Yesterday, in one of the biggest rivaliries in sports, the game between by Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, the centerfielder from Boston Red Sox Jacoby Ellsbury, stole homeplate! This sure is a rare thing – and it’s so fun to watch!
Now I’m just waiting for the speedsters in Oakland A’s to do the same thing…
So, it’s time again – Major League Baseball has started again. So what will happen this year??
To be honest, I don’t dare to guess, my guesses last year was so terrible, but some predictions entering the 2009 season:
New York Yankees will miss the postseason again, Red Sox and Rays will be strong! Rich Harden will win the Cy Young for the Cubs in National League, Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals will throw a no-hitter, Jason Giambi, Oakland Athletics, will hit 30 home runs, Pirates will for the first time in a decade have a + .500 record, and unfortunately, Red Sox will win World Series againt Mets.
Go A’s!
The doubts have smothered the Tampa Bay Rays all season. From arduous games to demanding tests, the Rays were expected to fade away. Sooner or later, the inspirational Rays would go home. But the Rays are not going home after all. They are going to the World Series.
By advancing to the World Series, the Rays are engineering one of the best worst-to-first stories in baseball history. Only the 1991 Braves lost more games in the season before they shockingly rushed into the World Series. The Braves lost 97 games in 1990, one more than the Rays lost a year ago.
If the Rays had lost Game 7, the number seven would have haunted them in the off-season. The Rays had a 7-0 lead in Game 5 and were seven outs away from clinching the ALCS But the Red Sox scored eight runs to win, then won Game 6, too. Since the Rays avoided a collapse and prevailed in Game 7, it is a lucky number for them now.
Playing Philadelphia Phillies, this could be an epic World Series, two teams playing good baseball. First game tonight folks. This is the way it’s done:Rays goes to the World Series