2024 Baseball Update

The pitchers hitting great day/night and incredible Dodgers “in and around September 9th” notes, if not a post each are coming.

Today some notes on baseball, still such a great game and though 12 ‘offs teams are at least 4 to 8 too many, which is stirring some good feelings in me, a good thing.

It is very likely that the two Central Division winners, the almost certain N.L. such, Milwaukee Brewers (up 8 plus games) and the likely A.L. counterpart, Houston Astros (up 3 plus) will be the league “3” seeds and thus must contend with an all home games, best of 3 round of 12 to 8 series.

The closest one eighth “div” race stands with the Yankees one plus games (2 in the loss column) ahead of the Baltimore Orioles in the A.L. East.

Next for the Yankees is a 4 game series with the Boston Red Sox, considered their biggest rival (it was nice to see Yankees/Royals in fairly meaningful games, evoking their once great rivalry which manifested in ALCS clashes 4 times in 5 seasons (’76-’80), evoking memories but not close in importance to the Yankees 4 game (also Thurs-Sunday) September (7-10) sweep at Boston which put them even in the had to finish first, 1978 A.L. East race.

Boston still in it, but barely for ‘offs qualification, has helped the Yankees bid for a first place finish, winning 4 of 6 vs the O’s in the last month.

The “above” as an additional tribute to J.E. Jones as this speech in “Field of Dreams,” especially that beginning around 1:22 in, along with, as cited above a fairly stirring “reg,” reminds one, that despite the many bad changes in its rules, baseball remains such a great game.