Category: Postseason

• MLB announces umpiring crew for the 2015 National League Championship Series

  Major League Baseball announced on Friday the umpiring crew for the National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Mets, which begins Saturday night at 8:07 pm at Citi Field. Rob Drake, Timm Timmons, Ted Barrett, Paul Emmel, Eric Cooper and Bill Miller will be the on-field officiating crew for games one and two, with…

  Michael Baron

  October 16, 2015

  League Championship Series, Postseason

• Odds for the Mets to win the World Series at 10/3, underdogs to Cubs in NLCS

  After the conclusion of the Division Series in both the American and National Leagues, Bovada Las Vegas has updated their odds for the final four teams left in the postseason. The odds for the Mets to win the World Series is 10-to-3, and they’re currently underdogs against the Cubs despite having home field advantage in…

  Michael Baron

  October 16, 2015

  Odds, Postseason

• The hard fought resiliency in the Division Series was extra gratifying for the Mets

  Nobody said it was going to be easy. And it wasn’t by any stretch of the imagination. Heading into this Division Series against the Dodgers, the Mets were faced with the tall task of conquering two of the game’s best pitchers in Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw, two pitchers when combined can carry a team through…

  Michael Baron

  October 16, 2015

  Postseason

• The guts of an ace trumped the stuff of an ace on Thursday night

  It had disaster written all over it. It looked like it was going to be the worst night for a bad night from the starter. Jacob deGrom allowed four consecutive hits to the Dodgers in the first inning resulting in two runs with only one man retired. His fastball was dead. He couldn’t command it, either.…

  Michael Baron

  October 16, 2015

  Michael Baron, Op-Ed, Postseason

• Daniel Murphy is the latest reminder that intangibles can often defy baseball science

  As baseball has evolved into this statistically oriented and scientifically executed game, often times the human element of the game itself gets forgotten. The human element is an old school belief based on gut feelings, intuition, hunches and rolls of the dice, which truly support the notion that this game is not played on a computer,…

  Michael Baron

  October 16, 2015

  Division Series, Michael Baron, Op-Ed, Postseason