In the fall of 2020, I started watching baseball with my then-6-year-old son for the first extended period of time. As his dad is a Yankees fan, he of course absorbed that they were the good guys, and he quickly picked up on the starring figures in this spectacle: The twin […]
“No way,” I insisted. “The Mets are not beating the Dodgers.” It was October 1988. I was huddled on a street corner outside our junior high school with a few other friends who enviously watched the braver boys interact with the girls, but at that point I was focused […]
A few days ago, the Mets sent the orange-and-blue-clad fans of the greater New York area into a frenzy by finishing off the rival Phillies in a memorable four-game NLDS that was much closer than some of the final scores indicated. There were several heroes for the victors, of […]
By the simple laws of math, a postseason baseball game matters more than one from the regular season. After all, we’re talking 162 games for a team spread over half a year versus maybe 20 games across a single month. But it isn’t the math that gets our senses tingling […]
A few days ago, I felt a twinge of surprise upon learning that Rich Hill had just thrown 1.1 scoreless innings for the Red Sox to mark his entry into his 20th big league season.
With another flurry of deadline deals having come and gone, I got to thinking – no, not about whether Jazz Chisholm would kick-start the sluggish Yankees offense, or which team “won” the deadline – but about how this particular junction of the baseball calendar came to be. After all, […]