Any one team’s offense can heat up, or a single pitcher can carry an organization to the end. And it probably won’t follow the NBA’s lead in discounting divisional standings when playoff time comes around.
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That is up 36 percent from the 5.6 million for last year’s NL wild-card game between the Giants and Pittsburgh on ESPN, which was the previous high.
“I think when the season started nobody expected us to be here”.
Tory invited fans to come watch the games on the big screen at Nathan Phillips square or what he called the #Birdsnest.
As for the outcome, it’s a tossup, but in my mind it would be hard to bet against a pitcher at the height of his powers as Arrieta is.
A 0.75 ERA marks the lowest second half ERA in the entire history of Major League Baseball.
“I think it’s full of energy, belief, confidence”.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals had the best home record in the majors at 55-26. Being perennial contenders, the Cardinals are always a tough out in October and this year should be no different.
This Central division has been competitive and entertaining throughout the year, and it can only get better from here on out. He’ll agonize with the team during that second game from his pre-booked perch in Section 139, Row 9.
How they can win it: One problem with a team that just snapped a 21-year playoff drought is that most of their players have yet to be tested in the postseason environment. K.C. made it all the way to the World Series, where it lost to the San Francisco Giants, another non-division victor. “Young and hungry and out there trying to prove to everybody that we deserve to be here”.
Lo and behold, one company took Dickey up on the suggestion.
Mini “2015 AL East Champs” pennants now hang in the Jays’ well-appointed clubhouse.
It was written as an homage to baseball and an anthem of sorts for a team that was new and struggling. The first step in getting to a World Series is winning the opening game of the ALDS.
Hoston Astros at Kansas City Royals: When the Houston Astros had recorded the final out in Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, they flooded onto the field in a wild celebration, all their years of losing finally a memory.
The experience and consistent bats of the Royals should be enough to get them past the first round.
Gallardo, meanwhile, is a Blue Jays bogeyman. Through 100 games, the Rangers and Blue Jays were 48-52 and 50-50, respectively.
For Rangers Game 1 starter Yovani Gallardo, the slights go much further back.
Can the Rangers’ continue their postseason mastery of David Price? Unfortunately for Texas fans, they are overpowered at nearly every position in a matchup against Toronto.
A new band of free-swinging Blue Jays hopes to add to that legacy, backed by a fervent following that stretches across the country like the Trans-Canada Highway. The roof remained closed as the Blue Jays and Rangers held practice sessions to prepare for the opener in the best-of-five series.
The Blue Jays versus the Cubs in a World Series?
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The Blue Jays organization poked fun at the weekday afternoon games by issuing their own doctor’s note for fans who may be thinking of calling in sick for work the next couple of days. After the All-Star break, the Mets hit the fourth-most homers in all of baseball, with a top-5 offense fueled by the acquisition of Yoenis Cespedes, the eventual return of David Wright and Travis D’Arnaud, and the promotion of prospect Michael Conforto. Instead, just sit back and enjoy the spectacle of baseball’s best month.
