Best Night of Baseball. Ever.

What a night.

WHAT A NIGHT!

It’s 5:15am and I’ve just witnessed the greatest night of baseball in living memory.

I cannot put it any better than this: “Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.Read more...

Last Day of the Season… or is it?

It’s come down to the wire for four teams in what has been a tremendously exciting last week of the MLB regular season.

Starting with the National League, Atlanta went down 7-1 to the Phillies last night. Thousands of Braves fans stayed on in the Ted to watch the action from Houston on the Turner Field big screen in the hope of seeing the Cardinals somehow lose to an Astros team who are pretty much the worst team in baseball.… Read more...

Wild Card TV update…

After Monday night’s action the prospect of having at least one single-game Wild Card tiebreaker game on Thursday grows ever closer.

(Link to yesterday’s post on the wild card race and possible tiebreakers… http://doddernews.WordPress.com/2011/09/26/MLB-on-tv-wacky-wild-card-races/)

In the American League, Baltimore beat Boston at Camden Yards while the Rays turned over the Yankees in front of their jubilant home fans at the Trop.… Read more...