New Sports History Articles Added To The Museum
The sports history articles here at TheSportsNotebook are being constantly updated each and every week. Here’s a look at the highlights of the most recent additions to the Sports Museum…
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World Series History: The 9 Best Of The Modern Era
As another World Series gets set to start tonight in Kansas City, where will the matchup of the San Francisco Giants-Kansas City Royals fit in the scope of modern World Series history? Here’s a look back at the top nine Fall Classics in the modern era.
Why We Should Salute The Baltimore Orioles
A simple rule of sports is that when you get to the postseason, your flaws are going to be exposed. No team is perfect, so whomever wins the World Series will survive in spite of it. But things that could be covered up in the regular season come to light in the heat of postseason competition. It’s true in every sport and it’s what is finally doing in the Baltimore Orioles in this American League Championship Series.
The Baltimore Orioles Fight An Avalanche Of LCS History
The Baltimore Orioles are really up against it tonight when the American League Championship Series resumes tonight in Kansas City. The Orioles are down 0-2 in games, which is serious enough, but those two losses have come at home. The number of teams that have rallied in such a circumstance to win a pennant? Zero.
Bullpens Have Been The Key In This Year's MLB Playoffs
A common media theme in reaction to the early results of the MLB playoffs have been that “there’s no predicting these playoffs.” The fact betting-line underdogs won all four Division Series matchups, and a couple of individual pitching matchups went badly awry is cited as the latest proof that in baseball, a short series, is all about randomness and luck. I disagree completely.
2014 MLB Division Series MVPs
One omission in baseball’s postseason award structure is that they don’t give out an MVP for the Division Series round, the way is done in the League Championship Series and World Series. To rectify that, here’s TheSportsNotebook’s pick for the 2014 MLB Division Series MVPs…
The Cards & Giants Again Win NL Division Series
The NL Division Series are both over, as the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants finished off four-game series wins in front of their home fans, each using key seventh innings to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals respectively, with each game ending 3-2.
The Nationals Stay Alive In NL Division Series
The Washington Nationals stayed alive in a spot where most everyone had written them off. The St. Louis Cardinals got a leg up in the pivotal game of their series. Here’s a brief look back at the Game 3s of the NL Division Series that went down last night.
Orioles & Royals Complete AL Division Series Sweeps
The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals punched their tickets to the American League Championship Series, each completing three-game sweeps of the AL’s betting favorites, the Detroit Tigers and Los Angeles Angels. Here’s a brief look back on their Game 3 wins in the AL Division Series…
Big Home Runs Swing Close NL Division Series Games Saturday
The big home run was the story in Saturday’s NL Division Series games, from Brandon Belt to Matt Kemp to an honorable mention to Matt Carpenter. The other story was that every one of these games in every single series, in both leagues, continues to be great. San Francisco beats Washington 2-1 in 18 innings. Los Angeles survives St. Louis 3-2.
Four Friday Epics In The MLB Division Series
The Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles took control of their American League Division Series, while the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants grabbed openers on the road on the National League side.
Here’s some thoughts on all four games. I’ve broken each game down into two segments—my own personal reflections on each game, which range from the strategic to the more general, then a celebration of the heroes of each game….
Cardinals-Dodgers Division Series Preview
The St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers are familiar with each other when it comes to October baseball. They met last year in the National League Championship Series and they met in the Division Series round in 2009 and 2004. They meet for the fourth time in the past eleven years starting later this afternoon, and here’s a few thoughts on the latest installment of the Cardinals-Dodgers Division Series.