The St. Louis Cards have not had a left-handed started win a game at the Rockies' Coors Field since 1999 ! ! !
StL & Mike Shildt, their new interim-manager since 15 July 2018, have finally had a lefty starter win a game at the Rox Coors Field: Austin Gomber, 0 ER, 6 IP, 5 H, 0 HR, 6 K, 1 BB: pure quality start.
Figures, as the StL Cards have gone 26-12 = .684 winning-%age with Shildt as their Skipper.
Quote Originally Posted by Pendo:
The St. Louis Cards have not had a left-handed started win a game at the Rockies' Coors Field since 1999 ! ! !
StL & Mike Shildt, their new interim-manager since 15 July 2018, have finally had a lefty starter win a game at the Rox Coors Field: Austin Gomber, 0 ER, 6 IP, 5 H, 0 HR, 6 K, 1 BB: pure quality start.
Figures, as the StL Cards have gone 26-12 = .684 winning-%age with Shildt as their Skipper.
2018 MLB may become historic in terms of the number of teams that qualify for The Playoffs by a tie in their season W/L records -
AL with 2 Divisional winners plus 3 or 4 more teams forced to play an extra deciding game, and with NL having 3 teams tied in each of its 3 divisions = 9 teams reaching post-season play beyond 162 —
Post-season teams may very well total 15 this year 2018, and that is the most ever, showing a parity in the league that the only other one that's bettable has is Tourney-CBB.
2018 MLB may become historic in terms of the number of teams that qualify for The Playoffs by a tie in their season W/L records -
AL with 2 Divisional winners plus 3 or 4 more teams forced to play an extra deciding game, and with NL having 3 teams tied in each of its 3 divisions = 9 teams reaching post-season play beyond 162 —
Post-season teams may very well total 15 this year 2018, and that is the most ever, showing a parity in the league that the only other one that's bettable has is Tourney-CBB.
The MLB year 2004 saw 5,451 home-runs blasted, but the league's on pace to top that total by over 150. 2018's set the single-season record for Walk-off HRs.
Of all the teams still in hunt for October, the Cubs have been walked-off the most, in stark contrast to the Oakland Athletics — the one and only team that has not had a loss the whole year when leading in the 7th inning and beyond. The Amazing A's.
The MLB year 2004 saw 5,451 home-runs blasted, but the league's on pace to top that total by over 150. 2018's set the single-season record for Walk-off HRs.
Of all the teams still in hunt for October, the Cubs have been walked-off the most, in stark contrast to the Oakland Athletics — the one and only team that has not had a loss the whole year when leading in the 7th inning and beyond. The Amazing A's.
Last year's home opener for UNLV was an inside job, looking like a complete embarrassment, with Howard spoiling the start of UNLV's 50th season of play with the biggest upset in college football history based on point spread, winning 43-40.
This year gives +775 on the UNLV dive taking.
Last year's home opener for UNLV was an inside job, looking like a complete embarrassment, with Howard spoiling the start of UNLV's 50th season of play with the biggest upset in college football history based on point spread, winning 43-40.
Last night Texas A&M was victimized by one of, if not the very worst, rule in all of sports: The Touchback Rule: When the ball's fumbled into the end-zone by the team trying to score a touchdown, the other side gets the ball; it's like a turnover, even tho' it ain't
If that rule were revised, Tex A&M most likely gets a TD — or at least a FG, and is not so demoralized such that they do not let Clem drive to a 80 yd TD and, added to TAM's next drive for a TD, they beat Clemson by at least 7, if not by 15 b/c momentum in the 4th Quarter was all on TAM's side, even thru the bogus Touchback Rule (Bellechick's outlawed it on all accounts, so you'll never see TD-lunges from any player playing for any team he coaches); TAM still out-played & out-scored Clemson by a total of 13 pts to nothing !!
Instead, last night in College Station, TX, "Home of the 12th Man," Texas A&M, the 5th best team in the SEC Conf., must get a loss by a mere deuce to the #2 ranked team in the nation, Clemson (in the ACC).
Texas A&M had a chance to tie it at the very end of regulation, but their 2-pt conversion got intercepted in the endzone.
Last night Texas A&M was victimized by one of, if not the very worst, rule in all of sports: The Touchback Rule: When the ball's fumbled into the end-zone by the team trying to score a touchdown, the other side gets the ball; it's like a turnover, even tho' it ain't
If that rule were revised, Tex A&M most likely gets a TD — or at least a FG, and is not so demoralized such that they do not let Clem drive to a 80 yd TD and, added to TAM's next drive for a TD, they beat Clemson by at least 7, if not by 15 b/c momentum in the 4th Quarter was all on TAM's side, even thru the bogus Touchback Rule (Bellechick's outlawed it on all accounts, so you'll never see TD-lunges from any player playing for any team he coaches); TAM still out-played & out-scored Clemson by a total of 13 pts to nothing !!
