Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, August 30. You just don't see games like the one in Cincinnati last night in other sports, especially college football and basketball where the talent gap is wide enough to make the results all too predictable. On paper the Brewers ...
Two Top Teams, Two Ways to Walk Off
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, August 29. The Yankees and Red Sox both scored walk-off wins last night. They just went about it in different ways. In New York, the Yankees played flat ball early though they didn't instantly pay for it. The ...
“Wait Just a Minute!” This Game Wasn’t Played in Denver
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Tuesday, August 28. If you see a final of Angels 10, Rockies 7 and a box score showing a number of bombs, you figure "Big deal, another Coors Canaveral special." But as the headline said in the words of the great ...
From Hawkeye with Love; In Los Angeles, All This and a Power Failure Too?
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, August 26. The Dodgers' 5--4 win in a dozen innings over the Padres last night was even more unusual than your average late-night extra-inning win. I didn't understand exactly what "Players' Weekend" in MLB has been about. ...
Raise the Jolly … Holy_ Bleep_! Abandon Ship!
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, August. 25. The Pirates couldn't have been much closer to a win ... only to lose in the 15th inning. The Brewers and Pirates had battled over 14 innings to a 4-4 stalemate. The Pirates managed to put ...
Nats Start Hitting after 2 Good Hitters Unloaded? Raised Eyebrows
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, August 23. The word "counterintuitive" has been added to our language in the last few years. A common example taken from true life is, if you use only a smidge of tooth binder and hit just the right ...
A Sunday Spent on Holy Ground in the Bronx
Hi all. Rather than an overall look at baseball as I see it on this early Monday, August 20, I wanted to write about a visit to a very special place as far as Yankee fans are concerned. The term "holy ground" means different things to different people. ...
Sale, Tebow to DL; No Entry Tomorrow
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday afternoon, August 18. As if we didn't know it, while our baseball heroes sometimes play like video game characters, they're made of flesh and blood like we are. The Yankees have been suffering with Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez on ...
Puig and Hundley Ejected In L.A. Scrap; Minors’ Best Game in Rancho Cucamonga
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, August 15. It's a pity the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles was torn down. It was the headquarters of weekly bigtime boxing. The Dodgers' Yasiel Puig and the Giants' Nick Hundley got it on. The trouble was, they got it ...
If It Happened in October; Walk-off Grand Slam in Chicago
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, August 13. If last night's Cubs' 4-3 win at Wrigley happened in October, fans would talk about the walk-off grand slam by David Bote (Rhymes with Brodie) for years. In some cities, by the last of the 9th with the home team down 3-0 the park would be largely ...