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Sports Central October 18, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
So Much for That Extra Day's Rest That the extra day's rest the Monday rain-out afforded may have wounded the Mets' lineup, dissolving their Sunday blowout momentum. |
Sports Central October 22, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 6: Daddy Took the T-Bird Away There'll be no more fun for the 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers. Daddy took the T-Bird away in Busch Stadium last Friday. And you can spend all winter debating whether or not the Dodgers themselves gave him the ammunition on a platter. |
Sports Central May 10, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
The Braves Bend the Pendulum What happened when the New York mets threw Jose Lima against a short-rested Atlanta Braves' John Smoltz? |
Sports Central October 13, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 1: Beltran 3, Dodgers 2 You'd be hard pressed to find any member of the St. Louis Cardinals in deep shock that Carlos Beltran saw fit to win Game 1 of the National League Championship Series just about by himself. |
Sports Central October 4, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Cardinals Open with a Belt(ran) "Some guys," Matt Carpenter said, "just have a knack for a big game and he's one of them." The Cardinals would love nothing more than to have Carlos Beltran's knack swing them to 10 more October wins. Including the four that end with World Series rings on their fingers. |
Sports Central October 24, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: Getting the Drop on the Cardinals It's not that the Boston Red Sox needed the help that badly, opening the World Series with a near-blowout win. But they certainly weren't going to complain if the St. Louis Cardinals wanted to help their cause early enough and often enough. |
Sports Central October 30, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
From the Brink to Valhalla These Cardinals, perhaps David Freese and Allen Craig in particular, may not have to pick up a check for a steak in St. Louis for maybe the rest of their lives. |
Sports Central October 27, 2006 Mike Round |
The Future is Still Bright in Queens Disappointment aside, the Mets have reason to be happy this offseason. They are overwhelmingly the best assembled team in the NL, and the likelihood is that further pieces will be added during the offseason. |
Sports Central October 19, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Look, Ma, No Atrocities! Presumably, the world can breathe a little easier now that the first post-Slide confrontation between Matt Holliday and the San Francisco Giants has ended without on-field amputations, at-the-plate decapitations, or other actual or reputed disembowelings. |
Sports Central October 21, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Meet the Mets, Message By Message Whether it's at the end of September or in the middle of October, it remains the battle cry of Mets fans: "Wait 'till next year." |
Sports Central October 28, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Shazam! At the rate this Weird Series is going, who's to say Game 5 won't end with a bullpen pitcher throwing out the would-be winning run at the plate? |
Sports Central October 18, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Running of the Bulls A look at the pitching choices in post-season MLB play. |
Sports Central May 24, 2006 Michael Beshara |
A Tale of Two Southpaws This past Sunday, two southpaws at vastly different stages in their careers took the mound looking for their seventh win of the season -- one at the tail end of a great career, the other with unlimited potential ahead of him. |
Sports Central October 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crazyball They know the Mets won't be pushovers, at least as much as the Mets know the Royals won't be, either. |
Sports Central October 25, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: No Time For Generosity Want to know what we learned from World Series Game 2? Easy. The St. Louis Cardinals aren't the only ones who can hand their opponent a game on an infield platter. |
Sports Central October 14, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Cardinals May Have Lost in Game 2 Win At what cost will the St. Louis Cardinals' National League Championship Series-evening win Sunday night prove to have come? |
Sports Central March 31, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Thank You, Wright and Reyes Because win or lose, you're always going to be worth the price of admission and worthy of admiration. |
Sports Illustrated August 6, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The rich get richer The emergence of young hurlers fortifies Atlanta's rotation. |
Sports Central November 13, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Rest of the Newcomers That's the problem with Hall of Fame ballots. Other than the obvious there-because-it's-five-years-retired players, picking the worthies from among the newcomers is both a challenge and a lot of fun. |
Sports Central April 5, 2006 Mike Round |
New Ballpark, Same Aspirations in St. Louis The Cardinals are a popular choice for the leading the National League. But the offseason in St Louis hasn't been a straightforward case of upgrading for a comfortable ride to the NL Central crown and beyond. |
Sports Central October 31, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: B Invincible The Red Sox turned out to be the best team in baseball, winning a World Series against a team that was the next-best team in baseball by a hair. And, a three-run double. And, perhaps, the most inadvertent destiny in 21st Century baseball. |
Sports Central March 6, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: National League Look for an exciting A's/Cards World Series. St. Louis will be the best team in baseball for the third straight year, and LaRussa's club will finally have a ring to show for it. |
