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 […]
Remember the whining about how unfair this new playoff system is to the highest-seeded teams because they have to sit out a week waiting for the Wildcard round to complete? Yesterday, three of the four bye recipients won. And, in a best-of-five Division series, the winner of the first game […]
It looks like the Mets have that “thing” going on. Call it mojo or magic or whatever, but they are making baseball fun. Monday, in the crucial hurricane-forced doubleheader in which they absolutely had to win a game, they scored six runs in the eighth to erase a 3-0 deficit. […]
Poor Baltimore Orioles. For the second year in a row they watched their excellent regular season go up in smoke by being swept in the wild card series. Last year, of course, by Texas, this year by Kansas City. They amassed 192 victories over two years in the regular season, […]
In the better late than never category, Game 161 might have been the most fun game of the season. Just as the season is ending, Rangers fans get a reminder of the joy of baseball. Down 8-3 in the sixth inning of a meaningless game of a hapless season, the Rangers […]
It’s good to end it against the Angels, a team so bad it just got swept by the White Sox, a team so bad it just lost its one-hundred-twenty-first game of the season, the most in major league history. The Angels are so bad, Marcus Semien had one of his […]