Instead, last night in College Station, TX, "Home of the 12th Man," Texas A&M, the 5th best team in the SEC Conf., must get a loss by a mere deuce to the #2 ranked team in the nation, Clemson (in the ACC).
Texas A&M had a chance to tie it at the very end of regulation, but their 2-pt conversion got intercepted in the endzone.
NCAAF's SEC vs. ACC parallels precisely the NCAAB's SEC vs. ACC = 4 teams Vs. 1 team: CFB's SEC w/ 4 teams Vs. the ACC's 1 team and CBB's SEC w/ 1 team vs. ACC's 4 teams.
NCAAF's SEC has 'Bama, Georgia, LSU and Auburn that on any given Saturday, in any year you like, can beat any other college team — and the ACC has only Clemson that can beat any team in any year — especially at home in "Death Valley."
NCAAB sees the SEC with only one team that is a perenial powerhouse: Kentucky, and they are the Clemson of CFB, the one & only team that is a NCAAF powerhouse in the ACC Conf. while the NCAAB's ACC has Duke, Virginia, North Carolina, and Notre Dame, that in any year you like, can beat any other college basketball team.
NCAAF's SEC vs. ACC parallels precisely the NCAAB's SEC vs. ACC = 4 teams Vs. 1 team: CFB's SEC w/ 4 teams Vs. the ACC's 1 team and CBB's SEC w/ 1 team vs. ACC's 4 teams.
NCAAF's SEC has 'Bama, Georgia, LSU and Auburn that on any given Saturday, in any year you like, can beat any other college team — and the ACC has only Clemson that can beat any team in any year — especially at home in "Death Valley."
NCAAB sees the SEC with only one team that is a perenial powerhouse: Kentucky, and they are the Clemson of CFB, the one & only team that is a NCAAF powerhouse in the ACC Conf. while the NCAAB's ACC has Duke, Virginia, North Carolina, and Notre Dame, that in any year you like, can beat any other college basketball team.
D. Broncos now 18-1 in Home-Openers (2011 Raiders snapped their W-streak); also the 1st time getting Sea @home as Sea crushed 'em 8-43 in Superbowl '14, and rvenge Denver's laying only 3 pts !!!
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ASU at home in September vs. a BIG10 team is now 5-0 SU as ASU beat MSU y'day 16-13, laying 4.5 to Michigan State (the #14 team) !!
D. Broncos now 18-1 in Home-Openers (2011 Raiders snapped their W-streak); also the 1st time getting Sea @home as Sea crushed 'em 8-43 in Superbowl '14, and rvenge Denver's laying only 3 pts !!!
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ASU at home in September vs. a BIG10 team is now 5-0 SU as ASU beat MSU y'day 16-13, laying 4.5 to Michigan State (the #14 team) !!
Cubs have not been swept by the Reds in a 4-game series since 1983 !!!
In recent years, Cubs own Reds, going 21-9 at home and 19-8 in Cinci (w/ 3 whitewash shutouts & no-hitter) prior to this series.
If the Cubs lose today, and get swept in their 4-game set in Cinci, it will signal Theo's Red Sox type of 2nd season after winning his 1st World Series in 2004 heading up Boston, he went on to make many bad decisions and very poor trades in 2005 & 2006... Theo then made a big re-set... and won it all again in 2007.
Today will tell volumes... The Reds' sweep says they're ahead of schedule on their re-build, and that the Cubs need CHANGES.
good call on this signifier for the Cubs back in late June
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Cubs have not been swept by the Reds in a 4-game series since 1983 !!!
In recent years, Cubs own Reds, going 21-9 at home and 19-8 in Cinci (w/ 3 whitewash shutouts & no-hitter) prior to this series.
If the Cubs lose today, and get swept in their 4-game set in Cinci, it will signal Theo's Red Sox type of 2nd season after winning his 1st World Series in 2004 heading up Boston, he went on to make many bad decisions and very poor trades in 2005 & 2006... Theo then made a big re-set... and won it all again in 2007.
Today will tell volumes... The Reds' sweep says they're ahead of schedule on their re-build, and that the Cubs need CHANGES.
good call on this signifier for the Cubs back in late June
One could see the 0-2 in the 163rd game & WC game coming..
