Well, the Dodgers aren’t invincible after all. The starting pitcher that flattened the Brewers ran into a Blue Jays team that isn’t going to go down so easy. L.A. allowed just four runs in four games against Milwaukee, as if they were playing the hapless Rangers. But Toronto has actual […]
All the talk of baseball dying is just nonsense. In 2025, Major League Baseball enjoyed a third consecutive year of increased attendance, with 71,409,421 fans attending a game this year. Last year, they hit the seventy million mark. It could have been higher had Tampa Bay and Sacramento played in […]
The wait for the World Series to start is agonizing. There’s nothing more mind-numbing than endless predictions and talking heads blathering on about who will do what. Just play the game. Game 1 is tomorrow night in Toronto. It can’t get here soon enough. Most people are expecting the Dodgers […]
The World Series starts Friday in Toronto. When the season started, it was a foregone conclusion the Dodgers would win. After winning it last year, they went on a spending spree in the offseason, buying what seemed like every free agent bat, starting pitcher, and reliever available. It was an […]
When George Springer’s hit cleared the wall in left center, forty-eight years of Seattle futility became forty-nine. It turned a 3-1 Seattle lead into a 4-3 Toronto lead, that would be the eventual final score. With that, the Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the World Series to face the […]
There will be a Game 7. Seattle at Toronto. Unless you’re a fan of the Mariner, this is what every baseball fans wanted—a winner-take-all elimination game. Every pitch, every hit, every baserunner is crucial. It’s been a wonderful series, as playoff baseball usually is. Teams that can hit and manufacture […]
Tonight, it’s Game 6 in Toronto. Unlike in the National League, this series has been competitive. And, unlike in the National League, the winner isn’t a foregone conclusion. Seattle won the first two games in Toronto. Toronto won the first two games in Seattle, with Seattle winning the third. All […]
In news that is news to absolutely nobody, the Los Angeles Dodgers are going back to the World Series. The team with the highest payroll swept the team with the fourteenth highest payroll to make it back to the World Series for the second year in a row. The Dodgers […]
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 […]
