How good will the National League be in the 2008 MLB Season?
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The National League has always played second fiddle to the stronger American League.
That’s the way things have been the last couple of years, and in this 2008 MLB baseball season, nothing has changed. Why? Probably has something to do with the way this team from the AL East defeated the National League’s representative during last season’s World Series.
In the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies lead the East, the Chicago Cubs lead the Central and the Arizona Diamondbacks lead the West. And although they may be regarded as the ‘’weaker conference’’ in baseball, don’t expect that to stop them from proving why people should start thinking otherwise.
The Philadelphia Phillies lead the Eastern division with a 41-29 record, also having the best road record in the National conference with 20-16. Against the St. Louis Cardinals, we all saw how impressive this Phillies team can be after the Phillies won with a whopping 20-2 blast. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the first inning, and the Phillies added nine runs in the fourth to win the opener of a three-game series Friday at Busch Stadium.
In the Central, division leader Chicago Cubs got a slight bump to end their four game winning streak with a 3-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Despite that setback, the Cubs are still holding a record of 44-25 win-loss mark, still enough to hold the top spot of the group.
Lastly, the Arizona Diamondbacks won their third consecutive extra-inning game, earning a franchise record with a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals to further solidify their spot in the NL West. Chad Tracy hit his first career walk-of home run. His homer was his third of the season and made a winner of reliever…
MLB Betting Preview: Cleveland Indians at New York Yankees
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
SBG Global Opening Line: Yankees - 124, Total 9 Under -120
The New York Yankees will try and win their fourth straight game on Tuesday as they open up a series against the Cleveland Indians. The Yankees swept the Mariners over the weekend, getting excellent starting pitching. New York’s starting pitchers had a 2.00 ERA in the series against Seattle, giving up just four runs and two walks over 18 innings. It also helped on Sunday in the win over the Mariners that Derek Jeter went 4-for-5 and Hideki Matsui extended his hitting streak to 14 games. The Yankees scored 19 runs and batted .324 against Seattle in their series.
SBG Global reports that early MLB betting has the public taking Yankees at Home.
New York will go with Andy Pettitte on Tuesday. Pettitte is 3-3 with an ERA of 3.93. He allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings of a 6-2 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday. He is 6-8 with a 4.63 ERA in 17 starts versus the Indians. The Yankees have usually owned the Indians in the regular season. They are 12-5 against Cleveland since 2006 including a four game split last month at Cleveland.
SBG Global Current Line: Yankees - 124, Total 9 Under -120
The Indians have had major trouble lately scoring runs. They have the second worst average in the American League. They were shut out on Sunday by Kansas City 2-0 on just four hits…
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MLB Star Roger Clemens accused of using Steroids
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Roger Clemens, the latest MLB player to be hit by steroids allegations.
With still more than a few months away from the 2008 MLB baseball season, we already have the latest controversy engineered by the use of steroids in professional baseball.
And the latest of which are these guys, Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. In case you didn’t know, both Clemens and Pettitte are the best of friends, both moving together from the New York Yankees to the Houston Astros and then back to NYC. After this steroids issue, the friendship Clemens and Pettite have is falling apart..
You see, accusations of steroids use came in between Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. Pettitte admitted that he did use the forbidden drug. Clemens, on the other hand, denied it. That’s when things got a little testy between the two MLB pitchers.
Roger Clemens claims that Pettitte ‘’misremembers’’ two conversations that they had about steroids. Clemens testified that in those conversations with Andy Pettitte, he was talking about his wife’s use of H.G.H. one time and on another occasion was referring to something he saw on a television show.
Clemens sought to rebut Pettitte’s sworn and damaging statements to the committee that Clemens told him point blank that he had used…
Colorado Rockies Cinderella-Like Story Ended Earlier Than Expected
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Colorado Rockies magical season ended on a sad note losing 4-3 to the Boston Red Sox and a MLB World Series sweep at Coors Field Sunday night.
The Colorado Rockies could not hold off the blistering pace set by the Boston Red Sox from the start, The Rockies went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position and 1-for-12 with runners on base as the Red Sox hindered the Rockies’ offense throughout the series. The Rockies only hit .226 with 10 runs in all four games.
As we all know the magnificent run they made to reach the MLB baseball World Series, the Rockies won 14 of their last 15 regular-season games, they won seven straight postseason games to make it 21 of 22. But Sunday night, it was all history.
After a month of playing near-flawless baseball — getting all the breaks to overcome the Padres for the National League Wild Card before sweeping the Phillies and the Diamondbacks in the National League playoffs — the Rockies wound up on the other end of the good baseball and good fortune.
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“When you talk about us playing well, winning 21 out of 22, we had a lot of confidence,” Jamey Carroll said. “You can see that in that team. They had tons of confidence. The way they were playing, just the way they would run the bases, you could see it.
Colorado Rockies Are Going To The World Series For The First Time!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
It’s been a Cinderella story for the Colorado Rockies. Two weeks ago, the San Diego Padres were one strike away from eliminating them from the wild-card race when the Padres went up against the Milwaukee Brewers. But then, Milwaukee’s Tony Gwynn Jr. hit a tying, two-out, two-strike triple off Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman that gave the Colorado Rockies a fighting chance.
The next day, The Colorado Rockies went heads up with the San Diego Padres, and won one. The night after that, the Rockies beat the Padres in a 13-inning, National League wild-card tie-breaker match. And ever since then, the Colorado Rockies have been undefeated, going through 20 wins in 21 games.
The latest achievement of the Colorado Rockies was a 4-0 sweep in the National League Championship Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, which give them the National League pennant and a trip to the 2007 World Series. It’ll be the first trip of the Colorado Rockies to the World Series Championships since the franchise’s inaugural season in Major League Baseball back in 1993.
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