After the All Star break, the Cubs averaged only 4.1 runs/game & 39 times this year they scored less than 2 runs; only the O's, in this their worst season in franchise history, had more games in which their side scratched out less than 2 runs in the game !
Y'day in the 163rd game, Cubs scored only one run, & then the next day in the Wild Card game, the Cubs scored all of one run. That makes 41 times this year, or one-fourth of all their games, that the vaunted Cubs scored less than 2 runs. Theo's pattern.
Say deGrom had pitched for the Cubs this year, even w/ his MLB-leading 1.70 ERA for the year, he'd set anothert record by going 0-32 for W/L.
One could see the 0-2 in the 163rd game & WC game coming..
After the All Star break, the Cubs averaged only 4.1 runs/game & 39 times this year they scored less than 2 runs; only the O's, in this their worst season in franchise history, had more games in which their side scratched out less than 2 runs in the game !
Y'day in the 163rd game, Cubs scored only one run, & then the next day in the Wild Card game, the Cubs scored all of one run. That makes 41 times this year, or one-fourth of all their games, that the vaunted Cubs scored less than 2 runs. Theo's pattern.
Say deGrom had pitched for the Cubs this year, even w/ his MLB-leading 1.70 ERA for the year, he'd set anothert record by going 0-32 for W/L.
In another example of the league's changing attitudes on gambling, the
Dallas Mavericks are hiring former NBA bettor Bob Voulgaris (@Haralabob) as Director of Quantitative Research and Development.
In another example of the league's changing attitudes on gambling, the
Dallas Mavericks are hiring former NBA bettor Bob Voulgaris (@Haralabob) as Director of Quantitative Research and Development.
Purdue's always been one of the best schools for producing engineers & technologists.
Purdue lays claim to: 1.) Neal Armstrong, the 1st man on the moon; 2.) Beating CFB's #2 Ohio State in 1984; 3.) Drew Brees, record-setting quarterback; 4.) Beating CFB's #2 Ohio State in 2018.
Purdue's always been one of the best schools for producing engineers & technologists.
Purdue lays claim to: 1.) Neal Armstrong, the 1st man on the moon; 2.) Beating CFB's #2 Ohio State in 1984; 3.) Drew Brees, record-setting quarterback; 4.) Beating CFB's #2 Ohio State in 2018.
In CFB, since 1995, as Vegas' point-spreads got recorded widely, Purdue vs. Ohio State is 9-6 and at home Pudue's 6-2 ATS and 5-3 SU.
Purdue's big play producers on offense means trouble for Ohio State teams that give up big plays. The 49 points Purdue hung on OSU is the most points any team has ever scored on them ever!
In CFB, since 1995, as Vegas' point-spreads got recorded widely, Purdue vs. Ohio State is 9-6 and at home Pudue's 6-2 ATS and 5-3 SU.
Purdue's big play producers on offense means trouble for Ohio State teams that give up big plays. The 49 points Purdue hung on OSU is the most points any team has ever scored on them ever!
Two of baseball's most storied franchises and yet the the only previous postseason meeting came in the 1916 World Series, 102 years ago, as 21-year-old Babe Ruth pitched all 14 innings as his Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1 in Game 2. The BoSox went on to win the Series in 5 games over Brooklyn.
Boston's 8-7 vs LAD since interleague play began in 1997, but Boston hasn't hosted LA since 2010, and the teams haven't squared off since LAD took 2 of 3 at home in August 0f 2016.
Sale's been a Cy Award frontrunner forever, waiting to happen; Price won one already as has done Porcello: 3 Aces + a Pen, a Pen doing in the heart of the Astros lineup who are top tier.
Sure Kershaw's won Cy's, but that's 3 against 1, plus Eovaldi who's lights out at present & owns a grudge against LAD b/c they deemed him expendable and easily dealt him away as useless to them in their quest for the MLB crown.
Besides Turner who nearly always gets on base in the Post- season, there's only Machado with his Mucho Machismo, and his numbers against the aforesaid 3 Aces are good, but vs Eovaldi, Macho's only 1 (a solo jack) for 14 (+ 4 BB) and there's Dozier who has pretty good #'s vs the 3 Aces and excepting Machado, Dozier's had more at bats vs them than all the oher Dodgers combined.
Martinez owns Kershaw, BA of nearly .500, slugging 1.091 w/ an OPS of 1.591 and Martinez's weighted On-Base-Average is .646 !!
So this WS is 3 very good pitchers and a professional hitter = BoSox Versus LAD = 3 very good hitters and the sports most professional pitcher.
Pitching wins, particularly in series, especially those series played in the Post-season.
