Score one for the small market teams. At least for now. While so much of the discourse around Major League Baseball has centered on the disparity between big market teams and small market teams, the Milwaukee Brewers, with a bottom-10 payroll, advanced to the NLCS on Saturday night with a 3-1, Game 5 win over … Read more
Over the last couple of days, there have been some painful playoff exits. The Phillies and the Tigers both got sent home in agonizing fashion. Detroit got sent home in a 15 inning thriller in Seattle, while a brutal decision by Orion Kerkering cost the Phillies their season. Nationals fans are all too familiar with … Read more
Image credit: © Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Subscribe to Baseball Prospectus Managers Pat Murphy and Craig Counsell are going to have a lot to say about this game, in their actions, if not their words. Full access to this article is for Premium Baseball Prospectus subscribers. … Read more
(I am not a huge fan of asking playoff-related questions, but that’s mostly all that’s happening in MLB, so here we are.) The Tigers did an exciting thing by hammering the Mariners yesterday, forcing a decisive Game 5. However, because that requires a change of venue back to Seattle, there’s an off-day before said critical … Read more
In the 5 playoff trips in the Washington Nationals’ history, they’ve seen some postseason legends be born. From Stephen Strasburg pitching a flu game in the 2017 NLDS and winning the 2019 World Series MVP, to Juan Soto saving the day in the 2019 Wild Card Game and blasting 3 home runs in the World … Read more
In the playoffs, the 100-plus pitch starts, 18-batter outing starts and the 4-plus-out saves become much more common. If I have heard one thing from baseball announcers this week, you must protect and reserve your pitching for the postseason. I mean, we know the Braves believe it. The bullpen must be protected at all costs, … Read more
Mack Oliphant has been playing well on the Holy Cross back end the past few seasons (photo: Rob Branning Photography). We remain in a period of intense change in college hockey, and Atlantic Hockey America is no exception. Besides the changing landscape of college athletics in general and college hockey in particular, the AHA also … Read more
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After Luis Torrens lined out to end the game, New York Mets fans booed. However, anger was not the emotion that rang out from the Citi Field crowd. Instead, Mets fans were in a state of shock. Somehow, someway, they had just lost two out of three to a Nationals team that has been absolutely … Read more
The Buffalo Sabres have missed the playoffs for now 14-consecutive seasons, which is not only the record for the longest NHL playoff drought, but also is tied with the New York Jets of the NFL for the longest playoff drought in all of North American sports. The Sabres enter the 2025-26 season aiming to end … Read more