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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 29, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Let's Get Surreal "If that's not the best postseason game of all time," Lance Berkman huffed and puffed, when it was over in a 10-9 St. Louis Cardinals win that not even the Cardinals, never mind the Texas Rangers, can quite believe happened, "I don't know what is." |
Sports Central
July 28, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Don't Forget About the Team The focus with the Texas Rangers seems to be more on the ongoing ownership battle that has been played out in Texas courtrooms over the last several months. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Boston Red Sox Last night, the Red Sox became the first team in baseball history to miss the playoffs after entering September with a nine-game lead for a playoff spot. |
Sports Central
November 6, 2011
Louie Centanni |
The Best Worst Game in World Series History The St. Louis Cardinals overcame heavy odds in winning the 2011 World Series. While Game 7 was the clincher, the previous contest will be remembered as the turning point. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Running of the Bulls A look at the pitching choices in post-season MLB play. |
Sports Central
July 18, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The 10 Biggest Series For the Second Half As the baseball season moves to the second half, to the trade deadline, into pennant races and the cooler weather of September, there are series that carry added significance for playoff spots. |
Sports Central
October 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2012
Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Central
October 4, 2010
Paul Foeller |
2010 MLB Playoff Predictions Baseball predictions, with a team by team analysis |
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
October 5, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Those A's, Dumb Enough to Win As of 3:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, October 3, 2012, when Michael Young's two-strike fly completed its near-perfect trajectory into the glove of Coco Crisp striding forward to haul it down, Oakland, California believes in miracles. |
Sports Central
October 24, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
Redbird Luck Runs Out The St. Louis Cardinals' two-year run of punching above their playoff weight ended on Tuesday night in anticlimactic, but pleasing fashion with a 9-0 loss to the Giants. |
Sports Central
October 11, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Cardinals Close the Pirates' Storybook The team who lived and died by almost anything except big power on the regular season bombed themselves into the National League Championship Series Wednesday night. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central
October 14, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Capital Humblings For Bold Challengers On Friday the very experienced St. Louis Cardinals and the very experienced New York Yankees gave their worthy, younger, upstart Beltway challengers enough experience in their five-game division series showdowns to bode well enough for the immediate and longer-range futures of each. |
Sports Central
May 24, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Rays Quietly Crushing Everyone No one writes all that much about the Rays, because, lets face it, there aren't that many Rays fan to read it; kind of a tree-falls-in-the-forest-but-no-one-hears-it conundrum. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Hold Those Tigers The Detroit Tigers took one of the worst elimination beatings in postseason history. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball. |
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
October 9, 2001
King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Salon.com
September 19, 2002
King Kaufman |
Curt Schilling needs the ball The five-man rotation steals starts from aces and gives them to lesser arms. When will a manager have the guts to ditch it? |
Sports Central
August 20, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Dark Horse and a Playoff Seat In MLB, who are this year's dark horses as we speed toward September? |
Sports Central
July 4, 2012
Greg Suttich |
Hot and Not Heading to the All-Star Break The Yankees, Rangers, and Angels are playing the best baseball in the American League. The National League has seen the surprising Washington Nationals post the best record, with the Giants now flexing their muscle in the NL West. |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Sports Central
September 29, 2009
Bill Hazell |
Any Drama Left in September? We can only hope the story of September 2009, the last month of regular season baseball in this decade, has yet to be written. |
Sports Central
September 8, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Farewell to Washington: Temporarily? The Rangers, whose season was blown up by a rash of injuries that probably drove Ron Washington quietly mad, became the first team in baseball to be eliminated mathematically from a pennant race. |
Sports Central
October 8, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Goodbye, Atlanta Braves, Yet Again The Braves, who managed to shake off a few hiccups and a few dubious deals to post the National League's best regular season record, deserved better than regular season managing in a win-or-be-gone game. |
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
November 1, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
2004 MLB Season in Retrospect While articles, book deals and high-paying endorsements will be doled out to the Boston Red Sox and their individual players well into the 2005 season, the ending to the 2004 Major League Baseball season left a lot of us perplexed and yearning for a more balanced and tidier ending. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2006
Joe Pietaro |
MLB at a Glance as We Pass Memorial Day Baseball fans can start to see how their teams are shaping up by perusing the standings at the end of May. |
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
August 9, 2004
Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
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
October 20, 2008
Jonathan Lowe |
Emerging From the Depths How does the Rays' season stack up to some of the best turnarounds in baseball lore? Here's how the top five might filter out. |
Sports Central
September 15, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
September Heat in National League West Entering Sept. 13, San Francisco and San Diego were tied for the division lead and Colorado was 1.5 games behind them. The National League West and East have baseball's best races and the tightest race is in the NL West. |
Sports Central
July 23, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best. |
Salon.com
October 16, 2001
King Kaufman |
Playoff picking, but not grinning Our writer boldly holds forth on the Yankees, the Mariners and the most hideous uniforms in baseball, and asks himself, "How many times can you be wrong about one team?" |
Sports Central
October 2, 2013
Bob Ekstrom |
What a Difference a Day Makes If all this hyperbole about an extra day on the schedule tells us anything, it's that baseball is by far the most hyper-analyzed of any major sport. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
The Run Home Despite the fact that the trade deadline doesn't always have blockbuster deals, it does signify that the regular season has only two months remaining and that pennant races are about to heat up. |
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
October 14, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLDS: Clubs (er, Cubs) Go to NLCS Believe it. The Chicago Cubs have clubbed their way into the National League Championship Series. |
Sports Central
August 11, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Wildcards Not Too Soon to Tell Even though it is still only August and there is still much more Major League Baseball left to play this season, the beginnings of what battles lie ahead in competition for the playoffs have already taken shape. |
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
October 31, 2012
Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball! |
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
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
July 10, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
