Baseball Historians

I hope I did my math right, but the number in the title has some significance.  The Tigers sit at 45-41 right now and with six games left in the first half, they need just one win to finish going into the break with at least a .500 record.  Since Jim…

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers scored five unanswered runs as they overcame a 3-1 deficit to defeat the defending champion, San Francisco Giants in their final Interleague game of the season.  Magglio Ordonez’s two-RBI single in the seventh with…

NY Mets SS Jose Reyes underwent an MRI at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan Sunday morning(July 3rd) and the  test revealed he has a grade 1 strain(Least severe of all hamstring injuries) of his left hamstring. Manager Terry Collins told r…

Just when things started to look good for the 2011 New York Mets, Saturday July 2nd happened and SS Jose Reyes, the 2011 NL MVP, came up lame after trying to beat out an infield hit in the  1st and was pulled in the 2nd inning with tightness in his le…

SEATTLE — Foes met again this weekend as the San Diego Padres visited the Seattle Mariners to close out their season Interleague series.  The first game saw the Mariners continue their winning streak against San Diego, winning 6-0. Saturday even…

You would expect a team that is 49-36(As of July 2nd) to have several players bound for the all star game July 12th in Arizona and your Atlanta Braves have 4 players headed to the contest. C Brian McCann(.311,14 home runs, 47 rbi) won the fan vote and …

ANAHEIM — The Los Angeles Dodgers and Anaheim Angels met again, this time in Anaheim to close out their season series, and again, both clubs sent out their aces to battle one another. Angels starter, Jared Weaver, improved to 10-4 on the season w…

The Florida Marlins appear to have stemmed the tide with the hiring of Jack McKeon winning 5 of 11(Thru July 2nd) on a tough West coast inter league road trip. In a trek that features some great pitchers and players, Florida drew #1 aces from the  Ang…

DENVER — The Colorado Rockies have a lot to play for Sunday afternoon in their finale against the Kansas City Royals. They are obliged to follow Saturday’s performance which saw seven-runs come around in two-innings.  The news that Troy Tulowi…

OAKLAND — The Arizona Diamondbacks have enjoyed the past 24-hours.  Chris Young began it by driving in all four-runs against the Oakland Athletics for their final Interleague series of the season, just falling a triple shy of the cycle. This mor…

The first week of the Davey Johnson ERA for the Washington Nationals is underway and the club continues to be competitive and fun to watch(42-41 as of July 2nd). Johnson, a former  world champion as both of a manager and player, believes in big inning…

The 4 time defending National League East champion Philadelphia Phillies continue to win(52-31 as of July 1st) with their formula of dominant pitching and opportunistic hitting. The team does not rank higher than 17th(out of 30 ML teams) in any major o…

The term “ace” is thrown around way too much these days.  Of course this is my opinion but I don’t think an ace is a team’s number one pitcher.  While guys Luke Hochevar and Wandy Rodriguez are probably their team’s best…

It’s hard to even remember the Astros were in the World Series back in 2005.  Now they’re the worst team in baseball.  Sometimes it doesn’t take long to fall.  Throw in the ownership issues and this has been a rough year for Astros…

It wasn’t the best month for the A’s.  Early on they were playing .500 ball and were at least close to first.  Now they’re in last place and they’re four losses back of even reaching the Mariners who sit in third. Even worse, …

The Mariners are two games below .500 but in the AL West, .500 is good enough to stay in the mix.  They’re still in third place, but they’re just three and a half games back of the Rangers and two and a half back of the Angels.  One good …

It’s tough being in the best division in baseball.  The Jays would probably be competitive in just about every other division but they find themselves 9 1/2 games back of first place in the AL East.  They’re 13-18 against the East too so …

The Royals are falling fast.  After a solid April they now find themselves in dead last.  Not only that, they have the worst record in the American League.  On April 19, they were 11-6. Since then they’ve gone 22-42.  That’s not good. Y…