Two of baseball's most storied franchises and yet the the only previous postseason meeting came in the 1916 World Series, 102 years ago, as 21-year-old Babe Ruth pitched all 14 innings as his Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1 in Game 2. The BoSox went on to win the Series in 5 games over Brooklyn.
Boston's 8-7 vs LAD since interleague play began in 1997, but Boston hasn't hosted LA since 2010, and the teams haven't squared off since LAD took 2 of 3 at home in August 0f 2016.
Sale's been a Cy Award frontrunner forever, waiting to happen; Price won one already as has done Porcello: 3 Aces + a Pen, a Pen doing in the heart of the Astros lineup who are top tier.
Sure Kershaw's won Cy's, but that's 3 against 1, plus Eovaldi who's lights out at present & owns a grudge against LAD b/c they deemed him expendable and easily dealt him away as useless to them in their quest for the MLB crown.
Besides Turner who nearly always gets on base in the Post- season, there's only Machado with his Mucho Machismo, and his numbers against the aforesaid 3 Aces are good, but vs Eovaldi, Macho's only 1 (a solo jack) for 14 (+ 4 BB) and there's Dozier who has pretty good #'s vs the 3 Aces and excepting Machado, Dozier's had more at bats vs them than all the oher Dodgers combined.
Martinez owns Kershaw, BA of nearly .500, slugging 1.091 w/ an OPS of 1.591 and Martinez's weighted On-Base-Average is .646 !!
So this WS is 3 very good pitchers and a professional hitter = BoSox Versus LAD = 3 very good hitters and the sports most professional pitcher.
Pitching wins, particularly in series, especially those series played in the Post-season.
Boston seeks their 4th World Series title since 2004 when they ended an 86-year drought. The Sox have won 8 of 12 WS they've appeared in. This will be their 1st WS appearance since 2013 = 60 months ago !! Since 2004, the Sox own an asounding W/L record of 12-2 in World Series games !! They won their 3rd straight A.L. East div. title, setting a franchise record for wins w/ 108. They bumped off the defending World Series champion Astros, 4 games to 1 — they won 3 in a row at the Stro's Minute Maid Park, and are 5-0 on the road this postseason.
Chris Sale (Game 1) & David Price (Game 2) are Aces for the Sox, and Porcello can be. The BoSox need to beat LAD's only Ace Kershaw just once & they'll set up to win it all.
Sale will be just fine, after being hospitalized, and Price showed fantastic resiliency, after having gone 0-9 w/ a 6.16 ERA in 11 postseason starts, he got off his Schneider by whiffing 9 in 6+ IP of 3-hit shutout ball - and on only 3 days' rest - to best Verlander and win the ALCS clincher in Houston.
The cold weather factors in as a BoSox advantage for the 1st 2 games, which is all they need to secure control of this series. Forecasts for Tuesday night call for temps to be in the lower 50s at first pitch. And then it will cool off during the game to the high 40s. Wednesday night's 2nd game is expected to be about 5 degrees colder yet. Then the series moves over to Los Angeles, where yes, the Dodgers can expect the field to be hot & sunny, but it also may be too late.
Alex Cora's done a great job w/ his team — but I'm not so sure Dave Roberts has been just as intrumental in LAD's success this year. Cora's made the clubhouse more about the players; Roberts is in dictatorship-mode w/ his players.
The Interleague ('IL') factor favors Boston since they won the most games this season, they get to play the 1st 2 & the last 2 games at home where they're used to stacking their lineup w/ a Designated Hitter: Sox went 7-3 at home vs National League foes this year, and are an amazing (for MLB anyways) 25-5 at home vs. N.L. West foes!! Boston went a blistering 9-1 in N.L. ballparks (= no DH) this year, and to top it all off, Boston had the Major League's best Inter-League record of 16-4 in 2018, Since 2016, the Sox are an amazing 46-14 in Interleague play, whereas the LA Dodgers are but a middling 38-22 in Interleague action since 2016 & this year went 12-8 vs. the American League - both 6-4 home & away — and in AL East division ball parks the Loss Angeleez Dahgahs are a flimsy 15-15.
Boston seeks their 4th World Series title since 2004 when they ended an 86-year drought. The Sox have won 8 of 12 WS they've appeared in. This will be their 1st WS appearance since 2013 = 60 months ago !! Since 2004, the Sox own an asounding W/L record of 12-2 in World Series games !! They won their 3rd straight A.L. East div. title, setting a franchise record for wins w/ 108. They bumped off the defending World Series champion Astros, 4 games to 1 — they won 3 in a row at the Stro's Minute Maid Park, and are 5-0 on the road this postseason.
