National League Division Series 2012

Cincinnati Reds versus the San Francisco Giants

Game 1 – Reds beat Giants by a score of 5 to 2 at San Francisco

Game 2 – Reds beat Giants by a score of 9 to 0 at San Francisco

Game 3 – Giants beat Reds by a score of 2 to 1 at Cincinnati

Game 4 – Giants beat Reds by a score of 8 to 3 at Cincinnati

Game 5 – Giants beat Reds by a score of 6 to 4 at Cincinnati


San Francisco Giants won the series three games to two games

I did not root for either team


Washington Nationals versus the St. Louis Cardinals

Game 1 – Nationals beat Cardinals by a score of 3 to 2 at St. Louis

Game 2 – Cardinals beat Nationals by a score of 12 to 4 at St. Louis

Game 3 – Cardinals beat Nationals by a score of 8 to 0 at Washington

Game 4 – Nationals beat Cardinals by a score of 2 to 1 at Washington

Game 5 – Cardinals beat Nationals by a score of 9 to 7 at Washington


St. Louis Cardinals won the series three games to two games

I rooted for the Washington Nationals

San Francisco Giants logo from the website mlb.com

St. Louis Cardinals logo from the website mlb.com

"Red Sox Box" logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

National League Division Series 2010

Well the two teams, the Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves, that I wanted to win their respective National League division series, lost to the Philadelphia Phillies and to the San Francisco Giants. The results of the two series are as follows:

Wednesday 6 October 2010–Philadelphia Phillies 4, Cincinnati Reds 0
Friday 8 October 2010–Philadelphia Phillies 7, Cincinnati Reds 4
Sunday 10 October 2010–Philadelphia Phillies 2, Cincinnati Reds 0

Philadelphia swept Cincinnati three games to none out of the five game series. The Phillies scored a total of thirteen runs over the three games, while the Reds scored a total of four. The total number of runs scored in the series was seventeen and the Phillies had 76.47% of those runs, while the Reds had 23.53%.

Thursday 7 October 2010–San Francisco Giants 1, Atlanta Braves 0
Friday 8 October 2010–Atlanta Braves 5, San Francisco Giants 4
Sunday 10 October 2010–San Francisco 3, Atlanta Braves 2
Monday 11 October 2010–San Francisco 3, Atlanta Braves 2

San Francisco beat Atlanta three games to one out of the five game series. The Giants scored a total of eleven runs over the four games, while the Braves scored a total of nine. The total number of runs scored in the series was twenty and the Giants had 55.00% of those runs, while the Braves had 45.00%.

Now, for the National League Championship Series, I’ll be rooting for the San Francisco Giants over the Philadelphia Phillies.


Images:
Left: Philadelphia Phillies logo is from the website mlb.com
Center: NLDS 2010 logo is from the website mlb.com
Right: San Francisco Giants logo is from the website mlb.com

Postseason Participants 2010

At the end of last year, I made a prediction as to who the participants in the 2010 postseason would be. My prediction turned out to be somewhat off the mark. I had predicted the following:

AL East – New York Yankees
AL Central – Minnesota Twins
AL West – Los Angeles Angels
AL Wild Card – Boston Red Sox

NL East – Atlanta Braves
NL Central – St. Louis Cardinals
NL West – Arizona Diamondbacks
NL Wild Card – Houston Astros

Two of the AL teams (the Twins and the Yankees) I predicted did make it this year and only one NL team (the Braves) did so. That is 50.00% for the AL, 25.00% for the NL, and 37.50% overall. The 2010 postseason is as follows:

AL East – Tampa Bay Rays
AL Central – Minnesota Twins
AL West – Texas Rangers
AL Wild Card – New York Yankees

NL East – Philadelphia Phillies
NL Central – Cincinnati Reds
NL West – San Francisco Giants
NL Wild Card – Atlanta Braves


Since the Boston Red Sox are not in the postseason, in the Divisional Series I will be rooting for the Minnesota Twins (playing the New York Yankees) and the Texas Rangers (playing the Tampa Bay Rays) in the AL and for the Cincinnati Reds (playing the Philadelphia Phillies) and the Atlanta Braves (playing the San Francisco Giants) in the NL


Images:
Left: ALDS 2010 logo is from the website mlb.com

Right: NLDS 2010 logo is from the website mlb.com

Red Sox Repel Reds

The Boston Red Sox made their last trip to Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota to play the Cincinnati Reds in a preseason game. In spite of the number of Red Sox errors, they managed to get away from this final game against the Reds with a win. Boston won this low-scoring game over Cincinnati by a score of two to one.

