TheTexas Rangersshortstop just won his secondWorld Series MVP Award, hitting .286 with three home runs, six runs and six RBIs in the five-game victory over theArizona Diamondbacks. His bottom-of-the-ninth, game-tying two-run home run in Game 1 was the biggest hit of the series; he hom...
The World Series matchup may have come as a surprise to many baseball fanatics; the Rangers ended the regular season with the worst record of any of the eight playoff teams, and the Giants ended with the fourth worst. Did these two teams simply catch fire at the right time? Or were ...
than this was the series for you. It went the full seven games and went into overtime in Game 7. I really thought that the Rangers were done when they were down 3-1 in the series. They then rallied to win Game 5 by a score of 5-3 in a massive comeback ...
After going 116-46 during the 2001 regular season, the Seattle Mariners were clear favorites to win the World Series. Edgar Martinez, Ichiro Suzuki, and John Olerud supplied the lumber, and manager Lou Piniella pulled the strings. But the Mariners could not overcome an equally stacked New York...
Netflix was the first major player in the streaming space, and still dominates the monthly streaming viewership thanks to its popular original series and enormous library of content. Its premium content was principally responsible for the start of the cord-cutting trend more than a decade ago. No...
There are several pitching-related moves I’m sure the Dodgers are regretting right now, but these probably aren’t among them. Q. Is Dave Roberts’ job in jeopardy if the Dodgers don’t reach the World Series? Harris: Not necessarily. If this team doesn’t win the pennant, it will ...
All-Star with the Giants from 1960-61. Across four seasons with the Orioles and Washington Senators (the current Rangers) from 1963-66, he was 25-32 with a 3.70 ERA. Then, in his first season back with the Giants in 1967, he had an NL-high 22 wins en route to a Cy Young trophy...
1996:Juan González, OF, Rangers It was really hard to stand out in the offense-rich era of the late 1990s. Even though González put up numbers that would traditionally be considered All-Star-worthy, there was nothing exceptional about them in 1996. ...
Square-jawed and blue-eyed, Robert Stack appeared in Westerns and war movies in the 1940s and 1950s before starring as Treasury agent Eliot Ness on the popular television series "The Untouchables," which ran four seasons starting in 1959. After playing the upstanding, righteous Ness, Stack del...
BOSTON (CBS) -- Bud Selig's decision to make the All-Star Game decide home-field advantage of the World Series remains arguably the worst and most foolish decision a commissioner of a professional sports league has ever made. That might sound like hyperbole, but consider this: after ...