Game 1 Dodgers Research Paper

Dodgers have not been impressive lately, only scoring more than four runs once in their past seven games so fat in June. What does it matter considering their pitchers

Clayton Kershaw has been sidelined for the entirety of the second half of the regular season and is finally making a return. The Los Angeles Dodgers has announced today that Clayton Kershaw will make his first start of the second half this Friday against the Marlins in Miami. Kershaw started out this season looking better than we have ever seen him before, and that is saying a lot. Before Kershaw was injured his record was 11 – 2, with a 1.79 ERA, and a 16.1 – 1 strikeout to walk ratio. If Kershaw had not been injured and continued at the pace he was at, he would have been the clear NL Cy Young Award winner and NL MVP Award winner. Kershaw’s return is highly anticipated especially by the Dodgers because if they have him back at the level he was playing at, that means they will be going into the playoffs as one of the best teams.

Today marks the first day in quite some time that the Dodgers are winning the NL West division, but that could change quite quickly. The Giants held the lead in the NL West heading into the All-Star break with a 57 – 33 record, whereas, the Dodgers had a record of 51 – 40 and were 6.5 GB. Ever since then, the Dodgers have gotten hot

The 1919 world series was a series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The series was a best of 9 series with the White Sox being massive favorites throughout the whole playoffs because they had the best record in the history of the American League at the time. Their opponent, the Cincinnati Reds, who were the best team in the National League, came into the World Series as underdogs and were projected to lose the series in 6 games or less, making it the perfect series to bet on the underdog if you wanted to make big bucks. The Cincinnati Reds are a great team, well built around a strong pitching rotation with a combined ERA of 2.23 a game. The Reds were led by Ivey Wingo, a 28 year old catcher at the time batting with a.273

The Texas Rangers (73-65) came into this game just one game back of the Houston Astros in the AL West, and they looked dominant in the series so far against the Seattle Mariners (67-73). The Rangers had won two in a row and had to feel good about their chances tonight, but laid an absolute goose egg in a 6-0 defeat to the putrid Seattle Mariners. Martin Perez (2-5, 5.43 ERA) took the loss for the Rangers and Vidal Nuño (1-2, 3.25 ERA) took the win for the Mariners.

With new players on each team coming into form and becoming the face of each side, the rivalry grows and so does the competition between both sides. With players from the Dodgers like Corey Seager and Julio Urias coming into form and making appearances against the Giants; this competitive rivalry heats up even more because young guys can feel the tension between the two sides. For the Giants, players like Joe Panik and Trevor Brown have shown their brief talent in the past few years and will prominently affect the future of this rivalry. With all baseball aside, both of these teams play in some of the best places to play baseball and have some of the biggest fan bases in the league and that only helps this rivalry get stronger and stronger. The thing that helps these fan bases grow bigger and bigger each year, is the incredibly talented new players that are brought into each team each year and this will continue to happen for years to

Wednesday, November 2nd of 2016 the Chicago Cubs made history they had officially broken their curse that was placed on them by William Sainis back in 1945. Sianis’ dispatched a telegram to team owner Philip K. Wrigley which read, “You are going to lose this World Series and you are never going to win another World Series again. You are never going to win a World Series again because you insulted my goat.” (Selzer, 2014, p. 156). However, even before 1945 the cubs had not won a world series since 1908 and same say a curse was put on them at that point, because of the controversy surrounding the National League Pennant.

The 1919 World Series was very interesting to say the least. Some of the White Sox players wanted some extra money. I believe that this series is one of, if not the darkest chapter in Major League Baseball’s history.

The LA Dodgers were found on 1883 in Brooklyn , New York. The LA Dodgers with their history of different names like the Brooklyn Bridegrooms because seven players got married in the same season on 1888, Trolley Dodgers was another name they were given because of all the Trolley cars that weaved through Brooklyn, New York. In 1890, the Dodgers transferred from the American Association to National League. In the 1900 , the Brooklyn Dodgers went under manager Ned Hanlon. In 1901 , the Dodgers went into Third place and finished Second place in 1902. Jimmy Shekard was the Dodgers first home run champion and Zach Wheat was another great player. The Longest game in Dodger History was on the First of May in 1920. On 1925, the Dodger's President

The teams that were in the 1919 world series were the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox's were the favorite for the game but in the end the Reds had won the game 10-5. This was a major upset and before the first pitch there had been talk of a fixed game. The game was actually fixed so that the Reds would win the game. Gamblers had payed some of the White Sox players to lose the game. The people that had to gain from the White Sox's loss were the people that put bets on the Reds to win the game. The White Sox's were the favorite so they would have a lot of people betting on them to win and not many people would bet on the Reds to win. The White Sox’s that threw the game were called Black Sox’s. There were eight Sox’s that

The Red Sox won! It was a super close game. The final score was 2-1 in the Red Sox Favor over the Cubs. Carl Mays did so good. He pitched the whole game and only gave up the one run. The Red Sox scored two runs early in the third inning and did not score again the rest of the game. The Cubs put the pressure on scoring a run in the 4th, but they didn't manage to get another run across the rest of the game. Something awesome happened in the top of the eighth inning though. The Red Sox brought Babe Ruth in to play Left Field! I was so excited to see him walk on the field. He didn’t get to hit, but it was just great to see him walk out on to the field and get to be out there. After a long day, it feels really good to be going to bed a fan of the

The worry I had earlier began to slowly dissipate as we headed onward to the next inning. It’s a shame that the worry was only gone for a total of 18 pitches before they had gotten three scores and were ahead of us. When we finally got inside the dugout for our turn to bat, we were pumped to get back ahead of them as fast as possible. We were able to get one run before we reached our three outs and were thrust back onto the field with a tying score. They took two runs from us again causing me to get worried again. They just went ahead of us by two points, and I felt that all was lost. We were finally able to get the last out and we headed inside to the dugout. We were only able to get one run back like last time and I felt that we would lose and then we would be unable to go to the World Series, which is something I had wanted to achieve for sometime. But we were struck out and we went back out onto the field.

The Yankees have learned from that mistake and adapted to what the game is today, by making an effort to build a strong farm. They also have made strong effort in keeping their prospects, rather then trading them away.

The St. Louis Cardinals reside in the National League Central Division. There are 5 teams in the division now as of 2016; the Cincinnati Reds, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Chicago Cubs, and the St. Louis Cardinals. Prior to 2013 the Houston Astros were also a part of the Division. From the year 2000 to 2015 the St. Louis has come in first place in the National League Central Division 10 times, came in second 4 times, and third 2 times. (St. Louis Cardinals: Year-by-Year Results) Although the Cardinals have these amazing numbers, it is still thought that the New York Yankee’s have been better. The New York Yankee’s though have been good, but they have the same numbers as the St. Louis Cardinals. They have won their division 10 times, came in

Let me begin before everyone jumps me by emphasizing this in no way reflects the two teams win-loss records. The Rangers are far (far, far, far, far) and away a better baseball team than the Houston Astros in almost every statistical category. As a team the Rangers hit .262 compared to a brutal .240 for the Astros. Rangers on base percentage- .323 to the Astros .299. The Rangers scored 730 times to an Astros 610. Joe Nathan alone just about had as many saves as Astros had wins. See where I’m going with this? The Rangers are on paper a very solid baseball team while the Astros are just another doormat for the rest of Major League Baseball to stomp all over.