By Elizabeth Finn
Last week, I highlighted a few of the pleasant surprises that this baseball season has revealed to us as it steamrolls into October. Always entertaining and frequently inspiring, the previously-examined eye-openers are only a fragment of what makes baseball so enjoyable.
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By James Bailey
As if the Mets didn’t have enough problems already, now one of their few truly reliable players has gone on the fritz. Francisco Rodriguez blew his fifth save opportunity yesterday against the lowly Padres. Summoned in the bottom of the ninth to protect a two-run lead, his outing went walk to Kyle Blanks, [...]
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By Thom Henninger
Today is the birthday of one of the most fascinating characters in the history of the game, Casey Stengel, who was born 119 years ago. For half a century, the man delighted baseball fans and sportswriters with his subversive nature, an assortment of pranks, and his colorful though butchered take of the English [...]
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By James Bailey
The interleague exhibitions are over and divisional matchups resume in a big way this weekend. There will be movement in some of the closely bunched divisions, like, well, pretty much all of them with the exception of the NL West, where Manny Ramirez returns to the first-place Dodgers after his 50-game suspension for [...]
By James Bailey
We’ve reached the final weekend of interleague play, with a second round of “rivalry” matchups pairing nearby teams in New York, Chicago and the nation’s capitol. Statewide bragging rights are on the line in Florida and Ohio. More notably, it’s the last Manny-free weekend of the major league season—unless he’s dumb enough to [...]
By Michael Cooper
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the biggest series this weekend. Two of the country’s most historically tortured franchises – the Phillies and Red Sox – have won the last two championships (and three of the past five). If not for the upstart Tampa Bay Rays, they could’ve met for a [...]
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By James Bailey
The contenders (Phillies, Mets, and Braves) are separating from the pretenders (Marlins) and the neverminds (Nationals). Philadelphia is in the lead for the moment on the strength of a six-game winning streak, but they face a challenge if they hope to ride the league’s second-worst pitching staff into the postseason. The Mets are [...]
By Michael Cooper
Interleague play is always intriguing, bringing several great matchups and a few lackluster series (like Rockies-Tigers and Blue Jays-Braves). It’s the big market clubs fans want to see and there are a few possible teams who could meet in the World Series facing off this weekend.
By Michael Cooper
There aren’t many big series this weekend around the baseball world, but there are a few to keep your eye on, most notably the red hot Brewers and the slumping Cardinals in St. Louis. With one week until interleague play, several teams will look to stay on track in their respective divisions this [...]
By Thom Henninger
One’s 36th birthday isn’t a time in life when a pro athlete can anticipate a sudden surge in performance. Hank Aaron may beg to differ, and so might the Mets’ Carlos Delgado.
The slugging first baseman awoke on his 36th birthday, nearly a year ago on June 25, with hitting percentages of .230/.303/.399 and [...]
