Here’s a composite ballot from two different places I submitted my choices for this year’s awards, the Internet Baseball Awards and the Internet Baseball Writers Association. The IBA mirrors the Baseball Writers of America Association voting except that voters are allowed to go five deep in the Cy Young voting. The IBWA voting uses “Player …
I won’t see Game One of the World Series due to other commitments, can’t even really wrap my head around it because I’ve been asked to partake in a postmortem on the Yankees for All-Baseball.com. The short answer: we will see a lot of runs generated by two devastating offenses this week, and I see …
Q: What does $185 million buy? A: The worst choke in postseason baseball history. The most expensive team in the history of professional sports has been consigned to the dustbin of history as its laughingstock. As the first baseball team ever to blow a 3-0 lead in a best-of-seven series, losing to their most hated …
My night in the Yankee Stadium bleachers was a memorable one, though it ended in frustration and with no shortage of controversy as the Yankees lost to the Red Sox, 4-2. The loss forces a Game Seven that is both unprecedented in the annals of baseball history — no team down 3-0 has ever forced …
The following originally appeared at the now-defunct Allbaseball.com. History. I made a bit of my own on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. For the first time since I started attending ballgames at the House That Ruth Built in 1996 (I moved to the city in ‘95), I sat in the infamous bleacher section. What better …
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The New York Yankees’ quest for a 40th pennant hit another bump in the road on Monday evening. In a game that bore alarming similarity to the epic that had concluded only 16 hours beforehand, the Yanks again held a late-inning lead which Mariano Rivera could not hold, sending the game into extra innings where …
Three outs from a pennant. Three outs from a pennant with the best closer in postseason history on the mound. Three outs from a pennant with the bottom of the order due to bat. Three outs from a pennant via a four game sweep of their bitter rivals, one which they could celebrate on said …
Let’s face it: the Red Sox have Kevin Brown’s number in Fenway Park. For the second start in a row, on Saturday night they made short work of the 39-year-old Yankee starter in their domicile, roughing him up for four runs and knocking him out after two innings. It was yet another sign that the …
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, which is why the Boston Red Sox are now down 2-0 in the best-of-seven ALCS against the Yankees. As well as Pedro Martinez battled for his first 100 pitches to Yankee hitters, and as documented as his tendency is to run out of steam past …
It was too good to be true. Through six innings of the American League Championship Series opener, the Yankees, cast in the unfamiliar role of underdogs, led the Red Sox 8-0. Not only had the vaunted Sox offense, the best in the majors for the second season in a row, been held in check, no …