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MLB Playoffs – St. Louis Cardinals Flip Series, Los Angeles Dodgers Mostly Complaining
The home run hitting ability of Matt Carpenter has kicked into extra gear in the postseason, hitting his third consecutive homer to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1 and take a 2-1 lead in the series after being the worst long-ball hitting team in baseball during the regular season.
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MLB Playoffs – Baltimore Orioles Hang On, Detroit Tigers Can’t Score
A close series for the most part that ends in a sweep, which seems to be the trend in the American League. The Baltimore Orioles move on to the ALCS after a 3-0 sweep and a 2-1 win in game 3 over the Detroit Tigers thanks to a Nelson Cruz home run, while their opponents, backed by the home crowd, got close in the ninth inning but couldn’t complete the turnaround.
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MLB Playoffs – Kansas City Royals Complete Sweep, Los Angeles Angels Going Home
Momentum is a special kind of thing which is impossible to quantify or measure. The Kansas City Royals have it on their side, taking advantage of it to complete a stunning three game sweep in the ALDS against the Los Angeles Angels, a team with the best record in baseball during the regular season. Game 3 ended in yet another blowout, with the underdogs advancing after winning 8-3.
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MLB Playoffs – Los Angeles Dodgers Shine Late, St. Louis Cardinals Can’t Hit
After an explosive first game in the series, the Los Angeles Dodgers bounce back with a 3-2 win thanks to a game-winning home run from Matt Kemp in the 8th inning, while the St. Louis Cardinals, losing their lead in the NLDS, found it very difficult to get anything going offensively.
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MLB Playoffs – San Francisco Giants Make History, Washington Nationals Couldn’t Last
The longest game in postseason history ended after 18 innings of baseball, as Brandon Belt hit a home run that eventually gave the San Francisco Giants a 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals and put them 2-0 up in the NLDS, heading back home to host the next two games, if necessary a fourth.
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NFL Playoffs – Closer to Expanding the Field
Change comes slowly in the NFL, but it’s usually easy to spot from miles away. With the league guided by making money for its owners while trumping anything else, expanding the playoffs for financial reasons seems quite normal, and it looks like in the annual spring meeting we’ll see the postseason format changed from 12 teams to 14 teams, starting no later than the 2015 season.
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NBA Playoffs – Players With the Most to Prove
The playoffs are great for the clashes between the best teams in the NBA, but also because it’s an opportunity to create legends and form legacies. Individual story lines and plot threads in front of our eyes, like Kevin Durant aiming to finally step out of the imaginary shadows he’s under, while LeBron James tries and make his legacy of championships equal to that of his individual achievements and statistics.
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NBA Playoffs – First Round Series
The 2013-14 NBA regular season is over, and the eight first round series are set. The NBA champions Miami Heat, a second seed in the East, will be playing against the Charlotte Bobcats, while the top team in the conference, the Indiana Pacers, get the Atlanta Hawks as their first round hurdle.
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NFL Playoffs – 49ers vs Seahawks Predictions
At the moment, this is the best rivalry in the NFL, so it’s quite fitting that the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks meet for the third time this season in the NFC Championship Game.
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NFL Playoffs – Patriots vs Broncos Predictions
No matter how you try to look at it, the AFC Championship game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots is overshadowed by the presence of this generation’s two greatest quarterbacks, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.