First of all, this will never work.
I sat down today to write this article, and once I generated my online bracket, I immediately realized that baseball won’t — and shouldn’t — ever implement this. This, of course, is referring to a double-elimination style postseason bracket, similar to the Little League World Series. (I really do find myself writing a lot about Little League these days.) Nonetheless, this remains an idea — a fun, imaginative one at best, a exhausting, idiotic one at worst. This article is just going to throw this at you, and I’ll quickly discuss the pros and cons of this system. Ultimately, you can voice your opinions in the comments or, if you so choose, you can tweet at me. I’ll see it, and I’ll probably respond too. Click here to read more on Beyond The Box Score.
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The storylines for the 2017 World Series haven’t come to the forefront quite yet. We don’t know whose parents played for the other team, who grew up in the other city, who was traded from the other team back when they were a prospect.
From a pure baseball perspective, the Astros and Dodgers clash so nicely. The Astros have a historically great offense; the Dodgers’ pitching remains some of the league’s best. They carried themselves to and through the playoffs on completely different paths, but here they are, both in the World Series. Click here to read more on Beyond The Box Score. The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday, showing again why they were the team with the best record in the Major Leagues this season. The Dodgers were just purely better than the Diamondbacks, and they handled them as such.
Arizona, though, wasn’t completely overmatched by the Dodgers — or at least they shouldn’t have been. They still won 93 games in the regular season, winning more games than the NL Central-champion Cubs and as many games as the AL East-champion Red Sox. They were a good team. Click here to read more on Beyond The Box Score. A 96-mph fastball at the letters, a powerful swing, an excited player. Of course, there’s the baseball, too, which landed just above the C&D Scrap Metal sign in left-center.
Jose Altuve, who stands only 5-foot-6 and weighs just 165 pounds, packed this punch off Red Sox left-hander and Cy Young candidate Chris Sale in his first career postseason start, extending the Astros’ lead to 2-0. Click here to read more on Beyond The Box Score. The Colorado Rockies punched their ticket to the postseason this past Saturday, securing the second National League Wild Card spot with the Brewers’ loss against the Cardinals. On Sunday, the team confirmed that right-hander Jon Gray will get the ball against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the one-game wild card game on Wednesday.
This is exactly how the Rockies must have imagined it when they picked Gray with the third overall pick in the 2013 MLB Draft. He was their pitcher of the future, the man who would start important games for them when the time came. Likewise for Gray, this is the most important start of his young career. Click here to read more on Beyond The Box Score. |