The 2010 NLDS between the Reds and Phillies got off to a routine start. In his first career Postseason start, Roy Halladay set down the first three Reds he faced. The Phillies plated a run in hte bottom of the first after a Chase Utley sac fly. Halladay set down three more Reds hitters without […]

The Seattle Mariners tried their damnedest to make the AL West a three playoff team division this season. Oakland’s collapse helped keep them in the race, and on September 8th, Seattle was a season-best 15 games over .500 and had a half-game lead on the Tigers for the second AL playoff spot. But the Postseason […]

Well, the 2014 regular season is behind us. It was a pretty wild and crazy season, and I’m sure the next month of playoffs won’t let us down either. But what else is there to do at the end of the season aside from hand out some hardware? The TOC staff was ask to provide […]

The 2014 regular season is behind is, and we know the ten teams that will be playing Postseason baseball this October. But even though the Postseason is a clearly magical, amazing time, let us not forget the tremendous season that brought us to this point – and the majestic home runs we saw along the […]

The MLB Postseason is here, and the season is over for 20 of the 30 teams in MLB. For ten, the dream of a championship will continue for at least one more game. Nine of those clubs will end their year disappointed. The playoff race came down to the final day of the regular season, with […]

There’s just one regular season game left on the 2014 docket…and there are still questions about the playoffs. -The Tigers and Royals both lost on Saturday, meaning that a tiebreaker game to decide the AL Central is still in play. -The Pirates and Cardinals also both lost on Saturday, meaning that a tiebreaker game for the […]

After an early elimination from the playoffs in 2013, anything less than an extended run into the postseason in 2014 would be disappointing. The Indians are now disappointed. A whole crew of players that casual baseball fans have never heard of were good enough to get into that Wild Card game and despite many of […]

There’s just one lonely playoff spot left to clinch with two games remaining in the 2014 regular season. It’ll come down to Oakland and Seattle in the AL West. If the A’s can win just one more game in Texas this weekend, they’ll clinch the spot. If Seattle loses, the A’s clinch the spot. For […]

We’ve reached the end of the line. This is the last edition of the longest homers of the week for the 2014 season, with apologies to those who homer in the final three games of the regular season this weekend. On Monday, we’re going to wrap everything up with a look at the 15 longest […]

In the 2004 ALCS, most of the attention is paid to Dave Roberts stealing second base in the ninth inning. That steal led to Bill Mueller singling him in and giving Boston life. But it was David Ortiz who was the real hero, hitting a walk off, two-run homer in the 12th off of Paul […]

I’m going to try to keep this one as Jeter-free as possible, if that’s OK. The playoff races in both the National and American Leagues are nuts, even with just three games remaining on the schedule. All five National League teams are locked in, but we don’t know who will be playing who, and where. […]

In Game 3 of the 2001 ALDS, the Yankees led 1-0 in the bottom of the seventh inning. With two outs and Jeremy Giambi on first, Terrance Long lashed a ball into the right field corner. As Giambi rounded third, Shane Spencer fired the ball home, and it missed both of the cut off men. And […]

Look, baseball games are too long. That’s what everybody keeps saying, so it has to be true. They’re so long that Major League Baseball has put together a committee to figure out how to make them shorter. A committee! You know things are serious now. Baseball doesn’t mess around when it comes to their committees. […]

Derek Jeter was a good man, and an even better baseball player. Unfortunately, he was taken away from us far too soon. Wait, Jeter’s not dead? Then clearly I’ve received the wrong impression here. After several months of parting gifts, from the surfboard he’ll never use, to the guitar he’ll never play, to the no. […]