Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, June 28. The best games of last night took place in Phoenix and San Francisco at the MLB level and in Everett, Washington in the minors. Who said anybody has tamed the West? The Giants beat the struggling Rockies 4-3 in 14 innings in spite of a flock ...
Dodgers Scale Rockies and Reach First Place; St. Lucie Mets’ Hitting Assault Continues but They Don’t Win
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, June 26. Thanks to a 10-game winning streak including a 3-game sweep of the Rockies, the Dodgers find themselves in first place in the NL West. If the Rockies and D-Backs hold up we're looking at the most exciting 3-horse race in baseball coming out of that division. ...
Quick Reversals Easier to Manage in Modern Baseball; LSU to Face Florida in 2 of 3 College World Series Final
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, June 25. The Astros have 51 wins following yesterday's 5-2 win over Seattle. Just 4 years ago in 2013 they had 51 wins all season long. It used to take a lot longer to go from chumps to champs. The Mets' transformation was considered nothing short of ...
Yanks and Nats Do What First Place Teams Do–they Win in Extras; LSU and TCU force Extra Games in Omaha
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, June 24. The Yankees have a narrow lead on Boston in the American League East while the Nationals practically have the National League East won with a gigantic lead on the rest of the pack. Both teams showed first-place panache last night, winning in walk-off fashion. ...
Yankees Stop Their Skid while Giants and Mets Continue Theirs
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, June 22. The Yankees have finally ended their 7-game losing streak, and as far as I know they haven't any new injuries to concern fans in the Bronx. The Mets' and Giants however keep singing the same sad song. The Mets lost their third straight noncompetitive ...
Surprise Contenders Meet in Denver; Two Wild Games in Short-Season League
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, June 21. When the season opened some 10 weeks ago I wouldn't have bet on Colorado or Arizona being contenders in the NL West. I assumed it would be the Dodgers and Giants duking it out as they usually do. Good thing I quit laying my ...
Marlins Welcome the Return of a Crashing Bore (spelled Bour)
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Tuesday, June 20. Last night's game in Miami should have been yet another stomping by the Washington Nationals. They came into the game with all the momentum in the world having taken 3 of 4 from the Mets and pretty much clinched the NL East barring catastrophic injuries to ...
Cubs, Giants, Mets-Last Year’s Playoff Teams Going Nowhere; First Results from Omaha are Mixed
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball this Monday, June 19. As we're approaching the halfway mark of the 2017 season we can't help but notice that the World champion Cubs, along with the Giants and Mets who were also postseason teams in 2016 are going nowhere in 2017. The Mets, already far behind the Nationals ...
Happy Father’s Day; A Perfecto on Father’s Day; a Special Tribute
Hi all. This is a Father's Day edition, not directly related to how I see baseball on this Sunday, June 18. First and foremost, Happy Father's Day to all dads who read this. I want to mention a Father's Day event nobody who was there will ever forget, and a Mets-related tribute to my dad. Father's Day ...
Giants and their AAA Team Both Lose Double-Digit Walk-offs
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball this Friday, June 16. This doesn't happen often. All 3 of the night's most compelling games took place near or west of the Great Divide. All were won in walk-off fashion and good pitching was lacking in all 3 games. The oddest thing was that the Giants and their AAA affiliate ...