By: Ethan May, KCOU Sports Division strength tends to go in cycles; the NL East is trending upwards. The Washington Nationals have been steadily building a core of talent the last half decade. Anchored by Bryce Harper and some impressive young arms, the Nationals have been challenging the top of the National League for a […]
By: Joey Schneider, KCOU Sports Less than two weeks ago, the Cardinals were in desperate need of a rally to keep their playoff hopes alive. With NLCS elimination on the line, the Cardinals sent up hot-hitting pinch-hitter Oscar Taveras in hopes to break open a 3-3 ninth inning tie with two outs and the bases […]
By: Bryan Peach, KCOU Sports As a sports fan, there are few events that are more exciting than baseball in October. The World Series Title and a place in the history of the sport are at stake, along with bragging rights for players and organizations. Postseason baseball features some of the biggest series of the […]
By: Ethan May, KCOU Sports Major League Baseball’s season consists of 162 games and one very important day in the middle. The trade deadline. This season one specific team dominated the trading deadline. It actually was not a team looking to win this season. The Boston Red Sox cleaned house and restocked the pantry as […]
By: Blake Tarrants, KCOU Sports There are countless sayings about the game of baseball that bring out its lack of predictability. “Baseball is a game of streaks.” “It’s not about who you play, but how they’re playing when you play them.” However, no amount of sayings or old clichés could prepare us for the wild […]
By: Matt Horn and Nathan Rice, KCOU Sports Sunday, October 25, 1985. After eight and half innings there wasn’t a man, woman, or child that remained sitting at then Royals Stadium. It was Game Six of the World Series, and leading the series 3-2, the Cardinals were up 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth. […]
By: Joey Schneider, KCOU Sports Flashback to 2007, when the Colorado Rockies went on a September surge in which they won 14 of their last 15 regular season games. The mountainmen chased an experienced San Diego Padres team, tied their record of 89-73 in the regular season’s final day and forced a tiebreaker for sole […]
By: Megan Armstrong, KCOU Sports Kansas City has long-awaited a baseball game with such significance for 29 years. Or rather, a September Royals game with any significance at all. On this Friday night, the first pitch of the Royals and White Sox game will be thrown in 29 minutes. Whether the Royals enter the playoffs as the […]
By: Bryan Peach, KCOU Sports Over the last 19 seasons one would be hard pressed to find a player in the MLB that has had as much success and played with as much class as Derek Jeter. A mainstay at shortstop for the powerhouse New York Yankees from 1995 to this season, The Captain will […]