The Tampa Bay Rays won 98 games in 2026, 13 more than the Cleveland Guardians. They are the better team, by far. Often, though, the challenge with the playoffs is the better team doesn’t win, for one reason or another. In Tampa Bay’s case at least for the first three […]
Rain washed out yesterday’s Game 4 in Cleveland. It’s scheduled for today. It’s an interesting matchup, the Rays and Guardians. It’s a Tampa Bay team that has never won a World Series, and a Cleveland team that has the longest World Series championship drought, having last won in 1948. They […]
You can’t keep a good team down. It was just a matter of time before Shohei Ohtani broke out of his slump. It happened in the second inning of Game 4 of the Championship Game, with two runners on. The four-time MVP had been mired in a horrible slump, driving […]
The Brewers will not be denied. Up two games to none in their best-of-seven series, the Brewers scored on the very first pitch of the game, a deep home run by Jackson Chourio. The way Milwaukee’s Robert Glasser was pitching, that one run looked like it was going to hold […]
With Freddy Paralta’s arm and Liam Hick’s bat, the Rays were able to take Game 2 of their Championship Series 3-1 over the Guardians and avoid heading to Cleveland down two games to none. Peralta went six strong shutout innings, allowing just four hits and two walks, striking out six. […]
The Brewers refused to lose last night. Every time the Dodgers scored, they answered right back, and then some. Down 1-0 after the first half-inning to the mighty, indestructible, undefeatable Dodgers with their dominating starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, they were written off as dead. One run is all […]
The Chicago White Sox’s biggest fan might have been the Pope, but it was the Cleveland Guardians who pulled off the miracle of coming back from being down 0-2 in the best-of-five series. It was José Ramírez who pulled off the miracle of hitting a two-run homer, which incidentally was […]
One last game to determine who plays the Tampa Bay Rays for the American League Championship. The visiting team has won every game so far. The White Sox are hoping that pattern continues. The reason to root for Chicago to win is the story of an amazing turnaround. The team […]
Facing elimination, on the road, down two games to one to the White Sox, the Guardians were down 2-0 after three innings. Then they scored three in the top of the fifth to take the lead. It was brief. The White Sox immediately scored two to make it 4-3. It […]
The Braves were tied with the Dodgers 1-1 in the top of the seventh inning in an elimination game they absolutely had to win to stay alive. Tyler Mahle was pitching a gem. He’d given up two hits in six innings, allowing only one unearned run. He got the first […]
