Archive for the ‘Pro Baseball’ Category

The Astros Are One Big Win Away

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

The Houston Astros defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 today to take a 3 games to 1 lead in the National League Championship Series. While today's win was huge, the Astros are still waiting for their most difficult victory yet over the resilient Cardinals. In last season's NLCS, Houston went to ...

Robbed!

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

The Los Angeles Angels were robbed of their chance to continue into extra innings of game two of the American League Championship Series tonight. It was the bottom of the ninth, two on and two out. Kelvim Escobar pitches strike three to A.J. Pierzynski. Pierzynski swings and misses, which should ...

Way To Go Angels

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Wow. I'm impressed. I wrote yesterday that I thought the Angels might struggle to keep tonight's game with the Chicago White Sox close, given how tired the team must be and how depleted the pitching staff is. To my very pleasant surprise, the Angels were able to nip the White ...

The Yankees Are Out

Monday, October 10th, 2005

The Los Angeles Angels eliminated the New York Yankees from Major League Baseball's postseason this evening, and I must admit I am quite happy about it. Not only are the Angels one of my newly adopted hometown teams, but there are very few teams I root harder against than the ...

Thoughts on Baseball’s Postseason

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

We are at least one game into each postseason series, and I think we are already seeing some trends. In the American League, it is starting to look like the Red Sox are on their way out. Though the same was said of them last season when they fell behind ...

Doctors Rooting For The Red Sox

Monday, September 26th, 2005

A recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine claims that Boston-area emergency rooms saw fewer patients when the Red Sox were winning in last year's baseball playoffs. Specifically, the games that attracted the largest television viewership (e.g., the last few games in the Yankees series and all of ...