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.
There are three races that call for daily check-ins during the final two weeks of the regular season, and those are the wild-card pushes in both leagues, as well as touching base with the St. Louis-Pittsburgh race in the NL Central, where each team is going to qualify, but one will be subjected to the one-game elimination knockout on October 1 (the AL wild-card game is October 2)
We’re down to 2 ½ weeks left in the regular season, and it’s time to survey the landscape and look at the weekend ahead. Starting on Monday, TheSportsNotebook’s MLB coverage will be folded into our daily sports category—the spot that normally reviews the TV options for the sports fan each night, will update the game-by-game action in the final two weeks of the MLB stretch drive.
Here’s the rundown on the race, what happened on the weekend, what’s ahead in the first part of this week and any notable developments on the injury front.
There’s 3 ½ weeks to go in the baseball regular season, as we push forward in the playoff race and to the September 29 conclusion. TheSportsNotebook’s MLB coverage summarizes the landscape, with a look at what happened in the early week, what’s ahead this weekend, what’s up on the injury front and how the bracket would look if the season ended today.
We’ve reached the Labor Day checkpoint of the major league baseball season with two of the six division races all but over, a third that we can realistically call over, and a fourth that’s gotten some surprising space in it over the past week.