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 […]

So while the MLB playoffs officially started on Friday…or Saturday…today is the first day where all four Division Series will be played on the same day. Your morning will kick off at 12:07, with the A's taking on the Tigers in game two of their ALDS matchup. Detroit won 3-1 last night. Three hours later, […]

In the first inning of Saturday's NLDS game one between the Reds and Giants, Cincinnati shotstop Todd Frazier hit a pop-up to the first base side of the field. San Francisco first baseman Brandon Belt settled near the railing, reached into the camera well, and made the catch, toppling into the well and nearly taking […]

The Detroit Tigers, led by ace Justin Verlander, beat the Oakland A's 3-1 in game one of the American League Division Series on Saturday night to take a 1-0 series lead. Verlander's evening had a shocking start, as he allowed a lead-off homer to Coco Crisp to send Oakland to a 1-0 lead. But that […]

With all of the weirdness and excitement that's surrounded the end of the regular season and the new wild card play-in game, seeing the Reds and Giants play in the National League Division Series is something that would've surprised pretty much no baseball fan anywhere back in March. That being said, this matchup isn't quite […]

The AL Division Series matchup between the A's and the Tigers is a very unlikely one, based on the facts that not only are the A's in the playoffs, but they're a higher seed than the Tigers, who were christened before the season as potentially the best offense in league history. Both teams didn't clinch […]

This is another post-mortem I wasn't expecting to write this weekend. The Rangers led the AL West from nearly wire to wire, but were swept by the A's during the season's final series to lose the division crown and fall into the wild card game, where they looked uninspired and fell to the Orioles to […]

The Atlanta Braves rolled throughout the 2012 season as the NL's top wild card team and a contender for the NL East title with the Nationals. Their division championship dreams fell flat, but the Braves did end up earning that top wild card berth…and their season was ended in the one game playoff by the […]

I know I said we'd have immediate recaps of every playoff game, but quite frankly, after last night's Braves-Cardinals game, the only color I saw was red…and not the red from the 50,000 waving tomahawks at Turner Field or on the Cardinals hats. Red as in pure, unmitigated rage that Bud Selig's pet wild card […]

With the Braves trailing the Cardinals 6-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning, and with runners on first and second and one out, Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons hit a pop up into shallow left field that both shortstop Pete Kozma and left fielder Matt Holliday chased after. The ball fell between Kozma and Holliday, […]

In the second inning of Friday's NL Wild Card matchup between the Braves and Cardinals, St Louis catcher Yadier Molina hit a bomb to right field off of Kris Medlen. The ball kept carrying, and with the sun in his eyes, Braves right fielder Jason Heyward looked like he couldn't locate the ball during it's […]

If I would have told you six months ago that the Rangers and Orioles would be in the AL's Wild Card playoff game, I bet you would have imagined that the Angels ran roughshod over the AL West, and that two out of the three top contenders in the AL East had a massive breakdown. […]