Dodgers win 4th in a row. The magic number is 5. Cody Bellinger hit HR #38, tying him with Frank Robinson for the rookie record....
Dodgers have rediscovered their mojo...Tribe trying to catch them. A streak continues...Indians have allowed 4 or fewer runs in 24 straight games...longest such streak since Cardinals had a 25 game streak in 1942-3.
Astros clinch the AL West for our first division title since 2001. New guy Justin Verlander was the man!
It was reported at the time that Verlander had the Dodgers down as a team to which he would agree to a trade, or is my memory bad?
Verlander actually lives in Beverly Hills and his wife is a movie star/model. LA was his first choice, but the Dodgers didn't want to spend the money...
His last minute pick of the Astros really puzzled me, other than maybe we were the best option left after L.A and Chicago passed on what ever it was he wanted from them. But we were never really mentioned as a team he was interested in coming to until I woke up one morning and he was an Astro. Looks like the Cardinals are done finally, time for AJ to move on the focusing solely on the Huskers! 8) Astros trying to figure out if Lance McCullers Jr will be on the team for the post season, they are going to try and get him a couple of games in the last 2 weeks to see if he can be ready.
I never count out the Cardinals. The Cubs still have a 4-game series to play with them in St. Louis. We'll see where things stand at that time.
Did anybody know that former Red Sox and other teams pitcher, Jim Lonborg was also a dentist? He just retired. I wonder if he was Joel's dentist?
Lonborg was not your average knucklehead ballplayer. He was a graduate of Stanford where he majored in pre-med... http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/bos/y2002/m06/d24/c61091.jsp
MLB has set a single-season HR record, 5,694, and the season's not over. http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/mlb/2017/09/19/new-mlb-home-run-record/683559001/
The MLB stance is that the players are bigger and stronger, that they are using the new stats and video to alter their swings and that combined with nobody cares about strikeouts anymore leads to more homeruns...guys coming up to the plate swinging from their heels ...a strikeout is just an out, no better or worse than grounding out or flying out. At least that is what they are saying...the ball is not juiced and neither are the players.
Re: Home runs On the Yankees, Gary Sanchez finished his first 162 games played with 52 hrs dating back to last September.. Aaaron Judge has now hit 45 including 8 this month. He also has 100 walks, 100 runs and 100 RBIs. The team is finishing off the Twins right now. Beating them like a red headed stepchild.
When I lived back home, we had a minor league team in Rancho Cucamonga and I could pretty much go for free whenever I wanted. I can't count how many minor league baseball games I saw in those years. You know what I never saw in all of those games? A bunt.
:roll: - Dodgers clinch - Bellinger breaks Frank Robinson's rookie HR record. - Kenley gets 40th save. - Friday night fireworks; Tommy Lasorda's 90th birthday. - Everyone here is still pissed off. Not much to celebrate after the way the fans and players were treated the last six weeks. - There was some grim satisfaction in having Frisco here to watch the Dodgers celebrate...again.
Another outstanding outing by Verlander, 7 innings of 1 hit shutout baseball for him in the 3-0 win last night over the Angels. What a pickup. Last guy we got for the pennant run that was this good was the Big Unit, Randy Johnson.
The scrappy Brewers, with the lowest payroll in baseball, just lost their second, heartbreaking extra-innings game in a row to the Cubs at Miller Park. Now 2 games back in the Wild Card race and our pitching staff and especially the bullpen is running on fumes. The locust like, obnoxious Cubs fans swarmed into Miller again. Wisconsin needs to build a wall to keep the FIBS ( f**cking Illinios bastards) out of the state.