Some Baseball Notes/Updates

This is the 21st year in which it is possible for a team to win the World Series 100 years after winning a previous one.

There were no World Series played 90 years apart in 1904 and 1994, hence there have been 20 previous possibilities (W.S. play began in 1903) and only once, the 2018 Boston Red Sox accomplished the feat.

In the Red Sox case, that 1918 title made them (5-0) in World Series competition, however that was followed by an 86 year title drought.

Since the drought ended with Boston’s 2004 title, 101 years after the franchise won the first W.S. they added crowns in 2007, 2013 and the aforementioned 2018 title.

100 years ago, the Washington Senators won their only title. They became the Minnesota Twins, moving to Minnesota in ’61, who despite dissipating a (4-0) lead in a loss yesterday, denying them a chance for a 4 game sweep of the defending champion Texas Rangers (they were the second incarnation of the Washington Senators, as a 1961 expansion team), are very likely to at least, be qualifiers for the baseball tournament.

Texas is managed by four time W.S. winner Bruce Bochy, who often gets “ga ga” reviews and while titles, if anything matters in sports, look at Bochy’s team records in the following seasons.

Bochy’s Rangers are 11 under .500 (57-68), 11 behind Houston in their 1/8 “div.”

Herold “Muddy” Ruel, pictured above, scored the winning run B12/game 7 for “Wash” to win the 1924 World Series vs the New York Giants.