Thursday, October 4, 2012
Baseball's postseason kicks off this weekend.
Major League Baseball's 2012 regular season is officially in the books, and for the first time ever, the Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles are both in the playoffs. The Nats wrapped up the top seed in the National League yesterday with a 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, taking them to 98-64 on the season. They'll go on the road Sunday to face the winner of Friday's one-game wild card playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves. The best-of-five National League Division Series will then come to Washington Wednesday for one to three games, depending on how many wins each team racks up. The winner of that round will face the winner of San Francisco and Cincinnati for a World Series berth. The O's, …
Monday, October 1, 2012
There's plenty of baseball yet to be played, but for the first time ever, a Nationals-Orioles World Series is a real possibility.
It's been 15 years since the Baltimore-Washington area fielded a Major League Baseball team with a winning record, let alone sent one to the postseason. But as of the final out in last night's Rangers-Angels game, the Orioles—improbably, unfathomably—became the second playoff-bound ballclub in the corridor, clinching at least a wild card spot for the first time this century. Their 6-3 win over Boston earlier in the day also kept the O's tied with the New York Yankees for first place in the American League East. The Nationals' shining moment came 10 days earlier as Washington closed the deal on a postseason berth with a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. This year marks just the second time the organization has made the playoffs and its…
Monday, April 9, 2012
O's sweep Twins over the weekend to start season 3-0.
Here's a sentence that might never be written again: "The undefeated Orioles face the winless Yankees." Oh sure, it's only three games into the season, and the O's have 159 more chances to make 2012 another dismal season. But knowing that New York could sweep and only be even with the Orioles can bring joy to the most jaded Baltimore fan's heart. And according to 15-year-old baseball blogger Zack Silverman, the 2012 baseball campaign already has a historic start: "For only the second time in the history of baseball, both the Red Sox and the Yankees have started off the season 0-3. The only other time this happened? 1966. Both teams went on to post losing records that year. But, the last time just the Yankees were 0-3 in a season, 1998, New…
Marty Chase
12:41 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
This crazy format is for this year only and puts the Nats at a disadvantage. Let's hope they don't lose the first two on the road. That'll make it very tough to comeback, even with three straight at home. more ›