All told, the Astros (81-81 on the season in an anemic American League West) are the only team that doesn’t look like they belong here. The rest look more than capable of winning a Wild Card series and should challenge in the Divisional Series.
Sacramento’s stadium history is less civic triumph and more comedy of grand promises, flimsy financing and renderings that rarely meet a shovel.
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I had come home from another summer with him—a summer I assumed would be followed by countless more. At that age, I believed summers could last forever. I believed fathers did, too.
Read moreAdvertisements You have to hand it to the Washington Nationals. As of September 4, the all-time record for blown-saves in a season was 37, set by the horrifically bad 2014 Chicago White Sox. But, when the Nationals saw they had 35 blown saves with three weeks to go in the season, they didn’t shirk their responsibility. They didn’t shy away
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Advertisements Every year, when September 9 arrives, baseball seems to pause beneath the California night sky. For me, this date never grows old. It carries back to September 9th, 1965, at 9:46 p.m. in the City of Angels—Los Angeles, California—where the lights of Dodger Stadium shone down on a masterpiece that still feels too pure to belong to the past.
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