After a long regular season with the best teams separating themselves from the rest of their respective leagues, the September Wild Card races have gotten too interesting for fans of the Red Sox Nation. Tampa Bay swept the Red Sox with relative ease this past weekend and DH David Ortiz said, in a refreshingly honest […]

Pirates 6, Cardinals 5:  Pedro Ciriaco — not Pedro Ceranno — hit an RBI double as part of a late rally to lift Pittsburgh over St. Louis. The late-inning losses for the Cardinals this year have been legion. This one coming on a night when the Braves lost was particularly ill-timed. Marlins 5, Braves 4: Atlanta continues […]

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Switching over to American League, here are the players who had the most standout performances as a visiting player against each home team. Toronto faithful have seen more J.J. Hardy than they’d care for, yet they have hardly seen him do one thing—hit a single. In 30 plate appearances at Rogers Centre, Hardy had 11 […]

I’m always on the lookout for great baseball apps for my iPad, or your iPhone, or anyone’s iThing. Baseball Mobile is a worthy addition to the list. Baseball Mobile provides an easy way to look up the basic stats of any player in the majors. The emphasis is on the current year, but you can […]

Tango has his annual Scouting Report running over at his site. This is one of the best, funnest and (forgive my hyperbole) most important baseball projects on the web. Be sure to participate by rating the players you know best.

Rays 9, Red Sox 1: Attention Red Sox Nation: set sphincters to Defcon 1.  The Rays sweep and they are now three and a half out in the wild card. And these two play each other four more times. B.J. Upton was 4 for 4 with a grand slam. Cardinals 6, Braves 3: Attention Braves, […]

Over the last few years, the credibility of a pitcher’s win as a telling statistic has come into question. People have started to realize that there are so many factors that have to be taken into account during the course of a baseball game that a starting pitcher doesn’t necessarily control how a game turns […]

Below is a list of the five most exciting games played this week. You can read about how these games were determined to be the best in this article by Max Marchi. date game stars 09-04 Phillies @ Marlins **** box score 09-07 Orioles @ Yankees *** box score 09-10 Padres @ Diamondbacks ** box […]

Braves 6, Mets 5; Braves 5, Mets 1: A makeup doubleheader. Chipper Jones made like it was 1999 and that dismantling the Mets was still his primary purpose on the Earth. Those were the days. He hit a homer doubled and scored twice in game 1 He drove in two more in the nightcap. Something […]