The blog is again coming to you from the beautiful North Georgia mountains:
NOTE TO ALL: I will have my fearless NBA predictions in tomorrow’s blog.
Lets go to the ballpark:
The weekend gave us two very strange and different endings to World Series games three and four. On Saturday, St. Louis Cardinals beat the Red Sox 5-4, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning on an interference call by the third base umpire. Yesterday, Jonny Gomes blasted a three-run homer to break a 1-1 tie and the Sox held on to win 4-2, the last out of the game coming when pinch runner Kolten Wong was picked off first base with the tying run up at the plate in the person of Carlos Beltran. It was the first time in the history of baseball that a postseason game ended on a pickoff. The series is now tied 2-2, and game five is tonight, at 8:00 pm, with a matchup of game one starters. Adam Wainwright will start for St. Louis, Jon Lester for Boston.
To again quote the legendary Babe Ruth: “Baseball was, is, and always will be, the best game in the world.”
Games 3 & 4 Recaps and Box Scores:
World Series Schedule:
MONDAY GAME 5 Series tied 2-2
Red Sox @ Cards Jon Lester vs Adam Wainwright 8:07 pm FOX
WEDNESDAY GAME 6
Cards @ Red Sox Michael Wacha vs John Lackey 8:07 pm FOX
THURSDAY GAME 7 if necessary
Cards @ Red Sox TBA vs TBA 8:07 pm FOX
TODAY’S TRIVIA QUESTION: David Ortiz has 17 hits in his first 39 at bats in world series play. What player has the best batting average in his first 40 at bats in the world series? The answer comes later, alligator.
In other baseball news,
Let’s go to the gridiron:
The Dolphins blew a 17-3 third-quarter lead in Foxboro yesterday, and lost to the New England Patriots 27-17. The turnover bug and very questionable officiating allowed the Pats to score 24 unanswered points as the Fins lost their seventh consecutive game in New England. After starting the season 3-0, Miami has lost four games in a row. It will not get any easier this week, as the Fins will host the Cincinnati Bengals here at the Seven Names Stadium. The Bengals crushed the NY Jets yesterday, 49-9.
Here’s the local media reaction to yesterday’s loss:
More from Armando Salguero:
In my NFL picks, much better results this week. So far, I’m 4-1-1, with the Monday Night game between the Seattle Seahawks and the St. Louis Rams on the schedule tonight on ESPN. My record so far this season: 28-24-3 against the spread, and 35-20 straight up.
Here are this week’s NFL results:
Carolina 31 Tampa Bay 13
New England 27 Miami 17
Kansas City 23 Cleveland 17 PUSH
Cincinnati 49 NY Jets 9
Oakland 21 Pittsburgh 18
Green Bay 44 Minnesota 31
New Orleans 35 Buffalo 17
Detroit 31 Dallas 30
NY Giants 15 Philadelphia 7
San Francisco 42 Jacksonville 10
Denver 45 Washington 21
Arizona 27 Atlanta 13
TONIGHT
Seattle @ St. Louis +11 8:30 pm ESPN
NFL game summaries and recaps from week 8:
Here’s ESPN’s NFL Nation Blog, with more news from all around the league:
Of course, we can all continue to sleep at night, knowing full well that Aaron Hernandez remains in jail, where he belongs.
In college football, the University of Miami Hurricanes got another scare on Saturday, but came back to defeat the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 24-21. Next week, the Canes will be in Tallahassee to take on the Florida State Seminoles on national TV. Game time is 8:00 pm and you can watch it on ABC. This is the first time that the Canes and Seminoles have been matched up as top-ten teams since 2003. The Canes come into the game ranked seventh, Florida State is ranked third.
Manny Navarro and Susan Miller Degnan have all the latest from Coral Gables:
The FIU Panthers wasted a good defensive effort against Louisiana Tech on Saturday, falling 23-7. Next game for FIU is against East Carolina here at the Cage on Saturday. East Carolina has scored 50 points or more three times this season.
Here’s the game story and all the latest from FIU, courtesy of David J. Neal:
Here’s the latest from Tallahassee and #2-ranked FSU:
From Gainesville and the University of Florida, who fell from the top-25 after losing to Missouri on Saturday:
Here are the NCAA Football rankings for this week, including the first BCS poll of the season:
Here is the complete schedule in College Football for week 10, including TV listings:
Let’s talk hoops. REMEMBER: I will have my fearless NBA predictions for this season in tomorrow’s blog.
Here is the Heat’s complete regular season schedule:
Today’s NBA scoreboard:
On the NHL ice, George Richards has all the latest on the Panthers:
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THE ANSWER TO TODAY’S TRIVIA QUESTION: David Ortiz has 17 hits in his first 39 at bats in world series play. What player has the best batting average in his first 40 at bats in the world series?
Hal McRae went 18-40, a .450 average, in his first 40 world series AB’s. Bobby Brown, Pepper Martin, and Thurman Munson all had 17 hits in their first 40 at bats in the world series.
Behave yourselves, and always remember that tomorrow will bring us a brand new day.
