September 19th, 2009 made for a doleful night to those of us whose eyes tend to get all whirligig-y at the sight of numerical outliers. In Atlanta that evening, the incomparable Pedro Martínez was but a meek version of the right-hander who had awed a decade earlier, surrendering three runs […]
Imagine a postseason résumé that contains the following numbers for a single year: 10 games played, 15 hits with seven going for extra-bases, 12 RBI, a .341/.370/.750/1.120 slash line. Looks and feels like a middle of the order guy, right? Maybe Jay Buhner in 1995 or Bernie Williams in 1996 […]
If the 2010 postseason wasn’t quite a pitching version of “anything you can do, I can do better,” that’s mainly because Roy Halladay set the bar too high to begin things. In Game 1 of the Phillies’ NLDS tussle with the Reds, the right-hander was nearly perfect, allowing just one […]