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Sports Central November 1, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: The Camera Blinked A clean enough double was actually a two-run bomb - the ball had hit a television camera off the right field fence. |
Sports Central November 5, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
The Phorever Men The Philadelphia Phillies finally march to the Promised Land. |
Sports Central October 22, 2008 Mike Round |
2008 World Series Preview Tampa Bay's emergence from obscurity and irrelevance has captured the imagination of every sports fan in the nation and they will be the romantic pick. Those most unromantic of people, the Vegas oddsmakers, have them as favorites, too. |
Sports Central November 2, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Damon Rides Again Johnny Damon made it clear that these New York Yankees don't necessarily need to swing long-range bats all the time to put the New York Yankees on the brink of winning the World Series. |
Sports Central November 5, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: A Long Time Coming Well, now we know how Joe Girardi's gamble on a three-man, three-days-rest World Series rotation worked for him. It won the Yankees a 27th World Series title. |
Sports Central October 19, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Rabbit, Run A recap of Game 2 of the NLCS between the Phillies and the Giants. |
Sports Central November 3, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 5: Cutting to the Chase All of a sudden there's a change in the weather in the Philadelphia clubhouse. |
Sports Central January 5, 2009 Bill Hazell |
The Top 10 Games of 2008 (Pt. 1) A look at notable NBA and MLB games from 2008. |
Sports Central October 30, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: "That's Like, Wow, He Was On" The A.J. Burnett who makes you reach for the meds and maybe the couch? He wasn't anywhere within 40 nautical miles of the south Bronx Thursday night. |
Sports Central November 2, 2009 Bill Hazell |
The Unlikely New Mr. Clutch On Sunday night, A-Rod earned his pinstripes once and for all. |
Sports Central September 22, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Save Some Drama For the Playoffs The Yankees and Rays simply bring out the best in themselves and each other. |
Salon.com November 4, 2001 King Kaufman |
Surprise ending If life followed a script, the Yankees would have won the World Series. But it doesn't, and they didn't... |
Sports Central October 7, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
"He's Not Going to Hear the End of It" Reality check: it's going to be up to all the Tampa Bay Rays as much as rookie Wil Myers as to whether or not Myers' lapse Friday marks him for the rest of his career. |
Sports Central August 7, 2006 Alvin Chang |
Save Us From the Save Who decided that a three-run lead was the point where you need a closer? And why? |
Sports Central October 5, 2009 Ryan Day |
Why the Phillies Will Not Repeat The strengths that carried Philadelphia to win a championship last season have shown signs of rust this season and the parts that were lacking are, well, still lacking. |
Sports Central October 11, 2010 Clinton Riddle |
Ray of Hope? The Tampa Bay Rays won 6-3 in a do-or-die Game 3 at Arlington tonight on the strength of late-inning homers from Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena, despite a last-gasp from the Texas offense in the bottom of the ninth. |
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 Central October 21, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS Game 6: The Pennant That Wasn't in the Plans The Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers learned the hard way Saturday night that baseball's often what happens when you have other plans. |
Sports Central July 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
Sports Central October 27, 2008 Mike Round |
World Series Update and Hot Stove News The Phillies have been by far the better team and deserve to win the series. Meanwhile, off-season trading is about to begin. |
Sports Central May 4, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
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 October 24, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
What Indians Fans Don't Want to Hear Unexpected calamities or mental vapors at the worst possible moments? This used to happen to the Boston Red Sox all the time. |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Sports Central June 30, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Essentially, Sandberg Fired the Phillies Ryne Sandberg decided not to wait for the coming front office shakeup that everyone except possibly the Phillies themselves really knew was well overdue. |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Phillies err by antagonizing Rolen Philadelphia advisor Dallas Green pulled a trick out of the bag of an old nemesis, George Steinbrenner, last week when he ripped Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen... |
Sports Central July 5, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
To Have and to Chokehold Phillies president David Montgomery could no longer pretend a tempest wasn't brewing concerning pitcher Brett Myers. |
AskMen.com |
MLB (Nearly) Goes UFC Not even Prince Fielder really knows what he might have done if a phalanx of security guards and teammates hadn't prevented the furious Milwaukee slugger from entering the Los Angeles clubhouse after a ninth-inning beaning. |
Sports Illustrated April 9, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Fish can't fly without stronger arms The Marlins aren't going anywhere unless they address their bullpen... |
Sports Central May 18, 2006 Zach Jones |
A Tale of Two Cities In the baseball season's past two weeks, two National League teams have thrown it in fifth gear and headed in opposite directions. But will these teams continue trending in their present directions? |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The Milwaukee Embarrassment Baseball got the All-Star fiasco it's been asking for |
Sports Central April 8, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year The most wonderful time of the year begins at a point in early April and endures for slightly more than half a calendar year. |
Sports Central September 11, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
No Tomorrow For Mr. Amaro One day after the Phillies were eliminated mathematically from the postseason, Ruben Amaro, Jr. may wish he'd been in a monastery rather than the Phillies' front office from which he's just been canned. |
Salon.com July 10, 2002 King Kaufman |
All-Star outrage The game ended in a tie. That's not a problem, but baseball still screwed up. |
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. |
Salon.com June 14, 2001 Allen Barra |
Philly fans to Sixers: Boo! They want to love Allen Iverson and believe that he's a reformed thug. But somehow, thugs only get to be reformed when the home team wins... |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Phillies not standing pat on Burrell Phillies raised some eyebrows around baseball when they did not call up phenom Pat Burrell to play first base... What is wrong with Mike Mussina?... White Sox righthander James Baldwin suddenly is unbeatable... Rangers finally are convinced that Royce Clayton is simply not cut out to be a leadoff hitter... etc. |
Sports Illustrated September 18, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Baseball comes through National pastime helps the healing process... |
Sports Central July 6, 2004 William Geoghegan |
Closing Time They are charged with a simple task -- get three outs in the ninth inning. They are the closers, and they get a heck of a lot of attention. |
Sports Central April 5, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
Baseball's Back, and Not a Second Too Late Here's a look at some of the things that make baseball great. |
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 Central March 5, 2009 Mike Round |
Forget Steroids and Recession: Play Ball! Here's a look around MLB's American and National Leagues and predictions for the upcoming season. |
Sports Central January 13, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Back to the Future Sunday April 3, 2005. The Yankees and Red Sox officially kicked off the 2005 MLB season tonight in a highly-anticipated rematch of last year's ALCS. |
Sports Central January 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination. |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Central April 6, 2006 Aaron Miller |
Blue Again: Baseball is Back "Everything old is new again" is the perfect way to describe the return of the Grand Old Game, and it applies this year more than ever. |
Sports Central January 30, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe it's Still Getting Our Goats, After All On the other hand, maybe we're not getting our goats as readily as I thought last fall. What the hell is this crap with sending San Francisco 49ers punt returner Kyle Williams death threats? |
Sports Central September 30, 2008 Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Divisional Series Breakdown A closer look at the four MLB playoff match-ups. |
Sports Central October 15, 2008 Chad Wilson |
America, Baseball Need Philly/Tampa Series I like is seeing new, hungry teams in the World Series. That is why I am praying for a Phillies/Rays series. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Jeff Pearlman |
The Boys of September As the days dwindle down and rosters swell, baseball fans can sneak a peek at next season's phenoms -- and applaud the guys who can't believe they're in the Bigs. |