BOSTON: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 - 2 4 3

CINCINNATI: 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 1 6 0

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BOSTON: Starting Pitcher: Clay Buhholz, Winning Pitcher: Hideki Okajima

CINCINNATI: Starting Pitcher: Johnny Cueto, Losing Pitcher: Bill Bray

BOSTON: Save: Javier Lopez

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RED SOX: Spring Training Wins: 16, Spring Training Losses: 12

Boston Batters Cincinnati

Located in Sarasota, the site of the latest Boston Red Sox victory was Ed Smith Stadium, which is the Spring Training ballpark for the Cincinnati Reds. The scoring was begun by the Reds with a single run in the bottom of the first. This would be their only run of the game. The Red Sox scored four runs in the top of the third on two two-run homers by Jed Lowrie and Chris Carter. Although those runs would be all they needed, Boston went on to score one run in the top of the seventh and four runs in the top of the eighth. At the end of the game, the Red Sox had scored nine runs and the Reds had scored one run.

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BOSTON: nine runs, eight hits, zero errors

CINCINNATI: one run, eight hits, zero errors

BOSTON: Starting Pitcher: Jon Lester, Winning Pitcher: Jon Lester

CINCINNATI: Starting Pitcher: Bronson Arroyo, Losing Pitcher: Bronson Arroyo

BOSTON: Homeruns: Jed Lowrie, Chris Carter

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RED SOX: Spring Training Wins: 11, Spring Training Losses: 11

Cincinnati Squeaks By Boston

In Fort Myers' City of Palms Park, the Boston Red Sox ended their first week of Spring Training with a loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Scoring began in the top of the fourth inning when the Reds scored four runs. In the bottom of the fourth the Sox came back with two runs. The next time runs came across the plate was in the top of the seventh inning, when Cincinnati did their last scoring of the day with five runs. Boston scored three runs in the bottom of both the seventh and eighth innings - their last runs for the day. The Cincinnati Reds won the game by a score of nine to eight.

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CINCINNATI: nine runs, eight hits, two errors

BOSTON: eight runs, nine hits, two errors

CINCINNATI: Starting Pitcher: Micah Ownings, Winning Pitcher: Micah Ownings

BOSTON: Starting Pitcher: Jon Lester, Losing Pitcher: Ramon Ramirez

CINCINNATI: Save: Carlos Fisher, Homeruns: Jay Bruce, Edwin Encarnacion, Jonny Gomes

BOSTON: Homeruns: Chris Carter, Paul McAnulty, Mark Wagner

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RED SOX: Spring Training Wins: 4, Spring Training Losses: 5

Thirty Runs Equals Two Victories!

A winning day for the Boston Red Sox! The day began with an exhibition game against the Northeastern University Huskies at the City of Palms Park. The Sox shut out the Huskies fourteen to zero. The Sox scoring started in the bottom of the first inning with the first two homeruns of Spring Training - a grand slam and a solo - producing five runs. Boston continued to the end result of fourteen runs by chalking up runs in the bottom of the third inning (seven) and the bottom of the fourth inning (two).

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HUSKIES: zero runs, two hits, one error

RED SOX: fourteen runs, ten hits, zero errors

HUSKIES: Starting Pitcher: R. Lloyd, Losing Pitcher: R. Lloyd

RED SOX: Starting Pitcher: Kris Johnson, Winning Pitcher: Kris Johnson

RED SOX: Homeruns: Josh Bard, Angel Chavez (2 - including grand slam)

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The second team the Red Sox hosted in Fort Myers today was the Cincinnati Reds. Boston scored in the bottom of the first four innings - four runs in the first, six runs in the second, two runs in the third, and one run in the fourth. And it was in the top of the fourth inning that Cincinnati scored their first run. They would go on to score in the top of the seventh and eighth - two runs in each inning. The Red Sox scored their final three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. The final score was Boston sixteen and Cincinnati five.

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CINCINNATI: five runs, eight hits, one error

BOSTON: sixteen runs, twenty hits, zero errors

CINCINNATI: Starting Pitcher: Nick Masset, Losing Pitcher: Nick Masset

BOSTON: Starting Pitcher: Clay Buchholz, Winning Pitcher: Clay Buchholz

BOSTON: Homerun: Brad Wilkerson

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RED SOX: Spring Training Wins: 3, Spring Training Losses: 3