Noah Syndergaard gave the Mets exactly what they needed last night in Game 3. Hope. And life. And momentum. And strikeouts. What he did that few other teams have been able to is miss the Royals bats, getting them to swing and miss. He recorded six strikeouts, if you […]
Yesterday’s news that the Rangers let go beloved pitching coach Mike Maddux came on the heels of last week’s announcement that Rangers’ hitting coach Dave Magadan was let go. When I heard that, I wasn’t sure what the bigger news was. That the Rangers fired their hitting coach, or that they even had a […]
The Kansas City Royals are the team that doesn’t strike out. The bottom of the fourth inning in Game 2 of last night’s World Series epitomized what makes the Royals the best team in the American League, and pretty close to being the best team in baseball. Jacob deGrom is […]
Baseball is a game of redemption as much as it is a game of execution. In the top of the eighth inning, with the score tied 3-3, the Mets were batting with two outs and nobody on. Juan Lagares singled. Stole second. Then scored on a rare Eric Hosmer […]
The Kansas City Royals return to the World Series as the best contact team in baseball. They are going to need that particular skill set. They are facing a team with arm after arm after arm of swing-and-miss stuff. The team that doesn’t strikeout faces a strikeout staff. Great pitching is […]
I”m looking forward to the World Series. It looks to be pretty evenly matched. What the Mets did to the Cubs, though, was no fluke. This is a very good team. Like the Rangers, the Mets remade their team at the Trade Deadline, and things totally clicked. Before the All-Star game, […]
Not counting what the Royals have done this year and last year, in the last thirty years, six teams have been to back-to-back World Series. Five of those six won at least one championship. Oakland made it into the World Series three years in a row, in 1988, ’89 and ’90, and won it […]
No matter which team you were, or you were rooting for, this is how you want it to end. The Royals, you want your stud closer on the hill. The Blue Jays, you want your probably MVP. All-Star against All-Star. Power against power. Wade Davis against Josh Donaldson. Davis bent, but […]
Today’s Dallas Morning News has a great article called “Keep ’em or Leave ’em.” You can vote on which of players whose contracts for next year aren’t already locked in you want to keep as a Ranger or see leave. It’s a fun quiz. Take it here. The problem is, it leaves […]
It’s going to be a 108-year wait now.