Three Strikes -- Deadlines and dollars edition
Jayson Stark...crossed the Magic Billion Line -- the Red Sox (about $1.21 billion), Mets ($1.12 billion) and Dodgers ($1.06 billion). And now the leader board: American League Yankees $1,763,790,271 Red Sox...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009
Phillies not ready to give up title yet
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comThe Phillies aren't quite ready to hand over their championship belts, and in Game 5, they fought off the Yankees and forced this World Series back to New York.
Story | Conversation | November 02, 2009Time to choose the team of the decade
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comThe World Series will certainly decide this year's champion, but it also might decide the team of the decade.
Story | Conversation | October 27, 2009Three Strikes: For Series opener, a pair of Cys
Jayson Stark...other pitchers ever started Game 1 for teams they joined in midseason: Sal Maglie for the 1956 Dodgers and Hank Borowy for the 1945 Cubs. But of course, the Phillies won't stop there. They...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009
NLCS: Shades of Kirk Gibson
Jayson Stark10:03 p.m. ET The last pinch homer by a Dodger in a postseason game before Orlando Hudson ripped one to left in the fifth? A fellow named...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009Rewriting history, one series at a time
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comA title in 2008 wasn't enough. Not for these Phillies, anyway. Philadelphia finished off the L.A. Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLCS to return to the World Series for the second straight year.
Story | Conversation | October 21, 2009NLCS: Finally, an XBH for L.A.
Jayson Stark9:45 p.m. ET Not that I'm counting, but I'm counting. The Dodgers brought 93 hitters to the plate between extra-base hits. Matt Kemp's homer was their first...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009Three Strikes: If you're scoring NLCS at home …
Jayson Stark...i.e., the Phillies) scored a run -- but no players on the other team (i.e., the Dodgers) scored a run. With the help of the Elias Sports Bureau and ESPN research wiz Justin Haven...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009
Phillies walk off into history
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comJimmy Rollins' two-out, two-run, game-winning double in the bottom of the ninth didn't just win Game 4 for the Phillies and give them a 3-1 NLCS lead over L.A. — it also finished a game that will live in postseason history.
Story | Conversation | October 19, 2009NLCS: Kuroda in Moyer territory
Jayson Stark...did it. Besides those two, only seven other pitchers in history have done it -- none of them Dodgers
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 18, 2009NLCS: Early exit for Kuroda
Jayson Stark...ET Hiroki Kuroda's 1 1/3-inning exit makes this the shortest postseason start by a Dodger since John Tudor was gonged after four outs in the 1988 World Series. More Kuroda-mania: In...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 18, 2009L.A. meets its match in NLCS Game 3
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comWith Cliff Lee on the mound and Ryan Howard with a bat in his hands, the Phillies were an unstoppable force in their 11-0 rout of the Dodgers in NLCS Game 3.
Story | Conversation | October 18, 2009Reasons for Utley's errors a mystery
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comChase Utley isn't in the Steve Sax or Chuck Knoblauch category of throwing arms gone horribly wrong yet, but an explanation for his sudden issues isn't simple.
Story | Conversation | October 17, 2009NLCS: Ruiz gets green light in L.A.
Jayson Stark...SB for Carlos Ruiz. He stole his last one as recently as, uh, June 4 -- against the Dodgers
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009When Pedro's away, Dodgers play
Jayson Stark, ESPN.comThe Dodgers couldn't figure out Pedro Martinez, but once he exited, L.A. began to stir -- and posted a stirring come-from-behind victory over the Phillies to even the NLCS at one win apiece.
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