All Entries in the "Playoffs" Category
Yankees Manager Girardi Risks Life After 27th Championship
Image by Keith Allison via Flickr So, when interviewers asked Yankees manager Joe Girardi where he was going after managing the NY Yankees to their 27th World Series Championship, did he say he would be going to Disneyland? Maybe he did, I don’t know because being a Red Sox fan I didn’t keep the TV [...]
Congratulations to the 2009 World Series Champion NY Yankees
Although my prediction was the Phillies in 6 or 7 games, it was still a good series to watch and I’m so glad that it wasn’t another sweep!Here are some Yankees links to help you Yankee fans to celebrate your impressive 27th title!From the Subway Squawkers: Yankees win No. 27 – time to stand up [...]
Don’t Stop BeLEEvin’
Image via Wikipedia As the popular 1981 Journey song from their hit recording Escape reminds us to “Don’t Stop Believin’” I also found out that the song was adopted by the 2005 Chicago White Sox when they were in that year’s Fall Classic. Wikipedia also has the following story regarding the song’s connection to baseball. [...]
My 2009 World Series Prediction
The Clash of the Titans For those of who who are not excited about this year’s Fall Classic between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, think it over for a minute…and while you’re at it read this snippet from Adam Becker’s article over at Baseball Reflections called, “Get Over It!“. After you read [...]
Three Harry Kalas Video Tributes
With the Philadelphia Phillies heading to their second consecutive trip to the World Series, here are a few tributes to the late, Great Harry Kalas: A Phillies Legend! This first one is presented to you by Comcast… This one is the Harry Kalas tribute video 4/17/09 Citizens Bank Park… This one is slower with snap [...]
Get Over It!
Image via Wikipedia For those of us that are not Yankees or Phillies fans, perhaps we should simply put our disappointments and jealousies aside and enjoy what should truly be a Fall Classic. Believe me, as a lifetime Mets fan, I am as unhappy as anyone that I have to sit through another World Series [...]
Phillies Advance to the 2009 World Series
Congratulations to the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies who have beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 1 to advance to the World Series where they will probably face the New York Yankees! In tribute of the Great Harry Kalas! Help support Baseball Reflections and buy me a coffee with PayPal!
2009 League Championship Series Predictions
OK, I admit I was 2 for 4 with my LDS predictions, but I thought I’d try it out again. ALCS Angels -vs- Yankees Angels ALDS recap: So who would have thought that the Angels pitching would both out pitch Boston’s starters AND completely shut down Boston’s offense for most of that series? Also, almost [...]
Tigers Drop Finale, Division to Twins
Detroit 5, Minnesota 6 (box) Final Record 86-77 (second place) Devastation. That’s what I felt Tuesday night as the Twins celebrated following their 12th inning walk off, that’s what I’m feeling Wednesday morning as I write this. The back and forth nature of this game made it a classic. The stakes made it one of [...]
AL and NL Divisional Series Predictions
As an aside, I had the privilege of reading a recent post by our Yankees writer Lisa Swan over at The Faster Times concerning Hot teams going into the playoffs and this is what she had to say after looking at the September/October records of the 72 playoff teams from 2000-2008… Of the ten teams [...]
10 Reasons the Angels will be in the ALCS
The Angels are headed to the ALCS, after they finally defeat their traditional post season nemesis, the Boston Red Sox. Bet the house on it. Granted, it’s hard to come up with a solid baseball-based argument to support that bold statement. The Red Sox have owned the Angels in the post season since Dave Henderson [...]
New York Yankees Are Sailing, But Not Coasting
As the New York Yankees head down the stretch towards the end of the season, they’re in even better shape than they were in July. And that’s really saying something, given that they went 18-9 in that month. In August, the Yankees went an incredible 21-7 (a .750 winning percentage). They ended the month – [...]
Werth the Wait in Philadelphia
Phillies Win Their 2nd World Series Title The Philadelphia Phillies have won the 2008 World Series 4 games to 1 over the Tampa Bay Rays, ending their (the Rays’) Cinderella season. 48 hours after the start of Game 5, they resumed it from the bottom of the 6th tied at 2. They won the series [...]
Game 5 To Resume on Wednesday Night
I just read an article on SI.com by Joe Sheehan also of Baseball Prospectus entitled, “Unconventional Thinking: MLB makes right decision to cancel” that states that game 5 will not resume tonight as was originally planned. Instead, it will be played Wednesday night at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia. What that does to a possible [...]
For the First Time in World Series History…
For the first time in the history of the World Series, a game has been suspended due to rain. The game was suspended immediately after the top of the 6th inning, after the Rays tied the game at 2 all in that half inning. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig has since said that the game was [...]
