Watching these playoffs, you realize baseball is a game of incredible skill. The ability for a pitcher to bend a ball just right to fool a hitter into swinging and missing it or hitting it so poorly that he’s easy to get out. The ability of a hitter to actually […]
Both National League Division Series are tied. The Braves got a great start from Max Fried, who had an amazing second half of the season, going 8-2 with a 1.74 ERA in fourteen starts. Fried has turned himself into the best pitcher nobody has heard of. Until last night. In […]
The Red Sox scored two in the top of the first but then immediately gave up five in the bottom of the inning. Down in the series against the team with the best record in the American League, it looked bleak. When it was all said and done, though, they […]
Today is National Baseball Day. Other than opening day, it’s the best day of the year for baseball fans. Four playoff games in one day. Wall-to-wall baseball. Wall-to-wall drama. Wall-to-wall joy. The American League has already played its Game 1s. It was a bad day for socks of all colors. The […]
This one-game wild card playoff format has come under some attack. “That’s not how baseball works. All year long you are playing a series, now it’s one game?” “You win 105 games in a season and your entire year could be gone in nine innings? That’s not fair.” Nobody ever […]
Two former Rangers had bad nights for the Yankees. Joey Gallo went 0-for-4 with a strikeout. Rougned Odor went 0-2 with a strikeout. Neither had endeared themselves to Yankees fans. Although, Yankees fans are a fickle bunch and tend to throw their players onto the scrap head much quicker than […]
The playoffs start today for baseball. The long dark reckoning starts for the Rangers. This season saw a lot of really great baseball. Very little of it came from Arlington. Even less when the Rangers went on the road. Here’s how Rangers faired against the leaders in the major categories. […]
Blanked by the Indians. It was a fitting end to the most inept of seasons. It was a season of questions that produced question marks rather than answers. Is there anyone offensively worth keeping? Of course, they will keep most everyone. First, it would be unlikely to replace an entire […]
Game 162 Day is here. The final day of the 2021 baseball season. Every game starts at the exact same time today. The final day was scheduled that way a few years ago in order to create a day filled with drama from bouncing from one game to another. It’s […]
Early on in yesterday’s game, while Spencer Howard was still on the mound generously gifting runs to the Indians, the Rangers announcers said they think Howard can be useful in certain roles in 2022. Here is a complete list of those such roles: 1. If you’re trying to determine if […]
