Rounding the Diamond: Rockies Tie It Up, Holliday Costs the Cardinals and the Angels Light Up Lester

Colorado Rockies 5 – Philadelphia Phillies 4: The Rockies’ bats got after Cole Hamels early and often to provide an early spark that helped them defeat the World Champion Phillies. Todd Helton had an RBI ground out in the first inning and was driven in by Yorvit Torrealba in the fourth inning when he [...]

MLB Regular Season Wrap-Up: NL Cy Young Race

Before I wrote this column, I wanted to come up with a different way to present the race for the NL Cy Young award. 99% of ballots will have Chris Carpenter, Tim Lincecum, and Adam Wainwright in some order while one columnist will make a statement by adding Dan Haren in with his vote, [...]

You Can Just Hand Him The Cy Young Now

As much as it pains me to say it, St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter has got to be a lock to win the National League Cy Young Award this season. I have been making every excuse possible to give the award to Tim Lincecum, but now, the writing is on the wall.

Carpenter [...]

St. Louis Cardinals Strongly Pursuing Matt Holliday

The St. Louis Cardinals smell blood in the water. The Chicago Cubs have lost five of their last six and the Milwaukee Brewers’ pitching staff will likely fall apart at some point if they do not get some help.

Right now, St. Louis is half a game back of the Brewers for first place [...]