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-27 posts tagged "World Series"
Andrew McGuinness | Monday, October 19, 2020
Even baseball’s biggest detractors have to admit that this year’s postseason has been pretty great. The larger-than-usual field didn’t dilute the quality of play in the later rounds, as this year’s tournament was just as — if not more — exciting than most, even if fans have only been allowed to attend the NLCS and
Nate Moller | Wednesday, August 26, 2020
It’s the question all baseball fans are asking: Can a 60-game season with an expanded postseason really show us who the best team in baseball is? It’s a complicated question, and I don’t believe the answer is a clear yes or no. The decision by MLB to expand the postseason to eight teams per league
Liam Coolican | Wednesday, February 26, 2020
As spring training gets underway, I, like every other fan, am hopeful my team will make it to the World Series. As much as I want to believe that, however, I have to realize that my team, the Detroit Tigers, is “rebuilding” — or in language the team won’t use, tanking. Tanking — losing games
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, October 29, 2019
On May 24, my family sat in stone cold silence as the Washington Nationals hit their 19-31 nadir. We’ve been fans since the team arrived in 2005, and never had we seen a season with such high expectations crash and burn so quickly. Eventually, my mom — an eternal optimist — broke the silence: “I
Connor Mulvena | Friday, October 26, 2018
After game one of the 2018 World Series at Fenway Park, when left-hander Clayton Kershaw looked like a shadow of his regular season self, Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt had some issues with the Fenway bullpens. “Brutal. Pretty brutal,” Honeycutt said of the bullpens. “What I don’t understand is why baseball allows it. You’ve got
Tobias Hoonhout | Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Don’t get me wrong — what the Boston Red Sox have done this postseason is impressive. While they were the best team in the Majors this year, the Sox had their work cut out for them to get back to World Series for the first time since 2013, facing not one, but two 100-win teams
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, November 1, 2017
On Oct. 24, the ESPN Stats and Info Twitter account tweeted an attempt to show how dominant the Los Angeles Dodgers have been in the postseason leading up to the World Series. The tweet read: “The Dodgers are 7-1 this postseason. The 1998 Yankees are the only team in the Wild Card Era to win
Joe Everett | Friday, October 27, 2017
Wednesday night’s Game 2 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Astros was one for the history books. Not to be cliche and overexuberant, but it was truly nothing short of epic. If you didn’t watch it and haven’t watched the highlights yet, do yourself the favor of watching the insane and awesome spectacle
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, October 25, 2017
On Saturday night, the Houston Astros defeated the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS and clinched the franchise’s first trip to the World Series since 2005. Beginning Tuesday night, the Astros will play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven Fall Classic for a chance to win their first World Series championship
Alex Carson | Monday, November 7, 2016
At some point, the reminders will go away. The local news stations will stop running ads congratulating the Cubs, the O’Neill stall notes will stop making jokes about Cleveland, kids will surely but slowly stop wearing Cubs hats and jerseys to lunch at South Dining Hall. Today is not that day, tomorrow likely won’t be either,