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Sports Central
November 3, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crowned Royals, Drowned Mets On a dark night when the New York Mets needed a Dark Knight to keep them alive in the World Series, Matt Harvey did everything he could. And it ended up for nothing.   |
Sports Central
October 18, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Edinson Lights Up You should have seen Edinson Volquez and the Kansas City Royals handling the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. |
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 19, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: Harvey Paints a Mets Win Matt Harvey feeling fine is dangerous news. For the Cubs, that is. They may yet have to face him again before this set is over. Oh, thrill, oh, joy. |
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
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
October 16, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Crowned Royals Ride Roach Coach to Series You can point to lots of moments in which you might have known in your gut of hearts that the Royals were going to go to the World Series. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
These Royals Can Hit Like, Well, Orioles, If Need Be The Royals hitting home runs? The Orioles stealing bases? The Royals becoming baseball's first team to win four extra-inning games in one postseason? Oops. They just did that. |
Sports Central
October 30, 2015
Louie Centanni |
Why the Royals Wanted the Mets, And Why It's Working Two games into the 2015 World Series, a lot of fans are scratching their heads asking the same question: "Are the Royals really this much better than the Mets?" |
Sports Central
October 2, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Win a Hunt-and-Peck Thriller Bernard Malamud and Douglas Wallop themselves couldn't have written Tuesday's script. Kansas City, which hasn't seen the Royals anywhere near the postseason since the Reagan Administration, wouldn't have bought it prior to Tuesday night. |
Sports Central
October 20, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The New Murphy's Law The Cubs are trying to figure out how a guy who's never hit more than fourteen home runs in any regular season has hit five in a single postseason, and off the league's top three Cy Young Award candidates while he was at it. |
Sports Central
October 22, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central
April 23, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Wild Weekend in Kansas City Who did these Royals and Athletics think they were -- the Dodgers and the Giants? The Red Sox and the Yankees? |
Sports Central
September 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Pain, Not Champagne, For the Nats On Saturday, the Nats' bullpen finally did what they had to do to keep the game in reach. It was far too little, far too late. |
Sports Central
May 10, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
The Braves Bend the Pendulum What happened when the New York mets threw Jose Lima against a short-rested Atlanta Braves' John Smoltz? |
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 21, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The Cubs, Ahead to the Past? Unless these Cubs find a way to hit better than their .158 LCS average or pitch better than their 4.68 LCS ERA in Game 4, just for openers, it will be forward to the past. |
Sports Central
August 31, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Testy September Looms For Nats The Washington Nationals are struggling merely to keep themselves in the rear view mirrors of the New York Mets in the National League East. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
How Much of a Bargain is James Shields? What are the Padres getting for the coming four years? Shields's most obvious ability is the innings he dines upon. |
Sports Central
April 3, 2007
Jeff Kallman |
One Down, Nine to Go Baseball season has begun. Here's a look at the recent Mets vs. Cardinals game. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
So Much for That Extra Day's Rest That the extra day's rest the Monday rain-out afforded may have wounded the Mets' lineup, dissolving their Sunday blowout momentum. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
Sports Central
September 14, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Running on Empty Here are the baseball players who will be resting more often to try to preserve what they have left in the tank. |
Sports Central
October 9, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Previewing the Mets/Dodgers NLDS When the New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, face off in the division series of the baseball playoffs beginning Friday, fans could be in store for the best pitching performances seen anywhere in the postseason. |
Sports Central
May 4, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
Sports Illustrated
May 14, 2002
Josh Elliott |
Into Thin Air Mike Hampton has struggled with his control and lost his confidence in Colorado... |
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
May 23, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Arsonic: A Tale of Two Interleague Cities Last week, both the New York and Chicago MLB teams played in an interleague series. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
The Fall Classic: Slots Are Filling Fast The Chicago White Sox against the Houston Astros for all the marbles? Not my first choices back in April. |
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. |
Salon.com
October 21, 2000
Allen Barra |
The traffic jam Series Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age"... |
Sports Illustrated
October 23, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel: SI's Stephen Cannella Controversy dominates Fall Classic: The Mike Piazza-Roger Clemens fiasco would have probably ended differently if it happened during a regular-season game... |
Sports Illustrated
April 20, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
March 29, 2000
Kostya Kennedy |
What better way to start the day? Mets lose to Chicago. |
Sports Central
May 30, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Monday: K.C. Royals: Chaotic The Kansas City Royals are taking a serious run at the indelible record set by the 40-win New York Mets in 1962. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Brian Sulkis |
Mets robbed by wrong coast team! ESPN brings you the latest baseball scandal. But at least they're finally talking about the Giants... |
Sports Central
July 9, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
No Royals v. NL After All, But... The genuinely bad news: the all-star voting is still broken and still in need of fixing. (Er, repairing). |
Sports Central
May 9, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
It's Lima Time in New York "He's always been one of those guys that seizes the moment," said the Mets' Willie Randolph. |
Salon.com
October 24, 2000
Allen Barra |
News flash: Mets run out batted ball! And have a bat thrown at them for their trouble. The Yankees are making the plays, and that's why they're dominating the Series... |
Sports Illustrated
April 2, 2002
Tom Verducci |
A major pain Mysterious injury has Maddux and the Braves worried... |
Sports Central
August 13, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Bob Murphy, RIP: The Unhappiest Happy Recap The very first regular season words any Mets fan heard on his or her radio, in April 1962, came from his distinctive harmonic of Oklahoma drawl and Missouri honey. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Allen St. John |
Scab power A pair of former "replacement" players, Rick Reed and Benny Agbayani, lead the Mets to victory in Game 3... |
Sports Illustrated
October 18, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Waiting for McGwire Slugger's absence makes us wonder what might've been... |
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
June 28, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
Will the Nats Spoil Stephen Strasburg? Are the Washington Nationals going to ruin the prodigy before his time? |
Sports Central
August 7, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Save Us From the Save Who decided that a three-run lead was the point where you need a closer? And why? |
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"! |
Sports Central
December 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
International sensation Ichiro Suzuki, the Mariners' slashing leadoff hitter, shouldn't book any fishing excursions or vacation getaways for the July All-Star break. The rookie has a very good chance of starting the All-Star Game in, of all places, Seattle's Safeco Field... |
Sports Central
November 3, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
The A-Rod Conundrum A debate about Alex Rodriguez. |
