0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/9/2012
What did we learn on Monday about the two playoff games? Well, both of the wild card teams were victorious, ensuring that the top seeds in each league wouldn't sweep their opponents. -Cardinals 12, Nationals 4 -Orioles 3, Yankees 2 Each game also featured a highlight reel play. In the National League, Jon Jay smashed […]
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The Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 3-2 in game two of their AL Division Series, tying the series at one game apiece. This game progressed similarly to last night as a low scoring affair where starting pitching reigned supreme. Unlike last night, there was no ninth inning collapse for the Orioles after a […]
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This is one of the more astounding "slides" you'll ever see. In the first inning of Monday's Yankees-Orioles AL Division Series game, Robinson Cano doubled into the right field corner. Orioles right fielder Chris Davis fired in a laser to cutoff man Robert Andino, who had the rely throw to the plate quick enough to […]
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The St Louis Cardinals smashed the Washington Nationals 12-4 on Monday in game two of their NL Division Series matchup, evening the series at one game apiece. In the first two innings, St Louis starter Jaime Garcia did his first impersonation of Gio Gonzalez on Sunday, walking three batters and not looking like himself at […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/8/2012
In the top of the sixth inning of Monday's NL Division Series game between the Nationals and Cardinals, St Louis center fielder Jon Jay made a pretty incredible catch in center field. Washington second baseman Danny Espinosa hit a drive to deep left center, and Jay immediately got on his horse tracking the ball to […]
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After nearly a decade of alternating success for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics, both teams won their respective Western divisions in 2012, the first time that's happened since 2003. But one streak that looks likely to live on is both teams winning a playoff series in the same year. The last time that […]
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I'm seeing an interesting tidbit being thrown around after our first weekend of playoff action: including the two wild card games, the road teams are 6-2 in all eight games that have been played so far. The two losses both came by the A's in Detroit, who lost the two games by a total of […]
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What's the worst possible thing that can happen after your team loses a playoff team when your opponent's ace exits the game after just eight pitches? Well, you go out the next night and shut out, picking up just two hits. That's what happened on Sunday, as the Reds smashed the Giants 9-0 to take […]
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It was a hard-fought battle for eight innings…until Jim Johnson opened the floodgates in the ninth, leading to a 7-2 win for the Yankees over the Orioles in game one of their ALDS, giving the Yankees a 1-0 series lead. CC Sabathia started for the Yankees, and quite frankly, he was awesome. Sabathia threw 120 […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/7/2012
The Washington Nationals beat the St Louis Cardinals 3-2 in game one of the NL Division Series, taking a 1-0 series lead. The way the game began, you never would have imagined that the Cardinals would score just two runs, but that's exactly what happened. Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez was extremely wild in the early […]
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In a piece of news seemingly months in the making, Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy
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The Orioles and Yankees facing off in the playoffs. No, this isn't the mid-90s…it's the year 2012, and Baltimore's playoff berth is one of the more unexpected events in quite awhile in baseball. Everyone expected this of the Yankees, but the Orioles? Cmon now. Starting Pitching Baltimore has used a rotating batch of starters this […]
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The A's did everything they needed to do to win this game. Tommy Milone allowed just one run in six inning and put the A's in a position to win the game. Oakland got creative in scoring runs and held the lead late. But one thing no one expected happened: the A's bullpen struggled, and […]
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In game two of the AL Division Series between the A's and Tigers on Sunday, a Coco Crisp error allowed a pair of Tigers runs to score in embarrassing fashion. With men on second and third and two out in the bottom of the seventh inning, Miguel Cabrera hit a blooper to shallow center field. […]
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The Cardinals got to the playoffs by sneaking in as the second wild card in the National League, finally clinching the berth for good on the second to last day of the season. Then, they stormed into Atlanta and knocked off the top wild card Braves thanks to Atlanta's sloppiness defensively, and with a little […]
