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League Division Series
In case you haven’t paid attention to who’s broadcasting the LDS games on TBS, I’ll give the names.
1. In the Cardinals-Dodgers NLDS, Dick Stockton does the play by play and Bob Brenly is the color commentator.
2. In the Rockies-Phillies NLDS series, Brian Anderson does the play by play and Joe Simpson is the color commentator.
3. The Twins-Yankees ALDS series has Chip Caray and Ron Darling as the announcers.
4. The Red Sox-Angels ALDS series has Don Orsillo and Buck Martinez as the announcers.
The Colorado Rockes are the only team to have won on the road so far, (game 2 against the Phillies)
Mark Teixiera’s game winning home run for the Yankees, and Mark Loretta’s walk off hits are so far my top plays for League Divison series play.
The Red Sox, Twins, and Cardinals are at home, but they must win every game from this point on or they’re out, (each team is trailing the series 2-0)
This World Series tournament is averaging over 6 million viewers per day, which is the highest TV ratings for TBS. This is the network’s third season covering the MLB games.
FOX will have the ALCS coverage and the coveted World Series, while TBS will resume covering the NLCS.
I’m not making any predictions. However I can’t choose between rooting for the Dodgers and Yankees, because they’re too fun to watch right now. I’d be happy, but torn if they had to face each other in the World Series because while I like the Yankees to get Joe Giradi’s jersey number to have a meaning, the Dodgers are attempting to take their first title since 1988, a 21 year drought.
Tonight is the Dodgers vs Cardinals Game 3, where the Cardinals have been superb against the visiting Dodgers at Busch Stadium. The Dodgers must bring their best game at St Louis. The Cardinals can not make any more mistakes, like in Game 2, beause they’ll have an aburpt end to their postseason run.
I think the Dodgers are on the driver’s seat in this series.
Snow, Snow, go away, let the Rockies host the Phillies. It’s going to be really cold in Denver. I just hope this snow doesn’t stick to the field. That would be bad.
With the drama and excitement, I hope the TV ratings go higher than 6 million views a day. That’s a lot of fans viewing on TV as well as the fans in the stands watching their teams in person.
If the Dodgers, Yankees, and Angels blow their 2-0 series leads to lose their series, those will be big upsets.
Oh well.
Mets, honoring 1969, the Yankees….
Honoring the 1969 Mets
Here is
info from that team
1. This is
their first World Series title beating the Orioles four games to one
2. Gil
Hodges was their manager. Donn Clendenon was the series MVP
3. The
Mets were the first expansion team to win a World Series, winning their first
in only 8 years of existence.
4. This
was their first winning season going 100-62, which the term “Miracle Mets”
derives from.
The 1969
Mets were honored last night at Citi Field before this year’s Mets club took on
the Philadelphia Phillies. How did they do? They lost, wasting a Tim Redding
pitching effort. Phillies won 4-1.
The big
play: Chase Utley hit’s a two run home run in the game off Pat Misch. JA Happ was the winner of the game.
Lately the
pitching has been this: Starting pitching falters, the bullpen is not sharp
enough, or a combination of both. That Saturday night game was the bullpen’s
fault. Oh well, you can’t win every game.
Later
today, Pedro Martinez takes on Oliver Perez.
Remember
Pedro Martinez in a Mets Uniform? He did provide some help as a Met. Now he gets
to help the Phillies instead.
The
Yankees-Red Sox game is later tonight at 8pm Eastern on ESPN, 5pm in the West
Coast, for those of you rooting for the Yankees, you need to root for the
offense to come up big because unlike Friday night, they were almost asleep
Saturday.
The Yankees pitching needs to keep Kevin Youklis in check because he
hit two home runs.
CC Sabathia needs to pitch better this time around and I bet
Josh Beckett is looking to do the same.
Those are
the two series that interest me at the moment.
One more thing:
If the
postseason started today,
National
League
1. Dodgers
win the NL West (74-51 record)
2.
Cardinals win the NL Central (71-54)
3.
Phillies take the NL East with a 70-50 record.
4. Rockies take the NL Wild Card (69-54)
American
League
1. Yankees
win the AL East (77-46)
2. Tigers
take the AL Central (65-57)
3. Angels
take the AL West (74-47)
4. Red Sox
take the AL Wild Card (70-52)
My World
Series matchup I’d like are the Dodgers taking on the Yankees, just like 1981.
The Yankees and Dodgers have the best records in their respective leagues.
To add to that, I do have some photos of what Ebbets Field is now (bear in mind these are not my photographs) This is around the Flatbush/Crown Heights Section of Brooklyn.
Unfortunately, this field was later demolished shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers became the Los Angeles Dodgers that are today. Citing financial reasons and refusal to go to Queens for a future stadium (Shea Stadiium) Walter O’Malley took the Dodgers out west.
Baseball in the head
Two
players were hit in the head yesterday by a baseball. Mets’ third baseman David
Wright took a 94 mph pitch off Matt Cain in the left ear and Dodgers Huroki
Kuroda took a line drive off the left side of his head off Diamondbacks hitter Rusty
Ryal.
By the way
the scores are here:
Giants 5,
Mets 4
Dodgers 3,
Diamondbacks 4
Let’s begin with Matt Cain’s bean ball to David Wright.
The ball is on it’s way.
This is David Wright laying down, and Matt Cain looking up.
David Wright wouldn’t be getting up for around five minutes. Everyone was in shock that day. Matt Cain would later ask Mets’ catcher Brian Schnieder if he was doing fine. Brian couldn’t answer him. Although Matt’s pitch there was inintentional, Johan Santana opposing him would later pitch behind Pablo Sandoval (warinings were issued) and later Bengie Molina. Johan was not ejected from the game. Those two Giants later did homer in the game.
Back to this beanball…
And hits David Wright hard in the replays from FOX Saturday Baseball.
FOX Saturday Baseball’s image at the moment David was hit. Yikes. He would later be rushed to the hospital where he would stay there overnight.
Let’s head west to the other player Huroki Kuroda.
Rusty Ryal hits a line drive off Huroki Kuroda’s head.
The ball is hit headed into Huroki Kuroda’s head.
Huroki is hit and falls down on the mound. He would be taken off via a cart after the Dodgers players and coaches attend to him. These screenshots are from FSN Arizona.
In comparison, David Wright walked to the dugout on his own power while Huroki Kuroda was carried off. Seeing those two get hit by the ball was scary. I think Huroki had it worse though because he was hit and his baseball cap was his only protector, while David Wright had a batting helmet.
I never thought we’d see these scary moments happen on the same day, let’s hope that these two players recover soon. Actually, these two players have been taken out of hospital care and will be out for a while, I’m not sure if they’re going on the disabled list or not. We’ll have to see about that.
Edit. I forgot to note, there was a third player hit in the head last night:
Ian Kinsler of the Texas Rangers was also hit in the head by a Fernando Cabrera pitch.
Unlike David Wright and Huroki Kuroda, Ian stayed in the game like it was just an ordinary bean ball. He did have some words for Fernando Cabrera though. Good thing he didn’t have to go to the hospital. Three players, risking their heads. Yikes! This was taken from FSN South The Rangers beat the Red Sox 7 to 2.
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