Max Scherzer still has life in that arm. He’s forty-one. He’s been on two World Series champion teams. And he picked up a W for Toronto in last night’s 8-2 win over Seattle to even their Championship Series at two games apiece. (In the National League, the Dodgers are 3-0. […]
It appears Toronto is getting even for those tariffs. They crossed the border into the United States, and their offense came alive. After their MLB-best offense was held to just four runs in the first two game, they broke out for thirteen in Game 3, jumping on every Mariners pitcher […]
Old school baseball has broken out in the National League Championship Series. Out of eighteen possible innings, Dodgers starters have thrown seventeen. If they keep this up, Los Angeles just might turn back the clock on a decade of overthinking and overmanaging. The one thing baseball does is copy winning. […]
On Canadian Thanksgiving Day in Toronto, it was Seattle that did the carving. The Mariners used the home run ball to crush the Blue Jays 10-3, stunning the crowd in Toronto who saw their beloved Jays drop the first two games in the best-of-seven series at home. Seattle’s Julio Rodriguez […]
Seattle takes the first game. After George Springer hit a home run to put the Blue Jays up 1-0 after one pitch, the Mariners pitching locked down the best hitting team in the major leagues. Toronto managed just one more hit in the game, a single in the second. They […]
They’re celebrating in beer town. The Brewers knocked off the Cubs in Game 5, winning 3-1, to advance to the Championship Series against the Dodgers. It will be David versus Goliath as far as payrol;l is concerned. The Dodgers, you will recall bought every single conceivable free agent last offseason, […]
It was the longest elimination game in major league history. Fifteen innings. But for the Mariners, it was fifteen innings and twenty-four years. That’s the last time Seattle made it to the Championship series. Getting there wasn’t easy. This is a franchise that’s known for one thing. Failure. It’s the […]
The Rangers have had some gut punches this year. They’ve had some pretty creative ways to lose. But the Phillies turned it up a notch last night, not only losing the game but knocking themselves out of the playoffs and into the offseason on a walk-off error by the pitcher […]
Any fan of baseball has to appreciate the way the Blue Jays play the game. It’s all about making contact. Eliminating the strikeout. Putting the ball in play and seeing what happens. It’s the opposite of the Rangers approach the past two seasons. And it helped them overcome a juggernaut […]
This is why you pay your stars. Aaron Judge is a one-man wrecking crew. He put the Yankees on his very broad shoulders and snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat. Down two games to none and down 6-1 in Game 3, the Yankees came storming back on the […]
