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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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 11, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Giant Bats Get Their Freak On Until Wednesday, Sandoval had been one of the Giants more sedate bats. He awoke with a first inning double and a fifth-inning sacrifice fly, scoring the Giants' fifth run of the day, before standing in against Cincinnati reliever Jose Arredondo. |
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 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 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 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 19, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Rabbit, Run A recap of Game 2 of the NLCS between the Phillies and the Giants. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 October 25, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Royals Win Pennant on the Run The Royals are headed for a Series against the New York Mets that promises at minimum to be as arduously exciting as the American League Championship Series they just finished against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
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 February 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
How Much of a Bargain is James Shields? What are the Padres getting for the coming four years? Shields's most obvious ability is the innings he dines upon. |
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 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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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 2, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Win a Hunt-and-Peck Thriller Bernard Malamud and Douglas Wallop themselves couldn't have written Tuesday's script. Kansas City, which hasn't seen the Royals anywhere near the postseason since the Reagan Administration, wouldn't have bought it prior to Tuesday night. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
Salon.com October 24, 2002 King Kaufman |
Moments to remember Cal Ripken Jr. is No. 1, the World Series is tied and Ray Liotta has something strange on his head. |
Sports Central October 17, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
The Fall Classic: Slots Are Filling Fast The Chicago White Sox against the Houston Astros for all the marbles? Not my first choices back in April. |
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. |
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 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. |