The Cleveland Indians closed to the threshold of the postseason, the Tampa Bay Rays are flirting with a collapse and baseball fans everywhere still have the dream of a three-way tie on the table as the regular season hits its final day. Here’s how Saturday went down…
The six automatic spots in the Division Series are now complete. The St. Louis Cardinals clinched the last remaining division title with a 7-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night in front of the home fans. Yadier Molina went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, while both David Freese and Matt Holliday homered. It was the first division title for the Cardinals since 2009 and just the second since their run from 2004-06.
Cleveland and Texas both went to the wire before surviving 6-5 decisions on Thursday night, keeping the Indians a game up on the Rangers for the final wild-card berth. And Tampa Bay finished off a sweep of the Bronx to keep their own lead over Texas at two games as we head into the final weekend. Here’s how last night broke down…
The drama in the MLB playoff race is winding itself down. Detroit became the fifth team to clinch a division title, locking up the AL Central. The wild-card race in the AL has been cut from six teams to three teams in the span of two days.
No-hitters, eliminations and near-eliminations marked last night in the major league baseball playoff race, with the American League wild-cards and the NL Central title still open questions in this last week of the regular season. Here’s how it all went down…
The first part of the National League playoff race is all but set. We officially know who the five teams are that will make the postseason, and all that’s left to be sorted out is who which of the three NL Central contenders will win the division and which two will face off in the wild-card game.
Monday Night Football will key the daily sports agenda for a lot of fans today, as the Oakland Raiders go to Denver in an 8:30 PM ET kickoff… But another Oakland team has captured the hearts of its fans today, and the A’s—along with the Atlanta Braves clinched divisions.
NFL Week 3 goes Sunday, and with the TV schedule keyed by Indianapolis-San Francisco (4:25 PM ET, CBS) and Chicago-Pittsburgh (8:30 PM ET, NBC), a lot of fans won’t find time for baseball. But the races have just eight days to go. The leaders in the American League wild-card race held serve yesterday. Here’s what went down on Saturday…
The Boston Red Sox completed their worst-to-first journey in the AL East with a 6-3 win over Toronto that sewed up the division title. Jon Lester capped off his own second half dominance with seven innings of one-run ball.
The first division title in the 2013 MLB season was officially clinched last night as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-6 and wrapped up the NL West. Hanley Ramirez went 4-for-5, including two home runs to lead the way.
Arizona played the role of sore loser when they griped over the fact the Dodger players had celebrated in the pool that’s behind the centerfield fence at Bank One Ballpark.
Ranger fans had to feel like this was re-living the bad dream that is Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. They had this game won in the 11th, coughed up the lead and then lost it in an inning later.
Three bullpens that are normally reliable came up small in Tuesday night’s MLB action. One of those cases swung a big head-to-head game and two others saw wild-card hopefuls rally against division leaders.