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Playoff Pinch Hits: American League Wild-Card Tale Of Two Underdogs
By Sam McPherson The 1980s were a long time ago in terms of baseball years: performance-enhancing drug use wasn’t the big issue in terms of chemical substances, most MLB teams played in multi-purpose...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Giants And Pirates Like It’s 1971 All Over Again?
By Sam McPherson The 1971 National League Championship Series featured the eventual World Series champions from Pittsburgh against the San Francisco Giants. Back then, the NLCS was just a best-of-five...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Four American League Teams Left To Chase World Series
By Sam McPherson Tuesday night’s raucous affair in Kansas City won’t soon be forgotten, although the Oakland Athletics probably will need to bury it in the pile of ridiculously crushing playoff defeats...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: High Payrolls Reign Supreme In National League Playoffs
By Sam McPherson In the American League playoffs, the wild-card matchup was between teams with low payrolls — obviously one of them had to advance. But in the National League wild-card game, the team...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Four LDS Matchups In Full Swing For Weekend Action
By Sam McPherson This is the busiest weekend of Major League Baseball playoff action, and all four League Division Series will be sorted out — mostly — over the weekend’s games to be played. If NCAA...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: It’s Do Or Die For Tigers And Angels On Sunday
By Sam McPherson The two American League Division Series resume on Sunday, and surprisingly, both matchups have been lopsided so far — at least in terms of series standings. The Baltimore Orioles won...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Nationals One Loss Away From Another Playoff Disappoinment
By Sam McPherson Sometimes, you have to wonder why Major League Baseball even bothers with a 162-game season if the results mean so little come October. The grind of a long season can come to an abrupt...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: American League Championship Series Is Set
By Sam McPherson If anyone reading this picked the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals as the American League finalists for 2014 back in spring training, we just don’t believe you. Even as the...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Kershaw And Dodgers Can’t Get Past Cardinals Yet Again
By Sam McPherson The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, again, in the postseason, eliminating them in four games with a comeback win over Clayton Kershaw on Tuesday. Kershaw posted a...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Giants Eliminate Nationals With Three One-Run Wins
By Sam McPherson It’s really true in baseball: once the playoffs start, the regular season means nothing. Take for example the San Francisco Giants, a team with the lowest win total of any MLB...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals Spending Less Money To Win In MLB Playoffs
By Sam McPherson For the fifth year in a row, the National League pennant will go to the St. Louis Cardinals or the San Francisco Giants, two big spenders will payrolls well above $100 million. In the...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: National League Dominated Lately By Exclusive Group
By Sam McPherson No National League team has won three straight pennants since the St. Louis Cardinals did it from 1942-44, but only three teams have represented the NL in the World Series since 2008....
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Playoff Pinch Hits: It’s All Kansas City In The American League Playoffs
By Sam McPherson The Kansas City Royals just keep on winning in the most impressive fashion, and nothing seems to be able to stop them from advancing in the 2014 American League playoffs right now....
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Wild-Card Teams Dominating MLB Postseason
By Sam McPherson Like him or not, outgoing MLB Commissioner Bud Selig brought some changes to the game of baseball in the last two decades — most notably the expansion of the postseason in 1994 (even...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Predicting The World Series Matchup
By Sam McPherson Monday’s rainout of Game Three in the American League Championship Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals provides a unique chance to look forward, evenly, at...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: NLCS Could Go Seven Games This Year
By Sam McPherson The San Francisco Giants won the battle that was Game Three on Tuesday, but all parties involved know the war — a.k.a the National League Championship Series — is far from over. What...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Kansas City Royals’ Streak May End In World Series
By Sam McPherson With yet another win fueled by defense and pitching on Wednesday, the Kansas City Royals claimed their first American League pennant since 1985 with a 2-1 victory in Game Four of the...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals Will Be Fan Favorites In World Series
By Sam McPherson There are two primary reasons the nation’s baseball fans will be rooting for the Kansas City Royals, en masse, next week. First, the Royals are a feel-good story the game hasn’t seen...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals And Giants An Unlikely World Series Pairing
By Sam McPherson Depending on your point of view, the 2014 World Series matchup between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants is either everything you wanted — or nothing like you...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: James Shields-Wil Myers Trade A Success For Royals
By Sam McPherson In December 2012, Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore made one of the biggest trades in recent memory, acquiring Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher James Shields in exchange...
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