Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Scott Kazmir – Audition number one
Back in July, it would have been hard to imagine that Kazmir would be auditioning for a spot on the postseason roster, but August came and everything changed. Using Baseball Reference to get the game score and sorting by highest game score to lowest we can see that three of his six worst game scores …
No one expected the cavalry to be the kiddie corps
but that is what happened when the original calvary all came up lame while Clayton was shelved. At first, it was going to be Ryu then McCarthy, then Anderson. None of them survived their charge and all went back to the DL they came from. Instead, it was rookies Urias / Stewart / Stripling who rode …
Vin Scully and the headfirst slide
If you watched the game on TV last night you heard Vin Scully spend a good amount of time lamenting the lack of sliding skills in the major leagues. This was brought about when Brandon Crawford slid headfirst into 3rd base and injured his finger. At my house or at the ballgame or at a …
Wild Card in a Carls Junior Three Way
With the Giants winning, the Cardinals winning, and the Mets losing, every team in the Wild Card hunt have the exact same record of 80 – 71. The Cardinals are 5 -5 in their last ten games but have won four in a row to force their way into the three-way tie. The Mets are …
I’m a Madison Bumgarner fan
and have to admit that may seem weird as a Dodger fan. I don’t mean I’m a fan as though I like Bumgarner. I’m a fan in that I respect him and what he bring to the table for the Giants. As I watched the game last night, it was easy to come to the …
Now that is how you start a big series
That Bumgarner / Kershaw matchup may have been the best since Kershaw bested …………. aw snap, don’t you hate it when you feel a good story forming in your mind and when you go to write the story, reality blows your story out of the water. I was planning on writing about how this was …
Giants / Dodgers give possible rotational postseason preview
As the Giants come into town for their most important series, the Dodgers will be throwing at them what should be the exact same three pitchers that the Nationals will see when the NLDS series opens. Even the order might be the same as Kershaw / Hill / Maeda are scheduled to pitch the three-game …
Mets topple Giants from top of the Wild Card race
From May 15th until Aug 9th the Giants were on top of the NL Western Division, at times the lead was eight games. When the Dodgers sliced that one time eight game lead to even stephen on Aug 9th, the Giants went from being the NL West leaders to the Wild Card leaders. For a few …
Cardinals and Mets stage late innings comebacks
The Cardinals were down a run in the 9th inning but they had one thing going for them, the Giant bullpen, and once again that bullpen failed to hold a lead. The Cardinals rallied for two runs to beat the Giants 3 – 2. It was almost a must-win for the Cardinals because if they …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 