Chris Sale (Game 1) & David Price (Game 2) are Aces for the Sox, and Porcello can be. The BoSox need to beat LAD's only Ace Kershaw just once & they'll set up to win it all.
Sale will be just fine, after being hospitalized, and Price showed fantastic resiliency, after having gone 0-9 w/ a 6.16 ERA in 11 postseason starts, he got off his Schneider by whiffing 9 in 6+ IP of 3-hit shutout ball - and on only 3 days' rest - to best Verlander and win the ALCS clincher in Houston.
The cold weather factors in as a BoSox advantage for the 1st 2 games, which is all they need to secure control of this series. Forecasts for Tuesday night call for temps to be in the lower 50s at first pitch. And then it will cool off during the game to the high 40s. Wednesday night's 2nd game is expected to be about 5 degrees colder yet. Then the series moves over to Los Angeles, where yes, the Dodgers can expect the field to be hot & sunny, but it also may be too late.
Alex Cora's done a great job w/ his team — but I'm not so sure Dave Roberts has been just as intrumental in LAD's success this year. Cora's made the clubhouse more about the players; Roberts is in dictatorship-mode w/ his players.
The Interleague ('IL') factor favors Boston since they won the most games this season, they get to play the 1st 2 & the last 2 games at home where they're used to stacking their lineup w/ a Designated Hitter: Sox went 7-3 at home vs National League foes this year, and are an amazing (for MLB anyways) 25-5 at home vs. N.L. West foes!! Boston went a blistering 9-1 in N.L. ballparks (= no DH) this year, and to top it all off, Boston had the Major League's best Inter-League record of 16-4 in 2018, Since 2016, the Sox are an amazing 46-14 in Interleague play, whereas the LA Dodgers are but a middling 38-22 in Interleague action since 2016 & this year went 12-8 vs. the American League - both 6-4 home & away — and in AL East division ball parks the Loss Angeleez Dahgahs are a flimsy 15-15.
The Cubs' brass have asserted that they're ever shifting lineup never helped, and most often hurt their player's routine - 162 games means Routine, Rote, muscle-memory, and when a hitter is thrust into the DH role, his timing's a wee bit off, which is all it takes to lose chasing nearly 100 MPH heat. Also, players on LA who are not given the role of DH'ing feel snubbed and their morale is not at that peak Cora-tuned level which makes their pinch-hitting more pressurized - just like the clubhouse climate pressurized by both Roberts' dictatorship relationship to players as well as their patched-up teamwork, or lack thereof, since deadline dealt acquisitions are not forming the cohesiveness that full-season-players bond together in a more united effort to sacrifice for the sake of the team winning. And 108 games won really builds a WINNING team spirit.
In stark contrast, a lineup w/ Machado + Puig is at minimum hit-or-miss, or dissension at it's worst.
Who would you rather have to build your team-chemistry: The Killer Bee's + 3 fairly low-key Aces + a rejuvenated Eovaldi's 100 mph; or, one Capital ACE among Aces (but w/ a distinct dip in fastball speed this yr.), a very good Pen tandem of Baez & Jansen, inexperienced young hitters coupled with team-spirit-splitters such as 'Machoduh,' 'Pig,' & (albeit unwittingly) Ryu (just like Darvish did last year to LAD's teamwork)?
The Cubs' brass have asserted that they're ever shifting lineup never helped, and most often hurt their player's routine - 162 games means Routine, Rote, muscle-memory, and when a hitter is thrust into the DH role, his timing's a wee bit off, which is all it takes to lose chasing nearly 100 MPH heat. Also, players on LA who are not given the role of DH'ing feel snubbed and their morale is not at that peak Cora-tuned level which makes their pinch-hitting more pressurized - just like the clubhouse climate pressurized by both Roberts' dictatorship relationship to players as well as their patched-up teamwork, or lack thereof, since deadline dealt acquisitions are not forming the cohesiveness that full-season-players bond together in a more united effort to sacrifice for the sake of the team winning. And 108 games won really builds a WINNING team spirit.
In stark contrast, a lineup w/ Machado + Puig is at minimum hit-or-miss, or dissension at it's worst.
Who would you rather have to build your team-chemistry: The Killer Bee's + 3 fairly low-key Aces + a rejuvenated Eovaldi's 100 mph; or, one Capital ACE among Aces (but w/ a distinct dip in fastball speed this yr.), a very good Pen tandem of Baez & Jansen, inexperienced young hitters coupled with team-spirit-splitters such as 'Machoduh,' 'Pig,' & (albeit unwittingly) Ryu (just like Darvish did last year to LAD's teamwork)?
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