Baseball Insider: October 10, 2010 - October 16, 2010

How the Texas Rangers stole home

Adam Kilgore explains how Texas Manager Ron Washington decided the Rangers would steal home in ALCS Game 2.

By Adam Kilgore  | October 16, 2010; 10:29 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
Tags:  ian kinsler, jorge posada, ron washington, texas rangers  
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MLB playoffs: Giants vs. Phillies

Tonight the San Francisco Giants travel to Philadelphia to take on the defending National League Champion Phillies. Game 1 has been widely anticipated because of the pitching matchup between the Giants' Tim Lincecum and the Phillies' Roy Halladay. As Dave Sheinin wrote in our League Championship Series preview package: "The...

By Alexa Steele  | October 16, 2010; 7:20 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
 
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MLB playoffs: Yankees vs. Rangers Game 2

Today the Texas Rangers host the World Champion New York Yankees again. Game 2's starters are the Rangers' Colby Lewis (a former Washington National, briefly) and the Yankees' Phil Hughes. This matchup doesn't pack quite the same star power as some other LCS games, but as Dave Sheinin wrote in...

By Alexa Steele  | October 16, 2010; 3:50 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
 
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MLB playoffs: Yankees vs. Rangers

Tonight the Texas Rangers host the World Champion New York Yankees. Game 1 features one of many widely anticipated pitching matchups in the League Championship Series, with the Rangers' C.J. Wilson facing the Yankees' CC Sabathia. As Dave Sheinin wrote in our preview package: "On the heels of what was,...

By Alexa Steele  | October 15, 2010; 7:50 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
 
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The not-exactly-out-on-a-limb LCS predictions

Yeah, no surprises here. I'm going Phillies over Giants, and Yankees over Rangers. I'm already on record as predicting a Phillies-Yankees World Series. And while I got three of the four Division Series right, the fact it will be the Rangers facing the Yankees, instead of Rays-Yankees, in the ALCS...

By Dave Sheinin  | October 15, 2010; 10:43 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
Categories:  Giants, Phillies, Rangers, Yankees  
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Cliff Lee has been on collision course with Yankees all year

Cliff Lee's nine-inning gem last night completed the best-pitched Division Series in history. Across the four series, pitchers produced an aggregate ERA of 2.63, the lowest since the three-tiered postseason came into existence in 1995. Batters in the first round combined to hit .218 with a .613 OPS -- which...

By Dave Sheinin  | October 13, 2010; 10:25 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (4)
 
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ALCS: First look at Rangers-Yankees

The Rangers are postseason neophytes, but they have at least one inevitability about October baseball figured out. "Normally," team President Nolan Ryan said, "you pretty much have to go through New York if you want to go somewhere past there." Maybe the current roster wouldn't know firsthand, but that, historically,...

By Adam Kilgore  | October 13, 2010; 9:33 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Rangers, Yankees  
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One day later, Braves' Conrad back at work, but out of lineup

One night after his three errors sent the Atlanta Braves to a brutal loss and ensured his name would live forever in postseason infamy, Brooks Conrad tried hard to make Monday night feel like any other night at the ballpark. He signed autographs down the right field line in exchange...

By Dave Sheinin  | October 11, 2010; 7:13 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
 
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Dominant pitching the story of postseason's opening week

It's not your imagination. The pitching in this postseason has been off the charts -- the latest examples coming last night, with Cole Hamels's complete-game shutout in the Philadelphia Phillies' clincher, and Jonathan Sanchez's 7 1/3-inning, 11-strikeout gem for the San Francisco Giants. So far in this postseason -- and...

By Dave Sheinin  | October 11, 2010; 10:28 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
Categories:  Playoffs  
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MLB playoffs 2010: The Reds' last stand

The front-page headline of today's Cincinnati Enquirer reads, "It Ain't Over Yet," which is surely meant as a battle cry of resilience for the hometown team (It Ain't Over!), but, considering the Reds' opponent, reads more like a tacit admission of impending doom (Yet). Only five teams have come back...

By Adam Kilgore  | October 10, 2010; 11:33 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Phillies, Playoffs, Reds  
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