0 comments by Dave Tobener on 10/21/2014
The San Francisco Giants are four wins away from their third World Series championship in five seasons, which is pretty unbelievable considering the franchise went 56 years between their last title and their first one in this current run. It’s been a pretty incredible few years for a team that, for whatever reason, no one […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Whenever a young, “scrappy” team like the Royals makes a team playoff run, a plethora of articles start to emerge suggesting that their homegrown approach is “the right way”, or something along those lines. They’ve got all these young guys, they must have a great player development system! In the case of this year’s World […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston
It’s true that the stats show a small sample size and all that, but in a World Series, matchups and tendencies play the biggest part in determining who comes out ahead. With only one team to prepare for and five days to get ready, here are a few of the matchups that most definitely got […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 10/20/2014
Could the Red Sox attempt to trade Yoenis Cespedes during the offseason? After getting him in exchange for Jon Lester, Boston would seemingly prefer to keep him as a right-handed complement to David Ortiz in the middle of its lineup. Cespedes could also provide good range and a strong arm in right field for the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/17/2014
This was such a strange year for the Cardinals. They didn’t clinch the NL Central until the final day of the 2014 season. They didn’t take sole possession of first place until September 1st. Yet, the Cardinals still won 90 games, beat Clayton Kershaw twice in the NLDS, and advanced to the NLCS. For most […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener
I was 10 years old in 1989 and had been to more baseball games than a kid could ever hope to attend. My Dad, a baseball fan his entire life who used to watch games at Seals Stadium and went to the first game at Candlestick Park in 1960, had bought season tickets in 1988 […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/16/2014
The San Francisco Giants are heading back to the World Series for the third time in five years following a thrilling, absurd 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the NLCS. The insanity of this game was off the charts. The Cardinals got on the board first thanks to a Jon Jay […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The AL East was expected to be a dogfight between the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays this year. Instead, the Baltimore Orioles shocked them all and ran away with the division. So how exactly did they go about making everyone look so stupid for overlooking them? Preseason Prediction: The Orioles face a pretty tall task if […]
0 comments by Randy Holt
It’s probably fitting that when the Kansas City Royals recorded their final out to head to the World Series for the first time since 1985 (consequently, also the last time they were even in the playoffs) that it was Mike Moustakas that threw out J.J. Hardy at first base to end it. It’s been a tumultuous season for the former top […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/15/2014
It’s official – the Kansas City Royals are the champions of the American League. The Royals beat the Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the ALCS on Wednesday to complete a four-game sweep and win the pennant. They’ll meet either the Cardinals or Giants in the World Series, and Game 1 will be on Tuesday […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The catch that Mike Moustakas made on Tuesday night in Kansas City, where he reached over into a dugout suite, gave himself a boost on a railing, fell into the suite, and somehow held on to the ball, has gone down as one of the most iconic moments of the playoffs this season. In fact, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 10/14/2014
When Yadier Molina bent over in pain at home plate after taking a swing in the sixth inning of Sunday’s NLCS Game 2, it appeared that the St. Louis Cardinals’ chances of winning went down with him. No player is more vital to the Cards than their catcher, widely viewed as the best at his […]
0 comments by Randy Holt on 10/13/2014
Good luck finding a better story during this 2014 season, regardless of how it ends, than the Kansas City Royals. That status comes even with the fact that Ned Yost is still calling the shots for this team. Nonetheless, they’ve provided us with a team that is an absolute blast to watch this postseason, first for their […]
0 comments by Randy Holt on 10/10/2014
On a slow news day on Thursday, with the respective League Championship Series not slated to start until the weekend, George Ofman decided to take it upon himself to set off a bit of a frenzy throughout the baseball world with this single tweet: Now this is a pretty serious statement regarding the Los Angeles Dodgers and […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener
The San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals are set to meet in the NLCS yet again, the fourth straight trip to this round for the Cards and the third in five years for the Giants. People must be getting real, real tired of these teams. Nevertheless, this promises to be a knock-down, drag-out series […]
