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Expanded Playoffs Could Be a Battle Worth Losing for “Purists”

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankees, tagged , on November 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »

The word out of the General Managers meetings in Orlando is the plan to expand the major league baseball playoffs to 10 teams is moving full speed ahead. According to numerous reports, Commissioner Bud Selig, who has been pushing the proposal with a heavy hand, intends to finalize a recommendation after convening his special committee at the winter […]

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Aces Low: A Look at Postseason Stoppers Gone Bad

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Cliff Lee is human after all. Heading into yesterday’s World Series opener, Lee had compiled a 7-0 record with a 1.26 ERA, the third lowest postseason rate among starters with at least 50 innings (Sandy Koufax: 0.95 and Christie Mathewson: 0.97). Lee’s performance over the last two Octobers was so dominant that he even started to […]

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Rangers, Giants Seek to Quench Championship Thirst; World Series to Feature Matchup of Long Suffering Franchises

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, tagged , on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Most baseball prognosticators expected the Yankees and Phillies to meet once again at season’s end, but the Rangers and Giants each brought a monkey wrench to their respective league championship series. So, instead of the first World Series rematch in 32 years, the Fall Classic will play host to two teams that have never won […]

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Yankee Go Home: Season Ends in Texas as Rangers Head to First Rodeo

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees, tagged , on October 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The Rangers couldn’t have drawn it up any better. In the team’s previous 49 seasons, it had made the postseason only three times, and lost each series to the New York Yankees. After dispatching the Rays to win their first ALDS, the Rangers then exacted revenge on the hated Yankees, who had turned them away so […]

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Yanks Live to Fight Another Day; Return ALCS to Deep in the Heart of Texas

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees, tagged on October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The legendary folk hero Davy Crockett once said, “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas”. To those who doubted their resiliency, the Yankees used game five of the ALCS to say exactly the same thing. Although the Yankees had to feel comfortable with their ace going on full rest for the […]

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In “Postseason of the Pitcher”, Yanks Suffer Historic Stinker

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged on October 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

For the most part, the “Year of the Pitcher” has carried over to October. Only two games into the post season, Roy Halladay had thrown a no hitter and Tim Lincecum shut down the Braves with a 14 strikeout, two-hit performance. Based on game score, both efforts ranked among the five best October pitching performances ever, but […]

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Ranger Rebound: Game Three Looms as Cliff Hanger as Texas Heads to New York All Even; Decision to Start Hughes in Game 2 Backfires

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

One day after blowing a five run lead in the final three innings, Ron Washington vowed that if his team was presented with the same opportunity again, they would not let it get away. Sure enough, by the time the seventh inning rolled around, the Rangers had built another five run lead, and this time […]

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