Strike series

announcers, sportswriters, bloggers and fans all called it the same thing: a “walk-off.” Unknown as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, the term “walk-off” for a game-ending hit has become as comfortable a part of the baseball lexicon as “balls” and “strikes.” And it’s spreading. The term’s first published citation was in July 1988, according to William Safire, who was The New York Times’s longtime language maven and who wrote about it a decade ago. The Gannett News Service wrote: “In Dennis…

There are always exceptions, but generally, the teams that spend the most money in the sport on their rosters tend to win the World Series every year.’’This quote shows how every team should have an equal chance of winning the world series. Also, all of the small teams have an disadvantage. Also, not a lot of teams with small payrolls will make it into the world series. For example ’’Since then, only two small-payroll teams have even made the Fall Classic: the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays and the 2014…

2004 American League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox faced off against their most hated rivals, the New York Yankees. The Red Sox were already in the midst of an 86-year World Series drought known as “The Curse of the Bambino.” 2004 was the closest Boston had come to winning a World Series title since the infamous Bill Buckner error in 1986. Red Sox fans had believed all year long that this was THE year. However, after being down 3 games to none in the series, the Red Sox faced…

MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI(MSD)- MASTER STRICKER DHONI Indian Cricket history has many legends with the tremendous records of achievements. Cricketing fans have been celebrating their heart breakers with various sessions of their time travel. After Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the not only a name is more than an emotion for majority of cricket fans round the globe. Past of this young talented cricketer has lots of difficulties and with enormous speed breakers with the…

Jackie earned the title of Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1943 and was assigned to Fort Riley in Kansas. Here, he was the victim of tireless discrimination and intense racial hatred, resulting in him requesting a transfer. He was relocated to Fort Hood in Texas, but things were no different here, as the racist harassment continued. Finally, Jackie had had enough. On July 6th, 1943, he was ordered to move to the back of a military bus he had been seated on. Twelve whole years…

Virginia evened the championship series with a 7-2 win in game two. (Dennis Hubbard/Icon Sportswire) His collegiate career was interrupted by surgery in March 2014 for a broken hamate bone in his right wrist. It cost him 25 games of his junior year. On June 14 this year the Astros promoted…

Simmons makes the Derek Jeter jump throw, but with ease. Simmons dives to the left, right, over his shoulder and makes every play. On a ground ball up the middle, Simmons gets to the ball, flips it behind his back to his throwing arm, and delivers a strike to first base. This play shows his amazing coordination and unbelievable skill. Great plays aren’t the only things he makes. Routine plays are botched by every player, but less for some; or in Andrelton Simmons case, much less. Simmons…

never considered to have ever happened. One last flaw that can be argued is although the MLB today has its constraints on which plays can be reviewed and which can not, what is telling us that the system will not be expanded again? When are balls and strikes going to be reviewable? This will all create more judgement calls which causes more frustration from the players, coaches, and fans. Overall the MLB definitely still has some work to do on instant replay, but if the MLB’s…

Social Conditions in “Meet You In Hell” Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had…

this severe inequality to continue. Finally, the strikes broke out. Social Darwinism and laissez-faire is what allowed the economy and specifically workers to fall beyond repair. Change was desperately needed which would involve the government intervening. This strike clearly symbolizes the growing frustrations between labor and management. The workers were taken advantage of and ripped apart by management who was greedy and selfish. This strike screams frustration because the workers just…