The finish to the last regular season of Chipper Jones' career ended the same way it started: with a single. Jones pinch hit in the sixth inning of Wednesday's Braves finale with the Pirates, and on the first pitch he saw from AJ Burnett, he sliced a single into right field. Jones would score later […]

Going into the final day of the MLB season in Washingotn DC, the main topic of discussion wasn't whether or not the Nationals would finish with the best record in baseball…but instead, whether or not Teddy Roosevelt would win the Presidents Race. Roosevelt had lost 525 races in a row coming into Wednesday's Phillies-Nationals game, […]

And here we are, the final team that was eliminated from the 2012 playoff picture….the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers didn't look like much of a playoff contender coming into the year, despite the presence of 2011 NL MVP runner-up Matt Kemp and 2011 NL Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw. The Dodgers started the season […]

Tomorrow is game 162 of the regular season, the last game of the year. And it will mean something for these teams. -The Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics. After the A's won 3-1 last evening, the two teams are deadlocked at the top of the AL West with identical 93-68 records. Whoever wins today will […]

Your browser does not support iframes. Adam Greenberg got his one more at bat on Tuesday in the Marlins game against the Mets. Unfortunately for Greenberg, he had to face Mets ace RA Dickey. Greenberg took the first pitch for a strike, and swung through the next two for a Dickey strikeout. At any rate, […]

This is always fun to do. I dug up the predictions for the 2012 season from our staff, and some of them were dead-on…and some were way, way off. Some of the highlights and lowlights for all of us… Joe Lucia: I'm proud of the fact that I picked the Rangers and Yankees to win […]

We now bid adieu to the Rays, who were eliminated in game 160 this year after sneaking into the playoffs on game 162 last season. It was a typical Rays season, in that they contended all year without spending a lot of money while relying on cost-controlled players. If you're new here (which about 90% […]

The votes aren't in yet, but the leader in the clubhouse in the Most Disappointing Team of the Year has to be the Los Angeles Angels.  After spending a gazillion dollars, give or take, in the off-season to shock the world by signing Albert Pujols and then adding C.J. Wilson to boot, the Halos had […]

They scraped, and they clawed, and they battled, but at the end of the day, the Chicago White Sox fell short in their bid to win the AL Central, even after an 11-0 thrashing of the Indians on Monday night. A 2-10 stretch prior to that win did them in, and I bet a lot […]

Yesterday, I mentioned that we could have a bunch of tiebreaker games on Thursday before the playoffs began. After last night…that's not looking so likely. -The A's beat the Rangers 4-3 to clinch a playoff spot and eliminate both the Rays and Angels (both of whom won on Monday). The A's are now just a […]

The Washington Nationals clinched the NL East division title in backdoor fashion tonight after the Braves lost 2-1 to the Pirates. Despite Washington's 2-0 loss to the Phillies, they mathematically clinched the division, and celebrated like crazy despite getting shut down by Kyle Kendrick. But I digress. After the game, when speaking to the media, […]

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One of the more attractive concepts of the MLB season has been the "game 163" tiebreaker game that has happened in recent years, when two teams are tied for a playoff spot at the end of the year, and one game will decide which team will play on in October, and which team will head […]