You can romanticize about baseball only so much until people think you are a lunatic. Then, last night happens. And you realize no words can do it justice. And no amount of romanticizing will feel wrong. There have been 119 World Series before this one. Guys named Babe Ruth and […]
In the 1981 season, major league players staged a strike on July 12, right before the All-Star Game, that lasted until the end of July, splitting the season in two halves and generally making a mess of baseball. My beloved Reds were one-half game out of first when the strike […]
Maybe the Mets figured this Mets Magic thing was real. Maybe they honestly thought they were invincible. In the first game of the playoff series to get to the World Series, they start a guy in Game 1 who pitched five innings in the regular season. They figured they would […]
What happened to all that whining about how unfair the new playoff format is? Remember how the teams that earned a bye in the Wildcard round were put in such a disadvantage because they had to sit out and get cold and it wasn’t fair? This year, three of the […]
Round 2 starts today. And if was anything like Round 1, or the preliminary double header on Monday, it’s going to be a great day of baseball watching. They call it the Divisional Series, and this time that’s almost correct. In the National League, New York plays divisional rival Philadelphia, […]
The Astros are now one loss away from being eliminated in the playoffs. They have been to the Championship Series seven years in a row. A loss today or tomorrow would end that streak. A betting man would be unwise to wager against the Astros at this point based on […]
What a game. This is what makes baseball so much fun. It’s the impossible and the improbable. The first game of yesterday’s season-ending doubleheader was one of the most fun baseball games you’ll ever watch. Mainly because, if you’re a Rangers fan, you didn’t have to suffer through the agony of […]
Well, it’s over. Finally, mercifully over. It was an 8-0 win, a meaningless final game in a season that has been meaningless since the end of May. You can pinpoint the exact day, in fact. May 21. The Rangers lost to the Phillies 5-2 on May 21 to slip under […]
It was Oakland’s day. There wasn’t anything the Rangers could do about it. They certainly didn’t try hard. Some 46,889 fans packed Oakland Dump.com to say fareware to their beloved team. It was the largest crowd ever for a major league team’s last home game in a city forever. These […]
With the Rangers season on the line, they put the ball in the hands of Gerson Garabito. He’s a career nine-year minor leaguer who has appeared in 163 games and had one save, picked up in 2021 in Triple-A Sacramento. After taking the ball in the bottom of the tenth, […]
