There are bad days and then there are bad days. Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal had a really bad day. Two passed balls. Catcher’s interference. A missed-catch error. And that was just the first three innings. The Brewers scored two runs in the mostly disastrous third inning, then three more in […]
The only problem with none of the division series going five games is there are two dead days before any baseball. The National League Championship Series starts Friday night. It might be appropriate, or maybe it’s sadistic, to bring up an article on ESPN.com right now. It was written […]
No Cinderella stories. No “we shocked the world.” No upsets. The Final Four is set. It all went according to the script. Even if the last inning last night tried to be Rudy and Hoosiers all rolled into one. In the end, the Red Sox were able to nail […]
Freddie Freeman is about as reliable as they come. The guy rolls out of bed in the morning and gets clutch hits. That’s what he does. He batted .309 in 2018. He hit .309 batting from the right, .309 batting from the left. He hit .304 at home, .314 […]
David Price is the opposite of Mr. October. After last night’s loss to the Yankees, in which he lasted just one and two-thirds innings, giving up three hits, two walks and three earned runs, Price is now 0-9 in ten post-season starts. His ERA is 6.03. Price is the […]
Today is Baseball Day. It’s like Christmas and Halloween and your birthday all rolled into one, then sewn up with 108 red stitches. It’s the one day we are assured of four playoff games. Both American League first-round series start today. And both National League Game 2s are today. […]
When you bring in your closer in the sixth inning, you either took a time machine back to the 1970s or you are in a world of trouble in actual time. For the Athletics, it was the latter. A team with the lowest payroll in baseball—$66 million to start the […]
So, how has the state of bullpenning evolved? Oakland is starting a reliever today in their wild card game against New York, and is planning on it being a bullpen game. In their do-or-die game, the Athletics are turning it over to their bullpen. It might be because all […]
Christian Yelich is a beast. He came into yesterday’s tie-breaker game needing one home run and two RBIs to be the first triple-crown winner in the National League since 1937 when the Cardinals’ Joey Medwick hit .374 while slugging 37 home runs and knocking in 154. (Just four years […]
It hasn’t been a franchise known for success. In 47 seasons, the Rangers have eight post-season appearances. And, now, twelve last place finishes. Overall, they finish last 25 percent of the time. They make the playoffs 17 percent of the time. Of those twelve last place finishes, three have come […]
