Given tonight's pitching matchup, the Rangers might need one of these to tie the World Series tonight. (AP) The Rangers stuck to the 1996 Yankees’ script last night, salvaging their series with a Game 3 win behind a strong start from David Cone stand-in Colby Lewis. With Tommy Hunter going ...

Can Colby Lewis be the Rangers' David Cone tonight? (AP) The World Series resumes tonight with Game 3 in Arlington. The first two games in San Francisco were even more lopsided than the scores suggested, but the Rangers might be able to find inspiration from a familiar source (from my Game 3 preview ...

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For the second time in three starts he received the kind of bullpen support that could only be explained by having run over the manager’s dog repeatedly, but before all hell broke loose on Thursday night, C.J. Wilson delivered another strong postseason start for the Rangers. At the outset of the ...

What he said. (Library of Congress) Yes, we should be. I write these words after having watched the Giants annihilate the Rangers in the second game of the World Series. In the eighth inning of that game, Ron Washington proved that he utterly lacks imagination, forgetting that closers used to be called ...

Cliff Lee: Let him do his laughing in Texas. (AP) Even before last night’s Game 1 disappointment, I have been firmly convinced that the Yankees should not do what everyone expects them to do, and throw the gross domestic product of Luxembourg at the left-hander. In the last few years, Lee has become ...

This sums up how Vlad Guerrero should be used in National League parks. (AP) Starting the hobbled Vladimir Guerrero in right field would seem like an easy mistake to avoid. I wrote about it in my preview of Game 1 of the World Series yesterday. After watching Vlad stumble about out there in Game 1, Craig ...

Perhaps the most dispiriting piece of news to come out of Monday’s postmortem press conference with Joe Girardi pertained to the fate of Joba Chamberlain. Said the Yankee manager, “We consider him a bullpen guy in the back half of the bullpen.” Even if he’s talking about the half ...

Cliff worries that resigning Kerry Wood would result in a lot more of this than the Yankees saw in 2010. (AP) Just six days have passed since the Yankees were eliminated from the ALCS by the pennant-winning Rangers, but there has been plenty of news out of the Bronx over that span. Damaso Marte and CC ...

CC Sabathia demonstrates the proper tack to take regarding the news of his upcoming knee surgery (AP). With each passing day, the reasons behind the Yankees’ postseason rotation problems come a bit more into focus. On Monday, we learned that Andy Pettitte was bumped to Game Three of the ALCS instead ...

"Where in the Constitution does it say that Derek Jeter deserves a seven-year contract at 37 years old? Bet I can find out at the Pinstriped Bible Chat with Jay, Cliff, and Steve!" (AP) This Friday, October 29, at 1 PM, join Jay, Cliff, and myself for the latest in an ongoing series of highly ...

Briefly stumbled through one of the local Barnes & Noble establishments this afternoon during a postprandial walkabout and came across this tasteful display: Just a reminder that Alex Belth’s superb compilation of reflections on a dearly departed ballpark (and a few on the new one), Lasting ...