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New York Yankees – Jacoby Ellsbury Leaves The Boston Red Sox to Sign With Them
Even though there’s been talk about the New York Yankees carrying on with their plan to downsize their payroll, recent free agency moves point towards the other direction, as they signed Jacoby Ellsbury, formerly with the Boston Red Sox, on a seven year deal worth $153 million.
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Oakland Coliseum – From Baseball to Football Stadium
The city of Oakland doesn’t have the luxury of building too many stadiums for its sport teams, so sometimes the grounds crew has only 20 hours to convert the place from a Baseball stadium after an A’s game to a football stadium for the Oakland Raiders.
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Red Sox vs Rays – From Worst to First
It’s easy to forget how bad things were for the Boston Red Sox only a year ago, but it doesn’t really matter as they dump the Tampa Bay Rays with a 3-1 win in a 3-1 series, thanks to some fantastic pitching, as their bats went quiet for a second consecutive game.
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A’s vs Tigers – Max Scherzer Pull it Off as a Relief Pitcher
Instead of starting game 5, Max Scherzer came on as a reliever to save the Detroit Tigers from having their season ended by the Oakland A’s, getting out of a jam to help his team pull off the 8-6 win, tying the series at 2-2, sending us to a decider back in Oakland.
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Clutch Home Runs and Pitching Mistakes (Braves vs Dodgers)
The Los Angeles Dodgers found themselves in a jam, but got out of it with some big hitting early on from Carl Crawford and very late from Juan Uribe to give them a 4-3 win over the Atlanta Braves, clinching the divisional series, while some were left wondering why the best reliever in Baseball, Craig Kimbrel, wasn’t used.
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The Beginning of a Comeback (Red Sox vs Rays)
If the Tampa Bay Rays beating the Boston Red Sox 5-4 to get their first win of their ALDS series, staying alive in the playoffs, is about one moment, it has to be Jose Lobaton coming on to hit a walk off home run in the ninth. If it’s about more than that, it was the Rays finally being able to keep the Red Sox bats from getting their usual hot.
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Perfect Pitching Carries Ugly Hitting (Cardinals vs Pirates)
As both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates combined for only four hits and a batting average of .007 in the game, it was Michael Wacha, striking out nine batters and pitching a strong 7 and bit innings that came out as the hero, giving the Cards the 2-1 win and sending the series back to St. Louis for a deciding fifth.
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Home Runs From the Unexpected Team (A’s vs Tigers)
Taking a 2-1 lead in their ALDS series, the Oakland A’s find out they can actually hit for power as well, out-slugging the Detroit Tigers who were beaten by a big hitting performance that had Josh Reddick, Brandon Moss and Seth Smith all hit home runs of Anibal Sanchez.
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Great Hitting Makes Up for Anything (Braves vs Dodgers)
The Los Angeles Dodgers were already using their relief pitcher in the middle of the 4th inning, but with the kind of hitting they produced once again in the NLDS series against the Atlanta Braves, there was nothing stopping them from moving a step closer to finishing off the series.
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Pinch Running at its Finest (Cardinals vs Pirates)
The Pittsburgh Pirates have already made a few ‘first time since…’ this season, and they’re getting ready for another one, taking a 2-1 lead in the series against the St. Louis Cardinals, with some impressive hitting from Pedro Alvarez, joining forced with Josh Harrison, who made quite a splash with his successful insertion as a pinch runner in the 8th, giving the Pirates the lead for good.