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Sports Central October 25, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: The Panda Pounces Pablo Sandoval couldn't have picked a more dramatic few hours to enjoy the first three-bomb game of his major league life. |
Sports Central October 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Giants Give the Pirates the Bum's Rush Out The Giants' bludgeoning of the Pirates in the National League's wild card game wasn't exactly the kind of hair raiser the Royals and the Athletics raised up the night before. |
Sports Central October 28, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: Tigers Look Broken If the Detroit Tigers are still wondering where they have to go to buy a break, never mind a key hit with men on base or a key pitch to keep the San Francisco Giants from sneaking another couple of runs home, it's understandable to a small extent. |
Sports Central October 23, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Singin' in the Rain The baseball gods to whom former star first baseman Will Clark referred after Game 2 sketched poetic justice for the last National League Championship Series out. But the gods don't play baseball games, mortal men do. |
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 17, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Giants Thrown Onto Threshold of World Series Is it unreasonable for Cardinals fans to ask themselves whether their team is trying, literally, to throw this National League Championship Series to the Giants? |
Sports Central October 29, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Too Late Tigers "We could not find our game in the World Series," Miguel Cabrera mourned, while the San Francisco Giants partied heartily in Comerica Park's visiting clubhouse. |
Sports Central October 26, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: All Giants, Big or Small Now this is a novel position for the San Francisco Giants to assume. They're not used to being up two games to none in a postseason set this year. This could be the start of something ... weird? |
Sports Central October 21, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Shot Heard `Round the Bay If nothing else, Travis Ishikawa and his Giants proved they actually do know how to win games with safe hits, period, never mind 3-run homers. |
Sports Central October 4, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Pirates Bring the Swag, Reds Bring the Drag This one's going to take a good while for the Cincinnati Reds to live down. No matter how far the Pittsburgh Pirates go from Tuesday's National League wild card game. |
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 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Move Over, Idiots ... Meet the Morons This one's already shaping up to be a brain bender. It might well stay that way even if the San Francisco Giants end up winning the thing in four straight. |
Sports Central November 2, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Bunt, a Bomb, and the Giants Win Oh, what a feeling it must be to be Aubrey Huff and Edgar Renteria. |
Sports Central October 6, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Hook Puts the Nats on the Hook Watch Saturday's National League division series game once again. You've seen rookie mistakes. But you've never seen a rookie manager mistake like this. |
Sports Central October 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The World Series Win's a Bum's Rush Nitpick all you want, but it's falling on deaf ears in San Francisco and a lot of other places. Whomever else did whatever else Madison Bumgarner was the World Series this year |
Salon.com October 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Batting around After the Angels' second straight 10-run outburst, a tight World Series is looking like a potential blowout. |
Sports Central October 13, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Bobby's World Stopped Bobby Cox could bring himself to do no more Monday than flash a shy, close-lipped smile, and a thumbs-up to a Turner Field audience that had just watched an only-too-familiar sight. |
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 September 26, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Clinch the AL Central Last year, they needed the wild card play-in game to kick their way into a postseason run that ended one game short of a World Series triumph. This year, the Kansas City Royals won't have to worry about that kind of tension. |
Sports Central October 17, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
On the Dark Slide Did St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday land a dirty hit deliberately upon San Francisco Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro? |
Sports Central May 26, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
The Little Red Engine That Could Somewhere, somehow, when you least expected it, the Cincinnati Reds began to look like unthreatened contenders again. |
Salon.com October 28, 2002 King Kaufman |
One last surprise After six nights of roller coaster weirdness, the Angels and Giants played a relatively uneventful Game 7. And when it was over, Anaheim almost looked like fun. |
Sports Central June 3, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
Playing the Game Right Do they still scream bloody murder in Cincinnati over the night Pete Rose's hitting streak was stopped cold? |
Sports Central March 21, 2008 Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Preview: NL's Best Rotations A look at the pitching staff of six NL MLB teams. |
Sports Central February 24, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Reds on Comeback Trail The Cincinnati Reds have invited 54 players to their spring training camp this year in Sarasota, Florida at the Sarasota Sports Complex, and 27 of them are pitchers hoping to earn one of the 12 spots. |
Sports Central May 18, 2010 Joshua Duffy |
Rise of a New Big Red Machine? Not So Fast After years of futility, not having won the Central since 1995, it's finally the Cincinnati Reds looking down on the rest of the pack. |
Salon.com October 19, 2002 Joan Walsh |
Giants in six Baseball experts are swooning for the scrappy Angels. But the Giants are scrappy too -- and they're a better team. |
Salon.com October 5, 2000 Brian Sulkis |
Mets robbed by wrong coast team! ESPN brings you the latest baseball scandal. But at least they're finally talking about the Giants... |
Sports Central October 4, 2010 Paul Foeller |
2010 MLB Playoff Predictions Baseball predictions, with a team by team analysis |
Sports Central September 26, 2007 Mike Round |
Who Will Be Great in '08? Here's an early look at the prospects of some of baseball's also-rans for 2008. |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Big Red rebirths Resurrected pitcher Jose Rijo and the Cincinnati Reds enjoy unlikely success... |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Salon.com October 21, 2002 King Kaufman |
"Oh! My God!" The Giants and Angels don't seem able to play a dull World Series game. Even the participants have been amazed so far. |
Salon.com September 22, 2000 Joan Walsh |
Who let the dogs out? If you don't know, you haven't been following the best team -- and the best kept secret -- in baseball. |
Salon.com October 15, 2002 King Kaufman |
Who needs champions? The evil possibility of an all-wild card World Series has come to pass, and you know what? It looks pretty good from here. |
Sports Illustrated April 19, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
The injury dilemma Figuring out what to do with ailing stars... |
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. |
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 Illustrated May 21, 2003 Albert Chen |
Home Run Derby With three players hammering away, the Reds hang in the NL Central race by trying to outslug the opposition |
Sports Central September 6, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
Cardinals, Reds Now Left to Look to 2012 We end this season right where we began -- what's Albert Pujols going to do? If he goes, the modern era of Cardinals relevance might just well go with him. |
Sports Illustrated July 5, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Cincinnati's springtime pennant optimism has turned sour in summer |
Sports Illustrated June 4, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Reading the Reds Despite past trends, the jury is still out on Cincinnati. |
Sports Central August 6, 2012 Louie Centanni |
MLB Predictions: August Until the End Obviously, predictions are meant to be proven wrong -- and I tried to make some bold ones for the sake of speculation, fun, and a legitimate belief in the strangeness of September baseball. |
Sports Central July 6, 2010 Kyle Jahner |
National League All-Star Snubs and Schlubs Every year, we do this. We all know the MLB all-star selection system is inequitable and unfair. We all know players got snubbed. |
Sports Central March 12, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Frights of Spring Spring training didn't exactly come in quietly, and it certainly isn't continuing quietly around the camps of the Phillies, the Rangers, and the Blue Jays. |
Sports Central May 3, 2006 Sara Normand |
NL Central Race Brings Out Best in Reds All eyes should be focused on the NL Central, when this one after that one after this one continue to belong to the Cincinnati Reds. |
Sports Illustrated February 19, 2002 Jeff Pearlman |
Happy Return Scott Williamson is a rare bright spot in Reds camp... |