Another wild-card night, another presumptive Cy Young Award winner throws a shutout on the road. Chicago’s Jake Arrieta follows in the footsteps of Houston’s Dallas Kuechel and turns in a dominant outing, Arrieta threw a complete game four-hitter in blanking the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 at PNC Park. It was a good night to be a […]
The MLB playoffs start tonight at 5 PM ET with a game that’s everything Bud Selig could have hoped for when he instituted this AL/NL doubleheader f one-game knockouts. The first game will be St. Louis visiting Atlanta. Here we have the two teams that were the National League side of last year’s wild finish, when the Cardinals overtook the Braves on the final day of the season. And we have Atlanta legend Chipper Jones potentially playing his final game. Yes, this wild-card game knockout is a good idea.