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Sports Central
October 8, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
The Nats Win, By Hook or By Rooks Bryce Harper might be the overwhelming Rookie of the Year winner when the hardware voting is revealed in due course, but he's not the only Washington Nationals rookie with a talent for coming up powerfully enough when the game gets late.   |
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 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
September 30, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Strasburg Plan Didn't Kill the Nats The Strasburg Plan had nothing to do with the Nats going no further than the division series last year. And it had nothing to do with them going nowhere but home when the regular baseball season ended this past weekend. |
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 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 10, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
The Orioles Like Mondays, So Far What a difference Monday makes. To Jim Johnson and to the Baltimore Orioles. |
Sports Central
September 27, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Johnson Deserved a Better Farewell The one thing his coming departure has in common with his previous departures as a major league manager is that most his players aren't in that big a hurry to see Davey Johnson leave the dugout. |
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
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, 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 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 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
August 31, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Testy September Looms For Nats The Washington Nationals are struggling merely to keep themselves in the rear view mirrors of the New York Mets in the National League East. |
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 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
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. |
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 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
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
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
September 9, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Slow Learners and Sore Losers The Chicago Cubs are named after baby bears. Thursday night, they behaved like babies. And one of the infants in the middle of it, who actually began as one of the field's diplomats, still insists on taking the low road. |
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
September 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Pain, Not Champagne, For the Nats On Saturday, the Nats' bullpen finally did what they had to do to keep the game in reach. It was far too little, far too late. |
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 18, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 5: Fun, Fun, Fun "If you're not having fun in the playoffs," Adrian Gonzalez said after the Dodgers banked Game 5, "then you don't deserve to be here." |
Sports Central
October 8, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Most Powerful Bunt of All-Time If the Nats go on to win this set, Wilson Ramos will have shoved Moran to one side as having laid down the most powerful bunt of all-time. |
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)... |
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. |
Sports Central
June 6, 2013
Joshua Duffy |
John Mozeliak, Take a Bow Being a Major League General Manager is an ever-delicate walk between trying to win now while at the same time setting up for the long term. |
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
September 29, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Old-Schoolers Flunk Papelbon vs. Harper Papelbon's season is over. The Nats suspended him for four games without pay, to be served after he serves a three-game suspension without pay courtesy of baseball government. |
Sports Central
April 24, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Prince Albert Smokes 500 Home Runs This week's set between the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Nationals was supposed to be about Mike Trout vs. Bryce Harper. |
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
July 17, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
2013 All-Star Game: Priceless Who'd have figured American League All-Star manager Jim Leyland thinking he could perform the marriage of sentiment and sound strategy in a single gesture and get away with it because, damn it, it worked, the American League held onto a 3-0 win? |
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 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
July 18, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The All-Star Game: Groovin' What happened at the All-Star Game with Derek Jeter and Adam Wainwright. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
These Royals Can Hit Like, Well, Orioles, If Need Be The Royals hitting home runs? The Orioles stealing bases? The Royals becoming baseball's first team to win four extra-inning games in one postseason? Oops. They just did that. |
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
November 1, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
The Agony of a Defeat Game 6 of the World Series should be remembered as the most heart-stopping baseball game in history. The fact that the Cardinals prevailed in Game 7 adds to its historical standing. |
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. |
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
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 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 16, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Crowned Royals Ride Roach Coach to Series You can point to lots of moments in which you might have known in your gut of hearts that the Royals were going to go to the World Series. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
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
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. |
