When Noah Syndergaard's first pitch buzzed past the head of leadoff hitter Alcides Escobar to start last night's third game of the World Series, old school baseball men like Bob Gibson smiled. Gibson will be 80 next month and when he does a rare radio appearance he still sounds like the "ornery fella" he says he ...
Game 3: Often Pivotal, Sometimes Memorable
Game 3 of the World Series will be played tonight at Citi Field in New York, with the Kansas City Royals up 2 games to none on the Mets. Down through the years, what happens in game 3 has often set the tone for the rest of the World Series to follow. Tonight, if the ...
I Guess Game 2 was Inevitable
After the agonizing, heart-wrenching baseball played in game 1 of this World Series, it was a near certainty that one team would come out flat for game 2 played last night in Kansas City. The Royals' 7-1 victory, giving them a 2 games to none lead in the series showed which team came out the ...
And This was Just Game 1
The game that began this year's World Series will make it next to impossible for another game in the Series to come close to it for action, suspense, pathos and almost anything you'd want in a baseball game. Game 1, a victory for the Royals 5-4 in 14 innings over the Mets tied for the ...
How Much Will Experience Count Tonight(1 PM edition)
Since the Mets swept the Cubs last Wednesday night to reach the World Series, the vibe on talk radio and social media has been about their lack of World Series experience. That can't be denied. Only two Mets, Curtis Granderson and Juan Uribe have ever played in the World Series. Granderson hit .095 for the 2006 Tigers who ...
Royals Outlast Rain and Jays to Reach Series
In spite of the first lengthy rain delay this postseason has seen, and despite the best efforts of Jose Bautista to force a game 7 the Kansas City Royals are American League champions following a 4-3 win over Toronto last night. They will host the Mets in game 1 of the World Series Tuesday night ...
For Those who Mute their TV During the Game
I've been reading on Facebook where LCS viewers have muted their TV's and listened to the radio broadcasts of the games. We did that in our house since we could only stand so much of Cal Ripken calling the Mets' shortstop "William" Flores instead of his right name Wilmer. Mercifully Ripken is done for the ...
Jays Live to Fight Another Day; Cubs Don’t, Neither does Mattingly
IT's rarely a good thing when my computer won't work. This morning while I was getting it fixed, the bulletin came across that Don Mattingly won't manage the Dodgers in 2016. What more could the Dodgers ownership group expect of him? The former team gave him the keys to a '59 Edsel when he took ...
Cubs and Jays: All They Need is a Miracle
Both the Blue Jays and the Cubs will need improbable comebacks if they hope to participate in this year's World Series. The Jays were slaughtered 14-2 by the Royals last night in Toronto, and now trail the ALCS 3 games to 1. The Cubs lost to Jacob DeGrom and the Mets 5-2 and are in ...
Jays Make It a Series Again; Doubleheader Today
After losing the first two games in the ALCS to the Royals in Kansas City, the Toronto Blue Jays returned home and showed the hitting power which propelled them to the Eastern Division. They bludgeoned the opposition pitching staff with an 11-8 win over the Royals last night. Marcus Stroman got the win in spite of giving up ...