First, Congratulations to the Texas Rangers.  Once again, my predictions couldn’t be more wrong. The Rangers though definitely outplayed Detroit.
But here is the question that I can’t find anywhere- why would Leyland go to Brad Penny?  At that point the Tigers are down by 6 and the momentum is against them.  The Rangers bullpen is [...]

Well, I was completely wrong about the American League Division Series- both of them.  The Rays didn’t have enough momentum or enough bats to carry them past the Texas Rangers.   The other series though I wasn’t as far off on, though I was still off.  The Yankees and the Tigers were very closely matched, so [...]

In 2002, Major League Baseball teams across the nation celebrate the first annual “Roberto Clemente Day”, according to nationalpastime.com. Each team’s recipient of the John Hancock’s Roberto Clemente Award will be recognized and the national recipient of the award, chosen from among the 30 club honorees, will be announced during the World Series. The Roberto Clemente [...]

Though they have been to the playoffs since then, the Tigers have not won the AL Central Division since Sparky Anderson was in the Manager’s office and Ernie Harwell was in the booth.  The Indians led the division for a good part of the season, but the Tigers, like the tortoise, won the race.  Slow [...]

On this date, in 1916, two pitching greats pitched their final games by special arrangement.  Christy Mathewson beat Mordecai Brown 10-8.  Mattewson, it seems, was already nearly retired when he returned that year to the Reds to be their manager.  With Brown coming to town, the team billed the game as the final meeting of [...]