Don Mattingly’s Aaron Nola Short-Rest Gamble Backfired Badly
Don Mattingly needed one win to end a collapse. He reached for Aaron Nola on two days’ rest to get […]
Tampa Bay Rays
The Phillies Beat the Rays 7-3 in Game 162 and Avoided the Worst Collapse of the Season
Clinch on the last day, Braves up next
Rays Clinch AL East and the No. 1 Seed: How Tampa Bay Made Every Preseason Pick Look Foolish
The Rays won the AL East in the Bronx. They did it in the second game of a doubleheader, 6-1, […]
Junior Caminero Does Not Care Whether the Rays Get the Yankees or Red Sox
The Rays just clinched the AL East at Yankee Stadium, and Junior Caminero was asked the obvious follow-up: who would […]
Rays Clinch the AL East and the No. 1 Seed After Everyone Wrote Them Off
The Rays clinched the AL East at Yankee Stadium. Read that again, because the setting is the whole story. Tampa […]
Rays One Win From AL East Title and the AL’s No. 1 Seed
The Rays flew to New York needing one win. One. Take a single game of Tuesday’s separate-admission doubleheader at Yankee […]
The Brewers Clinched the NL Central Again and Nobody Is Talking About It
The Milwaukee Brewers have won the NL Central four years in a row. This should be a bigger story than […]
Caleb Durbin’s Baserunning Blunder Cost the Red Sox a Win They Needed
Caleb Durbin was standing on second base as the winning run. Then he decided to go to third for no […]
Umpire Alex MacKay Dodges Junior Caminero Foul Ball: How Close Was It?
Umpires do not get highlight reels. Alex MacKay earned one Wednesday night in St. Petersburg, and he did it by […]
Rays Clinch AL East as Yankees Lock Up Wild Card: How the AL Playoff Picture Is Setting Up
Tampa Bay just won the AL East, and the payroll gap between the Rays and the team they beat is […]