The Tampa Bay Rays (40-38), Atlanta Braves (36-39) and Miami Marlins (34-40) are all in hot pursuit of division leaders. After the weekend’s games, the Rays are two and a half games back of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees in the AL East. In the NL East, the Marlins and Braves are …
Read More »MLB AL East Preview
The MLB is back for the 2017 Regular Season Tampa Bay Rays The Tampa Bay rays finished the 2016 season with a record of 68-94. The team hasn’t had a winning season since 2013 and haven’t won a game in a playoff series since 2008. Manager Kevin Cash will enter his …
Read More »Blue Jays Beat Orioles With Walk-Off Homer in AL Wild Card Game
The Toronto Blue Jays advanced to the American League Division Series with a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles Tuesday night. The two teams were neck and neck, but a walk-off home run ended it all. The Jays opened scoring in the AL Wild Card matchup at Rogers Centre with a …
Read More »MLB Regular Season Ends Sunday, Wild Cards Still Undecided
This Sunday, the last regular season games of MLB will be played and the chase for the wild card spots will be decided. The races to win each division this year were not nearly as interesting as the bids for the wild card spots. The last team to clinch their division …
Read More »MLB Wild Card Race Coming to a Close
The MLB regular season is rapidly coming to a close. With nearly all the division pennants claimed except for the AL East, teams now must look to the wild card if they have hopes of reaching the postseason. Twelve teams will compete for the four remaining Wild Card spots, as there are just six …
Read More »MLB: American League Wild Card Race Remains Tight
With about two weeks left in the Major League Baseball season, the American League wild card race is going right down to the wire. Two teams are currently tied for the wild card lead; the Toronto Blue Jays are 83-69 on the season while the Baltimore Orioles are 82-70. The Blue Jays lost 2-1 …
Read More »ESPN’S Sutcliffe on MLB Wild Card Race and Tebow
As the regular season draws to a close, ESPN’s Major League Baseball Analyst Rick Sutcliffe joined “SportScene” with Steve Russel Tuesday to talk about the MLB Wild Card Race and Tim Tebow. Sutcliffe initially opposed the Wild Card but has since turned around to enjoy the idea. With the season …
Read More »AL East Pennant Race
With just 19 games left in the regular season, the AL East is currently closely contested with four teams within five games of the divisional leader. If the playoffs started today, it would feature three AL East teams—the division-leading Boston Red Sox and two wild card teams—the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore …
Read More »American League Second Half Outlook
The second half of the baseball season is in full swing which translates to? Pennant races. Teams like the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers are looking for the same production from the first half of the season. Other teams are looking too make additions to there roster through trades or the minor league call …
Read More »Rays Continue to Struggle, Remains Optimistic
The Tampa Bay Rays (35-56) continue their season struggle last weekend as they lost two of three games against the Baltimore Orioles (53-37) at home. They came off the All-Star week break the way they came into it—losing. The Rays have lost 24 of their last 28 games and are currently last …
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