We've entered the final three weeks of the 2013 MLB season, and there's really only one playoff spot that still seems uncertain – the second wild card berth in the American League. It'll take some sort of fierce collapse for the Cardinals, Reds, or Pirates all not to make the playoffs in the National League, […]

September road trips across the baseball world can mean only one thing: it's time for rookie hazing! This picture from ESPN New York illustrates just what the Yankees' crop of rookies had to go through. The crew of rookies had to dress as various musical performers and sing and dance through the clubhouse. You can […]

Folks, the NL Central is getting absurd. After this weekend, here's where we stand. The Cardinals lead the division with an 83-60 record, 1.5 games up on the Pirates and the Reds. Pittsburgh is 81-61 while Cincinnati is 82-62, meaning that over these final three weeks of baseball, the Pirates play two more games than […]

Dusty Baker's use of Billy Hamilton thusfar this season has been exactly what we expected. Hamilton has gotten action in four games as a Red. In all four of those games, Hamilton was used as a pinch runner. In all four of those games, Hamilton has stolen second base. He's scored runs in three of […]

Yusmeiro Petit was one out away. Hell, he was one strike away. A perfect game would have been oh so sweet for the journeyman, who has come out of nowhere to thrive for the Giants in 2013. But Eric Chavez hit a sinking liner into right that fell just in front of the glove of […]

It hasn't been a good week for the Miami Marlins here at The Outside Corner. Some might argue that we've been picking on them, between our End of Season Post-Mortem and Hope for the Hopeless articles featuring the Marlins. But those were entirely based on timing, with Miami becoming officially eliminated from playoff consideration this […]

The A's and Rays both had chances to improve their playoff odds on Thursday in California, and both failed. The A's fell to the Astros 3-2 to slip to half a game back of the Rangers in the AL West, while the Rays fell to the Angels 6-2 to lose ground in the wild card […]

At this point of the baseball season, we're now looking for favorites to emerge. Those who may have been in tight division races are beginning to assert themselves over the competition. Just making the playoffs isn't necessarily enough for these clubs anymore. We're thinking about what they could do in the postseason.  Of course, the […]

If you're a fan of about half of the teams in MLB, your September is going to be a thankless venture, chock full of games that have no impact on your team's playoff chance. If you're a fan of say, the Twins, your team isn't officially out of the playoff picture yet, but that'll be […]

During Wednesday night's Tigers-Red Sox game, Shane Victorino's impressive catch in the fourth inning had some interesting results for the fans down the right field line at Fenway Park. First, as a fan was trying to take a picture of Victorino while he was getting out of the stands, she dropped her phone onto the […]