Philadelphia is One Win Away from Baseball Euphoria!
After this weekend the Phillies have taken a commanding 3 games to 1 lead over the Rays going into tonight’s game at home at Citizen’s Bank Park. In game 3, the Phillies 45 year old starter Jamie Moyer pitched better than anyone thought was possible against the Rays Matt Garza (MVP of the ALCS). He [...]
Now It’s a Best of 5!
The Tampa Bay Rays Win Game 2 The Series is Now Tied at 1 Game a Piece The Rays James Shields didn’t pitch great, but all he had to do was pitch better than the Phillies Bret Myers (I know, I know. I spelled Myers wrong yesterday) and he did. He got into trouble at [...]
My Thoughts on Game 1…
Phillies Take Game 1 with a Score of 3-2 First, I’ll toot my own horn. This was a must win for the Phillies. They needed to win at least 1 out of 2 in Tampa Bay in order to have any chance at winning the series. This was their best chance at doing that with [...]
2008 World Series Preview
Tampa Bay Rays (97-65) Vs. Philadelphia Phillies (92-70) This first area of concern I have is how long the Phillies had to wait for the Rays to eliminate the Red Sox (95-67). It has been a week since the Phillies have played against an opponent as they eliminated the Dodgers (84-78) in 5 games while [...]
There’s A New Beast in the AL East
The Tampa Bay Rays Advance to the 2008 World Series After being beaten in game 6 by Josh Beckett and the Red Sox, a game the Rays should have won, the Rays beat Jon Lester in game 7, a game they should have lost. Bottom line: the Rays played better in 4 of the 7 [...]
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Boston Forces Game 7 in the ALCS Against the Rays
Josh Beckett out performed James “Big Game” Shields to get the win in game 6 and for the second year in a row, have come back from being down 3 games to 1 and force a deciding game 7. In tomorrow’s match up we have Boston’s new Ace of the staff, Jon Lester going up [...]
Boston Leads 4-2 Going into the Top of the 9th
RF Drew faces Bradford to lead off the 9th and hits a line drive to LF Crawford. 1 out. LF Bay is 5 for 8 against Bradford in his career. He grounds out to the SS. The Rays remove Bradford for Trevor Miller. I’m not sure about this move. It doesn’t make much sense as [...]
Bottom of the 8th
New pitcher for Boston is rookie and former starting pitcher Justin Masterson. SS Jason Bartlett is leading off the 8th down 4-2. He was hit by a pitch again. No outs, man on first. 2B Iwamura is 0-3 tonight. Masterson looks a bit nervous up there right now, but Varitek, with a 1-0 count goes [...]
Top of the 8th
CF Crisp faces Balfour and has a leadoff walk. Manager Joe Maddon, probably this year’s manager of the year has just taken out Balfour, replaced by Chad Bradford, the knuckelscrapping submarine pitcher to face 2B Pedroia. 2B Pedroia faces Bradford with Crisp on 1B without any outs. Will Crisp take off to remove the possible [...]
Bottom of the 7th as Boston Leads 4-2
Willie Aybar is pinch hitting for DH Cliff Floyd, but he pops up in foul ground to 3B Kevin Youkilis. 1 out. C Navarro is up and the count is 0-2 then he hits a towering pop up in foul ground to LF Jason Bay. 2 outs. RF Zobrist flies out to the warning track [...]
Top of the 7th as Boston Leads 4-2
RF J.D. Drew leads off and popped up for the first out. LF Bay is hit by a pitch on the hip. 1B Kotsay is 1-3 in the game, a single in the second inning. He hits a high chopper to Howell, the pitcher and is thrown out at 1B. Bay moves onto 2B. Howell [...]
Rays Half of the 6th Inning
Okajima is now pitching for the Red Sox. The Red Sox are leading 4-2 CF B.J. Upton and he lines out to 3B Youkilis. 1 out. 1B Pena, whos is hitting .350 with 3 HRs and 6 RBIs in this series is now up with 1 out. Full count. It was a late call, but [...]
Red Sox Half of the 6th Inning
Ben Zobrist stays in the game playing RF for the Rays! 1B Kotsay leads off for the Sox. What an amazing leaping stab by 2B Iwamura with that alligator glove of his! Wow! What a play! He has definately adjusted to his move to 2B as his whole career, even in Japan, he was a [...]
5th Inning – Rays
The commentators are saying that Beckett is pitching in pain and is taking some extra time warming up before the start of this half inning. C Navarro ropes a single to RF. PH Ben Zobrist is hitting for RF Gabe Gross. Count is 1-2 then Zobrist pops out to CF and is now 0-3 this [...]
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