Sports Central October 4, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
Sports Central October 22, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central April 26, 2010 Kyle Jahner |
Catching On Who are the two major league pitchers with 3 wins, and an ERA and WHIP each below 1.00? |
Sports Central October 24, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central December 6, 2006 Mike Round |
Congrats, David Eckstein: 2006 MOP Ignoring the hyperbole, just how good a player is David Eckstein? Baseball Prospectus has a couple of statistics that give an indication of his comparative worth. |
Salon.com October 19, 2002 King Kaufman |
Cinderella, Goliath and other Series myths With the Giants and Angels set to meet in the Fall Classic, it's time for Fox TV and other pundits to manufacture drama. |
Sports Central October 19, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Lidge Over Troubled Waters Brad Lidge is neither the first man in baseball history to surrender a pennant-losing home run, nor did he surrender the single most monstrous such shot. |
Sports Illustrated November 19, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Another Atlanta ace Expect pitcher Mike Hampton to thrive in his new surroundings. |
Sports Central August 18, 2004 Mike Round |
Rolling the Dice in Los Angeles Dealing from a position of strength is the best time to make a trade and that's exactly what the Dodgers did in late July. |
Sports Central July 27, 2007 Seth Doria |
Will Cardinals Fold or Call? A Response The St. Louis Cardinals just aren't a good enough baseball team. When the playoffs start, the Cardinals will not be participants. |
Sports Central July 14, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Essentially, K-Rod Was Traded For Reyes The Milwaukee Brewers get Francisco Rodriguez and the Mets re-sign Jose Reyes. |
Sports Central September 27, 2005 Kevin Connelly |
And the Award Goes to... Here are the winners of the 2005 NL awards for MVP and Cy Young with less than two weeks remaining in the regular season. |
Sports Central August 18, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NL Wild Card Wild Cards A break down of the NL wild card race, including a list of the wild cards each team has as they fight for the all important fourth playoff spot. |
Sports Central July 25, 2007 Mike Round |
Will the Cardinals Fold or Call? Last season may have ended in the best possible manner for the Cardinals, but even the most rabid fan could have spotted the holes in the team as the offseason progressed. |
Sports Central September 5, 2005 Zach Jones |
Cy Young For Carpenter? Not So Fast! Take a look at any list of NL pitching leaders and three names regularly come to the fore as candidates for the Cy Young: Chris Carpenter, Dontrelle Willis, and Roger Clemens. |
Sports Illustrated January 25, 2001 Tom Verducci |
The more things change ... Say hello to the new Braves, same as the old Braves... |
Sports Central September 20, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
Goes the Lion, Comes the Lamb Back in December, David Eckstein signed a deal with the St. Louis Cardinals that closed the final loop in Major League Baseball's first three-way shortstop swap orchestrated entirely by the players. So how did this deal play out? |
Sports Illustrated May 24, 2000 Tom Verducci |
The trouble with starting young The next Golden Age of young starting pitching was on display at the 1997 All-Star game.... |
Sports Illustrated April 20, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
Sports Central March 7, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
The St. Louis Cards Are Not All Right The Cards have a great one-two with Pujols and Matt Holliday, and Carpenter is a true gamer, but only a fool would put money on St. Louis as the favorites for the NL Central, let alone with World Series. |
Sports Illustrated April 2, 2002 Tom Verducci |
A major pain Mysterious injury has Maddux and the Braves worried... |
Sports Central July 8, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deep Blue: MLB at Midseason More than halfway into the baseball season, we've finally gotten to that phase where flashes in the pan have had time to fade, the true horses in baseball have had time to right themselves after stumbling out of the gate. |
Sports Central October 9, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Mighty Have Fallen With the second-best regular-season record in baseball, the New York Yankees couldn't out-hit their pitching issues while the Detroit Tigers figured out ways to hang in against both the Empire Emeritus's batting holes and pitching inconsistencies. |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Pitchers strike out Umps will call 'em high, but Maddux is down and out... |
Sports Central December 5, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
They're First Ballot Hall of Famers, End of Discussion If Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine don't become first-ballot Hall of Famers (and you can throw Frank Thomas into this mix, too), forget who's going to have some splainin' to do -- there ought to be an investigation. |
Sports Central April 12, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Hope (and Panic) Springs A look at the baseball teams a few weeks into the season. Who looks hopeful, who looks awful, and who may become the dark horse of the season. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Making a case for Pedro Martinez With 16 wins, Pedro Martinez has a shot at winning 20. What does he have to do to win the Cy Young award? I thought he was already the clear frontrunner, but the mailbag brought some disagreement. |
Sports Central September 17, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Agents of Misfortune? Just when you might have thought it safe to think baseball's war with actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances had turned toward a kind of quiet conquest, 2012 has reminded us that battles may be won, but the war isn't quite finished yet. |