Series: Dodgers 1-0 box POTG: 2B Mark DeRosa (2B, HR, 2 RBI) Runner Up: SS Ryan Theriot (2 H) This was a total and complete return to pre-2008 Ryan Dempster. Naturally, the clock struck midnight on the first day of the playoffs. Dempster BB/9 IP 2004: 5.4 2005: 4.7 2006: 4.1 2007: 4.1 2008: 3.4 [...]
I think I may be getting excited for this. Hard to tell, what with more posts in three hours than in some three week stretches. – I hate doing predictions, because they’re so useless and no one really cares about them, they just care about what actually happens. But I think the Phillies are a [...]
I’m with the those who say playoff baseball is as much random chance as anything else. I don’t believe it takes anything away from the champions, because everyone has a chance to the rules of the game before they play it, but it’s different enough from the regular season that you shouldn’t be surprised when [...]