Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer have combined for nine Cy Young Awards. Collectively, they’ve produced 29 crowns in the Triple Crown categories. They’ve pitched for the winning team in five World Series, produced six no-hitters (with three of them a wild pitch or fielding error away from a […]
The 1950 Red Sox scored runs at a volume almost unsurpassed in the World Series era, touching the plate 1,027 times (only three Yankees clubs from the 1930s made it home more often). The pinnacle of that season at the midpoint of the 20th century came on June 8, when […]
Another day, another dinger. Of course, Cal Raleigh hasn’t been that productive, going homerless in 39 games this season. But he has gone yard in 19 of them, 19 contests that have been a little extra elevated by the humming, building consideration of how high, how far the 28-year-old backstop […]
There are 20 players in baseball history who thundered so frequently in the young portions of their careers that by the time they concluded their age-26 seasons, they already had more than 200 home runs. Seven of these precocious hammerers accompanied their potency with an uncommon level of discernment that […]
When it comes to Dodgers kapowing a ballgame with a walk-off home run over the last half century, Andre Ethier is king. 2008 saw the first example of this flair, kind of a supporting role in the team’s drama that season. The following year, the 27-year-old grabbed hold of the […]
Today’s guest writer, James Potocki, spent 25 years creating content for Major League Baseball as a cinematographer, editor and producer. If you’ve been a baseball fan over that time, you might have seen some of his work – This Week in Baseball, Prime 9, The World Series Film and the […]
Following this opening, there’s a little more than a thousand words devoted to connecting the three AL MVP finalists from 2024 to the past. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are going to be referenced, as will Honus Wagner and Rogers Hornsby. Ted Williams and Stan Musial are brought up, as […]
The start of the 2024 postseason got rolling on the same day October did, when eight clubs began marking their routes toward the very same dream destination. After just a few days had passed, four had woken up to a dim reality – end of the road – while four […]
In the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 1953 World Series, Brooklyn – facing elimination – was down two runs to the Yankees, only three outs away from seeing their season reach a dead end. Gil Hodges flew out, but then Duke Snider drew a walk to bring Carl […]
The very last games of a season being played to determine a champ, a series of games played within a tight window on the calendar. By its very formula, the World Series is an alchemist of drama, a stoker of tension and breathlessness. Sometimes, though, it really transmutes the ingredients […]