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How Sweep It Is; Giants Clean Up; Tigers Suffer About Face

Posted in Baseball, MLB, World Series, Yankees, tagged , on October 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

After spending most of the postseason with their backs to the wall, the Giants finally took it easy on all the hearts left back in San Francisco by sweeping the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. The Giants’ whitewash was the 21st World Series sweep and third in franchise history. In 1954, the Giants surprised [...]

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Sighs for Verlander in Game 1; A Look a Cy Young Performances in the World Series

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, World Series, tagged , , on October 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Justin Verlander may be the best pitcher of his generation, but to this point in his career, he has struggled in the Fall Classic. In three World Series starts (two in 2006 and one in 2012), the hard throwing right hander has lost all three times, while posting an ERA of 7.20, the fifth highest [...]

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Process of Elimination: Giants Make Postseason History, Live to Fight Another Day

Posted in Baseball, MLB, World Series, tagged , on October 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Move over St. Louis. The cardiac kids of the postseason now reside in San Francisco. Entering last night’s sudden death NLCS showdown, the Cardinals were riding a six game winning streak in winner-take-all postseason match-ups dating back to last October. Meanwhile, the Giants, who have been on life support for most of the postseason, were [...]

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Cardinals, Tigers World Series Rematch a Contest of Mediocrity?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Post Season, World Series on October 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

So far, baseball has enjoyed a great postseason. With the exception of the Yankees’ washout in the ALCS, every other series has gone the distance, meaning in the span of about two weeks, seven sudden death games will have been played just to get to the World Series. Throw in the exciting conclusions to both [...]

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Battle of First Place Teams in D.C. Rekindles 1924 Pennant Race

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, World Series, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged on June 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The Yankees head to the nation’s capital this weekend to take on a resurgent Washington Nationals team that currently sits comfortably atop the N.L. East. With both teams residing in first place, the upcoming series would seem to be the perfect segue into a recollection of the many times the Yankees and Senators battled for [...]

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A Look Back at World Series Rematches

Posted in Baseball, MLB, NFL, World Series, Yankee History, tagged , on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Captain’s Blog is not a big fan of the NFL, at least not the mediocrity and gimmickry that have become its ideals, but in honor of the Giants Super Bowl encore against the Patriots, the table below contains every World Series rematch (same participants within a five-year span) since the inception of the Fall [...]

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Time for MLB to Play by Its Rules

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Umpires, World Series on October 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Lost in the excitement, and chaos, of Thursday’s game six were two plays that major league baseball needs to seriously address in the offseason. The first involved a hard takeout slide by Matt Holliday, while the second featured the left fielder as the victim when Adrian Beltre blocked his retreat to the bag during a [...]

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