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The St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers shifted to Rangers Ballpark for Saturday night’s Game 3 of the World Series. The Cardinals wound up winning the game 16-7. We expected to see a lot more offense with the teams playing under AL rules in a hitter-friendly environment, and indeed, that’s how things played out, [...]

How did we get here?”, the St. Louis Cardinals ask.

It’s absolutely amazing that the Cardinals are actually in the World Series, let alone going into the top of the ninth inning of game two up 1-0 against the Texas Rangers in the game while also being up 1-0 in the series.

Jason Motte.

Jason Motte… [...]

The story was almost Allen Craig. Again. For the second night in a row, Craig came up as a pinch-hitter in a key spot with two outs and a runner in scoring position, facing one of the hardest throwers in the game. For the second night in a row, Craig singled to right field off Alexi Ogando to put the Cardinals ahead.

But it’s not time to melt down that Stan Musial statue for materials [...]

It’s cliché and boring to say that baseball is a game of inches. We’ve all heard it said a thousand times, and it’s usually the mark of someone who just doesn’t have anything insightful to say. But sometimes I think it’s really amazing how close a baseball game can come to being a completely different baseball game.

Wednesday night, in Game 1 of the World Series, [...]

Man, the only thing better than seeing an awkward 7-foot German dude throw out the first pitch at Rangers game would be seeing him do it on National TV before a World Series game. Right? Well, too bad. The Rangers wanted Dirk Nowitzki to throw out the first pitch before one of their World Series [...]

At last, the Rally Claw meets the Rally Squirrel. Wonder who would win in a bench-clearing brawl…

The Texas Rangers didn’t have to wait very long to see who they’d end up facing in the 2011 World Series. Just a day after they beat the Detroit Tigers to punch their ticket to the Fall Classic, the St. Louis Cardinals emerged victorious in Game 6 to send the Milwaukee Brewers packing for the offseason.

This matchup is going to be pretty awesome, pitting All-Star sluggers Josh Hamilton against Albert Pujols, while guys like Nelson Cruz [...]

Oct 16, 2011 – During the regular season, we saw not one, but two teams advance to the playoffs in the most improbable of fashions. The Tampa Bay Rays erased an enormous late Boston Red Sox lead in the standings to take the AL Wild Card on the final day, and the St. Louis Cardinals erased an enormous late Atlanta Braves lead [...]

Before today, Justin Verlander had never thrown more than 132 pitches in one game.

Today, he threw 133 pitches.

His 133rd pitch was 100 miles an hour. Nelson Cruz’s fifth postseason home run went the other direction, even harder.

What’s perhaps most astounding is that Cruz was so locked in that he almost pulled[...]

The Rangers took control of their best-of-five series with the Rays, with Colby Lewis outdueling David Price and Mike Napoli serving as the hero of the day with a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning. The Rangers now have two chances to advance to the ALCS, starting with a 2:00 p.m. matinee Tuesday at Tropicana Field.

While the Rangers and Rays were[...]

Now that the playoffs and World Series are over, it is time for baseball fans to either choose the NFL or the NBA, or dwell on the “what if?” scenarios.

Since professional football players have now become entrenched in a kill-or-be-killed mentality I must confess to all sports fans that I have not watched an entire quarter of football yet this fall.[...]