Entering the 2010 season, FSU was an unranked team, an unknown entity with a new identity. Gone were the days of Bobby Bowden in the watertower at spring camp, in stepped Jimbo Fisher as a first-year coach of a team with only five senior starters. The early-season rout by Oklahoma to the tune [...]
Read More →If Bobby Cox was going to have a dramatic farewell, this was the series to close the book on. Four games, all decided by a single run, all turning on controversial or tide-turning plays, the only shame is that it didn’t go one game further. The Giants will advance to face the Philadelphia [...]
Read More →With zero outs in the top of the 9th inning, Brooks Conrad tracked an infield pop-up off the bat of Cody Ross, called off Derrek Lee and ended up about ten steps towards the first-base side of the three-time gold glove first baseman, catching the ball with vigor as though he [...]
Read More →One night after “The First-Career Stolen Base Heard Round The World”, Atlanta answered with some magic of their own, converting a tide-turning 3-run 8th inning into an 11th-inning victory. Falling behind 4-0 after two innings, Tommy Hanson and the Braves looked like they were running a mundane postseason course, but after 14 scoreless [...]
Read More →In the short amount of time that Tim Lincecum has been in the majors, he’s been anointed the greatest starting pitcher in the game, and lived to see that title slip away while still retaining his dominance. Bouncing back after an August that saw him post a mind-boggling 7.82 ERA, Lincecum made that [...]
Read More →After a tumultuous September, in which the Atlanta Braves suffered a dismal 9-14 stretch, they hunkered down on the final Sunday of the season and came from behind against the Philadelphia Phillies, (and their bullpen, I might add, not Roy Oswalt, who started the game) then held off a late rally [...]
Read More →Atlanta continues to play solid division-leading baseball, even in light of the news that their most recognizable name will be missing the remainder of the season. Sending ace-in-the-making Tommy Hanson to the mound on Monday, the Braves will look to close out yet another home series over the Wild Card (barely-)contending LA Dodgers, [...]
Read More →The Los Angeles Angels have made themselves players in the AL Championship race yet again, acquiring ace Dan Haren and underrated bat Alberto Callaspo as they aim to unseat the Texas Rangers, who are atop the division. The Angels roster moves have the potential to create shock waves, but after winning Sunday, Texas [...]
Read More →Before Mat Latos sneezed his way onto the Disabled List, he had been compiling quite an impressive under-the-radar season for a youth, in a year where Stephen Strasburg and Jaime Garcia are dominating the NL airwaves for youngsters with “stuff”. The sad truth is that his unusual injury probably garnered more [...]
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