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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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Renteria Joins List of Unlikely World Series MVPs, Then the Unemployment Line

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , on November 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »

When the Giants announced that they would not be picking up Edgar Renteria’s $9.5 million option for 2011, he became the second consecutive World Series MVP to find himself looking for work in the offseason. Although Renteria’s postseason heroics definitely put the Giants in an awkward position, the decision to cut him loose was really […]

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Giants Are Kings of the Hill in 2010, but 1996 Braves Remain Best Postseason Pitching Staff in the Division Era

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Red Sox, Statistical Analysis, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , , , on November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

If 2010 was the new “Year of the Pitcher”, than the outcome of the World Series was a fitting tribute. With a 3.36 ERA (121 ERA+), the Giants owned baseball’s best pitching staff in the regular season, yet still managed to shave off almost an entire run during October. If good pitching beats good hitting, […]

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At Least New York Fans Don’t Do This…

Posted in Baseball, Culture, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , on November 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

New York fans get a bad rap around the country for being unruly (I am talking to you Mr. Greenberg), and sometimes the criticism is justified. Some spitting, a few thrown objects and even a fight or two have been known to breakout in the stands, but the one thing you’ve never seen is a […]

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The Curious Case of Curly Ogden, or How Bucky Harris Tricked John McGraw in the 1924 World Series

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, tagged on October 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »

As mentioned in the previous post about Matt Cain’s somewhat historic World Series performance, the Giants’ right hander became only the fourth starter to have a scoreless World Series debut, but fail to throw a complete game. Two of the other pitchers, Juan Marichal and Orel Hildebrand, were forced to depart early because of injury, […]

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Cain Is Able: A New Postseason Pitching Star Is Born

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Statistical Analysis, tagged on October 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »

One night after Cliff Lee bombed in the first game of the 2010 World Series, a new postseason pitching star was born. Just as he has done all October, Matt Cain shut down the Rangers’ offense for 7 2/3 innings, helping to propel the Giants to a 2-0 series lead. With his latest scoreless effort, […]

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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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