It’s the Yankees and Astros. The MVP vote in the American League will come down to Jose Altuve and Aaron Judge. The championship of the American League will come down to Altuve’s team and Judge’s team. The irony is so thick you need something that cuts thick irony to cut […]
Dusty Baker is getting crucified in the media for taking out Max Scherzer after 98 pitches on Monday. He had just given up his first hit, after six and a third innings of no-hit baseball. Scherzer committed the unpardonable sin of giving up a base runner after the sixth inning. […]
The Astros showed why they are a team to be reckoned with yesterday, coming from behind against Red Sox ace Chris Sale to win the division series and move onto the championship series against the winner of the Yankees and Indians in Game 5 Wednesday in Cleveland. Chris Sale lost […]
The best thing about playoff baseball is more playoff baseball. Today is a full slate, with all four division series games. That’s because both AL East teams woke up, both won, both extended the series, both are still alive. The Red Sox won big in a slugfest. The Yankees won […]
Sometimes all it takes is one at-bat to exhale. In the bottom of the eighth inning, down 3-1 in the game and facing the daunting possibility of being down two games to none, the Washington Nationals were playing tight, scared, with the legacy of losing weighing down heavily upon them […]
Cleveland fell behind 8-3 against the best bullpen in baseball. Final score: Cleveland Indians 9, New York Yankees 8 in 13 innings. Cleveland up two games to none. Thank you, baseball god. Thank you. ***** TODAY’S GAMES: Jon Lester (13-8, 4.33) vs. Gio Gonzalez (15-9, 2.96) Game time: 4:38 on […]
Playoffs are all about heroes. Yesterday there were two in particular. Jose Altuve for Houston and Trevor Bauer for Cleveland. All Altuve did was become the tenth player in major league history to hit three home runs in a post-season game. MVP voting was due on the last day of […]
So now that the playoffs are set, I will boldly predict the outcome. I can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that I will be totally wrong. This is not who I want to win, this is who I think will win. American League: Yankees vs Indians: Yankees. Astros vs Red […]
Last season the Arizona Diamondbacks went 69-93. The Minnesota Twins went 59-103. The Colorado Rockies went 75-87. All three teams had worse records in 2016 than the Rangers had in 2017. All three made the post-season as wild cards. Those three franchises did a lot right over the off-season last […]
The post-season gets underway today with the American League wild card game, at 8:00 on ESPN. The Twins take on the Yankees, their playoff kryptonite. In a scenario reminiscent of the Rangers earlier playoff struggles, Minnesota cannot get past New York, having lost five straight Division Series, four to the […]