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Sports Central November 2, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Bunt, a Bomb, and the Giants Win Oh, what a feeling it must be to be Aubrey Huff and Edgar Renteria. |
Sports Central October 30, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
From the Brink to Valhalla These Cardinals, perhaps David Freese and Allen Craig in particular, may not have to pick up a check for a steak in St. Louis for maybe the rest of their lives. |
Sports Central October 29, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Let's Get Surreal "If that's not the best postseason game of all time," Lance Berkman huffed and puffed, when it was over in a 10-9 St. Louis Cardinals win that not even the Cardinals, never mind the Texas Rangers, can quite believe happened, "I don't know what is." |
Sports Central October 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Giants Give the Pirates the Bum's Rush Out The Giants' bludgeoning of the Pirates in the National League's wild card game wasn't exactly the kind of hair raiser the Royals and the Athletics raised up the night before. |
Sports Central October 13, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Bobby's World Stopped Bobby Cox could bring himself to do no more Monday than flash a shy, close-lipped smile, and a thumbs-up to a Turner Field audience that had just watched an only-too-familiar sight. |
Sports Central October 19, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Rabbit, Run A recap of Game 2 of the NLCS between the Phillies and the Giants. |
Sports Central October 29, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Too Late Tigers "We could not find our game in the World Series," Miguel Cabrera mourned, while the San Francisco Giants partied heartily in Comerica Park's visiting clubhouse. |
Sports Central October 23, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Singin' in the Rain The baseball gods to whom former star first baseman Will Clark referred after Game 2 sketched poetic justice for the last National League Championship Series out. But the gods don't play baseball games, mortal men do. |
Sports Central October 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Hold Those Tigers The Detroit Tigers took one of the worst elimination beatings in postseason history. |
Sports Central October 19, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Look, Ma, No Atrocities! Presumably, the world can breathe a little easier now that the first post-Slide confrontation between Matt Holliday and the San Francisco Giants has ended without on-field amputations, at-the-plate decapitations, or other actual or reputed disembowelings. |
Sports Central October 11, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Giant Bats Get Their Freak On Until Wednesday, Sandoval had been one of the Giants more sedate bats. He awoke with a first inning double and a fifth-inning sacrifice fly, scoring the Giants' fifth run of the day, before standing in against Cincinnati reliever Jose Arredondo. |
Sports Central October 25, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: The Panda Pounces Pablo Sandoval couldn't have picked a more dramatic few hours to enjoy the first three-bomb game of his major league life. |
Salon.com October 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Batting around After the Angels' second straight 10-run outburst, a tight World Series is looking like a potential blowout. |
Sports Central October 21, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Shot Heard `Round the Bay If nothing else, Travis Ishikawa and his Giants proved they actually do know how to win games with safe hits, period, never mind 3-run homers. |
Sports Central October 17, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Giants Thrown Onto Threshold of World Series Is it unreasonable for Cardinals fans to ask themselves whether their team is trying, literally, to throw this National League Championship Series to the Giants? |
Sports Central October 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The World Series Win's a Bum's Rush Nitpick all you want, but it's falling on deaf ears in San Francisco and a lot of other places. Whomever else did whatever else Madison Bumgarner was the World Series this year |
Sports Central September 8, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Farewell to Washington: Temporarily? The Rangers, whose season was blown up by a rash of injuries that probably drove Ron Washington quietly mad, became the first team in baseball to be eliminated mathematically from a pennant race. |
Sports Central October 28, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: Tigers Look Broken If the Detroit Tigers are still wondering where they have to go to buy a break, never mind a key hit with men on base or a key pitch to keep the San Francisco Giants from sneaking another couple of runs home, it's understandable to a small extent. |
Sports Central October 26, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: All Giants, Big or Small Now this is a novel position for the San Francisco Giants to assume. They're not used to being up two games to none in a postseason set this year. This could be the start of something ... weird? |
Sports Central October 5, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Those A's, Dumb Enough to Win As of 3:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, October 3, 2012, when Michael Young's two-strike fly completed its near-perfect trajectory into the glove of Coco Crisp striding forward to haul it down, Oakland, California believes in miracles. |
Sports Central July 28, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
Don't Forget About the Team The focus with the Texas Rangers seems to be more on the ongoing ownership battle that has been played out in Texas courtrooms over the last several months. |
Sports Central March 12, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Frights of Spring Spring training didn't exactly come in quietly, and it certainly isn't continuing quietly around the camps of the Phillies, the Rangers, and the Blue Jays. |
Sports Central August 20, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Dark Horse and a Playoff Seat In MLB, who are this year's dark horses as we speed toward September? |
Sports Central September 26, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Clinch the AL Central Last year, they needed the wild card play-in game to kick their way into a postseason run that ended one game short of a World Series triumph. This year, the Kansas City Royals won't have to worry about that kind of tension. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central October 25, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Royals Win Pennant on the Run The Royals are headed for a Series against the New York Mets that promises at minimum to be as arduously exciting as the American League Championship Series they just finished against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
Sports Central October 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central November 1, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
The Agony of a Defeat Game 6 of the World Series should be remembered as the most heart-stopping baseball game in history. The fact that the Cardinals prevailed in Game 7 adds to its historical standing. |
Sports Illustrated May 9, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Expected to be one of the Rangers' strong points, their relief corps has been absorbing a Texas-sized pounding |
Sports Central October 31, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: B Invincible The Red Sox turned out to be the best team in baseball, winning a World Series against a team that was the next-best team in baseball by a hair. And, a three-run double. And, perhaps, the most inadvertent destiny in 21st Century baseball. |
Sports Central August 6, 2012 Louie Centanni |
MLB Predictions: August Until the End Obviously, predictions are meant to be proven wrong -- and I tried to make some bold ones for the sake of speculation, fun, and a legitimate belief in the strangeness of September baseball. |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
High on Lowe The hurler's emergence could put Boston over the top. |
Sports Central July 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
Sports Illustrated November 6, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central August 21, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
At Least it Wasn't a Massacre There was a difference between this weekend's Boston Massacre and the one which helped to send the Red Sox toward eventual sinking 28 years before. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Sports Central April 8, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year The most wonderful time of the year begins at a point in early April and endures for slightly more than half a calendar year. |
Sports Central September 28, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Yanks/Sox: "It's Like a Disagreement in a Family" "It's a heated rivalry," said Boston"s Dave Roberts. "There's respect between the teams, but there's no love lost." |
Sports Central November 14, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Salon.com October 1, 2002 King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
Sports Central September 16, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Salon.com October 15, 2002 King Kaufman |
Who needs champions? The evil possibility of an all-wild card World Series has come to pass, and you know what? It looks pretty good from here. |
Sports Central October 30, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
The Great Comeback Team The real story was how the Red Sox had managed to come up so big with their arms and bats at every occasion necessary after losing Game 4 of the League Championship Series in Cleveland. |
Sports Central January 5, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Central October 18, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Yankees Hanging From a Cliff On paper, the 2010 ALCS is tied at one game apiece, with the teams heading back to New York for three games. |
Sports Central October 11, 2010 Clinton Riddle |
Ray of Hope? The Tampa Bay Rays won 6-3 in a do-or-die Game 3 at Arlington tonight on the strength of late-inning homers from Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena, despite a last-gasp from the Texas offense in the bottom of the ninth. |