveland up 4-3 in Detroit. Then, in the top of the ninth, with the score still tied 4-3, the Guardians had runners at first […]
It’s funny how quickly the swagger disappears when you get humiliated 8-0 in front of your home crowd. Shut out. Shut down. Shut up. The Padres have turned into the villain. With cocky gestures and silly “look at me” antics every single time they hit a home run or make […]
Savor today. It will be the last four-game day of baseball this year. The playoffs have featured a lot of fun baseball. There have already been more blown saves than all of last year’s postseason. Since managers are reluctant to let starters go longer than four innings, maybe five, nearly […]
This is what fans with teams who are no longer in the playoffs (which applied to the Rangers in June) want. All four playoff series are tied at 1-1. Going up 2-0 in a best-of-five series pretty much ends the series for all intents and purposes. But Kansas City and […]
Watching the Mets is fun. Even better is not being a Mets fan so, if they lose, you don’t care. Mets-Phillies Game 2 was an instant classic. Thirteen runs, twenty-one hits, lead changes, game-tying home runs, oh, and a winning pitcher with an 81.00 ERA. Announcer and former Rangers catcher […]
