The Yankees also lack the ace they have traditionally had in past playoff trips.
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The Texas Rangers took care of business against the Angels, winning 9-2 – ending any chance of the Astros winning the division.
For those interested in betting on the American League Wild Card game money line, the New York Yankees stand at -105 while the Astros stand at -115 / 7o -15. And a one-game series is decidedly antithetical to the rest of baseball’s playoff format.
The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs will play on Wednesday night, in the National League Wild Card Game. The one game also, often, coerces teams to burn their best pitcher, which makes him unavailable for the early stages of the next series against the “more deserving” division winners.
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Look, the conventional thinking says that Jake Arrieta, who’s starting this game for the Cubs, is pretty much invincible. His last playoff appearance was against the Cardinals in 2013. But after this wild-card game, one of those teams will be going home – doesn’t seem fair. Won’t that World Series be fun to sit through for everyone outside of Missouri?
These two teams each play in the National League Central and faced off 19 times this year, so they are very familiar with one another. The Cardinals went on to sweep the Detroit Tigers and win the World Series. The Pirates have seasoned and experienced players to the playoffs. If the Mets and Cardinals win their respective NLDS series this year, there will be an NLCS rematch. Against the Blue Jays top half of the batting order, the Rangers pitchers are going to have to pitch as well as they can.
The field of ten teams is set but only two will be remaining on the 27th October when the World Series begins.
His team has soared since.
As I walked through the gates that night, I had an nearly divine sense of confidence that the beloved boys in blue would pull out the win.
The next-highest this year was 764, from the Yankees.
Since August 1st the Toronto Blue Jays have been the best team in the AL.
Rep. Lauren Arthur, D-Kansas City, is the designated hitter, -er, Twitterer serving as Kansas City Royals correspondent, with assistance from the bullpen in the form of Sen.
In each game telecast, Major League Baseball Network will employ Statcast powered by Amazon Web Services, Major League Baseball Advanced Media’s revolutionary tracking technology, as well as the innovative real-time defensive alignment graphic Shift Trax and PITCHf/x, to provide live and in-depth metrics about every play. Still, she said, it’s all about the days-long preparation and being able to explain the beauty of other positions to viewers. Only the Colorado Rockies blew more saves this season. They have primarily won games by bludgeoning their opponents with home runs (230 of them, second to the Jays). Keeping in mind that history is written by the victors, the team that defied all logic wrote their own incredible story, promising that no baseball fan alive during 2014 would ever forget that run.
Many complain about baseball’s long hours and slow-moving games. And I have the Mets defeating the Dodgers in 4. Instead, you have to put everything you’ve learned and everything you’ve built – your best pitcher on the mound and your best bats in the lineup – into nine more innings to prove you really belong.
This randomness has been taken to extremes over the years. Greinke finished the year with a 1.7 E.R.A, which is the lowest of its kind since the 1.6 E.R.A season of Greg Maddux, in the strike-shortened season of 1994. As has been noted, the Royals excel against right-handers. The Japanese righty went 7-4 at home with a 3.51 ERA, but he had a tough time on the only start against the Astros (which came in Houston), a no-decision coming off six runs allowed over 5 innings.
Following deGrom will be Noah Syndergaard, 23, and Matt Harvey, 26.
You certainly know about the Royals’ magical playoff run in 2014, reviving a moribund franchise that hadn’t made the postseason in the previous 29 seasons.
DG: The Cubs will not win the World Series.
The way that they won it a year ago was basically with bullpen, with defense and with base running. In fact, Babe Ruth was 13 years old.
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Mendoza’s work in the booth has so far been met with praise from fans, fellow media, and, importantly, ESPN executives.
