Brandon Webb earns NL Cy Young Award
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks won a wide-open race for the NL Cy Young Award, beating out San Diego closer Trevor Hoffman on Tuesday. One of six pitchers who tied for the league lead with a pedestrian total of 16 wins, Webb received 15 of 32 first-place votes and 103 points in balloting by [...]
MLB NLCS Game 1: Mets host Cardinals
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
The Mets host the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of the National League Championship Series, and they go in as heavy favorites. They’ve been the best team in the NL all year, and that hasn’t changed now. Their lineup is stronger from top to bottom, their starting pitching is better and their bullpen [...]
Mets vs Cardinals: Glavine ready for NLCS Game 1
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Bad cooking might get the best of Tom Glavine, but the veteran left-hander is determined not to give in to Albert Pujols, who is considered to be the best player in the game today. Glavine, whose wife, Christine, is out of town in their Georgia home, laughed off a bandaged index finger on his pitching [...]
Pitching was Yankees’ downfall: Although powerful on paper, New York’s offense fizzled
Monday, October 9th, 2006
The New York Yankees, as it turns out, could use an upgrade in three fundamental areas: pitching, pitching and pitching. The superficial way to look at the Yankees’ stunning loss to the Detroit Tigers in the American League Division Series would be to blame it on the lack of offense. But that just underscores the [...]
Tigers-A’s ALCS good for baseball
Monday, October 9th, 2006
And so “Moneyball” meets “Jimmyball” in a meeting of two clubs that were not necessarily expected to be here, but certainly deserve to be here. Many believed that the 2006 American League Championship Series would feature the Minnesota Twins vs. the New York Yankees. The Twins were, after all, baseball’s hottest team in the second [...]
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