Happy Opening Day! Rangers vs. Astros Game Thread
Baseball!
The World Baseball Classic upstarts from Italy defeated the heavily favored Canadians; the game was halted by mercy rule when the Italians went up by 10 runs in the eighth inning.
Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo helped lead Italy to an upset of Mexico Thursday. He and his teammates will try for their second straight surprise win Friday as they play Canada at Chase Field in Phoenix.
The baseball season could end Sunday night. That's sad, because more baseball is always good.
The Giants try to go up three games to none. The Tigers try to stop them.
The Tigers send Doug Fister to the mound to try to tie up the World Series.
The first-ever World Series matchup of the Tigers and Giants gets underway Wednesday night.
Game 7's are awesome. Monday night is our fifth winner-take-all game of the 2012 postseason. Enjoy.
The Giants continue their attempt at a second comeback from the brink of elimination, Sunday evening in San Francisco.
The Giants must win or go home for the winter.
With rain postponing Wednesday night's game in Detroit, both series play Game 4 Thursday -- with one series possibly ending after today.
One team can make the World Series today. The other series might be going on a while.
Detroit has a very good chance of taking a commanding 3-0 lead in the series behind their ace, Justin Verlander.
The Giants will try to even up the NLCS against the Cardinals Monday night. This is the first postseason day on which there's just one game, so enjoy.
After a dramatic division series round that ended with some heart-pounding classics, we were treated to more of the same in the first LCS game.
We have had an amazing postseason so far, with four winner-take-all games in the Division Series with some stunning comebacks. We can only hope the Championship Series are nearly as good.
The Orioles and Yankees, and Nationals and Cardinals, have played tight, tense, exciting games. Two of these teams will continue to the LCS round. Two will go home after today.
We had enough excitement Wednesday to last an entire postseason. Could we have more in store Thursday? It all starts at noon CT.
If you love baseball, today's your day -- four games, beginning at noon Central time.
These two series will be over today unless the A's and Giants win.
Two of the four division series continue Monday. It's possible that all four could stand at two games to none after today's action.
The NFL plays Sunday. But you, the baseball fan, are being treated to four playoff games in a row, more than 12 hours of our game. For this writer, that's a lot more enjoyable.
A horrifically bad call might have ruined the Braves' season. Why won't Bud get his umpires to make correct calls?
It's new! It's exciting! It'll make two fanbases happy, and two fanbases sad. It's the first two wild-card games in major-league history.