MLB Daily Blog: August 25, 2016
As usual, a scintillating night of baseball as the pennant races heat up in late August. A look at some of the big headlining stories from August 25: Cutch is clutch in Bucs’ house of…
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MLB Roundup: Week 6
Another wild week in the books in baseball, with perhaps the season’s most epic slate to date occurring on Wednesday. The Red Sox keep piling up runs while giving up almost as many, the Cubs…
If your name is Marte, this season has been a par-tay
Right off the bat (okay, there’s another one) forgive the puns. I’m a sucker for them, so it’s just too easy. A post now to appreciate two young players named Marte coming into their own…
MLB Roundup: Week 5
Five weeks of the 2016 MLB season are in the books, and it’s still impossible to say if I — or anyone else, for that matter — knows much more than I did just mere…
In a Pinch, Cardinals Prove Magic Isn’t Gone
Yes, they were playing the hapless Atlanta Braves. But the St. Louis Cardinals did something last night no team in MLB history had ever done. With three pinch-hit home runs, the Cardinals notched their first…
Revisiting the 2013 NLDS – What, If Anything, Has Changed Since?
If the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals do in fact meet in this year’s postseason, it will be in the National League Division Series, just as they did two years ago when Pittsburgh finally…
12 Reasons Why The St. Louis Cardinals Will Win Title #12
If you’ve watched any baseball at all this year, you know one thing definitively: the St. Louis Cardinals are the best team on the planet. While regular-season glory does not always translate to October success, there is something…
Wasted effort: When the 9th inning comeback fails
I started to notice a theme early in the year. A team would heroically fight back to tie a game in the 9th inning, sometimes against a seemingly unhittable closer. It appeared momentum would be…
Pirates, Indians head list of first-half surprises
Though much of the first half of the 2011 Major League Baseball campaign has been predictable (see Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies), as usual there have been a few enjoyable stories that have kept fans’ interest…