Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, July 31. The Dodgers carved out yet another late win in this amazing season they're building.  Meantime two teams bound for oblivion-the Jays and Athletics-each gave their fans something to cheer about with late wins. Yet again in 2017 the Dodgers have written another script the old Hollywood ...

Here is a special bulletin received as this column was about to go to press.  Major league baseball lost slugger Lee May last night at age 74. He had over 2000 hits and 350 home runs facing far tougher pitching in larger ball parks than modern hitters do. May played the bulk of his career with the Reds ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, July 29. In a move with 2018 in mind, the Mets sent two prospects to Miami for Marlins' closer A. J. Ramos.  One of the prospects was Ricardo Cespedes, 19 and no relation to Yoenis Cespedes who is still a Met whether he underperforms or not.  Ricardo is ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, July 28. I doubt any decent salami can be had if you go north of the border, but last night the Jays' Steve Pearce launched a stirring walk-off grand slam home run or grand salami to lead his team to an 8-4 win.  Meantime in New ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, July 27. Yet again the Dodgers won last night raising their record to 71-31.  No team has been this hot for this long since the 1944 St. Louis Cardinals, and that was when most of the competition was facing curve balls thrown by the Germans and ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, July 26. Cleveland and Seattle hosted last night's best games in my opinion. While the Royals won their 7th straight they are still a game and a half behind the Indians.  The Royals might have thought they had a chance when the Angels tied the Tribe at ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball  on this Monday, July 24. No matter how good a team is or how big a lead it has, it fears one thing particularly if it has a single outstanding player.  Every team fears a serious or catastrophic injury to that player. The Dodgers are the latest team  living that ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, July 23. It won't help them make the playoffs but for a night both the Mets and Giants showed a flash of what they should have been and hope to be again.  The Mets, down 5-0 after another marginal performance by Zack Wheeler staged a late rally ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday,  July 22. You can have grand opera or a Johnny Cash prison concert, and both are called music by their millions of fans.  You can have the Monaco Grand Prix or the Indy 500 and followers of both are race fans.  You can have lobster or a Cuban ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, July 21, 2017. In the baseball wasteland that is Seattle, where ESPN seldom ventures, last night's most compelling game took place.  King Felix Hernandez of the Mariners faced Luis Severino who has come into his own this year after a dreadful 2016.  King Felix was on ...