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A Memorable Night to Forget: Historic Game Six Was a Different Tale for Two Cities

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Post Season, World Series, Yankees, tagged , , , on October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Last night’s epic game six was so compelling, that tonight’s game seven almost seems anti-climatic. As is sometimes the case when the World Series goes the distance, it is the sixth game that proves to be the most memorable (see 1975, 1985, 1986, and 2002 for a handful of examples). So, before settling in to […]

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Good Things Come to Those Wait? Rangers Seeking to Get Off World Series Schneid

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Post Season, World Series, Yankees, tagged , on October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Last year’s World Series matchup ensured that a long championship drought would be broken. The Giants entered the 2010 Fall Classic without a title in 56 seasons, while the Rangers had never won a World Series. The two teams’ combined 105 years chasing the trophy ranked as the third longest of all time, but after the […]

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Discarded by the Angels, Napoli Proves Most Valuable in Texas

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Post Season, World Series, tagged , , , on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Mike Napoli is on the verge of completing a season long journey that has taken him from the outhouse in Anaheim to the penthouse in Arlington. With one more Rangers’ victory, Napoli is almost assured of becoming the World Series MVP, which wouldn’t be as remarkable if the defensively maligned catcher hadn’t been traded twice […]

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Déjà Vu All Over Again; Craig’s Pinch Hitting Heroics Make Double Impact

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Post Season, Red Sox, World Series, Yankees, tagged , , , on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Allen Craig, who spent most of the season being a utility-type bench player, has become a central figure in the 2011 World Series. In game 1, with David Freese on third and Nick Punto on first, he came off the bench to face Alexi Ogando and drove home the go-ahead run with a single to […]

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This Time, It Counted: All Star Game Reverberations Being Felt in Postseason

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Post Season, Yankees, tagged , on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tonight’s World Series opens up in St. Louis because the National League won the 2011 All Star Game. For many in and around the game, linking home field advantage in October to an outcome in July is the height of folly, but this season at least, the symmetry is almost perfect. In order to advance […]

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End of an ERA? Dominant Starters Not Setting the Tone This October

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Post Season, Yankees, tagged , on October 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The San Francisco Giants’ championship in 2010 was supposed to usher in a new era of pitching dominance. With offense levels reaching long-time lows, the conventional wisdom suggested that only with a strong starting rotation could a team hope to make the World Series. Then, 2011 happened. The Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals have […]

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Don’t Let the Big Man Beat You; The Genius of Ron Washington

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, MLB, Post Season, Yankees, tagged , , , on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Ron Washington’s decision to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera with the bases empty in the bottom of the eighth was the kind of move that could have become infamous in postseason lore, especially after Victor Martinez singled him to third base with only one out. At the time, the move was roundly criticized, including by Joe […]

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