For the first time in 32 years, the Dodgers have won the World Series. Up three games to two, in Game 6 they managed to get a couple of runs after a dubious removal of the Rays’ starting pitcher Blake Snell, who’d been mowing them down in wholesale lots (he’d struck out Betts, Seager and …
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There are a lot of ways to make an out on the basepaths in a baseball game, but getting hit by a batted ball is one of the rarest. I saw it happen once. The question: How can a game end on a base hit by player on the team that is trailing without the …
In honor of the Washington team’s first appearance in the World Series since 1933, here’s a book about another time it did so. This is Faust retold, with middle-aged Joe Boyd becoming a young superstar baseball player in a deal with a mysterious Mr. Applegate in order to salvage the Washington Senators’ horrible season (the …
On what would have been the day Game Six between the Dodgers and the Red Sox was to be played, I got a CD in the mail from Amazon instead. Diana Krall and Tony Bennett teaming up to sing George and Ira Gershwin’s songs almost (almost!) makes up for not seeing the Dodgers beat the …
One week ago tonight I was at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. We entered via Eutaw Street, which reminded me of a small elongated county fairground, what with food vendors and team merchandise sellers on either side. This ballpark was the first new stadium which attempted to recover the feel of the baseball-only stadiums of …
I was a little worried there, and I don’t mind admitting it. After going down two games to one with two more games to play in the Astros’ home park, I wasn’t sure the Dodgers could get back into the Series. I shoulda had more faith! They won Game Four going away with a five-run …
Senators Corker and Flake spew contempt at His Orangeness President Trump in the morning (my time) and then the Dodgers take Game One of the World Series in the afternoon. If only Corker and Flake had the cojones to stay and fight rather than just retire. Doing that gives Trump ally Bannon an opportunity to …
So the Dodgers’ opponent in the World Series will be the Astros. Congratulations to them for beating the Evil Empire in two consecutive must-win games yesterday and tonight. The Astros were in the National League for the first fifty years of their existence, so they and the Dodgers have history together. The most memorable may …
Enrique Hernández hit a pair of home runs, including a grand slam in the third inning, ace Clayton Kershaw gave up one run in six innings and the Dodgers defeated the Cubs, 11-1, in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1988. Source: …
That’s what Jack Buck said when Kirk Gibson hit his famous home run off a Dennis Eckersley back-door slider in Game One of the 1988 World Series. Move over, Mr. Buck, because tonight Justin Turner of the Dodgers hit the team’s first walkoff home run in a postseason game since that very one, 29 years …